Show Flintstones, The The Flintstones was the first, and the longest running, animated situation comedy shown in prime-time television. Premiering on ABC on 30 September 1960, it gained high ratings in its first season, thus establishing animation as a viable prime time format. Produced by Hanna-Barbera (Bill Hanna and...
Show Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake. Charlie's free-...
Show Family Ties Few shows better demonstrate the resonance between collectively-held fictional imagination and what cultural critic Raymond Williams called "the structure of feeling" of a historical moment than Family Ties . Airing on NBC from 1982 to 1989, this highly successful domestic comedy explored one of...
Show Diagnosis Murder Diagnosis Murder was a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman (Dr...
Show Ellen Ellen (originally titled These Friends of Mine for season one) is a U.S. television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, producing 109 episodes. The theme song, "So-Called Friend" is by Scottish band Texas. An ongoing gag was that each episode had a distinct...
Show Odd Couple, The (1970-75) Although often positioned in the shadow of such ground-breaking series as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and All in the Family , The Odd Couple is one of the early examples of sophisticated, well-written, character-driven sitcoms that came to dominate the 1970s. Like M*A*S*H , it is also one of the few...
Show Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, The From Wikipedia: The Ford Show (also known as The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show ) is an American variety program, starring singer and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on NBC on Thursday evenings from October 4, 1956 to June 29, 1961. The...
Show You Are There The radio program made a transition to television in 1953, with Walter Cronkite as the regular host. Reporters included veteran radio announcers Dick Joy and Harlow Wilcox. The first telecast took place on February 1, 1953. The final telecast took place on October 13, 1957. Originally telecast live...
