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| Season 2, episode # 14 | ||||
| "All in the Family" episode | ||||
| Series: | All in the Family | |||
| Network/Country: | CBS-TV | |||
| Air date | January 1, 1972 | |||
| Production code | 215 (2x14) | |||
| Written by: | Alan J. Levitt | |||
| Directed by: | John Rich | |||
| Guest starring: | Roscoe Lee Browne Eileen Brennan Hector Elizondo Edith Diaz | |||
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The Elevator Story | |||
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The Elevator Story is the 14th episode aired during the second season and the 27th overall episode of All in the Family. The Season 2 episode first aired on CBS-TV on New Year's Day, January 1, 1972. Directed by John Rich, the story was written by Alan J. Levitt.
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Synopsis
It is Edith's birthday, and the whole family plans to take her out to dinner. Archie makes a quick stop at the insurance agent's office first—but the elevator he is in suddenly stops, trapping him with a black businessman, a ditsy secretary, a Puerto Rican man and his very pregnant wife.
Plot summary
It could only happen to Archie Bunker: He's trapped in a stalled elevator with a prickly black attorney named Hugh Victor Thompson III (Roscoe Lee Browne), a ditzy, neurotic, chain-smoking secretary named Angelique McCarthy (Eileen Brennan), and a pregnant, monolingual Puerto Rican woman (Edith Diaz). Things take an even dicier turn when Mrs. Mendoza goes into labor! The touching final scene was the result of on-set improvisation; star Carroll O'Connor felt that the scene as written was in poor taste, and threatened to walk off the show unless something new was added.
Trivia/Notes
A young Hector Elizondo rounds out the cast as excitable janitor and father-to-be Señor Mendoza.
Cast (in credits order)
Main cast
- Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker
- Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker
- Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic
- Sally Struthers as Gloria Bunker Stivic
Recurring characters/cast
None
Guest stars
- Roscoe Lee Browne as Hugh Victor Thompson III
- Hector Elizondo as Carlos "Señor" Mendoza
- Eileen Brennan as Angelique McCarthy
- Edith Diaz as Serafina Mendoza