Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons 8PM | ABC Though this special’s cast is new, everything else is a blast from the past—including the sets, which replicate the originals down to their precise measurements, and 1970s-inspired costumes. “These two scripts will be done word for word. We’re not updating anything. The lesson in that is human nature doesn’t change,” Norman Lear tells EW.