Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.
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Payne is an American television series, patterned after the British program Fawlty Towers. It starred American actor John Larroquette, who portrayed assistant district attorney Dan Fielding on the American television program Night Court. Larroquette was also an executive producer for the series. Payne was a mid-season replacement on CBS and aired in March and April 1999. The show also starred JoBeth Williams, Julie Benz and Rick Batalla. Despite fairly positive reception, and receiving the blessing of John Cleese, who agreed to take a recurring role if the show was renewed, Payne was quickly cancelled. Nine episodes were filmed; eight were aired. The show is not available on DVD.
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Joel, his cynical best friend, Nick, and easy-going little brother, Jamie, are contemporary cavemen who live in the suburban south and simply want to be treated like ordinary thirty-something guys. Despite their attempts at assimilation, Nick doesn't believe mainstream society will ever completely accept them, Jamie seems to take it all in stride and Joel straddles the middle, torn between his friends, his more traditional values and his loving fiancée.
Follows a fictionalized version of the life of American rock musician Chris Isaak. The show portrays Isaak and his band members as everyday people with everyday problems.
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Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life is plagued by petty annoyances, disappointments and embarrassments. Raquel Cassidy, Sean Power and Tony Gardner also star. The first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC Four in 2006, with the first episode achieving the highest ratings for a comedy on the channel. Repeats of the series were run on BBC Two and BBC HD, bringing it to a larger audience. A second series of eight episodes aired on BBC Two in November 2007, and a third series began airing in November 2008. A fourth and final series commenced broadcast on 31 May 2011 on BBC Two and ended on 5 July. Comparisons were made by critics to the successful American comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, and positive comments were made about Lead Balloon's characters, particularly Magda, the Eastern European housekeeper. The first series was released on DVD in November 2007. The show's theme tune is a cover version of "One Way Road", written by Noel Gallagher and performed by Paul Weller.
Quintuplets is a quirky ensemble comedy about the trials and tribulations of two parents raising 15-year-old quintuplets in a three-bedroom home.
An unwitting city slicker is made the marshal of a lawless town in this absurdist Western that pokes gentle but clever fun at the genre's stock plots and characters. Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982.
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.
Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles. As the Apocalypse nears, US President Johnny Cyclops tries to run a reelection campaign whilst also dealing with the Russians, a deposed Shah needing to be hidden, and a new weapon called a 'quark' bomb.
Deal was a 2005 television pilot by Is or Isn't Productions as part of a two-year development deal for NBC. The comedy series was based on the life of Annie Duke, a professional poker player.
Comedy about a Pinner solictor who falls for a woman half his age.
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Teachers Only is an NBC television sitcom centered around the faculty of a high school; in the first season the school was Millard Fillmore High in Los Angeles, but in the second it is Woodrow Wilson High in New York with a changed cast. In both seasons Norman Fell played Principal Ben Cooper, but Lynn Redgrave's character, Diana Swanson, who had been an English teacher in the first season, became a guidance counselor in the second season. Redgrave and Fell were already established names when this show aired, but two of the supporting stars in the second season, Jean Smart would go on, three years later, to play her best known role, that of interior design studio receptionist Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the long running show, Designing Women. Also, Jean's co-star Teresa Ganzel became well known for her many game show appearances in the 1980s as well as her appearance in the comedic miniseries, Fresno. This show ran for only two seasons, in 1982 and 1983.
Louise, Adam and Lestor are good friends. They meet up in each other's flats or in a coffee bar to drink and discuss life, love and sex.
Ginger-Nell Hollyhock is a single and lonely hairdresser who lives in Kansas City, Missouri during the Great Depression year of 1933. When Ginger-Nell places classified ads in the local newspapers, she recruits a group of wacky relatives - a con-man husband, Fast Eddie Murtaugh; a tap-dancing daughter, Anna Marie Hollyhock; a son who wanted to fly like a bird, Junior Hollyhock; and a tottering old blind grandfather, Grandpa Hollyhock - all of whom come to live together for the laughs.
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6 episodes • 1962Avg: 7.7Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Offer | Jan 5, 1962 | 7.0 |
| 2 | The Bird | Jun 14, 1962 | 8.0 |
| 3 | The Piano | Jun 21, 1962 | 8.0 |
| 4 | The Economist | Jun 28, 1962 | 8.0 |
| 5 | The Diploma | Jul 5, 1962 | 8.0 |
| 6 | The Holiday | Jul 12, 1962 | 7.0 |
7 episodes • 1963Avg: 7.4
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wallah-Wallah Catsmeat | Jan 3, 1963 | 7.0 |
| 2 | The Bath | Jan 10, 1963 | 8.0 |
| 3 | The Stepmother | Jan 17, 1963 | 8.0 |
| 4 | Sixty-Five Today | Jan 24, 1963 | 7.0 |
| 5 | A Musical Evening | Jan 31, 1963 | 7.0 |
| 6 | Full House | Feb 7, 1963 | 8.0 |
| 7 | Is That Your Horse Outside? | Feb 14, 1963 | 7.0 |
7 episodes • 1964Avg: 7.7
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homes Fit For Heroes | Jan 7, 1964 | 7.0 |
| 2 | The Wooden Overcoats | Jan 14, 1964 | 8.0 |
| 3 | The Lead Man Cometh | Jan 21, 1964 | 8.0 |
| 4 | Steptoe a La Cart | Jan 28, 1964 | 7.0 |
| 5 | Sunday For Seven Days | Feb 4, 1964 | 8.0 |
| 6 | The Bonds That Bind Us | Feb 11, 1964 | 8.0 |
| 7 | The Lodger | Feb 18, 1964 | 8.0 |
7 episodes • 1965Avg: 7.0Valley of Despair
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And Afterwards At | Oct 4, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Crossed Swords | Oct 11, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Those Magnificent Men and Their Heating Machines | Oct 18, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Siege of Steptoe Street | Oct 25, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 5 | A Box in Town | Nov 1, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 6 | My Old Man's a Tory | Nov 8, 1965 | 7.0 |
| 7 | Pilgrim's Progress | Nov 15, 1965 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 1970
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Death In the Family | Mar 6, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 2 | A Winter's Tale | Mar 13, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Any Old Iron? | Mar 20, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Steptoe and Son - and Son! | Mar 27, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Colour Problem | Apr 3, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 6 | T.B. or not T.B.? | Apr 10, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Men of Property | Apr 17, 1970 | 0.0 |
8 episodes • 1970
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robbery with Violence | Nov 2, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Come Dancing | Nov 9, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Two's Company | Nov 16, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Tea for Two | Nov 23, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Without Prejudice | Nov 30, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Pot Black | Dec 7, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Three Feathers | Dec 14, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Cuckoo in the Nest | Dec 20, 1970 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 1972
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Men of Letters | Feb 21, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 2 | A Star is Born | Feb 28, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Oh, What a Beautiful Mourning | Mar 6, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Live Now, P.A.Y.E. Later | Mar 13, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Loathe Story | Mar 20, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Divided We Stand | Mar 27, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Desperate Hours | Apr 3, 1972 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1974
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back in Fashion | Sep 4, 1974 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Porn Yesterday | Sep 11, 1974 | 0.0 |
| 3 | And So To Bed | Sep 18, 1974 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Seven Steptoerai | Sep 25, 1974 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Upstairs, Downstairs, Upstairs, Downstairs | Oct 2, 1974 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard | Oct 10, 1974 | 0.0 |