Sally Struthers Slams Norman Lear for Stealing the Idea for ‘All in the Family’

Sally Struthers recently appeared on the Let’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti podcast, and she shared some surprising insights from her time working on All in the Family in the 1970s. First, she claimed that the sitcom’s creator Norman Lear, actually stole the idea for the show … from the lead actor himself.

She said that Lear, who passed away in December 2023 at the age of 101, stole the idea from Carroll O’Connor, who played Archie Bunker in the series. She added that Lear “pretended for the next 52 years that he created it.”