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"Archie and the Lock-up"
Season 2, episode # 3
# 16 overall in series (205 episodes)
AITF 2x3 - Archie in Jail
When Archie is asked by Gloria to bring Mike and Lionel, who went down to the UN Building to a protest demonstration there home, he gets caught up in a riot and gets arrested in "Archie and The Lock-Up" in Season 2 (ep.#3).
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Series: All in the Family
Network/Country: CBS-TV
Air date October 2, 1971
Production code 205 (2x03)
Teleplay by: Paul Wayne, Michael Ross & Bernie West
Story by: Paul Wayne
Directed by: John Rich
Guest starring: Mike Evans
Corey Fischer
Kelly Houser
Ken Lynch
Allan Melvin
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Archie and the Lock-Up is the third episode of the second season of All in the Family, and the 16th overall series episode. The episode, which was written by Paul Wayne, Michael Ross and Bernie West, and scripted from a story by Wayne, was also directed by John Rich. It originally aired on CBS-TV on October 2, 1971.


"Archie and the Lock-up"
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Synopsis[]

Mike and Lionel plan on attending a demonstration at the United Nations. After a riot breaks, Gloria asks Archie to bring them home but he instead gets arrested with the rest of the protesters.

Plot Summary[]

Archie predicts disaster when Mike and Lionel participate in an anti-Pentagon demonstration at the U.N. building. It turns out that Archie is right -- but disaster befalls him, when, showing up at the demonstration to take Mike, who comes home frazzled but unharmed and Lionel home, he ends up in the slammer himself, surrounded by commies, hippies, yippies, who he usually calls "commie pinkos" and drop-outs!

Allan Melvin, who would later be cast in the recurring role of Barney Hefner on the show, appears as Desk Sergeant Pulaski and it's too bad that Archie doesn't know the good sergeant's last name before he shoots off his mouth in the final scene as Mike secures his release, because the police captain is Polish like Mike but Archie doesn't know that, as in referring to Mike as a "Polack", offends the captain, leaving him to stay in jail a little while longer!

Cast (in credits order)[]

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Guest starring[]

  • Corey Fischer as Jesus Hippie
  • Kelly Houser as Black Hippie
  • Ken Lynch as Jail Guard Callahan
  • Allan Melvin as Sgt. Paul Pulaski

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