Archie Bunker's Place
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Sjbradford — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 05:04 PM)
Norman Lear explained that the Bunkers didn't live in a duplex and the house depicted in the credits was not meant to be their exact house - just a house representing the type of neighborhood they lived in. Notice that the credits house didn't have an open front porch, which the Bunker house did have.
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NyuckNyuckNyuck — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 06:37 PM)
Lears explanation does not really hold water because the camera pans down the street of duplex houses while they are singing and the credits roll and then it stops at the one house and the camera pans in right to the door as if you are going into
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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 06:44 PM)
The early episode where the Jeffersons move in was originally said to be "two doors down", but always said to be the house next door. Being the first season, they may have confirmed (at least in that episode) that they lived in a duplex.
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Sjbradford — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 09:06 AM)
The Jefferson house isn't part of a duplex with the Bunkers. In the later years, when the Stivics live there, Archie describes it as being "across the alley" (when he's talking about how Mike and Gloria always show up for breakfast on Saturday morning).
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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 09:32 AM)
They always described the Jeffersons as living "across the alley". But on the episode where they move in, Archie also says that they're "two doors down", inferring that he himself lives on the right side of a duplex (looking at it from the street), as shown on the opening credits.
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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 11:53 AM)
Louise did tell Archie that she was picking up the keys for house number 708, which would've been "two doors down" as Archie put it. But that was the one and only episode that inferred that the Bunkers lived in a duplex.
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aManAndHisThoughts — 9 years ago(February 04, 2017 06:30 PM)
They should have had Archies house be a duplex and have a family of Puerto Ricans move into the other side-
Archie: Ahh Geez dere Eedith the Poortoe Reekin guy is passed out on the front lawn again. He keeps parkin his El Camino with da flames on it on my side of the driveway.