have honestly earned the term "tv classic"?

I Love Lucy
All in the Family
Happy Days
M*A*S*H
The Andy Griffith Show

I Love Lucy
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Bewitched
The Brady Bunch
All in the Family

I Love Lucy
Leave It To Beaver
The Honeymooners
All In The Family
Bewitched

Five plus one:

The Honeymooners
I Love Lucy
All In The Family
MASH
Cheers

plus Seinfeld.

#1 Forever is Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet; 435 episodes and 14 years on TV plus radio before that.

Leave it to Beaver
My Three Sons
Bewtiched
All in the Family

The Brady Bunch
Family Matters
Leave It To Beaver
Perfect Strangers
The Wonder Years (Even though it was more of a drama, it still had its funny elements, especially Wayne!)

I'd list more, but I was only asked for five.

I Love Lucy
Cheers
M*A*S*H
Happy Days
Friends (much as I hate to admit it...)

do you mean any five shows (including ones that are already considered classic like "I Love Lucy") or do you mean five relatively recent shows that aren't considered classic at the moment?

I Love Lucy
All in the Family
The Honeymooners
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Andy Griffith Show

I don't even like all those shows but they deserve that title

Close are: Mary Tyler Moore, M*A*S*H, Cheers, and Bewitched

I Love Lucy
Dick Van Dyke Show
Mary Tyler Moore Show
All in the Family
Happy Days

I Love Lucy
Leave It To Beaver
All In The Family
Bewitched
Happy Days

"I Love Lucy" (most definitely!)
"The Brady Bunch"
"Laverne & Shirley"
"The Lucy Show"
"The Munsters"

Seinfeld (A No-Brainer)
The Larry Sanders Show (It's a great show!)
Cheers (Pretty much a no-brainer)
Mash (although I hate it)
The Cosby Show (although many like myself are sick of it)

In my opinion these are the only sitcoms who should have the right to be called "classic:"

I Love Lucy
All In The Family
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
M*A*S*H
The Brady Bunch
Friends
Seinfeld

Cheers
All in the Family
Seinfeld
The Golden Girls
M*A*S*H
I love Lucy

Im not a big fan of I love Lucy but it IS a classic!

Also great pick for the Larry Sanders Show Sitcomwriter, thats a good show!

Cheers
I love lucy
Taxi
Happy Days (although I hate to admit it)
Three's Company (although I also hate to admit it)

Wow...a lot of great choices out there...

Since it's truly impossible to pick the 5 best and most classic shows of all time, I'll throw a few others into the mix... I don't think these have been mentioned yet...

Get Smart
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Hogan's Heroes
The Odd Couple
Green Acres
Beverly Hillbilies

ooops, that's six...

If I had to pick my top 5 favorites, they would probably be:

I Love Lucy (which had no bad episodes)

Seinfeld (which had a few sub-par episodes, but the best episodes were so great, they more than made up for it)

The Dick Van Dyke Show (again, never made a bad episode)

Green Acres (comedy was far, far ahead of it's time)

The Honeymooners (just the classic 39...which were indeed, all classics)

Close behind would be Leave It To Beaver




Happy Days went on far too long, IMHO

All in the Family was great for 2-3 years, but then went downhill quickly...the whole premise of the show was lost when Mike and Gloria moved next door... (in fact, the premise was lost when Mike got a job in the first place)

I'm appreciating MASH more now (my wife loves that show) than I did when it was on...I got tired of it during it's original run...the show started when I was in Jr. High, and ended after I was out of college! WOW It's not on where we are, but we're buying the DVDs...

The Cosby Show, got sick of that after about 3 seasons...went on way too long...

I love the Brady Bunch, I can still watch MOST of their episodes (the eps I can't watch any more are the vacations to Grand Canyon and Hawaii, the pilot episode, and Great Grandma Hutchins meets Great Grandpa Brady, along with a couple of others,like the Davey Jones ep)...but I love Marcia and Jan :happyface

Never liked Laverne and Shirley, although I thought Cindy Williams was very cute

Always liked My Three Sons, particularly when Katie was added to the cast :)

Cheers was great!

I like I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and the Munsters...I like Andy Griffith, but not 15 times a day (are you listening, TV Land?)

As I said earlier, it's tough to narrow it down to 5 shows, or even 10...or 20...

All in the Family
Happy Days
The Brady Bunch
The Andy Griffith Show
Bewitched

I Love Lucy
Gilligan's Island
Brady Bunch
Friends
Sanford & Son

The question was five for fifty years of sitcoms. Here's seven for seventy years:

I Love Lucy
The Beverly Hillbillies
All in the Family
Laverne &:Shirley
The Cosby Show
Seinfeld
The Big Bang Theory

These are the only seven sitcoms that finished #1 in the annual Nielsen ratings two or more times

No surprise All in the family did!


Stupid Gloria and Mike wanted to move for his job! (He could have gotton 1 there in NYC)

I Love Lucy
Gilligan's Island
Brady Bunch
Friends
Sanford & Son

How could I forget Leave it to Beaver?

My personal top-5 sitcoms that I consider classics. Some would disagree with this but that’s okay.

1. I Love Lucy
2. Mama’s Family
3. The Golden Girls
4. Green Acres
5. The Beverly Hillbillies

My personal top-5 sitcoms that I consider classics. Some would disagree with this but that’s okay.

1. I Love Lucy
2. Mama’s Family
3. The Golden Girls
4. Green Acres
5. The Beverly Hillbillies

Yes ! Green Acres & Petticoat Junction too. Both classics to me ! :)

The Brady Bunch
Happy Days
All in the Family
The Golden Girls
Threes Company

Here are 2 that I want to go with:

I Love Lucy is the 1st one that came to mind for me.

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: great longevity, and pioneered the "family sitcom" genre for TV (after it was established in radio).

The Andy Griffith Show
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooners
All in the Family
Seinfeld

+1

The Golden Girls

Too hard to narrow it down to 5.

It would be easier to do it by decade, or maybe 20 years--nearly a generation.