Greatest Ever Sitcom Voting Thread Round 1

[TigerFan]

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and considering the quality (or lack thereof) of some of the recent additions, I'd also nominate How I Met Your Mother

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Okay, matchup number 1. First to 7 votes wins and moves to the next round.


M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H was a medical drama/black comedy produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS. The show followed a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War. M*A*S*H's title sequence featured an instrumental version of the song “Suicide Is Painless,” which also appears in the original film.

The series premiered on September 17, 1972, and ended February 28, 1983, with the finale becoming the most-watched television episode in U.S. television history. The show is still broadcast in syndication on various television stations (mostly during the late night/early morning hours) and in 2007 began a run on TV Land with the "Major, Major M*A*S*H Marathon". The series spanned 251 episodes and lasted eleven seasons covering a three-year war.

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My Favorite Martian

Starring: Ray Walston, Bill Bixby
Premiere Date: Sun., Sep. 29, 1963
Finale Date: Sun., Sep. 04, 1966

Premise: Xzydgeous 12 (Ray Walston), a Martian, crash lands and is taken in by Timothy O'Hara (Bill Bixby). Under the guise of Tim's Uncle Martin, he attempts to repair his ship and get himself out of trouble.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Match 2. Keep voting on Match 1 until I announce the winner by the way. I will just get a few of these up so when I am not here there is something to vote on.

Dad's Army

Dad’s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977.

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Men Behaving Badly

Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy, which first broadcast in 1992 on the ITV network, however moved to BBC One (and a later timeslot) from the third series onwards. It was written and created by Simon Nye. It was also a book written by Simon Nye in the mid-80s, which formed the basis for much of the first series.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Match 3.


Wings

Wings is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990 to May 14, 1997. The show starred Timothy Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett. The show was set at the fictional Tom Nevers Field, a small airport on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the brothers operated Sandpiper Airlines.

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Allo Allo

'Allo 'Allo! was a long-running British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. Set during World War II, 'Allo 'Allo tells the story of René Artois, a French café owner in the village of Nouvion (the town square scenes were filmed at Lynford Hall, Norfolk). Germans have occupied the village and stolen all of its valuable artifacts.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Match 4


Are You Being Served

Are You Being Served? was a long-running British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the men's and women's department of a large fictional London store called Grace Brothers.

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Three's Company

Three's Company is a popular American sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. It is a remake of the British sitcom Man About the House.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Match 5. Remember to keep voting on the other matches until one of them gets to 7 votes.

Southpark

South Park is an American animated television comedy series about four third/fourth-grade school boys who live in the small, backward mountain town of South Park, Colorado. The series was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and has been distributed and aired by Comedy Central since 1997. The show is well-known for its pop-culture parody, scatological humour, and satirical handling of current events.

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Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated television series about a nuclear family in the fictional town of Quahog (IPA ['koʊhɔg] or ['koʊhɒg]), Rhode Island. The show centers around the fictional Griffin family and its bumbling character Peter Griffin. It was created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX.

The show uses frequent "cutaway gags" — jokes in the form of tangential vignettes that do not advance the story and borrow heavily from popular culture.

Family Guy was cancelled once in 2000 and again in 2002, but strong DVD sales and the large viewership of reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim convinced FOX to resume the show in 2005. It is the first cancelled show to be resurrected based on DVD sales.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

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Most recent favourites: King of Queens & Everybody Loves Raymond
Most underrated: Frasier and Just Shoot Me
Classic: Seinfeld


It's so hard to say which one i like the most, because i'm a huge sitcom fan!

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Match 6.

The Brady Bunch

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 across the world.

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Leave It To Beaver

Leave It to Beaver is an iconic American television situation comedy about an idealized American family of the 1950s and early 1960s. It stars Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers ("as The Beaver", as the opening credits put it).

CBS first aired the show on October 4, 1957, but decided to drop it within a year. ABC picked it up and ran it for another five years, from October 2, 1958 to June 20, 1963.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Most recent favourites: King of Queens & Everybody Loves Raymond
Most underrated: Frasier and Just Shoot Me
Classic: Seinfeld


It's so hard to say which one i like the most, because i'm a huge sitcom fan!

Can you cast a vote for the matches to date, I will tally them up probably 8 matches at a time.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Match 7.

Green Acres

Green Acres is an American television series that was produced by Filmways, Inc. and originally broadcast on CBS from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971.

The television series Green Acres was about Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert), an accomplished and erudite New York attorney who was acting on his lifelong dream to be a farmer, and Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor), his glamorously bejeweled Hungarian wife, dragged unwillingly from the privileged city life she adored to a bucolic life on a ramshackle farm.

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Mad About You

Mad About You is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 24, 1999. It is being released on DVD and syndicated for reruns on Oxygen Network and Nick at Nite in the U.S. and on other stations across the globe.

The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City. Reiser played Paul Buchman, a documentary film maker. Hunt played Jamie Stemple Buchman, a public relations specialist. Near the end of the show's run, the couple had a baby daughter, whom they named Mabel.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

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Can you cast a vote for the matches to date, I will tally them up probably 8 matches at a time.

