Best US Sitcom of the 1970s Part II: The Late '70s

wkrp

Voted Barney Miller... oh, wait...

weirdly i've seen almost none of these -- i feel like these shows didn't get rerun as often as the ones in the first thread. of the 3-4 i've seen, taxi was the only good one.

"Barney Miller" used to play at 1 p.m. on my local public TV station in the early '80s. I didn't know it has a reputation.

btw the truest representation of Cuban American life remains "Que Pasa USA?" and the truest representation of the hotness of Steven Bauer.

Dukes of Hazzard a sitcom?

Not purely, that's why I qualified it. And Eight Is Enough was kind of a comedy-drama.

Barney fans will have their voice.. in a third and final poll where the show will appear on a ballot alongside the winners of the first two polls

Alice! Goin ' through life with blinders on it's
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Wonder how many sitcoms have a theme song that's sung by the lead actor?

or that's that good?!
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Wonder how many sitcoms have a theme song that's sung by the lead actor?

Dennis Waterman never tried his luck in Hollywood then.

There was David Cassidy with The Partridge Family

Wonder how many sitcoms have a theme song that's sung by the lead actor?

scrambled eggs all over my face. what is a boy to do?

Wonder how many sitcoms have a theme song that's sung by the lead actor?

The ones that come to mind are Alice, All in the Family, Frasier, Reba, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Gimme A Break, and Green Acres. But there have to be others!

Is Only Fools and Horses the only sitcom where the theme song was sung by the writer?

x-post Ah, yeah I guess not so rare then

Mr. Ed has that cameo at the end.

WKRP and then everything else far, far behind. I did watch a fair amount of Three's Company, occasionally funny when it did farce.

I always remember the ubiquitous Three's Company reruns as perhaps marking the first time I developed a critical perspective on something as a child: I started out finding it funny but then realised that every episode pretty much worked the same way and became painfully predictable.

I don't have fond memories of any of these really. had no idea there was actually a bad news bears tv show wtf

I loved reruns of Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes when I was 9-10 or so.

bad news bears show was (obviously) less foul-mouthed than the movie. They used to show reruns on nickelodeon in the late 80s. I remember being surprised to find out there was a bad news bears movie!

In fact there were three Bad News Bears movies by the time the TV show appeared. Tbh I don't remember that show at all. Sadly though, I think I've seen at least a couple of episodes of almost every other show on the list, and I watched many of them regularly, which shows a shocking lack of discrimination on the part of my adolescent self. I mean, I may have seen every episode of Hello, Larry for chrissakes.

I loved reruns of Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes when I was 9-10 or so

NBC ran Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes back-to-back in 1980-1981

No Welcome Back, Kotter in either poll. What am I supposed to vote for?

Hello, Larry

Eight Is Enough was my favorite of these.

Disco theme song to Angie was so good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvJ3KqxgyjQ

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eight is enough not a sitcom

shoulda voted taxi

or dukes

er dukes not a sitcom
never watched it

Yeah I mentioned that up top, check it out

soz, weird additions tho

Guarantee you if they hadn't been there somebody would've whined about it