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x Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Dr_Katz_logo.png   Patton Oswalt  
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999, starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman. The show was created by Burbank California production...
Dave Attell  
Jonathan Katz  
H. Jon Benjamin  
Laura Silverman  
x Punky Brewster Punky Brewster   George Gaynes  
Punky Brewster is an American sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye) being raised by her foster parent (George Gaynes). The show ran on NBC from September 16, 1984 to September 7, 1986 and again in first-run syndication from...
Peter Billingsley  
T. K. Carter  
Soleil Moon Frye Penelope Brewster
Benji Gregory  
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x Bosom Buddies Bosom Buddies   Telma Hopkins  
Bosom Buddies is an American sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson. It ran from 1980 to 1982 on ABC and in reruns in the summer of 1984 on NBC. The series was originally...
Wendie Jo Sperber  
Tom Hanks  
Holland Taylor  
Peter Scolari  
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x Three's Company TCLogo2.jpg   Jeffrey Tambor  
Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. It is a remake of the British sitcom Man About the House. The story revolves around three roommates, Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow (later Cindy Snow and Terri Alden), and Jack...
Norman Fell  
Audra Lindley  
Ann Wedgeworth  
Jenilee Harrison  
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x The Tracey Ullman Show Ullman   Yeardley Smith Lisa Simpson
The Tracey Ullman Show is a weekly all-American television variety show, hosted by British comedian and onetime pop singer Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5, 1987 as the FOX network's second primetime series (after Married... with Children), and...
Nancy Cartwright Bart Simpson
Julie Kavner  
Anna Levine  
Dan Castellaneta  
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x Roseanne roseanne.jpg   Alicia Goranson  
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1988 to 1997 starring Roseanne Barr. The series reached #1 in the Nielsen Ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for...
Sarah Chalke  
Michael Fishman  
John Goodman  
Sal Barone  
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x The Sanford Arms     Whitman Mayo  
The Sanford Arms is a 1977 NBC sitcom that was an attempted continuation of the sitcom Sanford and Son. After six seasons, Redd Foxx left Sanford and Son to star in a variety show for ABC. The producers planned to continue the series with Demond...
LaWanda Page  
Don Bexley  
Theodore Wilson  
x Politically Incorrect Bill Maher, November 2007   Bill Maher  
Politically Incorrect was a late-night, half-hour political talk show hosted by Bill Maher that ran from 1993 to 2002. It aired on Comedy Central from 1993 to 1996, and on ABC from 1997 to 2002. The show first originated from New York City, but soon...
x M*A*S*H M*A*S*H title screen   David Ogden Stiers Major Charles Emerson Winchester III
M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH (which was itself based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker). The series is a medical drama/black...
Mike Farrell B. J. Hunnicutt
Harry Morgan Sherman T. Potter
Gary Burghoff Radar O'Reilly
Larry Linville Frank Burns
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x AfterMASH AfterMASH title screen   Jamie Farr  
AfterMASH is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983 to May 31, 1985. A spin-off of the long-running hit series M*A*S*H (the name is a pun on aftermath), the show took place immediately following the end of the Korean...
Harry Morgan  
William Christopher  
Rosalind Chao  
David Ackroyd  
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x Newhart Newhart   Julia Duffy  
Newhart is a television situation comedy starring comedian Bob Newhart and actress Mary Frann as an author and his wife who owned and operated a historic inn located in a small, rural Vermont town that was populated by eccentric characters. The show...
Bob Newhart  
Peter Scolari  
Thomas Hill  
Tom Poston  
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x Murphy Brown Murphy Brown   Lily Tomlin  
Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988 to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, an investigative journalist and news anchor for...
Rose Marie  
Grant Shaud  
Candice Bergen  
Jane Leeves  
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x Barney Miller Barney Miller   James Gregory Frank Luger
Barney Miller is a comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village that ran from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority...
Gregory Sierra Chano Amenguale
Linda Lavin Janice Wentworth
Abe Vigoda Phil Fish
Ron Carey Carl Levitt
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x Whose Line Is It Anyway? Whose Line Is It Anyway?   Drew Carey Him/Herself
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (abbreviated to Whose Line? or WLIIA) is a short-form improvisational comedy TV show. Originally a British radio programme, it moved to television in 1988 as a series made for the UK's Channel 4. Following the conclusion of...
Ryan Stiles Ryan Stiles
x Soap Soap   Robert Guillaume Benson DuBois
Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981. The show was created as a parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour long primetime comedy. Like a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial...
