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The [[United States|American]] television [[sitcom]] ''[[Married... with Children]]'' aired its pilot episode on April 5, 1987,<ref name="Pilot">{{cite web |title=Married... with Children: Cast and Details |publisher=TV Guide |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/marriedwith-children/cast/100284 |access-date=2007-09-11}}</ref> and its series finale aired on May 5, 1997, with the episode "The Desperate Half-Hour (Part 1)" and "How to Marry a Moron (Part 2)".<ref name="Eleven">{{cite web|last=CNET Networks |title=Married... with Children Season 11 |publisher=TV.com |year=2007 |url=http://www.tv.com/married-...-with-children/show/405/episode_listings.html?season=11&tag=nav_bar;11 |access-date=2007-09-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803052559/http://www.tv.com/married-...-with-children/show/405/episode_listings.html?season=11&tag=nav_bar;11 |archive-date=2008-08-03 }}</ref>{{#tag:ref|One episode filmed prior to the finale ("Chicago Shoe Exchange") was delayed and didn't air until June 9, 1997.|group=N}} A total of 259 original episodes aired on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] during the series' run.<ref name="Series">{{cite web |last=Andreas |first=Carl |title=Series |publisher=Bundyology |date=December 11, 2005 |url=http://www.bundyology.com/production.html |access-date=2007-09-10}}</ref> All 11 seasons are available on DVD, in Region 1.<ref name="Release">{{cite web |title=Married ... With Children: DVDs, Episodes, Cast, and Streaming Videos |publisher=Amazon.com |date=October 13, 2009 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Married-...-With-Children/e/B001CFE8YG |access-date=2010-01-10}}</ref> The list is ordered by the episodes' original air dates. Specials that aired during a regular season run are highlighted in yellow in the list. A season 3 episode, "[[I'll See You in Court]]", is known as the "lost episode" and did not air in North America until June 18, 2002, five years after the series' original run.

An animated revival of the series with the original cast returning was revealed to be in the works in May 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/married-with-children-animated-series-original-cast-revival-1235023019/ | title='Married… with Children' Animated Series with Original Cast Heats up TV Marketplace | date=13 May 2022|access-date=11 March 2025|work=Deadline Hollywood|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie}}</ref>

== Series overview ==
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==Episodes==

