1 9 9 2 (USA) 7 x 30 minute episodes In this short-lived summer replacement spin-off from Top of the Heap (itself a spin-off from Married…
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1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 7 4 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This…
1 9 7 6 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Viva Valdez was the story of a Chicano family (long before the preferred term became ‘Latino’),…
1 9 7 5 (UK) 6 x 25 minute episodes In his first creation since the death of writing partner Harry Driver, Vince Powell once again…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (USA) 29 x 60 minute episodes This NBC comedy series (based on the 1960 movie of the…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 4 (USA) 48 x 30 minute episodes This animated sitcom from Hanna-Barbera featured the generation-gap laughs of long-suffering…
1 9 9 0 – 1 9 9 4 (UK) 47 x 30 minute episodes Stephanie Cole and Graham Crowden starred in the adventures of two…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Ex-seaman Luther Flannery (Hugh Griffith) – uncouth and rough-and-ready – and ex-schoolteacher Gascoigne Quilt (Felix Aylmer)…
1 9 9 1 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes This noisy multigenerational comedy featured gruff Walter Collins (Brian Keith) and his busybody wife, Emily (Cloris…
1 9 8 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Bow-tie-wearing Brian Reeves (Christopher Biggins) is the head of an advertising agency. Recently married husband-and-wife team…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) 56 x 60 minute episodes Set in Merseyside, Watching took its name from the bird-watching hobby enjoyed by…
1 9 7 8 (USA) 9 x 30 minute episodes Broadway Joe Namath moved out of the locker room and into the classroom for his first…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 4 (USA) 8 x 10 minute episodes The excellent! adventures of two heavy metal-loving teens, smart-arse Wayne (Canadian…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (USA) 48 x 30 minute episodes The role model for We Got It Made was the British hit Man About…
1 9 6 8 (UK) Frank Muir headed up this 30-minute programme of “comedy, music and glee” on ITV for the newly appointed London Weekend…
1 9 7 5 (USA) 12 x 30 minute episodes Alan Alda (best known as Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H) created this short-lived CBS sitcom about a normal…
1 9 8 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This dire but mercifully short-lived sitcom from Thames Television was set in Manchester and revolved around…
1 9 7 7 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Pudgy Stuart Hibbard (Oliver Clark) worked at home as a copywriter for the ‘Herman Gutman Mail…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) 150 x 25 minute episodes George Papadapolis (Alex Karras), a 41-year-old former pro football player turned…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 8 (USA) 88 x 30 minute episodes Gary Wallace (John Asher) and Wyatt Donnelly (Michael Manasseri) are high…




















