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Plot Summary:
Big John, Little John was an American Saturday-morning situation comedy, produced by Sherwood Schwartz, which starred Herbert Edelman as "Big John" and Robert "Robbie" Rist as "Little John." The show first aired on September 11, 1976 on NBC, and ran for one season of 13 episodes. The series was produced by Redwood Productions in association with D'Angelo-Bullock-Allen Productions.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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The Second Hundred Years (1967)
Plot Summary:
The Second Hundred Years is an American sitcom starring Monte Markham which aired on the ABC television network for one season from September 6, 1967 to March 28, 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Tabitha (1976)
Plot Summary:
Tabitha is an American fantasy sitcom that aired during the 1977-1978 season on ABC. It is a spin-off of Bewitched, which had ended its run several years earlier. The series stars Lisa Hartman as Tabitha, Samantha and Darrin Stephens' daughter who was introduced on Bewitched during its second season. In the series, Tabitha is portrayed as a 20-something production assistant living and working in Los Angeles. The supporting cast includes David Ankrum as Tabitha's brother Adam with whom she works, Robert Urich as an egomaniacal talk show host who is a sometime love interest for Tabitha, and Mel Stewart as Tabitha and Adam's cranky but loveable boss. Unlike Bewitched, which was hit for ABC and aired for eight seasons, Tabitha failed to catch on with viewers and was canceled after one season.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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My Mother the Car (1965)
Plot Summary:
The story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Big (2012)
Plot Summary:
18-year-old Kang Gyung-Joon's spirit suddenly becomes transplanted in the body of 30-year-old Seo Yoon Jae. Seo-Yon-Jae is a successful doctor and engaged to high school teacher Gil Da-Ran. Gil Da-Ran just so happens to be the teacher of 18-year old Kang Gyung-Joon. More problems ensue when 30-year-old Seo Yoon Jae falls in love with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, novela
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I Want My Wife Back (2016)
Plot Summary:
Murray is a nice guy. Everyone says so. So no-one is more surprised than Murray when, on her 40th birthday, his wife walks out on him. So begins Murray's quest to discover what went wrong and how to win her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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The Bill Cosby Show (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Bill Cosby Show is an American situation comedy that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday night schedule from 1969 until 1971, under the sponsorship of Procter & Gamble. There were 52 episodes made in the series. It marked Bill Cosby's first solo foray in television, after his co-starring role with Robert Culp in I Spy. The series also marked the first time an African American starred in his or her own eponymous comedy series.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, vintage
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Cupid (1998)
Plot Summary:
Cupid is a 1998–1999 American comedy-drama series created by Rob Thomas, which featured Paula Marshall as Dr. Claire Allen, a Chicago psychologist who is given charge of a man named Trevor Hale. Hale believes he is Cupid, sent down from Mt. Olympus by Zeus to connect 100 couples without his powers, as a punishment for his arrogance. Originally broadcast on ABC on Saturday evenings at 10 p.m. EST, the show lasted one season.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, clever, feel good, humorous, witty, not serious
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Longing Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kang Shin-Woo is a math teacher with a good looking appearance. He has not forgotten his first love Han Ji-Soo for the past 10 years. By an accident, he travels to the past when he was a high school student. There, he meets his younger self. Kang Shin-Woo struggles to make the younger Kang Shin-Woo's love come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, romantic drama
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Caroline in the City (1995)
Plot Summary:
Caroline in the City is an American situation comedy that ran on the NBC television network. It stars Lea Thompson as cartoonist Caroline Duffy, who lives in Manhattan in New York City. The series premiered on September 21, 1995 in the "Must See TV" Thursday night block after Seinfeld. The show ran for 97 episodes over four seasons, before it was cancelled; its final episode was broadcast on April 26, 1999.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy, sexy
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Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987)
Plot Summary:
Good Morning, Miss Bliss is an American teen sitcom that aired on the Disney Channel from 1988 to 1989, starring Hayley Mills as a teacher at John F. Kennedy Junior High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. The show was originally a pilot for NBC, which was inspired by NBC president Brandon Tartikoff's idea for a show about an "inspiring" teacher. NBC decided not to pick up the pilot, but Disney Channel did, premiering the show on November 30, 1988, and airing it for one season. The show was later retooled as Saved by the Bell, with much of the same cast but without Mills, and with a different setting. The latter show focused on the students rather than the teacher, and had a much more successful run.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, teen comedy
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Brother's Keeper (1998)
Plot Summary:
Brother's Keeper is an American television sitcom that ran for one season from September 25, 1998 to May 14, 1999 on ABC. Created by Donald Todd, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of Porter Waide and his irresponsible pro-football player brother Bobby Waide, who is contractually forced to move into his brother's house, where Bobby's lifestyle often clashes with that of Porter's, and becomes an unwitting second parent to Porter's son Oscar.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Still Standing (2002)
Plot Summary:
After 18 years of marriage, high school sweethearts Bill and Judy Miller still make each other laugh and try to keep their marriage intact, even when their family pulls them in different directions. Since Bill has a far more immature approach to marriage and raising their three children than Judy does, they work at striking a balance and remembering why they love each other, quirks and all.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy
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Mr. Robinson (2015)
Plot Summary:
Centers on a rough-edged musician Craig, who's adjusting to his new life as a music teacher in a big-city middle school where he encounters teacher politics and the temptations of single moms.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious
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The War at Home (2005)
Plot Summary:
The War at Home is an American sitcom created by Rob Lotterstein that ran from September 11, 2005 to April 22, 2007 on Fox. It follows the antics of a largely dysfunctional Long Island family. The show lasted for two full seasons but was not renewed for a third season.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, semi serious, light, entertaining, funny, romantic, feel good, captivating
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My Hero (2000)
Plot Summary:
My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, feel good
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Teen Angel (1997)
Plot Summary:
