'All in the Family' Turns 50, but the Show Almost Never Got Made
Over half a century ago, the concept for what would become All in the Familywas put into development by ABC, the network having become aware of the British sitcom that inspired it, Till Death Us Do Part ( Do You Remember). That show, which premiered in 1965, was as controversial in the UK as the battle of the Bunkers and the Stivics would eventually become here. Despite this, Leonard H. Goldenson, founder and then president of ABC, asked Norman Lear to develop a pilot for an American version of the sitcom. Lear explains in a Television Academy Foundation interview that he read about
Source: doyouremember.com