Carroll O'Connor of Bunker's long-suffering wife, Edith Bunker, whom Lear remembered from seeing in the play and film "Damn Yankees". The producer sent the show over to ABC twice, but it did not get picked up. They then approached CBS with more success, and accordingly, "All in the Family" was retooled and debuted early in 1971. The show also starred unknown character actors, such as Rob Reiner as Archie's liberal son-in-law, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, and Sally Struthers as Archie and Edith's only child and Mike's wife, Gloria. The cast had a unique on- and off-camera chemistry, especially Reiner, who became O'Connor's best
Helena Carroll Les Moonves, now president of CBS, his first job in the biz), Carroll moved to Los Angeles in the late 1960s and appeared in numerous films and television programs, including John Huston's Academy Award nominated film "The Dead", "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" starring Robert Mitchum, "The Jerk", directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin, "The Mambo Kings", the Warren Beatty remake of "Love Affair", the 1979 NBC mini-series "Backstairs at the White House", and such television programs as "General Hospital", "The Edge of Night", "Loving Couples", "Laverne and Shirley", "Murder She Wrote", etc. Carroll resided in Los Angeles,