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Old 09-13-2017, 12:08 AM   #1
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Default Your Best and Worst Sitcoms of the 1950s and 1940s

Best
1. I Love Lucy/The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
2. The Jack Benny Program
3. Ozzie and Harriet
4. Burns and Allen

want to see most
December Bride
The Real McCoys
Our Miss Brooks
The Phil Silvers Show

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I Married Joan
Father Knows Best
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The best:
1. I Love Lucy (and The Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour)
2. The Honeymooners
3. How to Marry a Millionaire
4. Father Knows Best
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Favorites : Two of my VERY all time favorite shows!!!

I Love Lucy
Leave it to Beaver

Kinda/ sorta like :

The Honeymooners

Dislike :

Father knows best
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best

#1 the hooney mooners
#2 Love Lucy/The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
3. the bachelor father
#4 The Jack Benny Program

worst
#1 leave it to beaver
#2 the George burns & grace Allen show
#3 make room for daddy
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My favorites:

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1. I Love Lucy
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3. Father Knows Best
4. The Real McCoys
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Best:

1. Father Knows Best
2. I Love Lucy
3. Leave it to Beaver
4. Honeymooners
5. Burns & Allen
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No particular order:
1. I Love Lucy
2. Jack Benny
3. Phil Silvers
4. Life of Riley (William Bendix. The Jackie Gleason version is all right.)

Curious to check out:
1. Private Secretary with Ann Sothern.
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Top 11 Favorites:

1. Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
2. I Love Lucy
3. The Honeymooners
4. The Abbott and Costello Show
5. The Bob Cummings Show
6. Leave It to Beaver
7. Father Knows Best
8. Make Room for Daddy / Danny Thomas
9. Bachelor Father
10. The Real McCoys
11. The Burns and Allen Show

I haven't included Jack Benny because most episodes I've seen were from 1960 and later.

"On the fence" about Our Miss Brooks and The Phil Silvers Show / Sgt. Bilko

Would like to see: The Morey Amsterdam Show (late '40s) and The Ed Wynn Show
Would like to see more of: Mr. Peepers and The Dennis O'Keefe Show (1959-60)
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best
#1 the hooney mooners
#2 i love lucy
#3the Abbott and Costello Show
#4 the bachelor father
#5The Phil Silvers Show/Sergeant Bilko
#6 the jack benny program

worst
#1 leave it to beaver
#2fathers knows best
#3 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show



ones never seen
Amos 'n' Andy
Make Room for Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show
The Bob Cummings Show/Love That Bob
I Married Joan
The Goldbergs
the life of riley
Mister Peepers
December Bride
mister
My Little Margie
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