The TV show "All in the Family" was very funny. But now-a-days it's a little out-dated. One of my favorite Family Sit-coms ever is "Malcolm in the Middle." Both of these are family situational comedies but both are very different.
For instance the biggest difference I can see is between the two father's. Archie is a strongly opinionated man in, what he likes to think, is complete control over his family; as opposed to Hal, from "Malcolm in the Middle," who is meek and mild and completely submissive to his domineering wife Lois. This kind of shows off the difference in gender roles between the two decades.
Though they are similar in some ways too. In both shows they show children at odds with their parents. In "All in the Family" Gloria and her husband, Michael, are usually at odds with Archie's conservative views, and Archie's thoughts that Michael needs to be a bigger "man" and not such a liberal. In "Malcolm in the Middle" the boys Malcolm, Reese, and Dewey are always at odds with their mother and the views she has that she thinks will make them grow up to not end up like their older brother Francis.
Issues though are different in the 70's. "All in the Family" dealt with issues like gays being more than sissy men and the possibility that sissies can be straight. "Malcolm in the Middle" mainly dealt with growing up with crazy parents and growing through the awkward stages of adolescence and teenage years.
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