Dinah Manoff  
Cathryn Damon  
Jimmy Baio  
Donnelly Rhodes  
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x Blackadder /wikipedia/images/en_id/6819213   Robbie Coltrane  
Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of a BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments. All episodes star Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and his dogsbody, Baldrick. Each...
Miriam Margolyes  
Vincent Hanna  
Nigel Planer  
Chris Barrie  
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x Steptoe and Son /wikipedia/images/en_id/4116377   Harry H. Corbett  
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about two rag and bone men living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast on the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a...
Wilfrid Brambell  
x Petticoat Junction Petticoat Junction   June Lockhart  
Petticoat Junction is an American situation comedy produced by Filmways which originally aired on the CBS network from 1963 to 1970. The series is part of a triad of interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning, the other two...
Smiley Burnette  
Frank Cady  
Edgar Buchanan  
Meredith MacRae  
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x Love, American Style Love, American Style   Henry Gibson  
Love, American Style is an hour-long television anthology which was produced by Paramount Television and originally aired between September 1969 and January 1974. For the 1971 and 1972 seasons it was a part of an ABC Friday prime-time lineup that...
x Frasier Frasier   Peri Gilpin Roz Doyle
Frasier is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee (as Grub Street Productions) in association with Paramount...
David Hyde Pierce Niles Crane
Jane Leeves Daphne Moon
John Mahoney Martin Crane
Kelsey Grammer Frasier Crane
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x The Goodies The Goodies      
The Goodies is a British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was made by BBC 2 from 1970 to 1980 — and was then made by the ITV company LWT from 1981 to 1982. The...
x Friends Friends title screen   Courteney Cox Monica Geller
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share...
Matt LeBlanc Joey Tribbiani
Jennifer Aniston Rachel Green
David Schwimmer Ross Geller
Lisa Kudrow Phoebe Buffay
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x Family Guy Family Guy   Seth MacFarlane Brian Griffin
Family Guy is an American animated television sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of Peter, Lois, Meg, Chris, Stewie, and their pet dog Brian. The...
Mike Henry Cleveland Brown
Patrick Warburton Joe Swanson
Alex Borstein Lois Griffin
Seth MacFarlane Peter Griffin
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x American Dad! American Dad!   Curtis Armstrong  
American Dad! is a satirical American animated series owned by Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television. It was created by Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, as well as two...
Dee Bradley Baker  
Rachael MacFarlane  
Wendy Schaal  
Scott Grimes  
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x NewsRadio NewsRadio   Phil Hartman Bill McNeal
NewsRadio is an American television sitcom. The show was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was taped in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center. Some episodes were taped at Sunset Gower Studios. originally broadcast from 1995 to...
Joe Rogan  
Dave Foley  
Vicki Lewis  
Khandi Alexander  
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x Hogan's Heroes Hogan's Heroes   Bernard Fox  
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. Starring Bob Crane as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, the show was set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during the...
Bob Crane  
John Banner  
Richard Dawson  
Robert Clary  
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x Married... with Children /wikipedia/images/en_id/2529376   Ed O'Neill  
Married... with Children or Married with Children is an American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago that lasted 11 seasons. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, debuted on April 5, 1987...
Christina Applegate  
Amanda Bearse  
Chi McBride  
Ted McGinley  
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x Archie Bunker's Place Archie Bunker's Place Opening title screen     Archie Bunker
Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular, the show maintained a large enough audience to last four seasons, ending its run in...
Anne Meara Veronica Rooney
Jason Wingreen  
Barry Gordon  
Danielle Brisebois  
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x Northern Exposure Northern Exposure   Janine Turner Maggie O'Connell
Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, ...
Elaine Miles  
Peg Phillips  
Paul Provenza  
Darren E. Burrows  
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x In Living Color InLivingColorlogo   David Alan Grier  
In Living Color was an American sketch comedy television series, which originally ran on the Fox Network from April 15, 1990 to May 19, 1994. Brothers Keenen and Damon Wayans created, wrote, and starred in the program. The show was produced by Ivory...
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Jennifer Lopez Fly Girl
Will Smith  
x Da Ali G Show Da Ali G Show     Bruno
Da Ali G Show is the name of two related satirical TV series starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G. The first (2000) series originally aired on Channel 4 in the UK, and the second (2003-2004) series on HBO in...
x The Honeymooners The Honeymooners title screen   Joyce Randolph Trixie Norton
The Honeymooners is a situation comedy television show that was created by Marvin Marx, and shot before a live audience which debuted as a half-hour series on October 1, 1955. Although initially a ratings success — it was the #2 show in the United...
Art Carney Ed Norton
Sheila MacRae Alice Kramden
Jackie Gleason Ralph Kramden
x The Muppet Show Tv muppet show opening   Frank Oz Miss Piggy
The Muppet Show was a television program featuring a cast of Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street. The show stars Kermit the Frog as a showrunner who tries to keep control of the antics of the other Muppet...
Jim Henson Kermit the Frog
Jerry Nelson Camilla
Frank Oz Fozzie Bear
Jim Henson Rowlf the Dog
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x Cheers Cheers   Rhea Perlman Carla Tortelli
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James...
John Ratzenberger Cliff Clavin
George Wendt Norm Peterson
Ted Danson Sam Malone
Kelsey Grammer Frasier Crane
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x Night Court Night Court   Ellen Foley  
Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 1984 until May 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone (played by Harry...
Selma Diamond  
Marsha Warfield  
Charles Robinson  
Gail Strickland  
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x 3rd Rock from the Sun 3rd Rock titles   Joseph Gordon-Levitt Tommy Solomon
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 until 2001 on NBC. The show is about a group of extraterrestrials on an expedition of what they consider to be the least important planet, Earth (the 3rd Rock from the Sun), while...
Simbi Khali  
John Lithgow  
French Stewart  
Mike Ditka  
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x Fernwood 2Nite Fernwood 2Nite   Fred Willard  
Fernwood 2 Night (or Fernwood Tonight) is a comedic television program created by Norman Lear as a spin-off/summer replacement from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. It was a parody talk show, hosted by Barth Gimble (Martin Mull) and sidekick/announcer...
Frank De Vol  
Martin Mull  
x Alice Alice   Vic Tayback Mel Sharpes
Alice is an American sitcom television series which ran from August 31, 1976 to July 2, 1985 on CBS in the USA. The series was based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves...
Linda Lavin  
Martha Raye  
Polly Holliday  
Celia Weston  
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x Family Ties Family Ties title scene from the third season   Meredith Baxter  
Family Ties is a television sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly...
Michael Gross  
Justine Bateman  
Brian Bonsall  
Tina Yothers  
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x Mad About You /wikipedia/images/en_id/9270825   Helen Hunt Jamie Stemple Buchman
Mad About You is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 24, 1999. 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...
Cynthia Harris  
Louis Zorich  
Anne Ramsay  
Richard Kind  
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x Joanie Loves Chachi Joanieloveschachiscreen   Scott Baio  
Joanie Loves Chachi is an American TV spin-off of the popular American sitcom Happy Days that was originally broadcast on ABC from March 23, 1982 to September 13, 1983. It starred Scott Baio and Erin Moran as the titular Chachi Arcola and Joanie...
Erin Moran  
Ellen Travolta  
Al Molinaro  
Art Metrano  
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x Space Ghost Coast to Coast Space Ghost Coast to Coast   Lee Meriwether  
Space Ghost Coast to Coast is an animated spoof talk show. The show centers on numerous characters from the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Space Ghost, in which they return to host a humorous talk show purportedly shot and broadcast from Space...
Judy Tenuta  
Andy Merrill  
C. Martin Croker  
Ben Stiller Him/Herself
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x Aqua Teen Hunger Force /wikipedia/images/en_id/6959207   Carey Means  
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (also known as ATHF) is an American animated television series shown on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim late-night programming block, as well as Teletoon in Canada. It is one of four spin-offs of Adult Swim's Space...
Dana Snyder  
Dave Willis  
C. Martin Croker  
Andy Merrill  
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x That's My Bush! Cast photo   Timothy Bottoms  
That's My Bush! is a live-action political satire/sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It aired on Comedy Central from April 2001 through May 2001. The series centered on the fictitious personal life of George W. Bush, as played by Timothy...
Marcia Wallace  
Kristen Miller  
Kurt Fuller  
John D'Aquino  
x Ally McBeal Ally McBeal   Hayden Panettiere  
Ally McBeal is an American television series which ran on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia. The series starred Calista Flockhart in the...
Regina Hall  
Lisa Nicole Carson  
Vonda Shepard  
Julianne Nicholson  
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x Gidget Gidget   Don Porter  
Gidget is a 1965 Screen Gems sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as her father. The series was first broadcast on ABC from...
