Gary is jealous when he learns his old school rival is dating his ex-girlfriend, Billie. Billie is concerned about Gary's feelings and he tells her he would like to start dating her again, but she wants to remain just friends with Gary.
Barney and Archie square off in court over a TV that Archie purchased from Barney at a electronics store that Barney accidentally broke while installing at the bar.
Stephanie is using marijuana to fit in with her friends. When Archie finds the drug in his basement, he hits the ceiling and Billie takes the blame for Stephanie. Stephanie tells Archie the truth when he finds some boys smoking upstairs in the bathroom at her party.
Murray returns to recoup his investment in the bar. Archie gives him a hard luck story and Murray allows Archie six more months to get his share of the bar sold.
Archie, Barney, and Harry go out for a night on the town to celebrate their years of friendship. They enter a bar to meet some women, but when they have no luck they soon realize it's a gay bar and they split.
Gary convinces Archie to go to a convention for busisness management. Archie goes, reluctant until he meets the female instructor and the two of them hit it off. Archie learns she's married but she still wants him anyway.
Archie reluctantly hires a woman bartender to help out Harry, but when he fires her because he is unhappy with having a lady bartender, she files a discrimination lawsuit. Gary advises Archie to give her the job back.
Archie takes Stephanie to visit her wealthy grandmother. But when the truck fails to start, Archie becomes an unwanted supper guest at her home. Stephanie looks to her grandmother for answers about her mother.
Billie talks Archie into giving unemployed Barney a job at the bar, which they soon regret. Barney's employment at the bar soon turns into disaster, and Archie must find a way to tell Barney he's fired.
Archie persuades lonesome Barney to take in a lodger to help out. Barney's first potential border bails after he meets his would-be neighbor, Archie. Barney decides on his next candidate, who soon constantly interferes in Barney's life--even his social life.
Archie appears at the beginning of this episode in which he drives Gloria and Joey to their new place. Gloria finds out she has a lot to learn to be a veterinary assistant but Dr. Adams is willing to help her along.
Archie buys a truck for the bar. While Jose is parking it, he accidentaly hits Reggie Jackson's sports car. Reggie stops in the bar and offers to go easy on Archie because he can't afford the repairs. But when Archie makes a racial comment in a newspaper interview about Reggie, he decides to take Archie to court.moreless
Joey's pet turtle becomes ill, so Gloria and Joey go to a veterinary clinic where she meets Dr. Adams. Gloria accepts Dr. Adams offer to work for him at his clinic in upstate New York. Archie hits the ceiling when he hears Gloria's plans to leave again.
Gloria and Joey return home. Archie learns Gloria left Mike because he joined a commune in California, where he was living with other women. Gloria is determined to make it on her own.
Someone is breaking into Archie's storeroom at night. Jose is put on night duty to find out who it is. He discovers it's Raul, who has lost his apartment and has no place to live.
Archie forbids Stephanie to attend a rock concert. Billie agrees to accompany Stephanie because she's an adult. Archie learns Stephanie went anyway, so Archie and Barney go to the concert where a riot takes place and they get arrested. Stephanie and Billie make it home only to see Archie and Barney's arrest on the news.moreless
Blind Mr. Van Ranseller is mugged by a customer at the bar who overhears Van Ranseleer is carrying a sum of money on him. It's now up to Archie and the staff to help him get out of his apartment when he becomes fearful of being attacked again.
Archie wants Harry to buy back Murray's share of the bar. Both Harry's wife and Archie are upset to learn Harry invested in McFenneys, a competitor bar and grill.
Roger Abott is hired by the Rabinowitz law firm to be Archie's business manager, but he and Archie soon disagree on how the bar is run. Later Archie begins to realize he lacks business management skills.
Murray turns down his mother when she asks him visit so he can go on a date and propose to his girlfriend, but Murray feels very guilty after his mother passes away while he's on a date. Over taken by guilt he drives his fiance away, she insted takes a promotion in San Fransisco. Murray realizes his mother died happy, but it may be too late to save his relationship.moreless
Archie punches a lodge member after he makes racial remarks about Mrs. Canby, his black housekeeper, during a confrontation at the grocery store. Archie must write him a written apology or face expulsion from the lodge.
An old friend of Murray's comes to visit, but he's also a crime kingpin. When Murray unknowingly signals the death of a rival mob boss, Archie fears retalitation.
When Archie and the guys at the bar read in the paper that there might be a cure for Mr. Van Ranseleer's blindness, they pool their efforts and money so he can have the operation.
Customers have been complaining about Veronica's nephew, Fred, the gay waiter, so Archie decides that he can convert him by setting him up on a date with a pretty girl.
Edith and Stephanie are preparing a Shabbat dinner, a dinner eaten on the Jewish sabbath. They invite Archie's partner, Murray and his non-Jewish girlfriend. Unbeknownst to him, Edith also invites his mother, who feels that Murray should only be dating Jewish women.
Dottie (the hooker from #3) has been arrested for prostitution. Murray bails her out and talks Archie into hiring her as a waitress to try to keep her out of trouble. However, trouble finds her when now divorcee Barney Hefner falls in love and proposes.
In a protest march against the use of napalm in Vietnam, Murray punched a cop. Although it has been pardoned, his "criminal record" may cost the bar its liquor license.
Archie and Murray hire short-order cook Veronica Rooney, but she insists that her gay nephew be hired as waiter. Archie's strong feelings on homosexuality present a problem.
Construction on the restaurant is underway, but the contractor Archie and Murray hired is demanding more money. Archie, who is determined that the restaurant will be a success, goes to a loan shark.
Archie is in trouble with the State of New York when he is charged with non-payment of sales tax and questionable record keeping. Now it's up to Murray to save Archie and the bar by trying to romance the tax agent.
The energy crisis has become a big problem. The bar is freezing cold and Edith has been preserving as much energy as possible at home as well. Soon, Archie is suffering as well, when the frigid conditions give him a case of strep throat.
Archie's Place has acquired a new regular customer, Dottie. However, Archie and Murray discover that she is a prostitute and is conducting her business at the bar. This is bad for the bar's image. How can they convince her to leave?
Edith, who has been jobless since she got fired from the Sunshine Home, has gotten a job as recreational assistant at the Rego Park Center for the Mentally Ill. However, Archie has decided that he thinks that Edith should not be working.
Harry finalizes the sale of his half to Murray Klein, much to Archie's chagrin. However, Archie must come to grips with the fact that he has a new partner. Murray also discovers that there is more to Archie than his bigoted exterior.
Archie decides to expand his bar, Archie Bunker's Place, into a restaurant. In the meantime, Harry has decided to sell his half of the bar to Jewish liberal Murray Klein. Archie, being the bigot he is, tries in vain to get a loan to buy Harry out.