A Father's Day Special...
| |
|
Vote Here: |
1. |
By: beej 
27 votes
Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, who grows up from a young boy to a married man. The show aired for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 on ABC, part of the network's TGIF lineup.
|
|
2. |
By: beej
24 votes
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical parody of the middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its titular family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield, and it lampoons many aspects of the human condition, as well as American culture, society as a whole, and television itself.
|
|
3. |
By: beej
21 votes
Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 to 1984 on ABC. The show presents an idealized vision of American life in the 1950s and early 1960s America.
|
|
4. |
By: beej
26 votes
Home Improvement is a Golden Globe Award-Winning American television sitcom starring actor/comedian Tim Allen, which ran from 1991 to 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra (who both produced The Cosby Show) and David MacFadzean. The show's title has double meaning: it refers to physical improvement of houses, as well as to improving life with family, friends, work, and school. The show was a huge commercial success, with an audience of 4.4 million viewers on the episode "The Long and Winding Road", the highest audience ever received on a sitcom, also on the episode "Love's Labor Lost part two" an episode about a hysterectomy drew an audience of 2.6 million viewers, making it the most-watched sitcom of the 1990s.
|
|
5. |
By: beej
23 votes
Dharma & Greg is an American television situation comedy co-produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, More-Medavoy Productions and 4 to 6 Foot Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. It first aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002, and starred Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dharma and Greg Montgomery, a couple who marry instantly on their first date despite being complete opposites.
|
|
6. |
By: beej
21 votes
Growing Pains is an American television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from 1985 to 1992. The show's premise is based around the fictional Seaver family, who reside on Long Island, New York. Dr. Jason Seaver (Alan Thicke), a psychiatrist, works from home because his wife, Maggie Malone-Seaver (Joanna Kerns), has gone back to work as a reporter.
|
|
7. |
By: beej
26 votes
Full House is an American television sitcom that ran from 1987 to 1995 on ABC. It chronicles a widower (Bob Saget) raising his three young daughters with the help of his best friend (Dave Coulier) and his brother-in-law (John Stamos). The show originally ran from September 22, 1987 to May 23, 1995 on ABC.
|
|
8. |
By: beej
20 votes
Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning American situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989 to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons. Many of its catchphrases have entered into the popular culture lexicon.
|
|
9. |
By: beej
25 votes
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 and running for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992. The show focused on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle class African-American family living in a brownstone building in Brooklyn, New York According to TV Guide, the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes".
|
|
10. |
By: BigBadBrad01
19 votes
The show follows the lives of Al Bundy, a once-glorious high school football player turned hard-luck salesman of women's shoes; his wife, Peggy, a tartish, uneducated housewife with a large red bouffant hairdo, 1960s clothes, and funny walk caused by wearing high heels; Kelly, Al and Peggy's pretty, promiscuous, dim-witted daughter; and Bud, their unpopular, girl-crazy, intelligent son (and the only Bundy who ever attended college).
|
|
11. |
By: beej
19 votes
The Brady Bunch is an American television situation comedy based around a large blended family. The show originally aired from September 26, 1969 to August 30, 1974 on the ABC network and was subsequently syndicated around the world.
|
|
12. |
Tom Bradford (Eight is Enough)
By: murderpunk 
11 votes
Eight Is Enough was an American television comedy-drama series which ran on ABC from March 15, 1977 until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Tom Braden, a real-life father with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name. Tom Bradford was played by Dick Van Patton.
|
|
13. |
By: beej
18 votes
Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that premiered on the NBC television network on January 14, 1972 and was broadcast for six seasons. The final original episode aired on March 25, 1977. The show was based on the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son.
|
|
14. |
Sandy Cohen (The O.C.)
By: petey2191
4 votes
|
|
15. |
By: beej
18 votes
Leave It to Beaver is a 1950s and 1960s family-oriented American television situation comedy about an intelligent but naïve boy named Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show has attained an iconic status in the United States, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-twentieth century.
|
|
16. |
By: beej
18 votes
7th Heaven is an American drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton, about a Protestant minister's family living in the fictional town of Glenoak, California. The series premiered on Monday August 26, 1996, on the WB Television Network, the first time that the WB aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from 1996-2007.
|
|
17. |
By: beej
20 votes
This series starred veteran character actor Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, a working-class, very outspoken bigot, prejudiced against everyone and everything not in agreement with his view of the world. His ignorance and stubbornness tend to cause his malapropism-filled arguments to self-destruct. He often responds to uncomfortable truths by blowing a raspberry.
|
|
18. |
By: beej
19 votes
The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the premium cable network HBO from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, spanning six seasons and 86 episodes. Since premiering on HBO, the show has been broadcast by many networks in dozens of other countries.
|
|
19. |
By: beej
18 votes
My Three Sons is a situation comedy about a Scots/Irish-American family (Douglas/ O'Casey), that ran from September 29, 1960, to August 24, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of an aeronautical engineer and widower Steve Douglas, played by Fred MacMurray, and his three sons. This seemingly simple premise was a huge hit and a cornerstone of the CBS lineup in the 1960s.
|
|
20. |
By: beej
18 votes
Father Knows Best, a popular American radio and television sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s, portrays an idealized vision of middle class American life of the era.
The series began August 25, 1949, on NBC Radio. Set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl. The Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson) and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson).
|
|
21. |
By: beej
18 votes
Little House on the Prairie was an American one-hour dramatic television program that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1974, to March 21, 1983. The show was a loose adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s best-selling series of Little House on the Prairie books.
|
|
22. |
By: beej
23 votes
Family Guy is an animated American television sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane and airing on Fox. The show centers on a dysfunctional family that lives in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. The show uses frequent "cutaway gags," jokes in the form of tangential vignettes that do not advance the story.
|
|
| |
|
 |
Add a Comment
Add an Option:
Add to My Favorites
Send this to your Friends
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Del.icio.us
Be the first to comment
on this YayBoo: