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| Series: | All in the Family | |||
| Network/Country: | CBS-TV / USA | |||
| Air date | October 27, 1976 | |||
| Production code | 707 (7x06) | |||
| Teleplay by: | Milt Josefsberg & Mort Lachman | |||
| Story by: | Calvin Kelly & Jim Tisdale | |||
| Directed by: | Paul Bogart | |||
| Guest starring: | Vinnette Carroll Milton Selzer Liz Torres | |||
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Archie's Operation (Part 1) is the sixth episode of Season 7 of All in the Family, and the 138th episode in the series; it is also the first part of a two-part episode story arc. Co-written and prepared for TV as a teleplay by Milt Josefsberg and Mort Lachman from an original story penned by Calin Kelly and Jim Tisdale, the episode, which was directed by Paul Bogart, originally aired on CBS-TV on October 27, 1976.
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Synopsis[]
Note: Part 1 of a two-part episode,Archie goes into the hospital and has a verbal run-in with a Puerto Rican nurse and gets a blood transfusion from a black doctor. Still unemployed, Archie checks into the hospital for gall bladder surgery, a situation that proves to be anything but routine. Not only does he find Edith reading a Playgirl in the waiting room, he has to deal with a smart-alack Puerto Rican nurse and then a burly West Indian surgical assistant who preps him for surgery by giving him a shave . . . but not on his chin.
Note: Originally shown as a one-hour episode, depicting Archie's surgery. In syndication, it is aired as a two-part episode. This is Liz Torres's first appearance as Theresa Betancourt, who will appear in five additional episodes during the 1976/77 season. Sally Struthers does not appear in part 2. In the second part of this episode, Mike mentioned Gloria, a couple times.
Storyline[]
Archie's pain turns into something more serious as he has to have his gallbladder removed and he is taken to the hospital right away for the operation. Archie's trip to the hospital turns into an ethnic nightmare for him. He's admitted by a Puerto Rican receptionist, treated by a Jewish physician, and is forced to accept a blood transfusion from a female West Indian doctor's assistant.
Did You Know?[]
Trivia[]
- The Playgirl magazine that Edith is looking at is the September 1976 issue (Vol. III, No. 4) with Jim Lampier on the cover.
- This episode marks the first appearance of Liz Torres in the recurring role of Teresa Betancourt.
- Liz Torres and Sally Struthers would later go on to appear on The WB Network's Gilmore Girls TV series together.
Scene excerpts[]
- Quotes
[Archie, in finding out from Dr. Shapiro, the Bunkers' family doctor, that the doctor who treated him for his gall bladder surgery, and also donated her own blood is black and a woman]
- Archie: Well, Doctor, she's... B-L-A-K.
- Dr. Shapiro: But her blood is R-E-D-D.
[Archie meets the doctor who will be perfoming his gall bladder surgery, Dr. Thatcher, a black Jamaican woman, as he's not too enthused to learn, as she gets on him for chiding her for being black]
- Dr. Wynell Thatcher: Now you listen, boy- if you behave yourself I'll be good to you, but if you don't behave yourself I'm gonna take a bedpan and beat you with it.
- Archie: [muttering to himself] The nurses in this joint are killers...
- Dr. Wynell Thatcher: What was that?
- Archie: I said I'm trying to fix my pillows here...
- Archie: [Fearing death prior to surgery] Now about the funeral...
- Edith: There ain't gonna be a funeral!
- Archie: Of course there's gonna be a funeral. What are gonna do? Put me out with the garbage?
[Archie meets Teresa Betancourt, a clerk at the hospital where he's to have the gall bladder surgery done him, who's Puerto Rican, and will later become the Bunker's housekeeper]
- Teresa Betancourt: Did you have an account in a bonk?
- Archie: (poking fun at Teresa's accent in pronouncing the word "bank") Yeah, First National Bonk.
- Teresa: References?
- Archie: (poking fun at Teresa's accent in pronouncing the word "bank") It's a pretty good "bonk"!
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
Guest Stars/Recurring Cast[]
- Vinnette Carroll as Dr. Wynell Thatcher
- Milton Selzer as Dr. Seymour Shapiro
- Liz Torres as Teresa Betancourt
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