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
Parsley Sidings Mr J.G. Reeder, starring Hugh Burden. It was broadcast between 1969 and 1971. Parsley Sidings Parsley Sidings is a BBC Radio sitcom created by Jim Eldridge. It stars Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender (who also starred in the television wartime sitcom "Dad's Army" at that time), together with Kenneth Connor from the "Carry On" films. The scripts are by Jim Eldridge (who would later go on to write for many more series, the most successful being the BBC's "King Street Junior"). The show is set in a sleepy out of the way railway station on the main line between London