 During a contract hold out, Carroll OConnor (qv) missed the  taping of four episodes. Three episodes were filmed about Archie  failing to return from a convention. The producers gave OConnor an  ultimatum, that the story arc could conclude with Edith finding out  that Archie had been murdered. A fourth episode filmed during  OConnors hold out has no mention of Archie at all, which can be  viewed as a pilot of an Archie