1 9 8 6 (USA) 9 x 30 minute episodes Former advertising copywriter Paula Russell (Bess Armstrong) accomplishes two feats in one day – her “lucky…
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1 9 9 4 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived BBC comedy series was set in an all-night London bakery and starred Keith Barron…
1 9 7 3 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Following the end of Queenie’s Castle Yorkshire TV came up with a new sitcom for Diana Dors, also not…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 9 x 30 minute episodes Michael Bentine’s ATV follow-up series to It’s A Square World, All Square explored…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 3 (UK) 5 x 150 minute/105 minute/90 minute episodes This annual ITV special aired on Christmas Day from…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) Comedy variety shows were popular in America during television’s first decade of prominence in the late…
1 9 7 7 (USA) 65 x 30 minute episodes All That Glitters followed a group of female executives working at a corporation called Globatron. The…
1 9 9 1 – 1 9 9 3 (Australia) 101 x 30 minute episodes This Australian sitcom was broadcast on the Nine Network and starred…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 5 (USA) 19 x 30 minute episodes Korean-American Margaret Cho was one of many stand-up comics in the…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 7 (USA) 23 x 30 minute episodes This CBS sitcom – produced by Norman Lear – was set…
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…
1 9 9 7 – 2 0 0 2 (USA) 112 x 45 minute episodes Young lawyer and Harvard Law School graduate Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart)…
1 9 9 5 – 1 9 9 6 (USA) 34 x 22 minute episodes Kim Cooper (Nancy Travis) struggles to balance the competing pressures of…
1 9 9 7 – 1 9 9 8 (USA) 21 x 30 minute episodes Carol Lerner (stand-up comic Carol Leifer, who had been a comedy…
1 9 7 6 (Australia) 13 x 30 minute episodes Alvin Purple was a spin-off from the Australian film of the same name which had been an immense box…
1 9 8 3 (USA) 12 x 30 minute episodes This ABC sitcom was an obvious (though unacknowledged) US adaptation of British comedy classic, Fawlty Towers, starring John…
1 9 9 0 – 1 9 9 1 (USA) 17 x 30 minute episodes After graduating from NYU in 1972, Tom Nash (Robert Urich) becomes…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 78 x 30 minute episodes Amos ‘n’ Andy had been one of American radio’s biggest hits,…
1 9 9 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Robert Neilson (John Gordon Sinclair) is an actor who dreams of being a star, although…
1 9 7 1 (UK) 1 x 50 minute episode An interesting one-off from BBC1 with a heavyweight comedy cast revolved around Clive Elwood (Dudley Moore),…