"Family"" not to have a successful run. CBS rejected ""Gloria""s original pilot which featured a brief cameo by Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker dropping off Gloria and Joey at Dr. Adams' clinic and residence. It was instead aired as a backdoor pilot episode within ""Archie Bunker's Place"". This pilot was written by veteran ""All in the Family"" and ""Archie Bunker's Place"" writers Pat Shea and Harriett Weiss and ""Archie Bunker's Place"" producer and close Carroll O'Connor associate Joe Gannon who co-created, wrote, and produced the pilot. They were replaced by former ""WKRP in Cincinnati"" writers Steve Marshall and Dan Guntzelman"
"son, Michael Baldwin (now played by Christian LeBlanc). River and Gloria became Vietnam War protesters, and River was accused of a bomb conspiracy that killed a janitor. In reality, River tried to stop the bomb threat, but he was forced to flee to Canada in order to protect Gloria and Michael. Thus, Gloria was left alone to raise her son for 10 years. In the 1970s, Gloria still lived in Detroit with Michael, and she worked as a waitress at a diner. There, she met Tom Fisher. Gloria and Tom got married, and their son, Kevin Fisher, was born. Terrible"
"lived in her parents' home. With Michael attending college, initially for his bachelor's degree, then continuing for his master's, Gloria worked full-time at a department store. She was sensitive about having only a high school education and sometimes felt that Mike talked to her in a condescending fashion, particularly during arguments. Upon Mike's graduation, he and Gloria moved to the neighboring rental house owned by former Bunker neighbor George Jefferson:, the house in which the Jeffersons had resided between seasons 1 and 5. At that time Gloria became pregnant. She then had a boy, Joey Stivic, and became a stay-at-home"
"then got married, and with Bill back with Bert and her expecting their first child, things seemed to stabilize for the Bauers. Bert gave birth to a boy named Michael (later named, ""Mike"", and named after Charita Bauer's first son who was also named Michael.) Later in 1952, Bill kept a secret from Bert when he was instrumental in signing Gloria LaRue Harper and new television contract. Soon both Bert and Sid had to watch in anger as Gloria became more emotionally dependent on Bill for her new career. However, Gloria developed vocal problems and had to abandon her new"
"Michael Stivic Michael Casimir ""Mike"" Stivic is a fictional character on the 1970s American television sitcom ""All in the Family"". He was the live-in son-in-law of the series' lead character, Archie Bunker, who frequently called him ""Meathead"". Michael was the husband of Archie's daughter Gloria (played by Sally Struthers). Rob Reiner played the role of Michael Stivic throughout the series. The character of Michael Stivic is an Americanized version of the British original: ""Till Death Us Do Part""'s Mike Rawlins, the Trotskyist ""Randy Scouse Git"" who arouses the passionate ire of his arch-conservative father-in-law Alf Garnett. For the American version"
"Nobel Prize and they'd write 'Meathead wins the Nobel Prize'."" A later episode of ""All in the Family"" reveals that Archie Bunker himself was referred to as ""Meathead"" in his youth. Norman Lear said his father used to call him ""Meathead"". Michael Stivic Michael Casimir ""Mike"" Stivic is a fictional character on the 1970s American television sitcom ""All in the Family"". He was the live-in son-in-law of the series' lead character, Archie Bunker, who frequently called him ""Meathead"". Michael was the husband of Archie's daughter Gloria (played by Sally Struthers). Rob Reiner played the role of Michael Stivic throughout the"
"florist, who calls him ""Mickey"" with great affection. He also had an uncle Alex. When ""All in the Family"" begins, Michael is married to Gloria and shares a bedroom with her in the home of her parents, whom he addresses as ""Ma"" and ""Archie"" (or ""Arch""), while focusing his efforts on earning a college degree in sociology. His first meeting with Archie (seen in a flashback) shows him as a bearded hippie with a tie-dyed shirt. His wardrobe throughout most of the series is much more subdued: most often he wears a denim shirt, jeans, and boots. He shaves his"
