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** Somewhat averted with Carroll O'Connor, thanks to the TV version of ''[[In the Heat of the Night]]''.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: With its storylines almost always centered around the current events and culture of the time, it's a pretty insightful look into the things going on in the 70s.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** The pilot episode, "Meet the Bunkers", was actually the ''third'' pilot produced. In both pilots prior to the one that was greenlit, Michael was an Irish-American named Dickie and the Bunkers' last name was Justice. The first pilot, produced in 1968, was entitled "[[Pun-Based Title|Justice for All]]" and was actually filmed in New York; the second pilot, filmed in Hollywood in 1969, was called "Those Were the Days". "Dickie" and Gloria were recast twice; the same actor played Lionel in both original pilots but was replaced for the final 1970 pilot.
** Two famous casting tidbits: Mickey Rooney was the first choice to play Archie, and [[Harrison Ford]] was actually cast as "Dickie", but both backed out because they found the playing of Archie's bigotry for humor to be offensive.
** Long before she became [[Laverne and Shirley|Laverne]], Penny Marshall was up for the role of Gloria. Had she gotten it, she could have worked alongside [[Real Life Relative|then-husband]] Rob Reiner.
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