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...And Mother Makes Five

The two sitcoms had almost exactly the same cast, although Miriam Mann had been replaced by Maxine Gordon in the role of Jane Redway.

Alan Landsburg Productions

The company also found success TV movies (the Emmy-winning Mickey Rooney film Bill), and scripted shows (the sitcoms Gimme a Break! and Kate and Allie).

Arthur L. Annecharico

The Arthur Company finished a £28,000,000 order for 271 half-hour sitcoms for Turner Broadcasting Systems, and also a $10,000,000 order for 24 episodes of the hour-long action adventure series, Airwolf.

Barnard Hughes

He was the central character in three sitcoms: Doc, which ran on CBS from 1975–77, where he played a physician; Mr. Merlin, in which he played Merlin, a magician mentoring a 20th-century teenager; and The Cavanaughs, co-starring Christine Ebersole, in which he played the family patriarch (Art Carney played his brother, and Glynis Johns made guest appearances).

Belinda Lang

Lang is perhaps best known for her starring roles in two 1990s sitcoms - as Bill Porter, alongside Gary Olsen as husband Ben, in the BBC TV comedy 2point4 children and as Liza Ferrari in Second Thoughts.

Beth Israel Medical Center

This façade has appeared in many sitcoms, including Friends.

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.

Boyett

Miller-Boyett Productions, American television production company that developed sitcoms from the 1970s through the 1990s

Carl Kurlander

Kurlander is best known for his extensive work on American teen sitcoms and has served as producer with Peter Engel on a number of programmes including Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Hang Time, USA High and Malibu, CA and as a screenwriter who co-wrote the semi-autobiographical hit St. Elmo's Fire.

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Denny Méndez

Besides several theatrical productions, she has guest starred on many Italian sitcoms, dramas, and feature films; she also had a small role in the film Ocean's Twelve starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.

Diane Keen

Keen was a regular on TV during the 1970s and early 1980s, starring in sitcoms such as The Cuckoo Waltz, Rings on Their Fingers, Shillingbury Tales, Foxy Lady and You Must Be The Husband, and in two runs of a Thames Television children's historical costume drama The Feathered Serpent.

Elena Fernández

Elena is also widely recognized from Spanish sitcoms, Menudo es mi Padre with El Fary, Todo los Hombres Sois Iguales, Raquel busca su sitio and La Vida de Rita.

Ernest Lee Thomas

Since the show's cancellation Thomas has guest starred on a number of popular TV dramas and sitcoms including In the Heat of the Night, (which co-starred his TV wife Anne-Marie Johnson, from What's Happening Now!!), The Parent 'Hood, Martin, Soul Food, The Steve Harvey Show, All About the Andersons and more recently Just Jordan.

Geoffrey Hughes

He went on to appear in two popular British television sitcoms during the 1990s, playing loveable slob Onslow in Roy Clarke's Keeping Up Appearances (1990–95) followed by Twiggy in Craig Cash and Caroline Aherne's The Royle Family (1998–2000), the latter of which he reprised his role for specials in 2006 and 2008.

Good Morning, World

The show also starred Joby Baker, who was known for guest starring in many sitcoms.

Harry Ackerman

From 1958 through 1974, under the command of Ackerman as Vice President of Production, Screen Gems delivered the classic sitcoms: Father Knows Best, Bachelor Father, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, Hazel, Gidget, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Monkees, and The Partridge Family.

James Bartholet

Since then, he has worked for directors such as Blake Edwards, David Lynch and has appeared on many films, television programs, sitcoms and soap operas in the 1980s and 1990s.

Jean Speegle Howard

Howard made appearances in over 30 television shows, mostly sitcoms, such as Married... With Children (1994–1996), but she also had guest spots on such series as Grace Under Fire (1993) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) beginning from 1975 (mostly from during the 1980s and 1990s) until her death.

Joe Seneca

Joe Seneca (January 14, 1919 – August 15, 1996) was an American film and television actor who had a lengthy Hollywood career, portraying bit parts in many major films- He played the role of daddy/Ezra to Mal (Danny Glover's character) in the big screen film Silverado, and television sitcoms spanning from the 1970s to the 1990s.

KASY-TV

Initially, KASY ran cartoons (such as Highlander: The Animated Series, The Flintstones, Mutant League and Mighty Max), old movies, talk shows, classic sitcoms (such as Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show), recent off-network sitcoms (such as Harry and the Hendersons).

