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Plot Summary:
Dr. Ken is a brilliant physician with no bedside manner. He is always trying to be a good doctor, as well as a good husband and dad to his two kids. However, these good intentions have a way of driving everyone crazy at both work and at home. Luckily, his therapist wife Allison is just the right partner to keep things sane.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, hilarious
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E/R (1984)
Plot Summary:
E/R is an American television sitcom that aired in 1984 and 1985. Developed from the long running play of the same name created and produced by the Organic Theater Company under the direction of Stuart Gordon and conceived by Dr. Ronald Berman, the series was produced by Norman Lear and Embassy Television and lasted a single season. Shuko Akune and Bruce A. Young reprised their roles from the original Organic Theater Company production of the play. Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton borrowed heavily from this show in the creation of their television drama similarly entitled ER.George Clooney, a regular on this show, would later appeared in the NBC's drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, medical drama, sitcom
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Doctor's Diary (2008)
Plot Summary:
Doctor’s Diary is a German-Austrian medical drama, that aired for three seasons from 2008 to 2011 on RTL in a coproduction with ORF. The focus of the series is the young doctor Margarete "Gretchen“ Haase, who wants to make a career in a hospital. It was directed by Bora Dağtekin and shown from the June 23, 2008 to February 14 2011 on German television, RTL Television. In Canada, it was shown starting August 31, 2010 on Séries+ television. In France, from June 8, 2011 on TF1 television and starting March 31, 2013 on HD1 television.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, corny
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Lotsa Luck (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lotsa Luck is an American sitcom that aired during the 1973-74 television season. The series stars Dom DeLuise as bachelor Stanley Belmont who lives with his bossy mother, his sister Olive and her unemployed husband, Arthur. Jack Knight stars as Stanley's best friend, Bummy. Lotsa Luck is based on the British London Weekend Television series On the Buses.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Becker (1998)
Plot Summary:
Becker is a dedicated, outspoken and talented doctor with a gruff exterior. While he tends to offend those who try to get close to him, he is extremely dedicated to his medical practice in the Bronx, N.Y., where he always goes the extra mile to help those in need. But Dr. John Becker looks at the world around him and sees a society gone mad, full of incongruities and just plain wrong thinking. And he has no qualms about saying anything that comes to mind – anything.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973)
Plot Summary:
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is a BBC situation comedy, written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for three series, ending in 1978. The series follows the accident-prone Frank Spencer and his tolerant, if long-suffering, wife, Betty, through Frank's various attempts to hold down a job, which frequently end in disaster. Noted for its stuntwork, performed by Michael Crawford himself as well as featuring various well-remembered catchphrases, the series was voted #22 in the BBC's poll "Britain's Best Sitcom".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, touching, captivating, atmospheric, offbeat, slapstick
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Out of Practice (2005)
Plot Summary:
Out of Practice is an American situation comedy that was produced by Paramount Network Television and originally broadcast on sister company CBS from September 19, 2005 to March 29, 2006. With producers Joe Keenan and Christopher Lloyd at the helm, the show was about a family of five doctors who had little in common and usually did not get along. CBS officially cancelled it on May 17, 2006, at its upfront presentation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, light, captivating, offbeat
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Scrubs: Interns (2009)
Plot Summary:
A web series following four interns in their first year at Sacred Heart Hospital—Katie Collins, Denise "Jo" Mahoney, Howie Gelder and Sonja "Sunny" Dey, who "directs" the series as a video diary project.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, sincere, realistic, mockumentary, sitcom
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The Michael J. Fox Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
After being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Mike Henry had to give up his career as a news anchor for New York's WNBC and focus on his health and his family. Four years later, Mike decides to get back to work and struggles between family and career.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, sincere, touching, feel good, light, funny, mockumentary, dark comedy, hilarious
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Jesse (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Warner is a 26-year-old single mother juggling between her job, her dreams and her family responsibilities.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Rita Rocks (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rita Rocks is a Lifetime original sitcom that ran from October 20, 2008 to December 7, 2009. It is the network's first original comedy in over a decade. The series debuted alongside re-runs of Reba as part of a new comedy hour for Tuesday nights, which later changed to Monday nights. The show stars Nicole Sullivan as Rita, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Richard Ruccolo, Raviv Ullman, and Kelly Gould. On January 11, 2010, Lifetime cancelled the series after two seasons due to low ratings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, light, touching, realistic
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Reed Between the Lines (2011)
Plot Summary:
Reed Between the Lines is an American television family sitcom created by Kellie R. Griffin. It premiered on BET on October 11, 2011. On April 12, 2011, BET announced that it picked up Reed Between The Lines for a fall 2011-2012 television schedule to pair with The Game and Let's Stay Together. On April 12, 2012, BET announced that Reed Between the Lines will return for a second season in 2012. On August 17, 2012, it was announced that Tracee Ellis Ross would depart from Reed Between the Lines, adding three new cast members for the upcoming second season.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Surviving Suburbia (2009)
Plot Summary:
Surviving Suburbia is an American sitcom starring Bob Saget and Cynthia Stevenson that aired on American Broadcasting Company from April 6 to August 7, 2009. The series originally aired at 9:30 PM Eastern/8:30 PM Central following Dancing with the Stars, before moving to Fridays at 8:30 PM Eastern/7:30 PM Central for its remaining episodes. It was the first program starring Saget to air on ABC since he left America's Funniest Home Videos in 1997. On August 8, 2009, ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson announced that Surviving Suburbia, along with The Goode Family, had officially been cancelled due to low ratings.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, witty, not serious
