You're sent back to the 60's and given an all access backstage pass. Which comedy show do you visit?

Maybe he would invite you over to his place for a boys’ night watching porn.

n.b.: It’s Addams Family.

I completely forgot all about the Dick Van Dyke show when I did the poll. I came up with fifteen comedies from the sixties. There were so many. That decade was defined by them. I could have easily added four or five more to the poll. Danny Thomas show, Dobie Gillis, Smothers Brothers etc.

The seventies will be a much shorter poll. Off hand I can only think of MASH, Good Times, All in the Family, Jeffersons, Sandford and Son, One Day at a Time, Alice. That’s the ones I watched.
If anyone thinks of others from the 70’s post and I’ll include in the next poll for the seventies.

The eighties had even less comedies. Quite a few shows from the 70’s continued well into the 80’s. There weren’t all that many new ones that I recall. Threes Company and Benson are really the only eighties comedies that I recall.

Soap

oh yeah, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley were also 70’s comedies. I knew my seventies list was a bit too short. :wink:

yes, I guess Soap could be either 70’s or 80’s. IIRC it started around 78 or 79 and went into the 80’s.

Cheers!

Night Court

Facts of Life

Diff’rent Strokes

Webster

Family Ties

Alf

Lots of others regularly referenced on Family Guy.

My favorite thing about the Tea with Goldie sketches (that I read about, didn’t experience it firsthand) was that the censors had missed a few drug references early on because they weren’t familiar with the current slang. After that, they would micro-analyze every Tea with Goldie sketch looking for drug references. To have a bit of fun with the censors, the writers would come up with complete nonsense phrases to confuse the censors that these phrases might be drug related. The censors started cutting completely meaningless phrases (and would consequently end up occasionally missing actual drug references).

Yeah, those one “D” Adamses are all a bunch of snobs. They’re just jealous of Gomez and his branch of the family.

oh yeah, those 80’s comedies. :smack:

I totally drew a blank earlier. I watched Night Court and Facts of Life. But hadn’t thought about those shows in over a decade.

The Bob Newhart Show.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Rhoda.
The Odd Couple.
Taxi.

Also, add Mr. Belvedere to the 80s sitcoms.

Forgot to mention: Add Barney Miller to the list of shows from the 70s.

The Monkees!!! Because I just know that if Micky had met me, he’d have fallen in love with me and we’d have gotten married and lived happily every after, plus they were cute and funny and they played cool music and I loved them *sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo *much.

OK, that was the 60s me speaking. The 60+ year old me would choose Laugh-In or Dick Van Dyke or maybe the Addams Family.

Get Smart. It would be amazing to hang with a young Mel Brooks and watch him work. It would probably be better then the show itself.

If I could go further back to the 50s I’d want to sit with the Sid Caesar writers.

The Dick Van Dyke Show would be fascinating to see behind the scenes. It would be great see Dick Van Dyke and it would be interesting to see how the writers work on a show about writing a show. Plus I’d expect a weird dynamic with Carl Reiner working on a show he wanted to star in.

Back to the '60s . . . definitely The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Let’s also remember that Walter was Maynard’s aunt.

Maybe it’s time to do another "watch all Dobie Gillis episodes on DVD. Count the number of “You rang?”, “I was a sergeant, with the Good Conduct medal in WW2, the big one”, “small girl” wiggling her nose, how much is Chatsworth Osborn Jr worth and wasn’t he initially 24. How many courses did
badly underpaid Leander Pomfritt teach, not to mention the improbably named Imogene Burkhardt (I know, Jean Byron’s real name). How many soft, creamy girls told Dobie to get lost (Yvonne Craig as 5 different women)
I gotta watch those DVDs, I just gotta!

Brooks created the premise of the show and the characters. He also co-wrote three episodes. His involvement with the show pretty much ended with the pilot episode, mainly because he wanted to concentrate on his film The Producers. Buck Henry ran the show for the first two seasons.

Cite.

And The Ropers.

Welcome Back, Kotter

CPO Sharkey

If you want to include Britcoms,

Fawlty Towers*

No, Honestly

Reginald Perrin

The Goode Life (aka Goode Neighbors)

And the ever-popular US entries

***Faye

The Montefuscos

The Good Life**

Hot_L Baltimore***

*And its '80s American ripoff Amanda’s by the Sea.

**Not to be confused with the Britcom listed above.

I agree with this to the word. And Hank Patterson, who played Mr. Ziffel, could tell some stories too, having been born in 1888! (He was a WWI vet).

I always thought Officer Judy was funnier! :stuck_out_tongue:

And Fish.

And To the Manor Born (barely).