Favorite Old Sitcoms

[Mcdee]

Yeah WKRP was my favorite show Les Nesbitt always cracked me up 
Mcdee

[Bogey]

As a kid, I also used to enjoy Good Times.

[BlackLagoon]

As a kid, I also used to enjoy Good Times.

Glad to know Bogey liked it alright..and I gotta agree that it was (clap) DYN-O-MIIIIITE!

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

"All in the family", who didnt like Archie Bunker.

"Dick Van Dyke show"

[hammerfan]

All in the family

[Bogey]

Glad to know Bogey liked it alright..and I gotta agree that it was (clap) DYN-O-MIIIIITE!

[Scary Terry]

Sgt. Bilko (wish they'd release more on DVD than the "best of" collection)
Leave it to Beaver (darn it, the DVD release seems stalled at season 2 -- I want 'em all!)
Andy Griffith (B&W seasons)
Beverly Hillbillies (early episodes)
Dick Van Dyke
Jack Benny
Car 54 Where Are You?
Addams Family

These are the shows that stand up to multiple viewings for me.  From the '70s, only Mary Hartman Mary Hartman and Fernwood/America Tonight still appeal.  Plenty of stuff I watched first run and enjoyed then seems flat to me now. The only sitcom in recent years I can watch repeatedly is Seinfeld.  Oh -- let's add Curb Your Enthusiasm to that short list, too.

From the UK, I love The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (out on DVD here this month).


Oh -- a kid's show, not a sitcom, but I still dig Pee Wee's Playhouse....

[tv horror]

I'm with Scary Terry, Sgt Bilko is the Man. I could not get enough of it when I was growing up even though it was re-runs. Also don't forget that a lot of the classic comedians of the day had parts thoughout the run: Van Dyke, Gwynne and Ross. This really was classic television at it's best HEYUP!

[Street Worm]

Before I read all these posts I thought there weren't many sit-coms I liked-

Topper &
Life Of Riley are the first ones I remember watching

Leave It to Beaver
The Munsters
The Addams Family
Get Smart

Laugh In (for Goldie)
Room 222 (for Judy Strangis) &
The Brady Bunch (for Marcia)

WKRP
(both) Newharts &
Soap

were all favorites of mine~

[toysoldierman2001]

I have always wondered why TV Land dosen't run shows like Combat.The Lone Ranger,Gallant Men,Rat Patrole,Have Gun will Travel,The Rebel,The Real McCoys,etc.These were all great shows and shouldn't be to hard to get the rights to air them.
It would make watching TV worth while again in my opinion!

[BlackLagoon]

Our Gang

Maybe it is because it isnt a "sitcom"...but really "comedy" and "TV" wouldnt be complete without a huge nod to The Little Rascals and The 3 Stooges!!

[preyer]

i believe it's les nesman, as i recall.

mom had me growing up with this old stuff, stuff no one else seems to have heard of. i mean, isn't 'the many loves of dobie gillis' (i think that was the name) fairly common? not much of these i could bear, like 'life of riley' and 'the jack benny show.' forget 'ozzie and harriet' and 'the donna reed show.' 'andy griffith' still gets watched every now and then, particularly when an episode with the darlings pops up.

as a kid, it was always the mid- to late-sixties sitcom fare that kept my attention. 'gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.,' etc..

the seventies was the golden age as far as i'm concerned. i'd even watch 'rhoda' and 'maude' despite not having a clue what the hell was *really* going on. it's funny, too, watching stuff like 'three's company' now knowing the score/able to read between the lines. there's almost a level of comedic subversion there you have wink back at as if saying in a sing-song 'gotcha!' voice, 'i know what you're *say-ing*, you naughty little minx!' to look at a laundry list of sitcoms from that decade and it's easy to see how amazingly influential those were. can you imagine the outrage if someone put a show about a black family living in a ghetto and it's a *comedy* on tv today? always loved 'laverne and shirley,' too.

you know, though, the more i think about it and i have to come to the conclusion that the fonz was just a big loser. i mean, he lived over a garage, and who knew how old this guy was but certainly much older than these high school kids he tried to impress while hanging out in a soda shop/diner. and so what if he got a bunch of girls ~ they were all jailbait! pedophile? he's definitely a statutory rapist a dozen times over. he probably humped the shark after jumping it.

oh, man, there's just too many shows to list!

not a sitcom, but one of my all-time favourites was 'wild, wild west.'

i'm hardly steeped in british sitcoms other than what they used to show on PBS and MTV (remember 'the young ones'?), but one i loved was the black adder shows. the final show of the WWI series always really stuck with me.

not quite so old, but check out canada's 'the red green show' if you happen across it. hilarious!

[chrisnurse]

As a kid I loved:
The Munsters
The Adams Family
M.A.S.H
Cheers ( I honestly did )
Black Adder

[avenger]

Last Of The Summer Wine
Sorry !
Good Neighbours
Porridge
The Two Ronnies
Benny Hill
On The Buses
Up Pompeii

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

TV Land is starting to become like MTV, with shows like "Cougar" and "High School Reunion".
What the heck is up with that junk.


"Have gun will travel" and "the Rebel", I've seen them on Encore Western Channel a few times, as well as "Lone Ranger" and "Zorro"

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Bosom Buddies" or "Night Court"