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Interns (2010)
Plot Summary:
Medical sitcom Ivan Okhlobystin about doctors who still do not know how to treat, but know how to make people laugh. The main characters of the sitcom - four interns. They always get into stupid situations, and their leader Dr. Bykov pleasure of watching this.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, intellectual, witty, sincere, feel good
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Getting On (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, captivating, dark comedy, hilarious, medical drama, sincere, offbeat
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Carol's Second Act (2019)
Plot Summary:
After raising her two children, getting divorced and retiring from teaching, Carol Chambers embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sitcom, captivating, psychological, light, sincere, humorous
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The Delivery Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Matthew decides to leave his job and train to become a male midwife on a busy maternity ward. He is soon joined by best friend and former policeman friend Ian who joins as the hospital security guard.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom
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Dr. Park’s Clinic (2022)
Plot Summary:
Since young, Dr.Park worked and studied really hard to become a successful doctor. After he gets the license, he opens a clinic of his own, but struggles between the art of medicine and his business ability in a clinic without patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Porters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Deluded Simon Porter, dreams of becoming a doctor - but he has to start from the bottom and be a porter. His plan? Work his way up to be the best porter the NHS has ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Animal Practice (2012)
Plot Summary:
Comedy centering on Dr. George Coleman, a top veterinarian with an impressive list of famous animal patients at the Crane Animal Hospital - a bustling New York City veterinary practice where it often seems as if the patients are running the place. Despite his unorthodox style, George has an undeniable gift with animals of all kinds - except the human kind. Much to his chagrin, George recently learned that his ex-girlfriend, Dorothy Crane, has inherited the family business and is now George's boss. Whip-smart and ambitious, Dorothy shakes up the hospital as she brings order to the chaos and butts heads with George's animal-friendly administration.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, sitcom, exciting, realistic, not serious
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The Tracy Morgan Show (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Tracy Morgan Show is an American sitcom that aired from December 2, 2003 to March 20, 2004 on NBC. The series stars Tracy Morgan and Tamala Jones. The show was canceled in its first season after 18 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Kim's Convenience (2016)
Plot Summary:
The funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kim ('Appa' and 'Umma') immigrated to Toronto in the 80's to set up shop near Regent Park and had two kids, Jung and Janet who are now young adults. However, when Jung was 16, he and Appa had a major falling out involving a physical fight, stolen money and Jung leaving home. Father and son have been estranged since.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, psychological, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating
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Welcome to the Family (2013)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the Family is an American television series that aired on NBC from October 3, to October 17, 2013 on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern/7:30 p.m. Central, after Parks and Recreation. On May 10, 2013, the network placed a series order for the single camera comedy, which was canceled from NBC television schedule on October 18, 2013 after three episodes had aired.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, captivating, teen, realistic
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Hebburn (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hebburn is a warm and affectionate tale of north east family life. It tells the tale of the Pearson family and their impetuous and ambitious son, Jack, who has left Tyneside for the bright lights and glamour of Manchester. He has secretly married a middle class Jewish girl, Sarah, and realises that it is about time he introduced her to his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, sitcom, light, captivating, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Inside Schwartz (2001)
Plot Summary:
Inside Schwartz is an American sitcom starring Breckin Meyer as the titular character. The show was produced by 20th Century Fox Television and National Broadcasting Company and first aired on NBC on Thursday Night at 8:30 EST.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sitcom, light, feel good
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The Mindy Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, sincere, feel good, absurd, realistic, light, medical drama, hilarious
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Less Than Perfect (2002)
Plot Summary:
Claude Casey moved up in the secretarial world of television news, from temp to the anchor's desk. After her boss hires her full time, Claude realizes she may be in over her head in this world of assistants fighting to get ahead. But Claude is determined to prove that though she may not be perfect, she's not going down without a fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, hilarious, clever, biting, black comedy, suspense
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Rodney (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of real, everyday America, Rodney Hamilton's life revolves around two things: His family and his thankless job at a fiberglass plant.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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What About Joan? (2000)
Plot Summary:
What About Joan? is an ABC sitcom that aired in 2001 for 2 seasons. It starred Joan Cusack as Joan Gallagher, a Chicago schoolteacher and the comedy of her day-to-day life. It co-starred Kyle Chandler. It was produced by James L. Brooks, Richard Sakai, David Richardson and Ed Weinberger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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Scrubs (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D" Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 267000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, medical drama, witty, sincere, surreal, funny, feel good, captivating, hilarious
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Girlfriends (2000)
Plot Summary:
Girlfriends is an American comedy-drama sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2000, on UPN and aired on UPN's successor network, The CW, before being cancelled in 2008. The final episode aired on February 11, 2008. When Girlfriends returned in fall 2007 for its eighth season, it became the longest-running live-action sitcom on network television that was on air that year, as well as one of the highest-rated scripted shows on television among African American adults and women 18-34, including its spin-off The Game.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light, sincere, feel good, entertaining