Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times. Using comedy and indelible characters, his legendary 1970s shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, boldly cracked open dialogue and shifted the national consciousness, injecting enlightened humanism into sociopolitical debates on race, class, creed, and feminism.
Direction
Grady and Ewing weave archival gold with intimate present-day Lear.
Production
Rare footage of 1970s TV revolution you won't find elsewhere.
Director
Rachel Grady
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lear bought the actual Declaration of Independence and toured it to schools — not a metaphor, the actual document.
All in the Family's 'those were the days' opening originally showed Edith hitting Archie with a frying pan — test audiences found it too real.
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