"Gloria Stivic Gloria Stivic (née Bunker), is a fictional character played by Sally Struthers on the American situation comedy ""All in the Family"" (which aired on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1979) and the spin-off series ""Gloria"" (CBS, 1982–83). She was the only child of Archie and Edith Bunker, and she was married to—and eventually divorced from -- Michael Stivic. She was born 11 months after Edith and Archie were married as stated in the episode ""The Longest Kiss"" (Season 5, Episode 10). Gloria was often caught in the middle of arguments between her liberal husband Michael and"
"her conservative father, Archie. As her relationship with Michael progressed, Gloria concluded that her parents, especially her more conservative father, were wrong about a lot of things and sided with her husband's liberal beliefs. Despite his affections for her, Michael was also using his marriage to get the long-sheltered Gloria to share his own beliefs as well. Gloria's mother mentioned (in the pilot) that Gloria was anemic and was therefore overprotected as a child. Archie often referred to Gloria as his ""little goil"" [girl]. In season 7's ""Mike and Gloria Meet"", it is explained that Mike and Gloria met in"
"the pregnancy ends in a miscarriage. Gloria becomes pregnant again in 1975 and their baby Joseph ""Joey"" Stivic is born in December of that year. During early episodes, Michael's best friend is Lionel Jefferson. In the first season, Lionel surprises Michael by announcing that he and his family are moving into the house next door to the Bunkers. However, the characters rarely see or refer to each other after the Jeffersons leave ""All in the Family"" to join the spin-off ""The Jeffersons"", George Jefferson, however, would later make a guest appearance at his old residence when the Stivics start preparing"
"to her now-widowed father, decided to move with her young son, Joey (played by Christian Jacobs), and pick up the pieces of her life as an assistant to two veterinarians in Fox Ridge, New York. The veterinarians were played by Burgess Meredith and Jo De Winter; the character played by Meredith was also, conveniently, Gloria's landlord. Though ""Gloria"" ranked 18th in the Nielsen ratings for the 1982–1983 season and scored an 18.7 rating, tying it with ""Trapper John, M.D."", CBS chose not to renew it for a second season, making it one of the few spin-offs of ""All in the"
"that he was the sole heir to a multibillion-dollar oil fortune. In 2007, William and Gloria were married. Soon after, new evidence arose in the Glo-Again scandal, and most of Jabot Cosmetics employees were subject to DNA testing. Will suspected that Gloria was the culprit. She was very hesitant to give a DNA sample for the case. After much persuasion, Gloria finally gave her DNA sample. She got her son (Kevin Fisher) to get a fake sample. Upon handing her sample over, she performed a sleight of hand trick, switching her sample with the fake. Of course, her test came"
"Gloria (TV series) Gloria is an American sitcom and a spin-off of ""All in the Family"" that aired Sundays at 8:30 p.m. (EST) on CBS from September 26, 1982, to April 10, 1983. The series starred Sally Struthers reprising her role as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker on ""All in the Family"". The set-up of the show was that Gloria had been left with loose ends after her husband, Michael ""the Meathead"" Stivic (who did not appear in the new series), left her for one of his students and moved away to a commune. Gloria, to be closer"
"were married and expecting a child, but Ashley got into a horrific car accident, and their son, Robert, did not survive. Meanwhile, Gina's restaurant, ""Gina's"", caught on fire, and John watched out for her until she found new employment. Then, John and Ashley scolded Jack for the troubles he brought upon the company. Victor ended up paying Jabot $75 million for his commercial bribery scandal, and Jack was forced to resign. In 2004, John was lovestruck by the much younger Gloria Fisher (Judith Chapman). He was unaware that her sons were Michael Baldwin (Christian LeBlanc) and Kevin Fisher (Greg Rikaart)."
