So, what were your favorite sitcoms growing up?

I Love Lucy
The Golden Girls
Threes Company
All in the Family
Roseanne

These five, while some might say are dated, have escaped obscurity into a universal appeal -- all doing fairly well in syndication. All played around the world. All doing very well when they aired originally -- and all doing fairly well in syndication for years.

I Love Lucy, Golden Girls, Roseanne, and Three's Company all did well on DVD too! All in the Family, however, slumped which surprised me. It didn't sell well at all.

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Mama's Family '83-'90

The show changes from night to day as it goes on... It transitioned from NBC to syndication between '84-'86 -- yep, a very long 2 year hiatus. Known for being the number 1 show in syndication when it returned in '86.

Mama goes from crusty old woman to bitchy, but lovable by season 3. Characters kind of get dumbed down into doing dumber things during the transition. The Grandchildren disappear, a new one is introduced, along with a new neighbor, and the show ended up doing better during its 3rd season. The remodeling of the show worked for ratings, but some fans of Carol Burnett hate this revamped show.

Two episodes that stand out from Season 1 are "The Wedding." This is where Eunice came in and they were quality episodes -- and some of the most memorable ones.

Rue McClanahan hated her role so much that she is killed off by season 3 -- before this season -- transitioning over to the Golden Girls along with Betty White. Betty White makes one final appearance in season 3 as Ellen in an excellent plastic surgery episode.

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Honorable mention goes to The Cosby Show.

Although this seems more like rotten candy compared to the above shows. Sweet enough to rot your teeth! The safest and sweetest show overall. Number one show and did fine in syndication.

On the other hand, I used to watch Gimmi a Break, Family Ties, The Hogan Family/Valerie's Family, Growing Pains, etc., too. These shows, however, are pretty much dated and stuck in their 80s time period. They did fine when aired in the 80's. However, they haven't done as well past the early 90's, in syndication. Growing Pains and Family Ties disappeared pretty quickly from Nick at Nite, for example. Gimmi a Break bombed ridiculously hard on DVD. Growing Pains didn't make it past the first season on DVD.

The Facts of Life somehow escaped this (probably one of the cheesiest shows of the decade/one of the most 80's), and did pretty well in the early 2000's in syndication on Nick at Nite. DVD sales not doing so hot though! It's popularity in the early 2000's seems to have petered out, and I don't see it anymore playing anywhere.

So, which ones did you used to watch growing up, and do you still watch them?

The Cosby Show
Threes Company
Perfect Strangers
Growing Pain
Airwolf
The A-Team
The Golden Girls
Double Dare
MacGyver
The Greatest American Hero

I Love Lucy
Seinfeld
Roseanne
Family Matters
I Dream of Jeannie
The Cosby Show

*Fresh Prince (remember the Shaft wedding episode)
*Married with Children
*Simpsons
*Mama's Family (loved the one liner's)
*Golden Girls
*Living Single
*Martin



These were my favs. I have a few more regular shows that I've watched but they aren't on the same level of rewatchability.

Housewives/Lost/GRey's

So, you're like 10 and without the knowledge of what a sitcom is?

All in the Family (all time favorite)

Addams Family
Gilligan's Island
The Andy Griffith Show
Leave it to Beaver
The Munsters
I Love Lucy
Three's Company
Diff'rent Strokes
Roseanne
Mama's Family
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Married With Children

I still watch them all when I see them on.

How is Friends not on anybody's list???

Along with Friends, I also loved, off the top of my head...

Gilligan's Island
Seinfeld
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Married... With Children
Perfect Strangers
Growing Pains
Saved By the Bell
Home Improvement
Coach

Oh, and MacGyver is one of the best TV shows ever, but it's not a sitcom.

Full House
Family Matters (God this show is awful now)
Perfect Strangers
Coach
Seinfeld
Friends
Saved by the Bell
Three's Company
Scooby Doo (I think of it that way and I love the laugh track too)
The Simpsons if that counts
Drew Carrey
Home Improvement
Titus (That show rocked)

Sticking to ones that I watched within their time period, here's a rough order of what I watched faithfully from the late 70's through the 90's:

70's
MASH
Good Times
WKRP in Cincinnati
Different Strokes

80's
Mork and Mindy
Cosby Show
Newhart
Cheers
Simpsons
Seinfeld

90's
Friends
King of Queens
Everybody Loves Raymond

Old Timey Sitcoms That I Watched Regularly, But Were Before My Time:
I Love Lucy
Dick Van Dyke Show
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bob Newhart Show
Andy Griffith Show
Gilligan's Island
Bewitched
Leave it to Beaver

SITCOMS OF TODAY:
Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
The Office
30 Rock