The 25 Greatest Sitcoms of the 80's
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- CreatorMichael LeesonStarsBill CosbyPhylicia RashadMalcolm-Jamal WarnerThe goings-on in the life of a successful African-American family.
- CreatorJames BurrowsGlen CharlesLes CharlesStarsTed DansonRhea PerlmanJohn RatzenbergerThe regulars of the Boston bar "Cheers" share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
- CreatorGary David GoldbergStarsMichael J. FoxMichael GrossMeredith BaxterChronicles liberal ex-hippies Steven and Elyse Keaton, their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
- CreatorSusan HarrisStarsBea ArthurBetty WhiteRue McClanahanFour previously married women live together in Miami, sharing their various experiences together and enjoying themselves despite hard times.
- CreatorJeff HarrisBernie KukoffStarsGary ColemanTodd BridgesConrad BainThe misadventures of a wealthy Manhattan family who adopted the children of their late African American housekeeper from Harlem.
- CreatorDick ClairHoward LeedsJerry MayerStarsLisa WhelchelKim FieldsMindy CohnMrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.
- CreatorMartin CohanBlake HunterStarsTony DanzaJudith LightAlyssa MilanoTony Micelli, a retired baseball player, becomes the housekeeper of Angela Bower, an advertising executive in New York. Together they raise their kids, Samantha Micelli and Jonathan Bower, with help from Mona Robinson, Angela's man-crazy mother.
- CreatorNeal MarlensStarsAlan ThickeJoanna KernsKirk CameronThe misadventures of a family with a home business father and a journalist mother.
- CreatorTom PatchettPaul FuscoStarsMihaly 'Michu' MeszarosPaul FuscoMax WrightWhen an ugly creature, who loves eating cats, crash-lands into the Tanner family's garage, they treat him as a guest and allow him to live with them as he comments on the stupidity of mankind.
- CreatorFrank DunganJeff SteinStarsChristopher HewettBob UeckerIlene GraffThe humourous adventures of an English housekeeper working for an American family.
- CreatorMartin CohanDavid W. DuclonRon LeavittStarsRicky SchroderErin GrayJoel HigginsRicky Stratton is a spoiled rich kid who lives the life that many kids dream of, but he still suffers from the problems that many teens do.
- CreatorDavid W. DuclonStarsSoleil Moon FryeGeorge GaynesCherie JohnsonYoung Punky Brewster is abandoned with her dog, Brandon, in a supermarket. When she befriends Henry Warnimont, her new family life begins.
- CreatorCharlie HauckStarsJason BatemanJeremy LichtDan PonceOriginally is was the saga of a working mom raising her three sons alone while her pilot husband was away, but after star Valerie Harper left, Sandy Duncan stepped in as the boys' aunt.
- CreatorBarbara WeisbergMichael JacobsBarbara WeisbergStarsScott BaioWillie AamesNicole EggertCharles, a college student, is a live-in housekeeper in the Powell household. Charles, along with his friend Buddy, attempts to juggle his studies, friendships, and duties to the family.
- CreatorBill BoulwareJack ElinsonMichael G. MoyeStarsHelen MartinMarla GibbsHal WilliamsThis series took place in an apartment building numbered 227. The cast would frequently be sitting outside on a large set of stone stairs, involved in some discussion that would unfold into the weekly plotline.
- CreatorStu SilverStarsEmmanuel LewisAlex KarrasSusan ClarkThe post-retirement season is suddenly disrupted for football player George Papadapolis and his wife Katherine when Webster, the orphaned son of a former teammate, moves in. Laughter, and life lessons, in every episode.
- CreatorLinda Bloodworth-ThomasonStarsDelta BurkeDixie CarterAnnie PottsThe misadventures of four women and their handyman running a design firm in Atlanta, Georgia.
- CreatorHoward LeedsStarsRichard ChristieMarla PenningtonJerry SupiranThe zany adventures of a suburban family, their next-door neighbors, and an innovative robot designed to look like a human child.
- CreatorAnne BeattsStarsSarah Jessica ParkerAmy LinkerMerritt ButrickPatty Greene and Lauren Hutchinson, two awkward teenage girls, are desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School.
- CreatorBrian CookeEarl BarretArne SultanStarsTed KnightNancy DussaultJim J. BullockIn liberal San Francisco a conservative cartoonist tries to keep his two daughters, who rent an apartment below him, safe. In season 6 the cartoonist buys a small-town newspaper in Tiburon.
- CreatorSusan HarrisStarsRobert GuillaumeJames NobleInga SwensonJessica Tate's sharp-tongued former butler, Benson DuBois, moves up in the world, becoming first the governor's "director of household affairs," then the state's budget director, then lieutenant governor and candidate for the executive mansion.
- CreatorSherry CobenStarsSusan Saint JamesJane CurtinFrederick KoehlerTwo divorced mothers and their children share an apartment.
- CreatorMort LachmanSy RosenStarsNell CarterLara Jill MillerKari MichaelsenNell agrees to look after the Kanisky's home, as a special favor to her dying friend, and takes on the role of housekeeper to widowed police chief Carl and a parental figure to his three teenage daughters, and eventually a foster son.
- CreatorReinhold WeegeStarsHarry AndersonJohn LarroquetteRichard MollAn eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
- CreatorBill CosbyStarsLisa BonetKadeem HardisonJasmine GuyA group of students at a historically Black university struggle to make it through college.