"three-year old Gloria with her. The inspiration for Archie Bunker was Alf Garnett, the character from the BBC1 sitcom ""Till Death Us Do Part"", on which ""All in the Family"" was based. When first introduced on ""All in the Family"" in 1971, Archie is the head of a family consisting of his wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), his adult daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers), and his liberal son-in-law, college student Michael ""Mike"" Stivic (Rob Reiner), with whom Archie disagrees on virtually everything; Archie frequently characterizes Mike as a ""dumb Polack"" and usually addresses him as ""Meathead"" because, in Archie's words, he is"
"allows her to wear it. In side interviews, Phil calls himself a ""cool dad"" while Claire says that if she can prevent her children from making the same mistakes she did when she was growing up, she has ""done our job"". Alex comes downstairs to complain that Luke has shot her with the toy gun Phil bought him. Claire forces Phil to follow through on his deal with Luke: if Luke shoots someone, Phil will have to shoot him. Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (Sofía Vergara) and her husband, Jay (Ed O'Neill), are watching Gloria's son Manny (Rico Rodriguez) play soccer. Gloria is"
"same liberal values as Gloria Stivic's husband in the TV show. Their children were born sometime around the year 1988 and were first introduced around August 1998 with the appearance of fraternal male twins. Eventually, they grew up to be children in the early stages of puberty that confuse their grandfather's work clothes for the baggy clothing that was popular among youth in the late 1990s. At least one of the grandsons was informally called ""Junior"" throughout the late 1990s running of the comic strip. Earl Bird was the African-American next-door neighbor of Mike and Mabel Motley and a fellow"
"for a boy. Also in the end of the episode it was revealed that Hodgins got a tattoo of Angela's dad on his other arm which said ""Dad"". In the episode ""The Blackout in the Blizzard"" Angela and Hodgins find out they are both carriers of Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, giving their baby a 25 percent chance of blindness. This was a huge devastation for the couple, but in the end they reminded each other that they can handle anything together. Once the child was born, their son was confirmed to not be blind, and the two named him Michael Staccato"
"and became engaged. They married the next year. Mickey later tested to see if he was unable to have children but the results were forgotten about when he discovered that Laura was pregnant, however the father of this unborn child was not Mickey. Little did he know that his brother, Bill Horton had raped Laura in a drunken rage. When Tom saw the results of Mickey's test, he confronted Laura who lied and said that she had given in and slept with Bill. They agreed to keep quiet to protect the family. In November 1968, Michael William Horton was born"
"a fully qualified veterinarian's assistant, while raising Joey as a single mother. Over the course of the show, she became romantically involved with Clark V. Uhley, Jr., another assistant who worked in the same practice. Gloria Stivic Gloria Stivic (née Bunker), is a fictional character played by Sally Struthers on the American situation comedy ""All in the Family"" (which aired on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1979) and the spin-off series ""Gloria"" (CBS, 1982–83). She was the only child of Archie and Edith Bunker, and she was married to—and eventually divorced from -- Michael Stivic. She was born"
"of Bunker's long-suffering wife, Edith Bunker, whom Lear remembered from seeing in the play and film ""Damn Yankees"". The producer sent the show over to ABC twice, but it did not get picked up. They then approached CBS with more success, and accordingly, ""All in the Family"" was retooled and debuted early in 1971. The show also starred unknown character actors, such as Rob Reiner as Archie's liberal son-in-law, Michael ""Meathead"" Stivic, and Sally Struthers as Archie and Edith's only child and Mike's wife, Gloria. The cast had a unique on- and off-camera chemistry, especially Reiner, who became O'Connor's best"
"is his son. However, they then realize that he actually is a little person (Mark Povinelli) and Tracy's husband. The situation becomes more awkward when he opens his present from Mitchell and Cameron, a ""Little Slugger"" baseball glove. Meanwhile, the Hoffmans, a couple that Gloria (Sofía Vergara) and Jay (Ed O'Neill) Pritchett met on a vacation, come to visit them much to Jay's openly (and Gloria's more discreet) chagrin. He eventually tells them his true feelings not knowing that they were spending the night at their house. The couple decides to leave in a cab, as Gloria comes down to"
"for their move to California and meet with him to give notice that they will no longer be staying in his house. Another of Michael's close friends, Al Bender (played by Billy Crystal), marries Gloria's best friend Trudy Tannen in a 1976 episode. Mike accepts a faculty position at UCSB and he and Gloria move to Santa Barbara, California, at the end of the 1977–78 season (at which time Reiner and Struthers ceased to be regulars on the show). They appear in a Christmas episode during the 1978–79 season, in which Archie and Edith (and Edith's niece Stephanie) visit Michael"
