Joey Stivic
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| Joey Stivic | |
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| All In The Familycharacter | |
 Stivic as an infant, being held by his grandfather,Archie Bunker | |
| First appearance | Birth of the Baby (Part 1) (All in the Family) |
| Last appearance | Meet the Cumberbatches (704 Hauser) |
| Portrayed by | Jason and Justin Draeger Dick Billingsley Cory R. Miller Christopher Johnston Christian Jacobs Casey Siemaszko |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | Michael Stivic(father) Gloria Stivic(mother) |
| Relatives |
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| Nationality | American |
Joseph Michael "Joey" Stivicis a fictional character who first appeared on the 1970s AmericansitcomAll in the Family.Joey Stivic was the son and only child ofMike Stivic(played byRob Reiner) andGloria 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 ofAll in the Familythat aired in December 1975.
After many appearances onAll in the Familyuntil Reiner and Struthers left the series in 1978 (by that time, Joey had been played most often by alternating twins Jason and Justin Draeger), the Joey Stivic character next appeared in theAll in the Familyspin-offseries (some call it a continuation of the original)Archie Bunker's Place,in a guest appearance in the November 1979 episode "Thanksgiving Reunion". (Played by three-year-old Cory R. Miller, the character also appeared in the two-part December 1978All in the Familyepisode "California, Here We Are,"[1]after Reiner and Struthers were no longer series regulars.) OnArchie Bunker's Place,the character was played by child actor Dick Billingsley and was appropriatelypre-schoolage. With Gloria now separated from Mike, she returned toArchie Bunker's Placewith Joey in the February 1982 episode "Gloria Comes Home". In this episode, Joey was played by Christopher Johnston.
Joey Stivic was a regular character on theAll in the Familyspin-off seriesGloriain 1982 and 1983. On this series, in which the now-divorced Gloria Bunker character had moved toUpstate New Yorkin order to work as an assistantveterinarian,the part of Joey Stivic was played by ten-year-old actorChristian Jacobs.AfterGloriawas 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 in 1961 (14 years before Joey Stivic's fictional birth).
Doll
[edit]In 1976, the Ideal Toy Company released a 14-inch "Joey Stivic doll" (called "Archie Bunker's Grandson" ), which was billed as the "firstanatomically correct male doll".The doll inspired mild controversy at the time, and is a collectors' item today.[2]
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