Los Beverly de Peralvillo

The sitcom could be assumed to be the forerunner of "comedic dysfunctional family" sitcoms of Mexico such as La familia P. Luche and Una familia de diez.

Ludwig Göransson

Ludwig Göransson (born September 1, 1984), also known under the stage name Ludovin, is a Swedish composer best known for his work on US TV sitcoms Community, Happy Endings, and New Girl, as well as composing the music for 30 Minutes or Less and collaborating with Donald Glover on the Childish Gambino albums Camp and Because the Internet.

Manjul Sinha

After directing many small television advertisements, his first major break was with Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi which was among the first sitcoms on Indian television.

Mansueto Velasco

He later had a successful career as a comedian, appearing in several ABS-CBN sitcoms.

Marija Omaljev-Grbić

She played in Moliere, Gogol, Sidran, Popovic and Pervan and started to act in many Bosnian and Croatian most popular Prime time TV Series and Sitcoms as well as in Croatian, Bosnian, German, Austrian and Turkish movies.

Marty Pollio

He also guest starred on several network sitcoms, including Night Court, Empty Nest and Blossom, in addition to co-starring in a CBS pilot produced by Dan Aykroyd, Mars Base One.

Matt Borlenghi

Borlenghi spent several years starring on various sitcoms, such as The Jeff Foxworthy Show in which he portrayed Jeff Foxworthy's assistant Russ Francis, Pig Sty on UPN, Party Girl on FOX, Police Academy: The Series, Melissa and Joey and others.

RCN Corporation

In addition, RCN4 runs the Lafayette sports network, broadcasting home and away games of their football, basketball, and baseball games and along with RCN8 also broadcasts classic sitcoms similar to TV Land, such as The Lucy Show, Mr. and Mrs. North, The Phil Stahl Show, and several others including two daily Spanish-language shows.

Ronn Lucas

Lucas has also been a regular on sitcoms and variety shows, including Night Court, Silk Stalkings, L.A. Law, Nip/Tuck, along with appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, America's Funniest Home Videos, Xuxa, and Circus of the Stars.

Say Something Anyway

During several episodes of a few hit British sitcoms, such as Coronation Street & Emmerdale, Say Something Anyway can clearly be heard in the background during scenes in public buildings, such as pubs and diners.

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.

Sundarapandiapuram

Known for its scenic beauty, it is a popular setting for many Tamil films and regional sitcoms.

Sylvia Field

Field continued in television guest spots during the 1960s, including on the ABC sitcoms Our Man Higgins with Stanley Holloway and Hazel.

Television comedy

A few prime-time animated comedies, notably The Flintstones, The Simpsons, Family Guy, successfully mixed attributes of traditional cartoons and sitcoms.

Terry Kyan

These include sketches/episodes for such sketch shows as Not the Nine O'clock News, Spitting Image and Alas Smith and Jones, as well as the Dawn French black comedy Murder Most Horrid, and the sitcoms The Brittas Empire and 2point4 children.

The Big Gay Sketch Show

Sketch topics include parodies of old sitcoms like The Honeymooners and The Facts of Life under the Nick at Nite-parodying heading "Logo at Nite", a lesbian speed dating session and an extended send-up of Broadway legend Elaine Stritch working as a Wal-Mart greeter, among other decidedly un-glamorous jobs.

The Comic Strip

They included "The Strike", which won the Golden Rose of Montreux; "More Bad News", a sequel to "Bad News Tour" showing the band reforming after five years to play at Castle Donington; and "Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door", written by Mayall and Edmondson in the violent style of their sitcoms Filthy Rich and Catflap and Bottom, which featured Peter Cook as a psychotic contract killer (the eponymous Mr. Jolly) and Nicholas Parsons.

The Strangerhood

The animation is created using the computer game The Sims 2 as a parody of sitcoms and reality television.

WPPX-TV

When Vineland, New Jersey-based independent WSJT (channe 65, now WUVP-DT) was sold to Home Shopping Network later that year, WTGI planned to acquire that station's programming inventory of mostly 1950s sitcoms.

WTIC-TV

Some programming (such as older sitcoms), however, was returned to their syndication distributors and wound up first on WTWS (channel 26, now WHPX-TV) and then WTVU (channel 59, now WCTX).


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