===Season 1 (1987)===
{{main|Married... with Children season 1}}
The first season of ''Married... with Children'' introduces the major characters: Al, Peg, Kelly and Bud Bundy, along with their neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades. The first season is the only one in which Al and Peg are regularly intimate, to the point of Al initiating the sessions. It is also the only one where Peg can be seen doing housework under normal circumstances (despite being bad at it), and she even has her own car, a Ford Pinto (as seen in "Sixteen Years and What Do You Get"). In "Thinergy," Bud mentions that Kelly had been held back a year in school.  Al's dislike of the French is first shown in this season and it is also the first time that he calls Marcy a "chicken." It also contains the first mention of Peg's family being "hillbillies" from the fictional Wanker County, Wisconsin.<ref name="Changes">{{cite web |last=Andreas |first=Carl |title=Changes throughout the Seasons |publisher=Bundyology |date=April 10, 2001 |url=http://www.bundyology.com/changes.html |access-date=2007-09-09}}</ref>
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===Season 2 (1987–88) {{anchor|Season 2: 1987–1988}}===
{{main|Married... with Children season 2}}
At the beginning of the second season, Kelly is portrayed as a girl of reasonable intelligence (though she is often teased by Bud for her promiscuity and bleached hair). By the end, however, her character obtains her trademark stupidity that will become both a plot device and comic focus for the rest of the series. This season also contains the first use of the "Bundy Cheer" and the first instance of the Bundys taking a trip. Additionally, it marked the beginning of the "Thank your father, kids" running gag.<ref name="Changes" />  Although Buck is portrayed in later seasons as having been with the Bundys since he was a pup, Peg implies that they have had him for only three years and Al states that he is actually Bud's pet; he even "speaks" once ("Buck Can Do It"), something that becomes a regular feature beginning in the fourth season.  Michael Faustino (David's younger brother) makes the first of five guest appearances during the course of the series.
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===Season 3 (1988–89) {{anchor|Season 3: 1988–1989}}===
{{main|Married... with Children season 3}}
The third season marks a notable increase in the show's popularity, based on [[Terry Rakolta]]'s morality campaign against the show, which began after the episode "Her Cups Runneth Over", where Al and Steve go to a lingerie store in search of Peggy's favorite bra (which had been discontinued). This season also contains the "lost episode" "[[I'll See You in Court]]", which was not aired in North America until June 18, 2002, after the show's initial run on the cable channel FX (and was included in the season-three DVD set).<ref name="Three">{{cite web |last=Andreas |first=Carl |title=Season Three |publisher=Bundyology |year=2007 |url=http://www.bundyology.com/hpg/season3.html |access-date=2007-09-09}}</ref> Michael Faustino makes his second guest appearance. During the season, the show became the first to have a quarter of the viewership on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]].{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}
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===Season 4 (1989–90) {{anchor|Season 4: 1989–1990}}===
{{main|Married... with Children season 4}}
The fourth season had the departure of Marcy's husband Steve Rhoades. Marcy remained single for the remainder of the season. This was also the first season where the audience would applaud when a major character would enter a scene for the first time in the episode, and a Bundyesque version of the classic film ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''.  In the episode "It's a Bundyful Life (Part 2)," Ted McGinley makes a guest appearance as Norman Jablonsky before reappearing as a regular cast member in the next season as Jefferson D'Arcy. Also, Michael Faustino makes his third guest appearance.<ref name="Changes" /> This was also the final season for writers Marcy Vosburgh & Sandy Sprung.
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===Season 5 (1990–91)===
{{main|Married... with Children season 5}}
The fifth season marked the introduction of Jefferson D'Arcy ([[Ted McGinley]]), as Marcy's new husband. The series reached its 100th episode this season, which was the pilot for the [[spin-off (media)|spin-off]] ''[[Top of the Heap]]'', the first of three spinoffs from ''Married... with Children''. Al's favorite show ''Psycho Dad'' is also first referred to in this season, along with his first mention of scoring four [[touchdown]]s in one high school [[American football|football]] game.
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===Season 6 (1991–92)===
{{main|Married... with Children season 6}}
Throughout the season, both Peg and Marcy were pregnant, as Katey Sagal was pregnant in real life. Sagal's child was stillborn six weeks before term, causing her to miss four episodes of this season. At the end of the season's 11th episode,
"Al Bundy, Shoe Dick",  the women's pregnancies were revealed to be merely part of one of Al's nightmares.<ref name="FAQ">{{cite web |last=Andreas |first=Carl |title=FAQ |publisher=Bundyology |date=December 3, 2006 |url=http://www.bundyology.com/faq.html |access-date=2007-09-09}}</ref> This season also had Steve Rhoades return for one episode, Kelly becoming the "Verminator", and the Bundys traveling to England.<ref name="Changes" /> Additionally, this season introduced Bud's hip hop-inspired alter ego "Grandmaster B", concocted to help him with women, which continued after the dream revelation by having Al ask Bud about the nickname and Bud deciding that he likes it enough to use it.
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===Season 7 (1992–93)===
{{main|Married... with Children season 7}}
In the seventh season, the writers introduced Seven (played by [[Shane Sweet]]) in an attempt to give the Bundys a third child. When the audience was unreceptive, he was removed from the series with no explanation other than being left at the D'Arcys' (Seven was last seen being told a bedtime story in "Peggy and the Pirates"). However, a subtle reference to him is made in season eight, episode 22, when he appears as the missing child on a carton of milk. Bud also loses his virginity during this season and he makes his first appearance with a beard (which was mistaken for dirt in the episode where Bud first notices he is growing a beard). Steve Rhoades also makes another guest appearance during this season, as do Dan Castellaneta and Michael Faustino.<ref name="Changes" />
