What Are Televisions Greatest Sitcoms?

Watching.

A tv series fondly remembered by those who, err... remember it. Shy birdwatcher meets extrovert Liverpudlian, and they - somehow - hit it off (most of the time). Probably best rembered for the catchy theme tune.

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Hit kids tv show back in the day. Quite a change part way through the run when it became much more of a pantomime. But I thought it was brilliant, and another very catchy theme tune.

Both series available on Youtube
 
Make Room For Danny staring Danny Thomas was a pretty good series . This one also had crossover episode in which Lucy and Ricki Ricardo showed up for an episode. .

The Andy Griffith Show I s a show rewatch over and over again . This show was a spinoff of The Dany Thomas Show and it in turn had a spinoff Gomer Pyle USMC with Jim Neighbors .
 
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All in the family
Seinfeld
The Jeffersons
Trailer Park Boys
(old) The Simpsons
South Park
 
All that Glitters a Norman Lear A 1977 gender role comedy tv series . It ran for 65 episodes in syndication.
 
The Likely Lads and Whatever happened to the Likely Lads - Consistently good writing.
Admittedly the language and attitudes have moved on a bit in the last 50 years.
 
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The Good Life
Yes, Minister/Prime Minister
Detectorists
All the Blackadders apart from S1
Fawlty Towers
 
A couple more good ones thatdon't think anyone has mentioned

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Citizen Smith
 
I remember Woolfy and the Tooting Popular Front! "Power to the People!" "Freedom for Tooting!".

A lot of sitcoms from this era revolve around unions, dinner parties and the class divide, things many younger viewers would have very little concept of
 
A lot of sitcoms from this era revolve around unions, dinner parties and the class divide, things many younger viewers would have very little concept of

You see that sort of thing Are You Being Served . With the character Mr Mr Bert in his interactions with people like Captain Peacock who in management
 
Welcome Back Kotter with a young John Travolta at the start of his career. It was terrific sitcom.:D
 

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