Renny Temple

The clash of two worlds explodes in this episode. Mike's friend is a Draft Dodger and it is Christmas dinner and unbeknownst to Archie this guy is sitting at his Christmas dinner table. The guy is exactly everything Archie hates about Mike's generation. On top of this Archie's friend is also spending Christmas dinner with the Bunkers and he lost his son to the war.

Chaos ensues when everyone has around-the-clock functions.

Vera (Beth Howland) attends her class reunion in Boston and returns to Mel's Diner engaged to be married.

Jill Pembroke gives Charles two tickets for a Knicks game. Charles is so excited about this special treat, and because Mrs. Pembroke always does such thoughtful things, that he thinks of a way to do something special in return. In a conversation with Buddy, the name Max Ziegler comes up. Max and her went to high school together and she has been following his brilliant career ever since. She thinks of him as a genius and Charles decides to call Ziegler, aka "Mr. Brilliant" to invite him for dinner. When Stan Pembroke finds out who the guest of honor is, he becomes quite upset, but decides to go along with it to make his wife happy.

Jaime travels to Africa and must cross the jungle to try to stop a dictator from fixing his country's election. Dan O'Herlihy guest stars.