Maude (pilot) Maude (pilot) "Maude" is the twenty-fourth and final episode of the second season of the American television sitcom "All in the Family" which also served as the eponymous pilot episode of its first spin-off series "Maude". The episode, directed by John Rich and written by Rod Parker, was videotaped on February 18, 1972 in front of a live audience at CBS Television City in Hollywood, California and originally aired on March 11, 1972 at 8:00 p.m. EST on CBS. Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) and his wife Edith (Jean Stapleton) prepare to visit Edith's cousin Maude Findlay (Beatrice Arthur) in Westchester
Carroll O. Switzer state district court bench in Des Moines. He was elected to that position the following year. While preparing to preside as chairman of the 1960 Democratic State Convention in Des Moines, Switzer was hospitalized after suffering from chest pains. While hospitalized, he suffered a fatal heart attack. Carroll O. Switzer Carroll O. Switzer (May 23, 1908 – May 30, 1960) was an unsuccessful candidate for Iowa's governorship who later served as a state court judge and (briefly) as a United States federal judge. Born in Pilot Mound, Iowa, Switzer received an LL.B. from Drake University in 1931. Following graduate work