Sally Field  
Pete Duel  
x The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Rodin-Denker-Kyoto   Florida Friebus  
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is a situation comedy that ran on CBS in the USA from 1959–1963. The television series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also...
Bob Denver  
Dwayne Hickman  
Frank Faylen  
x Home Improvement Home improvment logo   Taran Noah Smith  
Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen, which aired 1991 to 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David MacFadzean. In the 1990s, it was one of the most watched sitcoms, winning many awards....
Jonathan Taylor Thomas Randy Taylor
Zachery Ty Bryan Brad Taylor
Tim Allen Tim Taylor
Patricia Richardson Jill Taylor
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x The Golden Girls The Golden Girls   Betty White Rose Nylund
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a Miami, Florida home. The...
Brenda Vaccaro  
Barbara Babcock  
Leslie Nielsen  
Beatrice Arthur  
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x The Facts of Life The Facts of Life   Charlotte Rae Edna Garrett
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' original premise focused on the character, Edna Garrett (Charlotte...
Lisa Whelchel Blair Warner
Kim Fields Tootie Ramsey
Mindy Cohn Natalie Green
Nancy McKeon Jo Polniaczek
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x The Love Boat The Love Boat   Ted Lange  
The Love Boat (simply Love Boat in its final season) is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24, 1977 until May 24, 1986. The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain,...
Jill Whelan  
Gavin MacLeod  
Bernie Kopell  
Ted McGinley  
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x Benson Benson   Robert Guillaume Benson DuBois
Benson is an American television sitcom which aired from September 13, 1979 to April 19, 1986 on ABC. The series was a spin-off from the soap opera parody Soap. The title character, portrayed by Robert Guillaume, originally appeared on Soap as the...
Ted Danson  
Ethan Phillips  
Jerry Seinfeld  
Didi Conn  
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x The Greatest American Hero The Greatest American Hero   William Katt  
The Greatest American Hero is an American TV series which aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC. It premiered as a two hour movie pilot on March 18, 1981. It starred William Katt as teacher Ralph Hinkley ("Hanley" for the latter part of...
Faye Grant  
Michael ParĂ©  
Robert Culp  
Connie Sellecca  
x The Larry Sanders Show The Larry Sanders Show   Janeane Garofalo Paula
The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that originally aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the United States. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic talk show host Larry...
Jeremy Piven  
Jeffrey Tambor  
Rip Torn  
Penny Johnson Jerald  
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x Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman The DVD Cover for Volume One of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, to be released on March 27, 2007   Mary Kay Place  
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is a 1976 syndicated soap opera parody produced by Norman Lear, directed by Joan Darling and starring Louise Lasser. The series writers were Gail Parent and Ann Marcus. The show's title was the eponymous character's name...
Debralee Scott  
Victor Kilian  
Louise Lasser Mary Hartman
Dody Goodman  
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x That '70s Show That 's Show logo   Kurtwood Smith Red Forman
That '70s Show is an American television sitcom that centered on the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 1976 to 12:00 AM, January 1, 1980. It debuted on the FOX television network...
Josh Meyers  
Tommy Chong Leo
Lisa Robin Kelly Laurie Forman
Don Stark Midge and Bob Pinciotti
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x The Drew Carey Show /wikipedia/images/en_id/5107623   Ryan Stiles  
The Drew Carey Show is an American sitcom (set in Cleveland, Ohio) that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004 and was known for its "everyman" characters and themes. The show revolved around comedian Drew Carey, an office worker who has had a long-life...
Christa Miller  
Drew Carey Drew Carey
Cynthia Watros  
Eddie Money  
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x The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show   Don Knotts Barney Fife
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in a fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept...
Andy Griffith Sheriff Andy Taylor
Ron Howard Opie Taylor
Frances Bavier  
Elinor Donahue  
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x Curb Your Enthusiasm Curb Your Enthusiasm   Cheryl Hines Cheryl David
Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American comedy series starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David as himself. It is produced and broadcast by HBO. The series was inspired by a 1999 one-hour fake documentary titled Larry...
Jeff Garlin Jeff Greene
Larry David Larry David
Richard Lewis Richard Lewis
Susie Essman Susie Greene
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x Scrubs Scrubs - cast   Ken Jenkins Bob Kelso
Scrubs is an American comedy-drama created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced currently by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced dialogue, slapstick, and surreal...
Neil Flynn Janitor
Judy Reyes Carla Espinosa
John C. McGinley Dr. Cox
Donald Faison Christopher Turk
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