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…
2 0 0 1 – 2 0 0 2 (UK/Canada) 13 x 25 minute episodes This bad taste, adult cartoon sketch show – a co-production…
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 aired between 12 January 1972 and 5 April 1972 and starred top…
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 spotlighted the many talents of…
2 0 0 3 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes 2 0 0 5 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes A savage swipe at 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 idle…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 16 x 30 minute episodes This Friday night NBC sitcom told the tales of recently widowed…
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 When Kostas Stefanidis (Warren Mitchell) arrived in Melbourne (Australia) from Greece…
1 9 9 9 (USA) 13 (8) x 30 minute episodes One of television’s periodic attempts to build a comedy around a thoroughly despicable leading character,…
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…