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"Edith Writes a Song"
Season 2, episode # 4
# 17 overall in series (205 episodes)
AITF 2x4 - Edith Writes a Song
Burglars Horace (Cleavon Little) and his friend/accomplice Coke both encouage Edith to sing the ditty which she's compsed in "Edith Writes a Song" in Season 2 (ep.#4).
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Series: All in the Family
Network/Country: CBS-TV
Air date October 9, 1971
Production code 204 (2x4)
Written by: Lee Kalcheim
Directed by: John Rich
Guest starring: Cleavon Little
Demond Wilson
Mike Evans
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Edith Writes a Song is the 17th overall episode and the fourth episode of Season 2 of CBS-TV's All in the Family. Written by Lee Kalcheim, and directed by John Rich, it was first telecast on October 9, 1971.


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Synopsis[]

Edith wants to use the $30 collected in the family pot to get a song published but Archie has other plans...to buy a gun. While out at the movies they receive a visit from a pair of robbers.

Plot Summary[]

Archie's insistence upon purchasing a gun to protect his household backfires when a couple of burglars named Coke and Horace break into the Bunker household. Keeping Archie at bay with his own gun, the two thieves reveal a lot about themselves -- and, in the course of the evening, genially encourage the disingenuous Edith to compose an impromptu ditty about her life.

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The two cat burglars, "Horace" and "Coke", are played by Tony award-winning actor Cleavon Little and relative Hollywood newcomer Demond Wilson, who on the strength of this performance was soon cast as Lamont Sanford in the Norman Lear-produced hit NBC-TV sitcom Sanford and Son.

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