Archie Bunker's Place

The series was created after Jean Stapleton announced in December 1978 that she did not want to renew her contract, feeling her character Edith Bunker had run its course; creator Norman Lear wanted to end All in the Family entirely, but CBS executive Robert Daly persuaded Carroll O'Connor to convince Lear to continue the characters, though Lear refused to let it keep the All in the Family title.

Jean Stapleton agreed to appear as Edith Bunker in five episodes during the 1979–80 season to help ease the transition before her character was written out.

Edith Bunker's death was written into the Season 2 premiere as dying off-screen of a stroke, mirroring how Dandy Nichols (who played the British equivalent character Else Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part's sequel) actually died, leading both shows to independently write similar widower storylines for their lead characters.

Unlike All in the Family, the show was videotaped on a closed set with multiple cameras and no live studio audience; instead, a laugh track was created by later screening the edited episodes to live audiences attending tapings of One Day at a Time.

All seasons were produced at Studios 31 & Bob Barker Studio at Television City Studios in Hollywood, the same facility where All in the Family had been produced for its first six seasons.

The theme song was a re-scored Dixieland-style instrumental version of 'Those Were the Days' arranged by Ray Conniff, and the closing theme 'Remembering You' was similarly a re-scored version of All in the Family's closing music.

Carroll O'Connor was so frustrated by the show's cancellation without proper closure that he vowed never to work with CBS again, though he later returned to the network with In the Heat of the Night after NBC declined to renew it.

The episode 'Thanksgiving Reunion' marked the final time the original All in the Family ensemble—Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner—appeared together on screen.