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Barbara Jo Allen

In 1958, she appeared as Mabel, the boss of the flight attendants, in Jeannie Carson's syndicated version of her situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! The program aired only six episodes in syndication.

Bonnie and Terry Turner

Bonnie and Terry Turner are a husband-and-wife writing team, best known for creating the sitcoms 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996 - 2001) and That '70s Show (1998 - 2006), for NBC and FOX respectively, as well as That '80s Show for FOX in 2002, and Normal, Ohio starring John Goodman in 2000.

Clarence Kolb

He is best remembered for his role as the grumpy father in the multi-Academy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live (1938), the corrupt mayor in the comedy His Girl Friday (1940), and as Mr. Honeywell in the television sitcom My Little Margie (1952).

Deolali

The town was the setting for the first four series of the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, set in 1945.

Dimples D.

The song – an answer song to Run-D.M.C.'s "Sucker M.C.s (Krush-Groove 1)" – did not sell in quantity upon its first release, but Ben Liebrand reworked the song in 1990, including a sample of the theme song from the American sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie.

Don Daynard

In 1977, he guest-starred in the Canadian television sitcom King of Kensington.

Frank Hvam

He is known for his performance as the "geek" Kenny Nickelman in the Danish sitcom Langt fra Las Vegas and as a writer and performer in the Pythonesque comedy Casper og Mandrilaftalen.

Green Wing: Original Television Soundtrack

Green Wing: Original Television Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the British sitcom Green Wing by Jonathan Whitehead, under the name "Trellis".

Hello Friend

Hello Friend was released as an extra on the first series DVD of The IT Crowd, a television sitcom also directed and written by Linehan.

Herbie, the Love Bug

Herbie, the Love Bug, also known as Herbie the Matchmaker, is a short-lived situation comedy that aired on CBS in the spring of 1982.

Jake Lacy

He is known for his portrayal of Casey Marion Davenport on the ABC sitcom Better with You, which aired 2010-11, and Pete Miller on the ninth and last season of The Office.

Janet De Gore

The situation comedy starring Walter Brennan had premiered on ABC in 1957 but switched networks and nights from Thursday to Sunday opposite Bonanza on NBC for its final year.

Jonathan Slavin

Slavin may be best known for his portrayal of illustrator Byron Togler on the Fox network's sitcom Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Ogo from the CGI animated show Robot and Monster, and as scientist Phil Myman on ABC's sitcom Better Off Ted.

Karen Kilgariff

Karen Kilgariff (born May 11, 1970 in Petaluma, California) is an actress and writer best known for her work on the late 1990s sketch comedy television program Mr. Show and the Glasgow-set situation comedy The Book Group.

Leave It to Larry

Leave It to Larry is a 1952-1953 CBS sitcom starring Eddie Albert (1906–2005) as Larry Tucker, a shoe salesman who lives with his own family in the residence of his employer and father-in-law, played by Ed Begley, Sr. (1901–1970), in the role of Mr. Koppel.

Lloyd Haynes

Haynes received the most recognition for his role as schoolteacher Pete Dixon in the ABC situation comedy series Room 222, with Michael Constantine and Karen Valentine.

Lucy Baxley

In each of her campaigns for office, Baxley has utilized media bearing the title of the iconic CBS situation comedy starring Lucille Ball, I Love Lucy.

Maida Vale tube station

The exterior was used for a scene in the 1974 film adaptation of the popular British television situation comedy Man About the House.

Mark Brazill

He is most well known as being the co-creator of the FOX situation comedy, That '70s Show which aired for eight seasons, and also co-created the series' in-direct spinoff, That '80s Show which was cancelled by Fox after its first season of only 13 half-hour episodes.

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show is a 90-minute CBS retrospective television special commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1970-1977 sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show which aired on February 18, 1991.

Meet McGraw

Hugh Beaumont guest stars at the same time that he is also donning the role of Ward Cleaver on the Leave It to Beaver situation comedy.

Minerva Urecal

She had a recurring role in the 1953/54 CBS situation comedy Meet Mr. McNutley in the role of the dean of a women's college.

Mole Hunt

FX originally planned on pairing the premiere of Archer with the fifth season of the network's situation comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on Thursday nights in the Fall.

Mr. Dugan

Dugan is an American sitcom about a black Congressman that was scheduled to air in March 1979 on CBS, but was pulled at the last minute and never shown.

Nancy Dussault

On television, she was a regular on the 1970s series The New Dick Van Dyke Show, and played Ted Knight's wife in the role of the photographer Muriel Rush on the 1980s situation comedy Too Close for Comfort.

Nita Talbot

Talbot was a leading lady who spent the first decade or so of her career playing "slick chicks" and sharp-witted career girls, but is perhaps best known for her role as Marya, the "White Russian" spy in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, as well as Sheila Fine in the sitcom Soap.

Norbiton

Perhaps this is why the railway station here was famously used as a location for the British sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! was a popular ITV situation comedy that ran from 1974 to 1977.

Pam Ayres

In mid-2007, Ayres started work acting in a new radio sitcom, Potting On for BBC Radio 4, in which she co-stars with actor Geoffrey Whitehead.

Patricia Kneale

Kneale also appeared in Jean-Paul Sartre's French Resistance drama, Men Without Shadows, and the 1970s police sitcom Rosie.

Rachel Blanchard

Blanchard received critical acclaim for her performance as Nancy, the American girlfriend of main character Jeremy Usborne (Robert Webb), in the award-winning second series of sitcom Peep Show.

Ralph Carter

Carter is best known for his work as a child and teenager, both in the Broadway musical Raisin (based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama A Raisin in the Sun) and as the character Michael Evans, the youngest member of the Evans family, on the 1970s sitcom Good Times.

Randy Scouse Git

The phrase "Randy Scouse Git" came from the 1960s British BBC-TV sit-com Till Death Us Do Part, in which the loudmouthed main character Alf Garnett, played by Cockney actor Warren Mitchell, regularly insulted his Liverpudlian ("Scouse") son-in-law, played by Tony Booth.

Robb Wilton

He has been acknowledged as an influence by fellow Lancashire comedians Ken Dodd and Les Dawson, and the film historian Jeffrey Richards has cited him as a key influence for the TV sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977); he made several monologues in the person of a layabout husband who wryly takes part in the Home Guard.

Steve Susskind

Steve Susskind (October 3, 1942 – January 21, 2005) was an American actor who appeared in numerous small parts in sitcoms, such as Frasier, Married... with Children, Scrubs, and NewsRadio.

The Adventures of Gilligan's Island

The Adventures of Gilligan's Island (known on the title screen simply as Gilligan's Island) is a single-player Nintendo Entertainment System video game by Bandai that is based on the 1960s sitcom of the same name.

The Nylons

During this era, the band also gained exposure from the mid-1980s syndicated sitcom Throb by singing (with the show's lead actress Diana Canova) the theme to the show.

The Pride of the Family

The Pride of the Family was a half-hour situation comedy starring Paul Hartman, Fay Wray, Natalie Wood, and Robert Hyatt, which aired for forty episodes on ABC in the 19531954 season.

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy

Beauty's Punishment was read by Elizabeth Montgomery, well known for her role in the ABC situation comedy Bewitched, as Beauty and Michael Diamond as Tristan, and Beauty's Release was by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent.

Wendy and Me

Wendy and Me is an American sitcom that aired on ABC during the 19641965 television season, primarily sponsored by Consolidated Cigar's "El Producto".


see also

Anna Bergman

She also appeared as Swedish au pair Ingrid Svenson in seasons 2 and 4 of the British situation comedy Mind Your Language.

Bob Garfield

Garfield co-wrote "Tag, You're It," a country song performed by Willie Nelson, and wrote an episode of the situation comedy Sweet Surrender.

