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Old? I was in such a dream state about the lost beauty of them..Okay. Old. But you'll find a cliche or two. New lows.
This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at June 28, 2023 12:30 PM MDT
I'm watching the Mary Tyler Moore series right now on Prime. This is the first, and benchmark, sitcom. Fraser is the only sitcom I've ever watched that came anywhere close. Prime also has Bob Newhart Show and Ozzie and Harriett as well as Donna Reed. I'm sure there are more but those are what I've run across. MTM really takes me back to college days at Auburn; I distinctly remember watching MTM while sitting at the sewing machine and hubby studying in his spare bedroom office. We had little money but these were my favorite years.
I read a while back that the first real sitcom was MTM and that organization (which I don't remember) considers it the benchmark to which sitcoms aspire. My opinion is that any modern-day sitcom that I may see or hear is by accident or lack of control of the environment in which I find myself. MTM started in 1970 I believe.
In 1947, the first American television sitcom, Mary Kay and Johnny, debuted.
Our Miss Brooks is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high-school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957.
I Love Lucy premiered on October 15, 1951 and aired until 1957.
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