The only matches i'm qualified to vote on are the last two, but i'm not even entirely sure about the last one. Southpark gets my vote against the Family Guy.

 

[Warwick]

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I presume we don't have to vote for them all obviously?

But so far, my votes:

MASH
Dad's Army (the greatest ever!)
Family Guy
Family Ties

I really hope a quality sitcom get's up in this (i.e. not American trash).

And how do you decide who plays who? It would be unfair to see The Office (UK) go against The Office (US) in the first round when both deserve to be right up there, and another match like Golden Girls vs. Roseanne where both can go rot in hell.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Last one for the night. Remember to vote on each one, add your own memories, clips, pics, whatever you want on the shows that are being voted on.

Match 8.

Family Ties

Family Ties was an American television sitcom which aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. At the height of its popularity, Family Ties was #2 in the yearly Nielsen ratings, as it aired in the prized time-slot right after the top-rated Cosby Show on Thursday nights.

It starred Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton, the conservative, business-oriented son of liberal parents Elyse and Steven (Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross). Elyse was a successful architect, while Steven ran a public television station. They lived in suburban Columbus, Ohio with their children: Alex, Mallory ("Mal") (Justine Bateman) and Jennifer ("Jen") (Tina Yothers). Another child, Andrew ("Andy") (Brian Bonsall), was added later.

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Growing Pains

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 in 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. Jason has to take care of his kids: troublemaker Mike (Kirk Cameron), honors student Carol (Tracey Gold), and rambunctious Ben (Jeremy Miller). From 1988 on, Chrissy Seaver became a part of the family. She was played in her infant stage by twins Kristen and Kelsey Dohring (who alternated). Beginning in the fall of 1990, Chrissy's character age was advanced to 6 years old, whereupon Ashley Johnson took over the role. Later, Luke Brower (Leonardo DiCaprio) also moved in with the family. The show was relevant in the mid-1980s as women going to work was becoming more and more common, as were stay at home dads.

 

[rupert pupkin 87]

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Well 1 vote for South park
and leave it to beaver

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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I presume we don't have to vote for them all obviously?

No, but I would appreciate voting where possible so I can find winners and progress them through and therefore stop reading back all the time.

I really hope a quality sitcom get's up in this (i.e. not American trash).

If nothing else it is a measure of taste on this board I guess. I can tell you that not one person will be satisfied with all of the results.

And how do you decide who plays who? It would be unfair to see The Office (UK) go against The Office (US) in the first round when both deserve to be right up there, and another match like Golden Girls vs. Roseanne where both can go rot in hell.

There may be some bad first round matchups but it is not easy to get it all right. In the end the quality ones should get through unless the fans of that show miss the voting and it gets to 7 before they come online.

 

[BarcaRulz]

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One: MASH
Two: Men Behaving Badly
Three: Wings
Four: N/A
Five: Family Guy
Six: The Brady Bunch
Seven: N/A
Eight: N/A

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Might as well do my votes:

MASH
Dad's Army
'Allo 'Allo
Three's Company
Southpark
Brady Bunch
Mad About You
Family Ties

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Progress Voting:

MASH 3 v My Favourite Martian 0
Dad's 2 Army v Men Behaving Badly 1
Wings 1 vs 'Allo 'Allo 1
Are You Being Served 0 vs Three's Company 1
Southpark 3 v Family Guy 2
Brady Bunch 2 v Leave It To Beaver 1
Green Acres 0 v Mad About You 1
Family Ties 2 v Growing Pains 0

Remember first to 7 in each match goes through to second round

 

[mdc]

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Votes for:
MASH
Family Guy
Wings
Mad About You

Haven't seen enough of the shows in the other 4 match-ups to vote.

 

[ManWithNoName]

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MASH
Dads Army
Allo Allo
AYBS
Family Guy
Brady Bunch
Green Acres
Family Ties

 

[Jabso]

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MASH
Dad's Army
'Allo 'Allo
Are You Being Served
Family Guy
Brady Bunch DRAW Leave It To Beaver
Green Acres DRAW Mad About You
Family Ties

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

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MASH
Dads Army
Allo Allo
AYBS
South Park
Brady Bunch
Mad About You
Family Ties

 

[FootyJunkie]

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Hey Dad

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Hey Dad

It hasn't come up yet. Can't vote for it until the match comes up.

Edit: That's right, it's not there. Too late now although I doubt it would get far.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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Progress Voting:

MASH 6 v My Favourite Martian 0
Dad's Army 4 v Men Behaving Badly 1
Wings 2 vs 'Allo 'Allo 3
Are You Being Served 2 vs Three's Company 1
Southpark 4 v Family Guy 4
Brady Bunch 3 v Leave It To Beaver 1
Green Acres 0 v Mad About You 3
Family Ties 4 v Growing Pains 0

Remember first to 7 in each match goes through to second round