Show Mork & Mindy From Wikipedia: Mork & Mindy is an American sitcom broadcast from 1978 to 1982 on ABC. It stars Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-stars as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate...
Show Laverne & Shirley Originally introduced as characters on Happy Days , Laverne De Fazio ( Penny Marshall ) and Shirley Feeney ( Cindy Williams ) "schlemiel-schlamazeled" their way into the Tuesday night ABC prime time line up and into the hearts of television viewers in 1976. The show, set in the late 1950s, centered...
Show Shogun From Wikipedia: Shōgun is a 1975 novel by James Clavell . It is the first novel (chronologically speaking) in the author's Asian Saga . It is set in feudal Japan in the year 1600 some months before the critical battle of Sekigahara , and gives an account of the rise of the daimyo "Toranaga" (...
Show Thorn Birds, The The miniseries The Thorn Birds , based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 best selling novel, was broadcast on ABC for 10 hours between 27 and 30 March 1983. Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback, the melodrama focused on the multi-generational Cleary family, and...
Show Roots Roots remains one of television's landmark programs. The twelve-hour mini-series aired on ABC from 23-30 January 1977. For eight consecutive nights it riveted the country. ABC executives initially feared that the historical saga about slavery would be a ratings disaster. Instead, Roots scored...
Show Friends Friends is an American sitcom that ran for ten seasons on NBC as part of the Must-See TV Thursday lineup, from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. It was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman , and produced by David Crane, Marta Kauffman and Kevin Bright . This Emmy award-winning show – Best...
Show Beverly Hillbillies, The The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-71, CBS) was the brainchild of Paul Henning , the cracker-barrel surrealist also responsible for Petticoat Junction , The Real McCoys , and, notably, Green Acres . Certainly the most popular sitcom in television history, and quite possibly the most successful network...
Show Carol Burnett Show, The (1967-78) When The Carol Burnett Show aired in September of 1967 on CBS, no one expected it to run eleven years. The show gave Carol Burnett , along with regulars Harvey Korman , Vicki Lawrence , Lyle Waggoner (who left in 1974), and Tim Conway (whose occasional guest appearances became permanent in 1975) an...
