# American Sit-coms NOT set in the 20th & 21st Centuries **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491 "2015-05-07T16:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/41 "2015-05-07T23:15:16Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Bruce Campbell, as **Jack Of All Trades** , probably counts. And let’s not forget the show it was paired with, [Cleopatra 2525](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_2525). A stripper is cryogenically frozen after her boob job goes array and wakes up over 500 years letter to find killer robots have forced the remnants of humanity to live underground. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/42 "2015-05-07T23:23:57Z")
Ironically, [Cavemen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_%28TV_series%29) doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/43 "2015-05-07T23:40:35Z")
[Best of the West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081832/), yet another stab at a crummy Western sitcom, 1981-1982. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/44 "2015-05-07T23:43:11Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > [Best of the West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081832/), yet another stab at a crummy Western sitcom, 1981-1982. And yet it was my favorite show at the time…Maybe it was because I was very young but Frog (the man) cracked me up. I will have to see if I can find an episode or two to rewatch. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/45 "2015-05-08T01:17:40Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > her boob job goes array Awry. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/46 "2015-05-08T01:17:54Z")
Would “Maverick” count as a comedy? Sort of. Certainly they would parody shows like “Gunsmoke” on some episodes. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/47 "2015-05-08T01:26:41Z")
Has anyone mentioned Other Space yet? It’s set in the future (not sure when exactly, but definitely not today) on a space ship. I’m not sure how well known it is since it’s on Yahoo and not regular TV, cable, Netflix, or Amazon. Joel and Trace from MST3K are in it as secondary characters, as is that girl from the AT&T store commercials. She’s a lot bustier than the AT&T uniform makes it seem, btw. The lead actor is also in some other AT&T commercial series, I believe, as some sort of tech guy or something. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/48 "2015-05-08T03:54:20Z")
In Canada, we had the show [Blackfly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfly_(TV_series)), about 18th century fur traders. ---
**Author:** ![Gretchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/49 "2015-05-08T04:09:34Z")
> [@D18](#): > > I’m presuming The Flintstones doesn’t meet your definition of sitcom. The Jetsons too - would meet the time criterion in the subject header but not as refined in the OP. The Jetsons would not have met the time criterion in the subject header anyway, as it was set in the 21st century. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/50 "2015-05-08T16:00:21Z")
Like most people I never saw the short-lived Western “Dirty Sally” in 1974. It is listed as a comedy-drama so it may be like “Here Comes the Brides” or “Maverick”. Not a full-fledged comedy like “F Troop” but had comedic elements. > **[Dirty Sally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Sally)** > > Dirty Sally is a humorous western television series about a hard-drinking cantankerous old woman and a young former outlaw traveling to the California gold fields in a wagon pulled by a mule named Worthless. The series consists of 14 half-hour episodes that aired on CBS Fridays, 8:00 to 8:30 p.m., from January 11, 1974, to July 19, 1974. Jeanette Nolan stars as Sally Fergus and Dack Rambo stars as Cyrus Pike in this Gunsmoke spin-off. Guest stars include John McIntire, Tim McIntire, Jackie Coo Du... ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/51 "2015-05-08T18:07:17Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > [Wizards and Warriors](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085113/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_70), set in a “swords and sorcery” fantasy setting. Survived for 8 episodes at the height of the initial Dungeons & Dragons craze in the early 1980s, and starred Jeff Conaway and Julia Duffy. I watched that. I liked the costumes. Amusing, but not really a sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/52 "2015-05-08T18:09:56Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > I came here to post about **Thanks** , saw that someone beat me to it, and now I’ve got the theme to **Best of the West** as an earworm. ☹ _“His name was Best… Best of the West!”_ > [@Shagnasty](#): > > And yet it was my favorite show at the time…Maybe it was because I was very young but Frog (the man) cracked me up. I will have to see if I can find an episode or two to rewatch. _“Waalll, gee, Boss!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/53 "2015-05-08T20:06:02Z")
[Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1299897/)was a sitcom set in the Middle Ages broadcast on Comedy Central for one season in 2009. It had some potential, but never grew the beard, as they say. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/54 "2015-05-08T20:59:51Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Like most people I never saw the short-lived Western “Dirty Sally” in 1974. It is listed as a comedy-drama so it may be like “Here Comes the Brides” or “Maverick”. Not a full-fledged comedy like “F Troop” but had comedic elements. > [Dirty Sally - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Sally) Actually, I remember that show (but vaguely) It was a spinoff from all places, **Gunsmoke**. What I recall about it was, yeah, it wasn’t really a comedy. Sally was an old, ugly, funny talking woman who had a mule that she would talk to. The plots generally would be around her home-spun ways as she travel in and out of peoples lives. I don’t think it lasted a year. Maybe 13 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/55 "2015-05-08T23:19:19Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > [Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1299897/)was a sitcom set in the Middle Ages broadcast on Comedy Central for one season in 2009. It had some potential, but never grew the beard, as they say. I think that was a UK show… ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/56 "2015-05-09T00:15:51Z")
IMDb includes comedy as one of six possible genres for [The Wild Wild West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058855/), so that’s my answer. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/57 "2015-05-09T00:24:39Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I think that was a UK show… Well if so it was imported by Comedy Central and broadcast in the US which makes it a US show. Next you will be claiming that Lost Girl is Canadian and that The Avengers and Game of Thrones are British! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/58 "2015-05-09T02:29:35Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > IMDb includes comedy as one of six possible genres for [The Wild Wild West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058855/), so that’s my answer. No, no, no, no. Screw iMDB. I actually watched **The Wild Wild West** every Friday night when I was 6, 7 years old. I got the Complete DVD set for Christmas a few years back and have been periodically re-watching the series. It was action, adventure, James Bondish type of gadgets and over the top villains. it was **not** a comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/59 "2015-05-09T02:32:30Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Well if so it was imported by Comedy Central and broadcast in the US which makes it a US show. Next you will be claiming that Lost Girl is Canadian and that The Avengers and Game of Thrones are British! Wait, so you’re calling **Monty Python’s Flying Circus** and **Red Dwarf** american shows because it was broadcast in the US? So that means you’re also calling **The Simpsons** a UK show because it was broadcast in England? No. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491/60 "2015-05-09T02:39:39Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Well if so it was imported by Comedy Central and broadcast in the US which makes it a US show. Next you will be claiming that Lost Girl is Canadian and that The Avengers and Game of Thrones are British! > [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > Wait, so you’re calling **Monty Python’s Flying Circus** and **Red Dwarf** american shows because it was broadcast in the US? So that means you’re also calling **The Simpsons** a UK show because it was broadcast in England? > > No. Exactly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-not-set-in-the-20th-21st-centuries/719491.md?page=4)