He turns one year any of eighty this week but, according to one of his finest songs, he has already spoken with God. That lengthy conversation Ian Hunter set to intricate acoustic guitar, and it closes out All American Alien Boy album.

It was undoubtedly an ambitious undertaking, but the former front man of the English rock group Mott the Hoople pulled it off fabulously. Most songwriters, however, have widely steered clear of such a delicate issue of a conversation with a divine deity.

Writers for TV sitcoms, on the other hand, have frequently taken on that very plot line. Here are eight sitcoms in which a regular character was convinced he had heard God speak to him.

Peter Griffin on Family Guy
It may sound like Paradise to Peter, who loves the sofa, until he gets literally stuck to it. While kept as a couch captive, he begins speaking to the Creator in an episode appropriately titled "Are You There God, It's Me Peter."

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Archie Bunker on All in the Family
While Edith is away for the weekend, Meathead's bigoted father-in-law (played by Carroll O' Connor)gets locked in his own after locating a bottle of wine. Many hours (and drinks) later, a black electrician happens to hear Archie singing and speaks to him from beyond the cellar door. Bunker is convinced that it is the Lord speaking to him, and he quickly regrets his past opinions when the cellar opens to reveal the black man standing there.

Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP In Cincinnati
The Queen City's favorite fee jay becomes convinced that the voice from upstairs was that of God, who wants him to give up being a record spinner and instead pursue a career as a professional golfer.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons
In "Thank God It's Doomsday" the overweight patriarch thinks God told him that the rapture was coming, so he starts warning his fellow citizens in Springfield.

Clair in The Golden Girls
Sophia suffers a heart attack which results in her believing she saw not only God, but her dead husband as well.

Al Bundy in Married With Children
Ed O' Neill's character related to God not so much in words, but by footwear. The luckless shoe salesman experiences a vision of what he believes to be the shoes of the Creator.

Bull the Bailiff in Night Court
Clinically dead for a few seconds the court police man (played by Richard Moll) revives, convinced that God has spoken to him and told him to give all his belongings to the poor.