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Comedy · 1990s

The 1990s account for 142 of the 654 comedy shows here, and 154 opening sequences.

NBC carries the most, with 30.

Twelve of them rebuilt their titles mid-run.

142 shows154 sequences

Still from the opening titles of Friends1 sequence

Friends

1994–2004NBCComedy

A fountain, an umbrella and six people who are not, on any reading of the physics, getting less wet.

  • Season 6
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Sex and the City

1998–2004HBOComedy

A tutu, a bus and a splash of dirty water — an opening whose entire joke is that New York does not care who you think you are.

  • Season 1
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Mr. Bean

1990–1995ITVComedy

A man dropped from the sky in a spotlight while a choir sings about him in Latin, every week, for a character who never explains himself.

  • Season 1
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Everybody Loves Raymond

1996–2005CBSComedy

A brass sting and a family photograph, in forty-eight seconds that promise nothing more complicated than what you are about to get.

  • Season 1
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Teletubbies

1997–2001BBC TwoComedy

A baby's face in the sun, four aerials and a narrator counting them in — over two minutes of titles for a programme aimed at people under three.

  • Season 1
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That '70s Show

1998–2006FoxComedy

The cast singing 'In the Street' from the back of a Vista Cruiser, re-recorded and reshot every season — plus one-off Halloween and Christmas versions.

  • Seasons 1–8
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The King of Queens

1998–2007CBSComedy

A delivery driver, his wife and her father in Rego Park, nine seasons long.

  • Season 1
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Home Improvement

1991–1999ABCComedy

Power tools and a grunting brass riff, in the register of the fictional DIY programme the show is about.

  • Season 1
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Keeping Up Appearances

1990–1995BBC OneComedy

Hyacinth Bucket, pronounced Bouquet, and the relatives she would rather nobody met.

  • Season 1
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The Daily Show

1996–Comedy CentralComedy

A news-graphics package rebuilt for each of its four hosts, and the programme that made the fake-news desk a form.

  • Season 1
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Boy Meets World

1993–2000ABCComedy

A cast montage rebuilt every season as its lead grew from eleven to eighteen, which few sitcoms have had to solve.

  • Season 1
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

1998–ABC / The CWComedy

Improv games where the points don't matter, opened by a scramble of the cast in freeze-frame.

  • Season 1
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

1990–1996NBCComedy

An entire origin story rapped over an animated title card — the longest opening of its era, cut down substantially after the first season.

  • Season 1
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The Nanny

1993–1999CBSComedy

Cartoon animation narrating how a woman from Flushing ended up in a Manhattan townhouse — a premise delivered entirely in the titles.

  • Season 1
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Will & Grace

1998–2020NBCComedy

Thirteen seconds and a piano vamp, from a sitcom confident enough not to explain itself.

  • Season 1
  • Season 9
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Freaks and Geeks

1999–2000NBCComedy

School photographs taken one at a time, with each cast member visibly hating the process — Joan Jett over the least flattering portraits anyone would agree to.

  • Season 1
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Ally McBeal

1997–2002FoxComedy

Vonda Shepard singing over a lawyer walking through Boston — a theme so tied to the show that the singer became a recurring character.

  • Season 1
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch

1996–2003ABC / The WBComedy

The Archie Comics witch as a TGIF sitcom, seven seasons across two networks.

  • Season 1
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Northern Exposure

1990–1995CBSComedy

A moose walking through an empty Alaskan town, which is the entire opening and remains one of television's best jokes about scale.

  • Season 1
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Barney & Friends

1992–2010PBSComedy

A purple dinosaur who appears when children imagine him, and a closing song that became a schoolyard parody format.

  • Season 1
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Absolutely Fabulous

1992–2012BBC Two / BBC OneComedy

Twenty-one seconds of Julie Driscoll's 'This Wheel's on Fire', re-recorded for the show by its own star.

  • Season 1
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Step by Step

1991–1998ABC / CBSComedy

Two single parents merging their families, in the middle of the TGIF block.

  • Season 1
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Wings

1990–1997NBCComedy

A Nantucket airline run by two brothers, opened by Schubert.

  • Season 1
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Father Ted

1995–1998Channel 4Comedy

Three priests on a rock in the Atlantic, introduced by a whistle tune and some of the flattest scenery ever put in a title sequence.

  • Season 1
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Mad About You

1992–2019NBCComedy

A married couple in New York, over a theme that was re-recorded repeatedly and once sung by the show's own stars.

