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tlc38tlc38
09-24-2014, 04:22 PM
My top 10 favorites are in bold with their ranking order.

In alphabetical order--numbers first:

1. 2 Broke Girls
2. 227
3. 3rd Rock from the Sun
4. The Addams Family
5. ALF
6. Alice
7. All-American Girl
8. All in the Family
9. Amen
10. The Andy Griffith Show
11. Archie Bunker's Place
12. Benson
13. The Beverly Hillbillies #6
14. Bewitched
15. Blossom
16. The Bob Newhart Show
17. Boy Meets World
18. The Brady Bunch
19. Charles in Charge
20. Cheers
21. Coach
22. The Cosby Show
23. Cybill
24. Dave's World
25. Designing Women #3
26. Dharma & Greg
27. A Different World
28. Dinosaurs
29. The Drew Carey Show
30. The Donna Reed Show
31. Ellen
32. Empty Nest
33. Evening Shade
34. Everybody Loves Raymond
35. The Facts of Life
36. Family Matters #7
37. Family Ties
38. Father Knows Best
39. The Flying Nun
40. Full House
41. Gilligan's Island
42. Gimme a Break!
43. The Golden Girls #8
44. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
45. Grace Under Fire
46. Green Acres #4
47. Growing Pains
48. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
49. Happy Days
50. Hazel
51. Hearts Afire
52. Home Improvement
53. I Dream of Jeannie
54. I Love Lucy #2
55. The Jeffersons #9
56. Just Shoot Me!
57. Kate & Allie
58. Laverne & Shirley
59. Major Dad
60. Mama's Family #1
61. Married with Children
62. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
63. Maude
64. Mister Ed
65. Mork & Mindy
66. Mr. Belvedere
67. The Munsters
68. Murphy Brown
69. The Nanny
70. Newhart #10
71. NewsRadio
72. Night Court
73. One Day at a Time
74. Perfect Strangers
75. Petticoat Junction #5
76. Punky Brewster
77. Reba
78. The Ropers
79. Roseanne
80. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
81. Sanford and Son
82. Saved by the Bell
83. Seinfeld
84. Small Wonder
85. Spin City
86. Soap
87. Step by Step
88. That Girl
89. Thea
90. Three's Company
91. The Torkelsons
92. Unhappily Ever After
93. Veronica's Closet
94. Welcome Back, Kotter
95. What's Happening!!
96. Who's the Boss?
97. Will & Grace
98. Wings
99. WKRP in Cincinnati
100. The Wonder Years

Adamantium
09-24-2014, 04:45 PM
Good list. I didn't know you were a "NewsRadio" fan!

king of comedy
09-24-2014, 04:55 PM
Great list. Animated sitcoms like The Simpsons wouldn't have counted?

tlc38tlc38
09-24-2014, 04:57 PM
Good list. I didn't know you were a "NewsRadio" fan!
I'm not a huge fan of the show but I do enjoy it when I watch it. It's cleverly written and acted.

I have now edited my original post to include my top 10.

tlc38tlc38
09-24-2014, 05:15 PM
Great list. Animated sitcoms like The Simpsons wouldn't have counted?
Sure it would count. I like the show but it's not in my top 100.

Sal
09-24-2014, 11:40 PM
I tend to make my A-Z list a little differently. What I do is try and pick my top 5 for each letter, except for M which would have 10, since there are many great M shows so you need more than 5. A few letters might have less than 5 due to a lack of worthy candidates, but in the end I still end up with around 100. My current group will look like this, ordered by preference:


A

1. The Andy Griffith Show
2. ALF
3. The Addams Family
4. The Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet
5. All In The Family

B

1. The Brady Bunch
2. Bewitched
3. The Beverly Hillbillies
4. The Big Bang Theory
5. The Bob Newhart Show

C

1. The Cosby Show
2. Cheers
3. Coach
4. Car 54, Where Are You?
5. Chico & The Man

D

1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. The Donna Reed Show
3. Dobie Gillis
4. Dennis The Menace
5. Diff'rent Strokes

E

1. Everybody Loves Raymond
2. 8 Simple Rules
3. Empty Nest
4. Eight Is Enough


F

1. Friends
2. Frasier
3. Family Ties
4. Family Affair
5. The Flintstones

G

1. Gilligan's Island
2. Green Acres
3. Get Smart
4. The Golden Girls
5. Gomer Pyle USMC

H

1. Happy Days
2. The Honeymooners
3. Here's Lucy
4. Hogan's Heroes
5. How I Met Your Mother

I

1. I Dream Of Jeannie
2. I Love Lucy

J

1. The Jack Benny Program
2. The Jeffersons
3. Julia
4. Just The Ten Of Us
5. Joanie Loves Chachi

K

1. King Of Kensington
2. Kate and Allie

L

1. Leave It To Beaver
2. Laverne & Shirley
3. Love American Style
4. The Lucy Show
5. The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour

M

1. The Monkees
2. Mork & Mindy
3. My Three Sons
4. The Munsters
5. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
6. Married With Children
7. Mad About You
8. Make Room For Daddy
9. Malcolm In The Middle
10. The Middle

N

1. Night Court
2. Newhart
3. The New Leave It To Beaver
4. The New Gidget

O

1. The Odd Couple
2. One Day At A Time
3. Our Miss Brooks

P

1. The Partridge Family
2. The Phil Silvers Show
3. Petticoat Junction
4. Punky Brewster
5. Phyllis


R

1. Room 222
2. The Ropers
3. Rhoda
4. The Real McCoys
5. Roseanne

S

1. Scrubs
2. Soap
3. Sabrina The Teenage Witch
4. The Simpsons
5. Sanford & Son

T

1. Three's Company
2. Two & A Half Men
3. That Girl
4. Taxi
5. 3rd Rock From The Sun

W

1. Welcome Back Kotter
2. WKRP In Cincinnati
3. Will & Grace
4. Wings
5. Webster


By my total, that comes out to 95 shows, so to get to 100, here are 5 more that just missed the cut but which I also like:

Alice
Barney Miller
MASH
That 70s Show
Two Broke Girls

MrCleveland
09-25-2014, 09:47 PM
I'll make my own top-100 list soon....

gidgetgrape
09-25-2014, 10:53 PM
Super list tlc38tlc38. I haven't seen The Torkelsons in a very long time, but I use to love it.

MrCleveland
10-27-2014, 02:59 PM
No particular order...

1950's & 1960's...

1-I Love Lucy
2-Dick van Dyke Show
3-Andy Griffith Show
4-Flinstones
5-Jetsons
6-Top Cat
7-F Troop
8-Batman
9-Beverly Hillbillies
10-Flying Nun
11-The Monkees
12-Hogan's Heroes
13-Get Smart
14-I Dream of Jeanie
15-Bewitched
16-Green Acres
17-Mr. Ed
18-Munsters
19-Addams Family
20-That Girl
21-McHale's Navy

1970's...

22-All in the Family
23-Maude
24-The Jeffersons
25-Bob Newhart Show
26-Mary Tyler Moore Show
27-Happy Days
28-Laverne and Shirley
29-Mork and Mindy
30-SOAP
31-WKRP
32-Partridge Family
33-The Odd Couple
34-One Day at a Time
35-Phyllis
36-Rhoda
37-Three's Company
38-Good Times
39-Taxi
40-Welcome Back Kotter

1980's...

41-Gimme a Break!
42-Facts of Life
43-Diffr'nt Strokes
44-Police Squad
45-The Duck Factory
46-ALF
47-Night Court
48-Police Squad
49-Mr. Belvedere
50-Small Wonder
51-Charles in Charge
52-Mama's Family
53-The Hogan Family
54-Perfect Strangers
55-Who's the Boss?
56-Newhart
57-227
58-Amen
59-Head of the Class
60-Cheers
61-The Cosby Show
62-A Different World
63-Family Ties
64-Golden Girls
65-Empty Nest
66-Kate and Allie
67-Too Close for Comfort
68-Bosom Buddies

1990's...

69-Home Improvement
70-Frasier
71-Seinfeld
72-Friends
73-That 70's Show
74-Full House
75-Family Matters
76-Boy Meets World
77-Step by Step
78-Mr. Cooper
79-Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
80-Dinosaurs
81-The Critic
82-Drew Carey Show
83-The Norm Show
84-Thunder Alley
85-Kirk
86-Sister Sister
87-Pinky and the Brain
88-Soul Man
89-Married with Children
90-Caroline in the City
91-South Park
92-Coach
93-Grace Under Fire

2000's...

94-Family Guy
95-Futurama
96-American Dad
97-Cleveland Show
98-Hot in Cleveland
99-Titus
100-Malcolm in the Middle

Honorable Mentions...

Suddenly Susan
NewsRadio
Just Shoot Me
Dilbert
Baby Blues
My Two Dads
Saved by the Bell
California Dreams

king of comedy
10-27-2014, 04:51 PM
Great list.

Kasey
10-28-2014, 09:42 AM
I could only come up with 75; anything more than that I would be struggling to list shows I would care to ever see again. Top Ten in bold; the rest are mostly chronological:

MAUDE
BEWITCHED
MAMA'S FAMILY
DESIGNING WOMEN
IT'S A LIVING
GOLDEN GIRLS
ROSEANNE
HAZEL
ALICE
THE DONNA REED SHOW
I Love Lucy
Our Miss Brooks
Dobie Gillis
My Three Sons
Dick Van Dyke Show
Beverly Hillbillies
The Lucy Show
My Favorite Martian
Patty Duke Show
Petticoat Junction
The Munsters
Gidget
I Dream of Jeannie
Green Acres
That Girl
Family Affair
The Mothers-In-Law
Flying Nun
Julia
Doris Day Show
Here's Lucy
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family
Odd Couple
Mary Tyler Moore
All in the Family
Rhoda
Phyllis
One Day at a Time
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Laverne & Shirley
Three's Company
Soap
WKRP In Cincinnatti
Angie
The Ropers
The Facts of Life
Flo
I'm a Big Girl Now
Harper Valley PTA
The Two of Us
Private Benjamin
Gimme a Break
9 to 5
Square Pegs
Charles in Charge
227
Growing Pains
The Hogan Family
You Again
She's the Sheriff
Just the Ten of Us
Murphy Brown
The Powers That Be
Delta
The Nanny
Ellen
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
The Office (1995)
Will and Grace
That '70s Show
Norm
The Ellen Show
Two and a Half Men
Sordid Lives

Sal
10-28-2014, 11:20 PM
I've noticed a common theme here which I discovered from looking at the last 3 lists and which would become part of my list if I ever try to arrange my picks in chronological order. Once you get to the mid-1990s and beyond the choices tend to thin out considerably. That means that about roughly 70-80% of our favourite sitcoms of all time are at least 20-25 years old. That should be a clear message to the 4 major networks (and certain cable and digital channels as well) that something is wrong with their present setup and needs to be changed immediately but I'm not confident that will change fairly soon.

Svenfan1234
05-07-2016, 02:46 PM
I love to see all you guys's Top 100 sitcoms.

To those who picked "Designing Women" and "Golden Girls"--I do like them but they aren't in my Top 5.

um
07-22-2016, 04:38 PM
I've noticed a common theme here which I discovered from looking at the last 3 lists and which would become part of my list if I ever try to arrange my picks in chronological order. Once you get to the mid-1990s and beyond the choices tend to thin out considerably. That means that about roughly 70-80% of our favourite sitcoms of all time are at least 20-25 years old. That should be a clear message to the 4 major networks (and certain cable and digital channels as well) that something is wrong with their present setup and needs to be changed immediately but I'm not confident that will change fairly soon.


You got something there

tlc38tlc38
07-22-2016, 05:09 PM
I've been meaning to update my list. There are several shows on it that I don't much care for anymore or other shows now outrank them.

tlc38tlc38
07-24-2016, 12:16 PM
My new updated list of 100 favorite sitcoms (in alphabetical order):

1. 227
2. 3rd Rock from the Sun
3. The Addams Family
4. ALF
5. Alice
6. All-American Girl
7. All in the Family
8. Amen
9. The Andy Griffith Show
10. Archie Bunker's Place
11. Benson
12. The Beverly Hillbillies
13. Bewitched
14. Blossom
15. The Bob Newhart Show
16. The Brady Bunch
17. Charles in Charge
18. Cheers
19. Coach
20. The Cosby Show
21. Cybill
22. Dave's World
23. Dennis the Menace
24. Designing Women
25. A Different World
26. Diff'rent Strokes
27. Dinosaurs
28. The Drew Carey Show
29. The Donna Reed Show
30. Ellen
31. Empty Nest
32. Evening Shade
33. Everybody Loves Raymond
34. The Facts of Life
35. Family Matters
36. Family Ties
37. Father Knows Best
38. Flo
39. The Flying Nun
40. Full House
41. Gilligan's Island
42. Gimme a Break!
43. The Golden Girls
44. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
45. Good Times
46. Grace Under Fire
47. Green Acres
48. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
49. Happy Days
50. Hazel
51. Hearts Afire
52. Home Improvement
53. I Dream of Jeannie
54. I Love Lucy
55. The Jeffersons
56. Kate & Allie
57. Laverne & Shirley
58. Mad About You
59. Major Dad
60. Mama's Family
61. Married with Children
62. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
63. Maude
64. Mister Ed
65. Mr. Belvedere
66. The Munsters
67. Murphy Brown
68. My Three Sons
69. My Two Dads
70. The Nanny
71. Newhart
72. NewsRadio
73. Night Court
74. One Day at a Time
75. Perfect Strangers
76. Petticoat Junction
77. Punky Brewster
78. The Real McCoys
79.Reba
80. The Ropers
81. Roseanne
82. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
83. Sanford and Son
84. Saved by the Bell
85. Silver Spoons
86. Small Wonder
87. Soap
88. Step by Step
89. Taxi
90. That Girl
91. Thea
92. Three's Company
93. Too Close for Company
94. The Torkelsons
95. What's Happening!!
96. Who's the Boss?
97. Will & Grace
98. Wings
99. WKRP in Cincinnati
100. The Wonder Years




My top 10 favorite sitcoms (in order of top favorite):

1. Mama's Family
2. I Love Lucy
3. Green Acres
4. Petticoat Junction
5. Designing Women
6. The Beverly Hillbillies
7. The Jeffersons
8. Family Matters
9. Alice
10. Newhart

Crusinforabrusin
08-30-2016, 05:40 PM
I can guarantee you that you probably don't love all of the 100 shows listed. You may love a small number but the majority of shows on the list are probably shows you just like.

tlc38tlc38
08-30-2016, 06:28 PM
^Did I say I "love" them?

