'All In The Family': I can't be the only Brit, surely?

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It's one of my 2 favorite shows. Especially that summer episode where the Bunkers AC brakes and Gloria comes downstairs wearing that denim bikini. That's imprinted on my brain forever.
The other favorite is All Creatures Great and Small.

Not to bash anyone, but I really despise Political Correctness and long for the days when grown folks acted like... well, grown folks.

I really liked All in the Family, but I really love satire in general. The sad thing is, a show like that could never be made today (on a major network)... I’m surprised it can still be bought on DVD. I’m sure it won’t be long before they’ll be outlawed as hate-speech or classified as pornography.

Soon the entire world will be sanitized for our protection.

...The descrription at IMDB of the Till Death Do Us Part spin-off feature makes it sound interesting - Mostly , it covers Alf Garnet's early years , from growing up poor but together in the East End?? , to dealing with WWII , then post-War being cleared out to " new Brutalist " ( well perhaps ) developments , with the show's situation only coming in in the last fourth?? or so...but probably a bit obscure a subject to most Yanks .
I mean , I consider myself a bit of an Anglophile , but...
The AITF spin-off MAUDE , with Beatrice Arthur and Adrienne Barbeau , has its first season on DVD now .
I tend to imagine that it was never shown on British TV at the time ?
I still remember the only?? episode that " Cousin Maude " appeared on on AITF , I still remember the bit of the different food she gave to different people , three-plus decades later ! Must've been the only time I saw it , but...
I'll say " Yeah " re ( Or , hey , " Right on , dig it , groovy " , etc. , in keeping witth the era ! ): THE JEFFERSONS , which I know I once read was never shown on British TV , as I remember a piece on one of the actors who played Lionel saying that , after the series was over , he found himself so typecast he moved to Britain , " where the series had never been shown " , for a while .
That British character in The Jeffersons - the one who worked at the U. N....probably DID NOT help The Jeffersons in getting a U. K. sale ! !! !! !! !!

...All therse years later , and I've STILL never seen any " Till' Death " stuff .........I mean , there's worse things for me to cry over , but ...