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===Season 8 (1993–94) {{anchor|Season 8: 1993–1994}}===
{{main|Married... with Children season 8}}
The eighth season introduces many of Al's friends, including Aaron, Bob Rooney, and Officer Dan (though Officer Dan was not a character in the earlier seasons, the actor who played him also appeared in "Rock 'n Roll Girl" as the sheriff who issued Al a ticket for an insulting bumper sticker, "Weenie Tot Lovers and Other Strangers" as the police officer who arrested Al, and "The Egg and I" as the FBI agent searching for Steve). Al, Jefferson, Bob Rooney, and Officer Dan (along with Griff and Ike, who are introduced in season nine) all become members of NO MA'AM in the episode where the men fight back against a talk show host (played by [[Jerry Springer]]) known as "The Masculine Feminist". This is also the season where Bud joins a fraternity.<ref name="Changes" />  The closest to an explanation for Seven's mysterious disappearance 14 months before is in the episode "Ride Scare", where a closeup on a carton of milk reveals a picture of Seven with the word "Missing".  Al's plus-sized model friends simply look at it without comment before helping themselves.
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===Season 9 (1994–95) {{anchor|Season 9: 1994–1995}} ===
{{main|Married... with Children season 9}}
The ninth season rounds out the cast of Al's friends by introducing Griff, who works at Gary's Shoes with Al, and Ike. Steve Rhoades also makes his final two appearances during this season. The season also includes the cancellation of ''Psycho Dad'', Bud getting a job as a driving examiner, and the first appearances of shoe-store owner Gary (who turns out to be a woman), Marcy's niece Amber (who was introduced as a foil for Bud, before being dropped from the show after four episodes), and reporter Miranda Veracruz De La Hoya Cardinal. Michael Faustino makes his fifth and final guest appearance.<ref name="Changes" />
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'''Note'''
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{{note|1}} A. 'Bootsie' is a pseudonym for J. Stanford Parker.<ref>{{cite interview|subject=J. Stanford Parker|interviewer1=Beth-Ann Kozlovich|interviewer2=Chris Vandercook|title=How We Discuss Race, A Korean Cinderella, Nahenahe Singing|work=The Conversation|date=August 19, 2013|publisher=[[Hawaii Public Radio]]|url=https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/show/the-conversation/2013-08-19/how-we-discuss-race-a-korean-cinderella-nahenahe-singing|access-date=May 30, 2024|quote=J. Stanford Parker, better known as Bootsie, joins us now.}}</ref>
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===Season 10 (1995–96)===
{{main|Married... with Children season 10}}
The tenth season had the death of family pet Buck and his subsequent reincarnation into the body of Lucky, the Bundys' next dog. The season also marks the first appearances of Peggy's father Ephraim (played by [[Tim Conway]]) and Peggy's mother, who moves in with the Bundys (although she is never seen, only heard).<ref name="Changes" /> Also, Peg leaves Al and goes on a search for her father.
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===Season 11 (1996–97)===
{{main|Married... with Children season 11}}
The 11th season was the final season of ''Married... with Children''. Fox moved the show's time slot several times throughout the course of the season, which cost the show ratings. Rising production costs and decreasing viewer shares led to the show's cancellation in April 1997, after the final taping for season 11.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Flint|first1=Joe|title=End of line for 'Married'|url=https://variety.com/1997/scene/vpage/end-of-line-for-married-1117434350/|website=Variety|access-date=August 27, 2014|date=April 21, 1997}}</ref> This was the only season to feature teaser scenes before the opening credits, and a few episodes during this season also featured tag scenes just before the closing credits. For this season, the still of Al and Peggy sitting on the couch was dropped from the closing credits, which for this season are shown against a black background and in a separate card format, instead of scrolling. The opening theme was also greatly shortened, dropping the highway scenes taken from ''[[National Lampoon's Vacation]]'', and the scene where Al hands every member of his family money. 
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==Specials==
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| December 12, 1986 (taping date) || "Unaired Pilot" || Unaired
|- style="background:#fff;"
| January 1, 1998 || ''Bundymania'' || [[ProSieben]] ''(Germany)''<ref name="Bundymania">{{cite web |last=Andreas |first=Carl |title=Special "Bundymania" |publisher=Bundyology |date=October 12, 1999 |url=http://www.bundyology.com/hpg/spmania.html |access-date=2007-09-10}}</ref>
|-
| August 26, 2001 || ''Married... with Children: The [[E! True Hollywood Story]]'' || [[E!]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| February 16, 2003 || ''Married... with Children Reunion'' || [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]
|- 
| July 10, 2010 || ''Married... with children Bio'' || [[The Biography Channel|Bio]]
|- 
| April 22, 2012 || ''Fox 25th anniversary'' || [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]
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| April 23, 2012 || ''The Cast Of Married With Children: Where Are They Now!'' || [[TV Guide Network]]
|}

''Bundymania'' was a three-hour-and-forty-five-minute special airing nine dubbed German episodes of the series. The special included interviews with David Faustino, Christina Applegate, Ted McGinley, dog trainer Steven Ritt, Amanda Bearse, and Ed O'Neill.<ref name="Bundymania"/>

==References==

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==External links==
* [http://www.albundy.net/php/search.html AlBundy.net episode search]
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092400/episodes?ref_=tt_eps_sn_sm IMDb Married with Children Episode List]
* {{epguides|MarriedwithChildren|Married... with Children}}

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