A yr after Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner had moved on from All within the Household, Jean Stapleton felt it was time. “I had determined we’d finished every part we may,” she recalled in an interview with EmmyLegends.org. “It was time to go on or be buried so far as casting is anxious in this sort of half.” She was prepared for one thing new, and he or she left with no regrets. Nonetheless, collection creator Norman Lear simply wasn’t able to let her character go fairly but.
A couple of yr later, whereas she was touring in a play in Florida, Stapleton received a name from producer Bud Yorkin, adopted by one other from Lear, who needed to know if she actually wasn’t coming again. His present Archie Bunker’s Place was shifting ahead, and so they have been planning to increase the storyline, get Archie out of the bar and have him date once more. However there was one drawback. Lear couldn’t deliver himself to approve a script that may say Edith had died.