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Archie in the Hospital
A backache lands Archie in the hospital, where he strikes up a friendship with a patient on the other side of the curtain in his room. Duval: Roscoe Lee Browne. Doctor: John Heffernan. Nurse: Priscilla Morrill. Mrs. Jefferson: Isabel Sanford. Lionel: Mike Evans. Archie: Carroll O’Connor., A backache lands Archie in the hospital, where he strikes up a friendship with a patient on the other side of the curtain in his room., Problems on the job manifest themselves in a huge backache for Archie Bunker. Landing in the hospital, he strikes up a warm friendship with his roommate, who is separated from Archie by a transom. Unbeknownst to him, Archie’s unseen new friend is a black man. Roscoe Lee Browne guest stars as Mr. Duval. Scripted by Don Nicholl from a story by Stanley Ralph Ross and Martin Cohan, “Archie Goes to the Hospital” first aired on January 6, 1973.
