- Joey Stivic
Joey Stivic is a
fictional character who first appeared on the 1970s American sitcom "All in the Family ". Joey Stivic was the son and only child ofMike Stivic (played byRob Reiner ) and Gloria Bunker Stivic (played bySally Struthers ), and the grandson ofArchie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor ) andEdith Bunker (Jean Stapleton ). The character first appeared, as a newborn baby, in a two-part episode of "All in the Family" airing in December1975 .After many appearances as a baby on "All in the Family" until Reiner and Struthers left the series in
1978 (by that time, Joey had been played more frequently by alternating twins Jason and Justin Draeger), the Joey Stivic character next appeared on the "All in the Family"spin-off series (some call it a continuation of the original) "Archie Bunker's Place " in a guest appearance in November1979 . In this instance, the character was played by child actor Dick Billingsley and was appropriately pre-school age.Joey Stivic was a regular character on the "All in the Family" spin-off series "Gloria" in
1982 and1983 . On this series, in which the now-divorced Gloria Bunker character had moved toUpstate New York in order to work as an assistantveterinarian , the part of Joey Stivic was played by ten-year-old actorChristian Jacobs . After "Gloria" was canceled in 1983, Joey Stivic disappeared from prime time television for 11 years, until the character made one last appearance on"704 Hauser ", a short-lived 1994 series about a black family who had moved into the old Bunker home, years after Bunker had sold it. In this appearance, the Joey Stivic character was played byCasey Siemaszko , an actor born in1961 (14 years before Joey Stivic's fictional birth).Such was the popularity of "All in the Family" in the mid-1970s that in 1976 the Ideal Toy Company released a 14-inch "Joey Stivic doll" (called "Archie Bunker's Grandson") which was billed as the "first anatomically correct male doll." The doll inspired mild controversy at the time, and is a collectors' item today. [http://www.mortystv.com/aitf_faq.shtml#collect]
Joey was
uncircumcised as an infant. As per the X-entertainment article.External links
* [http://www.tvacres.com/dolls_joeystivic.htm Information on the Joey Stivic doll]
* [http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0925/ X-Entertainment article discussing Joey Stivic doll]
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