Candace Hutson

She was also a regular in the television situation comedy Evening Shade.

Cyberpsychology

Lisa Kudrow's web-based situation comedy Web Therapy, in which Kudrow's unaccredited and unscrupulous character Fiona Wallice conducts therapy sessions using iChat, explores many of the ethical and practical issues raised by the prospect of psychotherapy conducted via Internet video chat.

David Lister

Dave Lister, a fictional character from the British science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf

Don Kirshner

Shaffer and Kirshner worked together on the short-lived situation comedy, A Year at the Top, which Kirshner co-produced with Norman Lear, and in which Shaffer starred.

Figgins

Principal Figgins, situation comedy character in the American television programme, Glee, as played by Pakistan-born Iqbal Theba

KTUU-TV

On September 19, 1966, channel 2 became the first station in Alaska to transmit in color (NTSC) when it aired the premiere episode of the ABC situation comedy That Girl (entitled "Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!").

Luddenden

The area including fellow nearby town of Bramham was used for filming external scenes in the 1980s ITV Yorkshire Television situation comedy series In Loving Memory, starring Dame Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny.

Luis Ávalos

Avalos also starred as Jesse Rodriguez on the short-lived situation comedy Condo with McLean Stevenson, and as Dr. Tomas Esquivel on the short-lived situation comedy E/R with Elliott Gould and Mary McDonnell.

Lupita D'Alessio

She returned to Televisa in 2002 for a guest appearance on the situation comedy La Jaula with Cesar Bono, Carlos Eduardo Rico and Sheyla Tadeo.

Martin Melcher

Shortly after his death, Day discovered Melcher had committed her to a CBS situation comedy, The Doris Day Show, without consulting her, and that not only had he lost the millions she had earned throughout their marriage because of poor investments, but he had left her seriously in debt as well.

Paula Wilcox

In 1991, Wilcox returned to situation comedy as Ros West in a Yorkshire Television sitcom called Fiddlers Three opposite Peter Davison before playing the character of Ivy Sandford in the pilot of Frank Skinner's Blue Heaven on Channel 4 in 1992 - the show then went on to became a series.

Return to Green Acres

Return to Green Acres is a 1990 American television movie based on the CBS situation comedy Green Acres (1965-1971).

Saundra Quarterman

Before she was in California and performing on that situation comedy, she played Dr. Angie Hubbard on the soap opera All My Children, replacing Daytime Emmy Award winner Debbi Morgan, who originated the role but left the series to take a role on the series Generations.

Sesame Park

Many guests made appearances on the series, including Red Green, a Canadian situation-comedy character played by Steve Smith, and Eric Peterson as Old King Cole.

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show

The Hillbilly Bears: A situation comedy (inspired by The Beverly Hillbillies) about the Rugg family of hillbilly bears consisting of Paw Rugg (voiced by Henry Corden), Maw Rugg (voiced by Jean Vander Pyl), Floral Rugg (also voiced by Jean Vander Pyl), and Shag Rugg (voiced by Don Messick).

The Millers

The Millers is an American situation comedy series that was created by Greg Garcia.

The Tea Ladies

The producer of these programs, William G. Stewart, had earlier produced a pilot episode for a UK situation comedy series based on a group of tea ladies and resurrected the concept as The Tea Ladies in Australia.

The Ted Knight Show

Too Close for Comfort, an American situation comedy that was retitled The Ted Knight Show during its final season in 1986

The Tim Conway Show

Ace Crawford, Private Eye, a 1983 American situation comedy starring Tim Conway

Tim Conway's Funny America

Despite his success as a member of the cast of the situation comedy McHale's Navy from 1962 to 1966 and in two 1964 theatrical films spun off from the series, McHale's Navy and McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force, as well as his popularity during several years as a regular on The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s, Tim Conway had found no success in starring in a television show of his own.

Time to Change

"Time to Change" is a song recorded in 1972 by The Brady Bunch Kids, the children characters on 1970s television situation comedy The Brady Bunch.