Teen Angel is an American fantasy sitcom that aired during ABC's TGIF Friday night lineup from 1997 to 1998. The series was created by Simpsons writers/producers Al Jean and Mike Reiss.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sweet, sitcom, juvenile, nostalgic
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'Til Death (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about the triumphs and tribulations of marriage and friendship from very different perspectives. It's about the funny – and sometimes annoying – things that happen between husbands, wives, parents, children, neighbors and friends day after day after day. The show focuses on Eddie and Joy Stark, a couple married for 23 years who live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, realistic, witty, not serious, funny, hilarious, black comedy
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It's All Relative (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's All Relative is an ABC sitcom about a man who dates the adoptive daughter of a gay couple, which forces their very different families to learn to coexist.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, light, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Out of the Blue (1979)
Plot Summary:
Out Of The Blue is an American fantasy sitcom that aired on ABC during the fall of 1979. It is chiefly notable as having featured a Mork & Mindy crossover, and for the controversy surrounding its status as a spin-off of Happy Days. The series stars Jimmy Brogan as Random, an angel-in-training who is assigned to live with a family and work as a high school teacher. The series aired from September 9 to December 16, 1979. Nine episodes had been aired at the time of cancellation. Some completed material was never broadcast.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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According to Jim (2001)
Plot Summary:
According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 1, 2001 to June 2, 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, funny, hilarious, fun, situational comedy
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Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter (2018)
Plot Summary:
A wingless fairy awaits the reincarnation of her former husband to try to locate her lost wings and return to heaven. Sun Ok Nam is a fairy who came down to Earth to take a bath during the Joseon Dynasty. A woodcutter steals her clothes, and she is unable to return to heaven. She decides to marry the woodcutter and has two children with him. But before she can find out where he hid her clothes, the woodcutter dies in an accident. Almost 700 years later, Ok Nam works as a barista in a café, awaiting the reincarnation of her woodcutter husband. To most people who see her, Ok Nam looks like an old woman, but some people can see her for her youthful beauty. When two men, Jung Ji Hyun and Kim Geum, come into the café one day, Ok Nam is convinced that one of them is her reincarnated husband. Can Ok Nam finally find her lost clothes and return to heaven?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Mr. Queen (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the present day, Jang Bong Hwan works as a chef at the President's Blue House. She has a free spirit, but her spirit somehow finds its way into the body of Queen Kim So Yong in the Joseon period. King Cheol Jong has secrets. He seems like a figurehead, who is gentle and easygoing. In fact, he hides his strong aspects. Queen Sunwon is the late King Sunjo’s wife. She wields the true power in the country and, thus, relegates King Cheol Jong as just a figurehead. Kim Jwa Geun is Queen Sunwon’s younger brother. He is extremely ambitious.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, romantic, sweet, dorama, entertaining, costume drama, hilarious, period piece
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Bewitched (1964)
Plot Summary:
Bewitched is an American fantasy situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972. It was created by Sol Saks under executive director Harry Ackerman, and stars Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife. Bewitched enjoyed great popularity, finishing as the number two show in America during its debut season, and becoming the longest-running supernatural-themed sitcom of the 1960s–1970s. The show continues to be seen throughout the world in syndication and on recorded media. In 2002, Bewitched was ranked #50 on "TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". In 1997, the same magazine ranked the season 2 episode "Divided He Falls" #48 on their list of the "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, retro, supernatural thriller, light, sincere, mysterious, slapstick, hilarious
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To Rome with Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
To Rome with Love is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 1969 to September 1971.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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18 Again! (1988)
Plot Summary:
18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, sex comedy, romantic comedy, independent film, offbeat, funny
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Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Plot Summary:
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sweet, emotional, sentimental, feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, fairy tale, humorous, semi serious, light
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Man Seeking Woman (2015)
Plot Summary:
A naive romantic goes on a desperate, often surreal quest for love when his longtime girlfriend dumps him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, psychological, light, captivating, entertaining, funny, offbeat, dark comedy
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Cracking Up (2004)
Plot Summary:
Cracking Up is an American television sitcom created by School of Rock writer Mike White, who also served as the series' head writer. It aired on the Fox Network on Monday nights from March to May 2004. The title of the program and the name of the psychiatrist, Dr. Bollas, are comic allusions to Christopher Bollas, a psychoanalyst, and to his book Cracking UP.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mad About You (1992)
Plot Summary:
Mad About You is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992 to May 24, 1999. The show stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City. Reiser played Paul Buchman, a documentary film maker. Hunt played Jamie Stemple Buchman, a public relations specialist. Near the end of the show's run, the couple had a baby daughter, whom they named Mabel. The series focuses mainly on the newlyweds while they dealt with everything from humorous daily minutiae to major struggles. The show's willingness to find comedy in realistic situations and observational dialogue garnered it comparisons to Seinfeld, another NBC comedy about thirty-somethings in New York City. Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser were paid $1 million per episode for the last season. However, ratings fell sharply that year as the series was shuffled away from its Tuesday slot to prop up a fledgling Monday night line-up of comedies on NBC. The final episode of the series was "The Final Frontier". The show's theme song, "Final Frontier", was composed by Reiser and Don Was. The theme was originally performed by Andrew Gold, but a version performed by Anita Baker made its debut midway through the 1997 season. Baker's version was used for the rest of the show's run and appears on the show's soundtrack album. Gold's version is available on the collection Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, witty, touching, humorous, realistic, slapstick, semi serious, romantic comedy, vintage
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Those Who Can't (2016)
Plot Summary:
There are teachers who inspire, enlighten, and challenge us. These are not those teachers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom