Allan Melvin commercials for fifteen years. In the early 1980s, Melvin appeared as a regular in "Archie Bunker’s Place", a successor to "All in the Family", in which he played the now more important role of Barney Hefner. When this series ended in 1983, Melvin’s work was exclusively devoted to cartoon voice-overs. Allan Melvin died of cancer on January 17, 2008, aged 84, and was buried at Westwood Memorial Cemetery in Southern California. Melvin is buried just yards from his TV best friend Carroll O'Connor, who played 'Archie Bunker' in TV's "All In The Family". Coincidentally, later the same year, famed 1950s
Landmark Sitcom Season Death Us Do Part" and "Hancock's Half Hour" are missing from the BBC archives, while the episode of "Steptoe and Son", originally broadcast in colour, exists only as an off-air black & white videotape recording. Another sitcom marked for possible remake and broadcast is "Up Pompeii!". Landmark Sitcom Season Landmark Sitcom Season is a BBC project, launched in March 2016, to mark 60 years since "Hancock's Half Hour" started on BBC television. As part of ongoing celebrations throughout 2016, the BBC has commissioned new scripts for iconic British sitcoms of the last six decades. The landmark sitcom season began in