His TV productions defined comedy in the 1970s and 80s: All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, Good Times and Maude. In 1981, he turned his attention to politics, which was always a subtext in his sitcoms, and founded the civil liberties advocacy group People For the American Way in 1981
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This year at Chautauqua, the famed lecture series founded in 1874, journalist Roger Rosenblatt interviewed Lear about his career, including the genesis of his most famous creation, Archie Bunker and All in the Family.
