. ♪ ♪ >>> katie segal first rocketed into american consciousness as the over-the-top peg bundy on them "married with children." but watching that joyous performance, you may have never guessed her painful past. >> peg, what is it with you? you can change six d batteries in the dark, you can't find a two-ton automobile in broad daylight. >> let's not start talking about who can't find what in the dark. >> reporter: katie segal was the heart beat of "married with children" for 11 years. >> i don't shop that much. >> mom, the stuff you ordered is here. >> oh, goody! >> i thought that's what all wives were like. >> really? >> and i was going to glow up to marry somebody like you? >> oh, you did not. >> i did. >> well, she was kind of hot. although i hope that hasn't been your situation. >> lil bit. >> your nose hairs look somehow longer? >> they moussed them. >> reporter: her first lead tv role, she was a rock chick. >> when they asked me to read for it, i thought, this is perfect for me, because this is so outside the box. we hadn't seen anything so outrageous on television before. >> yo

i've learned is that i can do anything for 24 hours. >> she had been golden globe nominated for peg bundyn for gem ma morrow in sons of anarchy," a role created by her husband, kurt suter. >> to my husband, i love you. i'm so glad you're the boss of me. >> you've been told that you were not a tv person. >> yeah, i met a casting director that i'll never forget said to me you will never in television. >> why? >> this was in the days of dynasty and dallas. this is when everybody on television looked extremely glamorous. you know, i was a musician. i was in bands. i wore a lot of black makeup and black clothes. years later, when my struggling music career was just not going full steam ahead, i said yes to being in a rock musical. >> that led to a role on mary. >> this is the result of a column i wrote entitled boy, would i like a new sweater. >> mary tyler moore. then came married with children." >> some sex tonight, beg. >> for 11 years, the secret source chemistry. >> no thanks. >> with ed o'neill. >> we loved each other instantly. he's such an every man down to earth guy and such a guayani

. >> there was a lot of fun to be had in al and peg bundy. >> after fox introduced "married with children." >> you think everything gets done by some wonderful wizard. poof, the laundry is folded. poof, dinner's on the table. >> you want me to fix dinner! i'll fix dinner. i'm fixing dinner. >> you just fixed dinner three years ago! >> typical american families weren't on television for the longest time. the donna reed days, the early days, the father knows best, hardly anybody really lived like that, and that was the way advertisers wanted you to live. >> i know what just might make you feel better. >> me too, but i better it's a different list than what you got. >> the ideal situation, if you can subvert whatever common stuff is said about families and about parenting -- >> what's in this? >> i got you kids new leg irons. >> her loudness and her unfilteredness were key to why we liked her. she was saying stuff about working class people and saying stuff about men and women and so it was about marriage and about raising kids and about how hard it is. >> great, i will just look like a frea