USA TODAY Fifty years ago, on Jan. 12, 1971, "All in the Family" premiered. Its warts-and-all look at real-life issues was a shock to controversy-averse television that sent reverberations through American culture. The setting of the CBS series (available on getTV, iTunes), which ran from 1971 to 1979, was hardly revolutionary, the modest Queens home of the working-class Bunkers. But TV legend Norman Lear, who served as executive producer with Bud Yorkin, broke the timid rules of television by injecting timely and controversial social issues, such as racial prejudice, sexism and Vietnam. (He also introduced a toilet flush – or "turlet," as Archie pronounced it – to the TV sitcom.)