All in the Family/Justice for All

Justice for All
Pilot 1
Airdate	unaired
Written by	Norman Lear
Directed by	Norman Lear and Gordon Rigsby
Produced by	Howard Adelman
— N/A	Pilot 2 → Those Were the Days
All in the Family — Season One

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Justice for All is the first unaired pilot for All in the Family.

Starring: Carroll O'Connor (Archie)

Co-Starring: Tim McIntire (Richard), Kelly Jean Peters (Gloria)

and Jean Stapleton (Edith)

Additional Cast: D'Urville Martin (Lionel Jefferson)

Trivia

The Show

• This episode, which was filmed in 1968, was originally intended as the pilot for what was to have been called Justice for All, Norman Lear's first attempt at filming an American adaptation of the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. This was also the first of three attempted pilots of what would become All in the Family to be produced by Lear
• The series name at that point was in reference to the name of Archie's family, which was originally Justice
• The character of Mike Stivic does not appear in this pilot episode or in the second pilot, Those Were the Days. His place on the show was originally occupied by Richard, played in this episode by Tim McIntire. Like Mike after him, Richard was a politically leftist, socially liberal hippie, but the two characters differed in ethnic backgrounds (Richard was of Irish-American background, while Mike is Polish-American). Both Richard and Mike were Americanized versions of Till Death Us Do Part character Mike Rawlins, who was politically Trotskyist (Trotskyism being a form of Marxism), but the Trotskyism aspect of that character was scrapped when Lear adapted Till Death Us Do Part for American audiences to avoid having the character connected to any form of Communism
• This episode was originally produced for ABC, which ultimately declined to pick up Justice for All. It was later reworked and a second pilot was shot by Lear with the Gloria and Richard characters recast, as well as a name change to Those Were the Days
• This episode had been considered lost until it was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as part of its Norman Lear TV Collection DVD box set in 2009