Comedy

1 9 8 4 - 1 9 9 2 (UK) 55 x 30 minute episodes 26 x 25 minute episodes 3 x 45 minute episodes 1 x 35 minute...

1 9 8 9 - 1 9 9 0 (USA) 16 x 30 minute episodes 13 East was a hectic ward in a large unnamed hospital where...

1 9 7 9 (USA) 9 x 30 minute episodes Originally to have been titled Five Women, this short-lived spring replacement comedy series from ABC starring Eileen Brennan...

1 9 9 1 - 1 9 9 9 (UK) 56 x 40 minute episodes When Andrew Marshall's 2 Point 4 Children first hit British screens it was compared...

1 9 8 5 - 1 9 9 0 (USA) 116 x 30 minute episodes 227 first aired in September 1985 and ran for five seasons on NBC...

1 9 9 1 - 1 9 9 3 (UK) 14 x 60 minute episodes This black talent contest - a clone of the talent shows held...

1 9 9 6 - 2 0 0 1 (USA) A surprise hit of the 1996-1997 season, 3rd Rock From The Sun surprised most of the critics who...

1 9 8 2 - 1 9 8 3 (USA) 1 9 8 6 - 1 9 8 8 (USA) 85 x 30 minute episodes Based on characters created...

1 9 8 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes The staid, faded elegance of a gentleman's club was the setting for this BBC sitcom from Richard...

1 9 8 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This Thames comedy was Arthur Lowe's last television series, made shortly before his death on 16 April 1982...

1 9 8 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 8 4 (UK) 4 x 30 minute episodes This sketch show from BBC Scotland mined the same...

1 9 6 0 - 1 9 6 1 (UK) George Cole starred in the successful carry-over of this 30-minute comedy series from radio to television,...

1 9 7 4 - 1 9 7 6 (UK) 20 x 30 minute episodes Norman Wisdom starred (again) as the little man who could never get things...

1 9 6 9 - 1 9 7 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Returning from a cabaret tour of the Far East, Dickie (Dickie Henderson)...

1 9 7 7 - 1 9 8 1 (UK) 22 x 30 minute episodes Following his success as support to Ronnie Barker in the BBC's Open All...

1 9 5 6 - 1 9 5 7 (UK) BBC entertainment in which Alan Melville strung together sketches, songs, parodies and guest appearances to a...

1 9 7 8 (USA) 5 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived ABC tryout series centred around Dr Antonio ''Tony'' Menzies (Gregory Sierra, who played Detective Chano Amenguale...

1 9 8 4 (USA) 5 x 30 minute episodes Short-lived ABC comedy from Norman Lear about a struggling young Hispanic comedian and his large, noisy family,...

1 9 5 2 - 1 9 5 4 (USA) 52 x 30 minute episodes Stage and screen comedians Bud Abbott (born William Abbott) and Lou Costello...

1 9 7 2 (USA) 13 x 60 minute episodes The ABC Comedy Hour screened between 12 January 1972 and 5 April 1972 and starred top impressionists of...