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Title

Sitcoms : the 101 greatest TV comedies of all time / Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik ; foreword by John Lithgow.

Author

Bloom, Ken, 1949-

Publication

New York : Black Dog & Leventhal, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Vlastnik, Frank

Description

335 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

Describes one hundred and one of the most influential, popular, and enduring sitcoms, discussing their actors, creators, plots, running length, and appeal.

Subject

Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States

Genre/Form

• Television comedies
• Comédies télévisées.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction -- The Addams Family -- The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet -- Alice -- All in the Family -- The Amos 'N' Andy Show -- The Andy Griffith Show -- Barney Miller -- The Beverly Hillbilies -- Flops -- Bewitched -- The Bob Cummings Show -- The Bob Newhart Show -- The Brady Bunch -- Car 54, Where Are You? -- Cheers -- Coach -- The Cosby Show -- Curb your Enthusiasm -- December Bride -- Designing Women -- The Dick Van Dyke Show -- Brilliant but cancelled -- Diff'rent Strokes -- The Donna Reed Show -- Ellen -- Evening Shade -- Everybody Loves Raymond -- The Fact of Live -- Family Affair -- Family Ties -- Father Knows Best -- The Flintstones -- The Flying Nun -- Pets -- Frasier -- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air -- Friends -- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show -- Get Smart -- Military sitcoms -- Gilligan's Island -- The Goldbergs -- The Golden Girls -- Good Times -- Green Acres -- Growing Pains -- Happy Days -- Hazel -- Hogan's Heroes -- Character actors -- The Honeymooners -- I Dream of Jennie -- I Love Lucy -- I Married Joan -- It's Garry Shandling's Show -- The Jack Benny Program -- Sitcoms from radio shows -- The Jeffersons -- Julia -- Laverne & Shirley -- Leave It to Beaver -- The Life of Riley -- The Lucy Show/Here's Lucy -- Make Room for Daddy -- Malcom in the Middle -- The Many Loves of Dobies Gillis -- Married...With Children -- Mary Tyler Moore --
• Sitcoms from movies -- M*A*S*H -- Maude -- Mister Ed -- The Monkees -- Mr. Peepers -- The Munsters -- Murphy Brown -- My Favorite Martian -- My Little Margie -- My Three Sons -- Cheesecake and beefcake -- The Nanny -- Newhart -- NewsRadio -- The Odd Couple -- One Day at a Time -- Our Miss Brooks -- The Partridge Family -- Movie stars who tried television -- The Patty Duke Show -- Perfect Strangers -- Petticoat Junction -- The Phil Silvers Show -- Private Secretary/The Ann Sothern Show -- The Real McCoys -- Flops part II -- Roseanne -- Sanford and Son -- Saved by the Bell -- Scrubs -- Seinfeld -- The Simpsons -- Soap -- Charater actors part II -- Taxi -- That Girl -- That '70s Show -- 3rd Rock from the Sun -- Three's Company -- Topper -- Will & Grace -- Wings -- WKRP in Cincinnati.

ISBN

9781579127527

LCCN

^^2007023974

OCLC

141484825

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library