1 9 7 5 (UK) The curious image of an egg-timer full of eggs opened After That, This week after week, and it set the tone for what followed.…
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1 9 9 6 (Australia) 7 x 30 minute episodes Josephine Donnelly (Genevieve Lemon) is a 30-something single white female who shares her home with flatmate…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 20 x 30 minute episodes Maureen Lipman starred as Jane Lucas – a cosmopolitan Jewish wife…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 5 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes Shy and naive Clive Quigley (Peter Davison) runs an office supplies…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 6 x 25 minute episodes A service sitcom written by the British-based American John Briley, drawn from his own experiences as…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) In 1950, when network television was still in its infancy in the US and radio ruled…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 43 x 30 minute episodes 1 x 60 minute special Debuting on 31 January 1984, this…
1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 1 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes This Yorkshire Television comedy series was set, as the title suggests,…
1 9 7 2 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes The North Country innocent-in-London, Albert Courtnay (Rodney Bewes) came bouncing back in this short-lived sequel to…
1 9 7 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Another ITV comedy from the team of Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke. Mrs Marigold Alcock (Beryl…
1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) Before it became a successful sitcom on television, The Aldrich Family had been a long-running and popular radio…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 2 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes This comedy series from ATV starred Gary Warren (who had played…
1 9 9 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This six-part BBC series was filmed largely on location as Alexei Sayle – bedecked in a…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 1 (UK) 18 x 30 minute episodes “Who’s that fat bastard?” After an ill-conceived sojourn alongside Chris Tarrant…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 102 x 30 minute episodes 2 x 60 minute episodes Long before 3rd Rock From the Sun (but…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (UK) If asked to name Britain’s biggest comedy and drama names at the end of the 20th…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 8 5 (USA) 209 x 30 minute episodes Mel’s Diner – a greasy-spoon truck-stop in Phoenix, Arizona – was…
1 9 9 6 (USA) 8 x 30 minute episodes This family-friendly comedy was created by Andy and Susan Borowitz (the creators of The Fresh Prince…
1 9 9 9 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes RAF Auchnacluchnie is a nearly abandoned and long-forgotten remote early-warning radar station situated in the highlands…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes Widow Sheila Haddon (Maureen Lipman in her first comedy series since Agony)…