Archie Bunker Bunker lived at the fictional address of 704 Hauser Street in the borough of Queens, in New York City. "All in the Family" got many of its laughs by playing on Archie's bigotry, although the dynamic tension between Archie and his liberal son-in-law, Mike, provided an ongoing political and social sounding board for a variety of topics. Archie appears in all but seven episodes of the series (three were missed because of a contract dispute between Carroll O'Connor and Norman Lear in ). Archie was modeled after Norman Lear's father Herman Lear and on Alf Garnett from the BBC1 sitcom
Archie o Cawfield Archie o Cawfield Archie o Cawfield, also known as "The Bold Archer", "The Bold Prisoner", or "The Escape of Old John Webb"", is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad , number 188 of the Child ballads. Two brothers lament that their third brother is to be hanged. A proposal of force is met by the more cunning brother with the suggestion that they bring only a handful of men. They get horses, have them shod, and set out. Once they sneak into the prison, the captive brother says he is carrying too heavy a load of chain to escape. They carry him