704 Hauser
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| 704 Hauser | |
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| Genre | Situation comedy |
| Creator(s) | Norman Lear |
| Starring | John Amos Lynnie Godfrey T.E. Russell Maura Tierney |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes (per episode) |
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| Original channel | CBS |
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704 Hauser was a short-lived CBS television series that aired in 1994. It was a spin-off of All in the Family (the final of many), and was built around the concept of an African American family, the Cumberbatches, moving into the former Queens home of Archie Bunker years after Bunker had sold the house. The All in the Family character Joey Stivic makes a cameo in the first episode.
Norman Lear created the series during the time when conservative talk radio was experiencing its initial upswing in popularity in the United States, particularly in the form of Rush Limbaugh. Lear felt that the time was right for a new show to explore some of the issues being discussed, and 704 Hauser was even more explicitly political than All in the Family.
John Amos, a veteran of the earlier Maude spin-off (itself a spin-off of All in the Family) Good Times, starred as Ernie Cumberbatch, while Lynnie Godfrey played his wife, Rose. T.E. Russell played their live-at-home son, Thurgood Marshall "Goodie" Cumberbatch.
The show featured a reversal of the original All in the Family formula. Ernie and Rose Cumberbatch were blue collar, working class Democrats, while their son Goodie was an assertive conservative activist in the vein of Armstrong Williams, Walter Williams, or Thomas Sowell. To add further conflict, Goodie's girlfriend was a white Jewish woman (played by Maura Tierney).
Only six episodes were filmed, and only five were aired.
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| Main characters: | Archie | Edith | Gloria | Michael |
| Recurring characters: | Joey | George Jefferson | Louise Jefferson | Lionel Jefferson | Henry Jefferson | Stephanie Mills |
| Episodes: | List of All in the Family episodes |
| Related Series: | Maude | The Jeffersons | Archie Bunker's Place | Gloria | 704 Hauser | Good Times | Checking In |
| Shows produced or created by Norman Lear |
| 704 Hauser · a.k.a. Pablo · A Year at the Top · All in the Family · All That Glitters · All's Fair · America 2-Night · Archie Bunker's Place · Fernwood 2Nite · Good Times · Hot L Baltimore · Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman · Maude · One Day at a Time · Sanford and Son · Sunday Dinner · The Baxters · The Jeffersons · The Powers That Be |
