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All In The Family star Sally Struthers says she feuded with creator and spent $40K on bid to leave show

Lear died in 2023 at the age of 101, after decades being hailed as a TV legend who deftly wove political issues into situation comedy.

All In The Family enjoyed a successful eight-season run on CBS from 1971 to 1979 - but Struthers claims that during this period, she was excluded from cast dinners that were held at the home of Lear and his then-wife, feminist activist Frances Loeb. Lear and his fellow writers supposedly felt Archie Bunker would be 'a lot to swallow for the American audiences, with his bigotry and his social slurs,' and so they wanted to 'soften him up' by giving him a 'soft spot in his heart for his daughter.' She explained that her 'frustration in the first five seasons' was that 'our older, brilliant, Jewish faith writers, who knew how to write for Milton Berle and Carl Reiner and Carroll O'Connor, but they didn't know what to do with a young lady.'

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