I said my "favorites"...nothing was said about "love".

Dale Key
08-30-2016, 08:28 PM
I could only come up with 77 favorite sitcoms

01. 3rd Rock from the Sun
02. Absolutely Fabulous
03. All in the Family
04. American Dad
05. Andy Richter Controls the Universe
06. Arrested Development
07. Baskets
08. Becker
09. Bewitched
10. Black-ish
11. Bob's Burgers
12. Broad City
13. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
14. Caroline in the City
15. Cheers
16. Community
17. Curb Your Enthusiasm
18. Cybill
19. Designing Women
20. Dinosaurs
21. Everybody Loves Raymond
22. Family Guy
23. Frasier
24. Friends
25. Futurama
26. George Lopez
27. Gilligan's Island
28. Gimme a Break!
29. Good Times
30. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
31. I Dream of Jeannie
32. I Love Lucy
33. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
34. M*A*S*H*
35. Mad About You
36. Man Seeking Woman
37. Married with Children
38. Maude
39. Mom
40. Murphy Brown
41. New Girl
42. Newhart
43. NewsRadio
44. Night Court
45. Phyllis
46. Rhoda
47. Roseanne
48. Sanford and Son
49. Seinfeld
50. Soap
51. Taxi
52. That Girl
53. That 70's Show
54. The Andy Griffith Show
55. The Brady Bunch
56. The Carmichael Show
57. The Cosby Show
58. The Dick Van Dyke Show
59. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
60. The Goldbergs (2013)
61. The Golden Girls
62. The Honeymooners
63. The Jeffersons
64. The King of Queens
65. The Last Man on Earth
66. The League
67. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
68. The Mindy Project
69. The Nanny
70. The Odd Couple
71. The Office (UK series)
72. The Simpsons
73. Three's Company
74. Too Close for Comfort
75. Will & Grace
76. Wings
77. You're the Worst

Still need to see more of but will probably make my list:
Barney Miller (will buy complete series soon)
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (will buy complete series soon)
One Day at a Time (holding out for a complete series from Shout)
WKRP in Cincinnati (will buy complete series soon)
Archie Bunker's Place (hoping for a complete series from Shout)

Not sure if I will like it but want to watch a complete series:
Benson
Frank's Place
Three's a Crowd
Coach
A Different World (I can watch it on Netflix but have other priorities atm)
The Lucy Show
Here's Lucy

Liked when I was a kid, not sure If i still would:
Ellen
The Drew Carey Show
Empty Nest
Family Matters
Home Improvement
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Sister, Sister
Spin City
Unhappily Ever After
The Munsters
The Addams Family


The top ten sitcoms of all time:

01. Roseanne
02. The Nanny
03. The Golden Girls
04. Friends
05. I Love Lucy
06. Seinfeld
07. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
08. All in the Family
09. Mad About You
10. Soap

Crusinforabrusin
09-10-2016, 08:09 PM
My 100 favorite sitcoms:

The Bob Newhart Show
Here's Lucy
Spin City
Ellen
Happy Days
The Jefferson's
The Andy Griffith Show
F-TROOP
Night Court
Gilligan's Island
The Cosby Show
The King Of Queens
Soap
Everybody Hates Chris
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Everybody Loves Raymond
Taxi
Bewitched
Cheers
I Love Lucy
The Lucy Show
The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show
All In The Family
The Simpsons
Hey Arnold!
What's Happening!
The Golden Girls
Seinfeld
Murphy Brown
The Drew Carey Show
Family Matters
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Munsters
Evening Shade
The Phil Silvers Show
Grace Under Fire
Newhart
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Laverne And Shirley
Maude
Get Smart
Threes Company
Barney Miller
Car 54, Where Are You?
The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis
My Mother The Car
Saved By The Bell
Dennis The Menace
The Brady Bunch
Small Wonder
Doogie Howser M.D.
Mr. Belvedere
Mash
Family Ties
The Odd Couple
Empty Nest
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Wings
Mad About You
Frasier
Petticoat Junction
Leave It To Beaver
Married With Children
Roseanne
Sanford And Son
One Day At A Time
Mama's Family
My Three Sons
Hazel
Alice
Home Improvement
Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
SpongeBob SquarePants
The Bernie Mac Show
Rhoda
Welcome Back Kotter
The Beverly Hillbillies

That's all I can think of