O’Connor and Stapleton’s Reunion
While on the Donny and Marie talk show in 1991, O’Connor and Stapleton were reunited! “It was the first time they had gotten together on screen since ‘All In The Family,’ and also Donny and Marie asked if they would do their Archie and Edith voices but they refused.”
O’Connor and Stapleton’s Reunion
Farewell
Once All in the Family went off air, the spin-off Archie Bunker’s Place picked up not long after. However Jean Stapleton was weary of portraying Edith Bunker so after the first season wrapped off, she left the show and Edith was killed off. So Lear asked Stapleton how to respectfully kill Edith off. To which Stapleton said, “Just have her die off, she’s only fiction.” Lear then paused and replied, “Not to me, she isn’t.” Edith died of a stroke, off-camera.
Farewell