"agree on the names Katherine Temperance for a girl and Michael Joseph for a boy. In the episode ""The Blackout in the Blizzard"" Angela and Hodgins find out they are both carriers of Leber's congenital amaurosis, giving their baby a 25 percent chance of blindness. This was a huge devastation for the couple, but in the end they reminded each other that they can handle anything together. Their son was born healthy and without a vision impairment. He was named Michael, as planned, Staccato, as Angela's father wanted, and Vincent, after the late Vincent Nigel-Murray, the full name thus becoming"
"back negative. However, when dining out, William watched Gloria's friend, Evan Owen, do the same trick. He discovered his wife's secret, and he set out to prove the truth. Upon meeting Gloria at the Athletic Club, William staged a hug in which his watch got caught in her hair. Pulling the hairs he needed for her DNA sample, he ran the test anonymously; it was positive. Will confronted Gloria with the test results, and she admitted her secret to him. During their argument, Will suffered a stroke. While he was in hospital, Gloria's other son, Michael Baldwin, and Kevin were"
"and the CBS pilot for ""Gloria"", Sally Struthers’ spin-off from the popular ""All In The Family"" TV series, among many other television series. The couple, who resided in Studio City, CA for over 30 years, have five children, three of whom are currently DGA members* and 1st Assistant Directors*: Shawn Shea*; Elizabeth (now deceased); William (“Bill”) Shea*; Michael J. Shea* and John Francis (“Jay”) Shea III. Shea died of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Jack Shea (director) Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors Guild"
"and guilt over letting Kevin's evil father, Tom Fisher, abuse her son. Gloria was a gold digger but soon fell for John Abbott. She lied to John about her family, even going so far as to hire actors to play her sons. Eventually Michael and Kevin were revealed to be her sons and John was furious, especially after what Kevin had done to John's granddaughter Colleen. He forgave Gloria and they married, despite strong warnings from his children Jack and Ashley. Ashley and Gloria sparked up a horrid rivalry with each other. In a misguided attempt to discredit Ashley, Gloria"
"says that Luke calls Gloria a ""coal digger"" (a term he has heard from Claire), things get worse, with Gloria leaving the room. Eventually, Claire apologizes and the two women make up. ""Coal Digger"" received positive reviews from critics and was named in the top 100 best television episodes of 2009 by BuddyTV. It received a 3.4/9 in the 18-49 demographic according to Nielsen Media Research. The whole family is invited for some barbecue and football at Gloria (Sofía Vergara) and Jay's (Ed O'Neill) house. At school, however, there is an incident between Manny (Rico Rodriguez) and Luke (Nolan Gould)"
"Gloria now separated from Mike, she returned to ""Archie Bunker's Place"" with Joey in the February 1982 episode ""Gloria Comes Home"". In this episode, Joey was played by Christopher Johnston. Joey Stivic was a regular character on the ""All in the Family"" spin-off series ""Gloria"" in 1982 and 1983. On this series, in which the now-divorced Gloria Bunker character had moved to Upstate New York in order to work as an assistant veterinarian, the part of Joey Stivic was played by ten-year-old actor Christian Jacobs. After ""Gloria"" was canceled in 1983, Joey Stivic disappeared from prime time television for 11"
"did not get out of her sight. A couple of years later, after Alma's relationship with Ken failed because of her feelings for Mike, Mike and Alma finally married. Mike once again had his own business, the underwear factory ""Underworld"". In 1998, Mike was seduced by Julia Stone, who blackmailed him for large sums of cash. When Alma discovered this, she left Mike; once they had divorced, she reverted to her maiden name of Halliwell. Unable to win Alma back, Mike settled with loud-mouthed machinist Linda Sykes (Jacqueline Pirie), who was interested only in his money. His long-lost son, Mark"
"Jones). Making his first appearance in 1976 as a Cockney businessman with an eye for the ladies, Mike was the son of an occasional character, Frank ""Frankie"" Baldwin, a former docker and Cockney wide boy. Mike Baldwin became chiefly known for his ruthlessness in business and his string of ruined relationships. During his time on the show, Mike had 25 girlfriends and four wives. Mike Baldwin's family history was retconned in 2004 when his nephew Danny Baldwin was introduced. Prior to this, Mike was always referred to as an only child. Mike and Alma's romance stemmed back to 1989 and"
"does not appear in the 1982 spin-off series ""Gloria"", which starred Sally Struthers. Initially, Reiner had been asked to participate in the series, resurrecting his Michael Stivic character, but he declined. It is explained (on the show) that Michael had left his wife and young son Joey (then played by Christian Jacobs) to live in a California commune with one of his students (which suggests he had found a new teaching job) -- whom Gloria described as ""the homecoming queen, a girl named Muffy""—and was in the process of going through a bitter divorce. At the beginning of the series"
"2008, Michael's rough upbringing was visited. Michael Gross was introduced to the series as his father River Baldwin, a man Michael ""thinks is a low-life, reprobate. A guy who refused to go to Vietnam and left Gloria to raise their son alone."" LeBlanc thought it was a ""great story"", although it took a while to come to fruition. LeBlanc said that Michael's yearning to find his birth father stemmed from having his own son, Fen, explaining: ""I think it all started when he had Fen. It keys it off for a lot of fathers. This is a man who went"