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…
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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…
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…
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…
1 9 7 7 (USA) The ABC Monday Night Comedy Special (broadcast between May and September 1977) was an umbrella title covering an assortment of films for…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (USA) 26 x 60 minute episodes ABC presented this series of original television productions in a…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 9 x 20 minute episodes The comedy adventures of an engaged couple living separately (this was the 1950s) in London’s bedsitter…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 1 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes This series of twelve unconnected sitcoms placed the spotlight on the…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) 28 x 30 minute episodes This anarchic and surreal sketch show – a sort of latter-day Monty…
1 9 9 2 – 2 0 1 2 (UK) 39 x 45 minute episodes Developed from a sketch on French and Saunders, this tale of rich…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 16 x 30 minute episodes This Friday night NBC sitcom told the tales of carefree Las…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 6 9 (UK) 15 x 30 minute episodes A themed-sketch show for funny-lady Dora Bryan who was a dab…
1 9 8 3 (USA) 5 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived (five episodes) CBS sitcom introduced Ace Crawford – probably the world’s worst Private Detective.…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 2 (Australia) 63 x 30 minute episodes This Aussie sitcom from Crawford Productions was effectively a spin-off from…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 2 (USA) 30 minute episodes This 30-minute sitcom from ABC starred William Edmunds as good-natured Carlo Corelli who…
1 9 7 3 (USA) 12 x 30 minute episodes 1 x 60 minute episode An attempt to generate a weekly sitcom based on the 1949…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 6 (USA) 64 x 30 minute episodes The adventures of the seriously spooky and altogether ooky Addams family…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (UK) 26 x 30 minute episodes This early British-made sitcom starred a US actress so it…
1 9 5 9 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes This BBC comedy series followed the adventures of retired Army Brigadier, Garnet Wellington-Bull, who was a…
1 9 9 3 – 1 9 9 4 (USA) 27 x 45 minute episodes It’s 1893 and a group of wealthy San Francisco businessmen called…
