All in the Family: Edith's 50th Birthday (1)
Edith's 50th Birthday (1)
- 163.
- Season: 8
- Episode: 4
- First Aired: 10/16/1977
- Prod Code: 805
Before Edith arrives home, Gloria and Mike teaches Archie the plan for Edith 50th birthday surprise party which will be taken at 6 o'clock at the Stivics house. Edith comes back home while Archie and the Stivics leave to decorate the house for the party. A sudden knock at the door reveals a cop. Edith welcomes the policeman inside the house who claims that there's a rapist in town but he slips out that it's him. Edith is held at
gunpoint and pushed on the couch. The rapist slowly strips Edith! Before it can go any longer, the phone rings. The rapist orders Edith to get rid of the caller as soon as possible. When she does, Archie knocks at the door, wondering why the hell the door is locked. The rapist hides himself in the closet and once again orders Edith to get rid of Archie. She does as quickly as possible. Still stranded in the house with the armed man, they suddenly smell something burning. It was the cake which Edith previously started to bake. They rush to the oven where the room is just smoke. When she it pulls, she tosses the hot cake in the rapist's face and rushes outside the kitchen door, but he stops her. She knees him in the groin and exits as soon as possible out of the front door and interupts the party, running into Archie's arms. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- Bob SchillerBob Weiskopf
- Director:
- Paul Bogart
- Stars:
- Rob Reiner (Michael Stivic (Season 1-8, otherwise recurring))
- Danielle Brisebois (Stephanie Mills (Season 9))
- Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker)
- Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker)
- Sally Struthers (Gloria Stivic (Season 1-8, otherwise recurring))
- Liz Torres (Teresa Betancourt (Season 8))
- Guest Star:
- Barry Gordon (Gary Rabinowitz)
- Jane Connell
- John Brandon
- Ray Colella
- David Dukes (Lambert)
- Who are the "guests"? The only one we recognize is Sybil Gooley. Where are the Jeffersons or Lorenzos or Cousin Maude or Cousin Amelia or any of Edith's other friends or relatives who surely would have attended her 50th birthday party. (Of course it would have been too expensive to get everyone, but a few more familiar faces would have been appreciated). edit »
- According to David Dukes, the actor who played Edith's rapist, the original taping of the scene in which Edith shoves the cake in his face had to be redone because both times that they filmed it in front of a live audience(there was both a 5:30 and an 8:30 taping), the studio audience was so loud and stamping on the bleachers and cheering for so long that it overrode all the subsequent dialogue, and had to be reshot. edit »
- This two-part episode was heavily criticized by some, including both The New York Daily News, which accused Lear and CBS of stooping to a new low to get ratings, and The New York Post, which derided Lear as "a good showman." edit »
- David Dukes, the actor who portrayed the rapist, actually received numerous death threats after this episode aired. Apparently, there were people who could not distinguish David Dukes the actor from his role as a rapist. edit »
- The loud cheering we hear during the scene where Edith hits Lambert in the face with the burnt cake, kicks him out the back door and storms out of the house through the front door, is a standing ovation given by the live studio audience. edit »
- This episode won the 1978 Emmy for Best Direction in a Comedy Series. edit »
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