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>> this is a family i adored, present history has tainted that a little bit. it didn't stop the fact that that was a ground-breaking experience. >> we had sort of this idyllic family, claire was a lawyer, he was a doctor. there was a very natural chemistry between the huxtable and claire and their children that wasn't cliche black poverty. >> son, your mother asked be eto'o come up here and kill you. how do you expect to get into college with grades like in? >> no problem. >> there is a much more conservative parent that is driving the cosby show. instead of acting disappointed because i'm not...

>> thanks for the tip. >> family ties is a reversal in many ways of all in the family, except notice you have the liberal parents and the conservative child. >> this morning i found a copy of the wall street journal under his bed in there you think he was switched at birth and the rockefellers have our kid? >> michael was just wonderful. he was young, energetic. he had such good timing. >> we started rather slowly. nbc was moving us around a bit trying to find the right place for us. family ties pumped a little bit of life into the family sit-com. but the sit-com, in general, had been pro foup...

>> or gathered together in a workplace. >> all the great sit-coms are about family there so wonderful. >> it's one of the great accomplish rms of the modern age. >>. >> what have realways said is the most important thing? >> breakfast. >> family. >> family is key to the sit-com. it's something that we all can real to. >> you are in these people's homes for years. you are a part of the family. >> one good thing about moving here, is i have no plans and no distractions. that's why i got fam little. what does fonzi say? eh! >> the family sit-com brings

Doing? >> well! >> "i love lucie" became a phenomenon instantly. >> when you think about the era that lucille ball came up in and what she was able to achieve, it's astounding. >> i'm a father! i'm a father! >> when lucy and ricky had a baby, it was like huge! it's the highest rated show of the series. it changed the dynamic because all of a sudden it became centered around the family unit. i think "i love lucie" was the big bang of the family sit-com. >> and the family moved to the suburbs. >> isn't this exciting? we're in our very own home. >> and that mirrored what was happening in america ...

Change the landscape. they had all these rural family sit-coms. they were looking for more sophisticated sit-coms. >> after abc declined to move forward with the all in the family pilot, norman lear made the decision to move the show over to cbs. >> they said, yes, you need a new set of kids, so rob reiner and i were the third set of children for archie and edith bunker. >> so i missed the pilot for the third time, same script. i wouldn't change a word. >> let's hear it again. what do you mean by what god? >> we don't see any evidence of god, that's all. >> that's right, daddy. >> that's right...