Write-in Poll: 10 Best and 10 Worst TV Sitcoms

[KentB3]

In early 1985, author Vince Waldron conducted a poll of 45 professional television critics to determine the classic comedies that would become the subject of his new book Classic Sitcoms: A Celebration of the Best in Prime-Time Comedy. Ten years later, I did the same this for a class project in college. I wanted to ask your opinions, to see what results we get on this forum. Here are my picks, as of this post, not in an particular order:

Best:
1.) I Love Lucy
2.) All in the Family
3.) The Andy Griffith Show
4.) The Dick Van Dyke Show
5.) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
6.) The Cosby Show
7.) M*A*S*H
8.) Cheers
9.) Home Improvement
10.) Police Squad!

Runners-Up:
11.) The Honeymooners
12.) The Bob Newhart Show
13.) Happy Days
14.) Laverne & Shirley
15.) The Jeffersons
16.) Taxi
17.) Who's the Boss?
18.) The Golden Girls
19.) The Big Bang Theory
20.) Young Sheldon

Worst:
1.) Anything But Love
2.) Green Acres
3.) The Ropers
4.) Three's a Crowd
5.) Ladies' Man
6.) Jennifer Slept Here
7.) Marblehead Manor
8.) Bless This House
9.) 2 Broke Girls
10.) Cavemen

As for runners-up for "Worst", its much harder to come up with worst sitcoms than best, also I try to be on the positive side more than negative!

Your picks?

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Best:

I Love Lucy
The Andy Griffith Show
Seinfeld
All in the Family
The Honeymooners
The Golden Girls
ALF
That Girl
Leave It to Beaver
The Munsters

Runners-Up

Mr. Ed
Dennis the Menace
Roseanne
King of Queens
Alice
Gimme a Break!
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Cheers
M*A*S*H
Gilligan's Island

[Alan Brady's Hair]

Best:

1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. Seinfeld
3. Barney Miller
4. The Odd Couple
5. The Bob Newhart Show
6. The Honeymooners
7. The Blackadder
8. Yes, Minister/Prime Minister
9. The Beverly Hillbillies
10. Green Acres

Runners-up

11. The Andy Griffith Show
12. I Love Lucy
13. The Many Loves of Donie Gillis
14. WKRP in Cincinnati
15. The Jack Benny Program
16. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
17. Fawlty Towers
18. Gilligan's Island
19. Car 54, Where Are You?
20. The Addams Family

Worst (no order):

One Day at a Time
Three's Company
Diff'rent Strokes
Facts of Life
Full House
Love & War
The Brady Bunch
Just Shoot Me
Welcome Back Kotter
Here's Lucy

My bottom 10 would have more of the 1980s family sitcoms, but they've largely slipped from my memory.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by KentB3

Worst:
5.) Ladies' Man

Which one? 1980-1981 https://epguides.com/LadiesMan_1980/

or 1999-2001 https://epguides.com/LadiesMan/

[KentB3]

Originally Posted by icecream

Which one? 1980-1981 https://epguides.com/LadiesMan_1980/

or 1999-2001 https://epguides.com/LadiesMan/

Ladies Man (1980-81)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-q7CjKD8WM