  • Season 1
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In Living Color

1990–1994FoxComedy

Graffiti, dance and a Heavy D theme — a sketch show that opened at a volume network television had not previously permitted.

  • Season 1
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Spin City

1996–2002ABCComedy

New York City Hall in twenty-two seconds, rebuilt partway through the run when the show changed its lead.

  • Season 5
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3rd Rock from the Sun

1996–2001NBCComedy

Aliens observing suburban Ohio, opened with the brightness of a travel advertisement for a planet.

  • Season 6
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Frasier

1993–2004NBCComedy

A skyline drawn in simple lines while a man sings about tossed salads and scrambled eggs, and declines to explain either.

  • Season 1
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Have I Got News for You

1990–BBC Two / BBC OneComedy

Newspaper mastheads and printing presses, rebuilt periodically across thirty-five years of British political humiliation.

  • Season 1
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All That

1994–2005NickelodeonComedy

A sketch show for children that launched Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon.

  • Season 1
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The Vicar of Dibley

1994–2020BBC OneComedy

Dawn French as the first woman priest in a village that expected a man.

  • Season 2
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NewsRadio

1995–1999NBCComedy

Thirty seconds of a radio newsroom and a horn riff, from a workplace sitcom that never quite got the audience it deserved.

  • Season 1
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MADtv

1995–2016FoxComedy

Mad magazine turned into a sketch show, with Alfred E. Neuman in the titles and a cast that changed almost every year.

  • Season 9
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Just Shoot Me!

1997–2003NBCComedy

A fashion magazine staffed by people who should not be near one. The titles start as a full sequence and end as a logo.

  • Season 1
  • Seasons 3–5
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Dharma & Greg

1997–2002ABCComedy

A free spirit and a lawyer who marry on their first date.

  • Season 1
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Space Ghost Coast to Coast

1994–2008Cartoon Network / Adult SwimComedy

A 1960s Hanna-Barbera superhero repurposed as a chat-show host, and the programme every Adult Swim series descends from.

  • Season 1
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Martin

1992–1997FoxComedy

Detroit, a hip-hop bed and a lead who plays most of the supporting cast himself.

  • Seasons 1–2
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One Foot in the Grave

1990–2000BBC OneComedy

Victor Meldrew, forcibly retired at sixty and furious about everything since.

  • Season 1
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Living Single

1993–1998FoxComedy

Queen Latifah performing the theme over Brooklyn — a sitcom opening sung by one of its own stars.

  • Season 1
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The Amanda Show

1999–2002NickelodeonComedy

Amanda Bynes given her own sketch show out of All That, at seventeen.

  • Seasons 2–3
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Kenan & Kel

1996–2000NickelodeonComedy

The All That double act given their own series, and "Who loves orange soda?"

  • Season 1
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The Adventures of Pete & Pete

1993–1996NickelodeonComedy

Two brothers with the same name in a suburb tuned slightly wrong, scored by Polaris.

  • Season 1
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Mr. Show with Bob and David

1995–1998HBOComedy

The American sketch show that took Monty Python's structure — sketches flowing into one another rather than ending — and put it on cable.

  • Season 1
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The Larry Sanders Show

1992–1998HBOComedy

A talk-show opening for a talk show that does not exist, performed with total conviction by a band and an announcer who are also characters.

  • Season 1
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Moesha

1996–2001UPNComedy

Brandy Norwood as a Los Angeles teenager, and UPN's first real hit.

  • Season 1
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The Big Comfy Couch

1992–2006YTVComedy

A clown and her doll on a couch, with a clock-stretch exercise that gave the programme its shape.

  • Season 1
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Spaced

1999–2001Channel 4Comedy

Freeze-frames and film-reference visual gags, cut at the speed the show quotes at — which is constant.

  • Season 2
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As Time Goes By

1992–2005BBC OneComedy

Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer meeting again thirty-eight years after they lost touch.

  • Season 1
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Clarissa Explains It All

1991–1994NickelodeonComedy

The first Nickelodeon live-action series built around a girl, addressed straight to camera.

  • Season 1
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Goodnight Sweetheart

1993–1999BBC OneComedy

A man who finds a London alley that leads back to 1940 and keeps a wife in each decade.

  • Seasons 1–6
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Bottom

1991–1995BBC TwoComedy

Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in a Hammersmith flat, hitting each other.

  • Season 1
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Strangers with Candy

1999–2000Comedy CentralComedy

An after-school special inverted: a forty-six-year-old ex-convict returning to high school as a freshman.

  • Season 1
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The Ben Stiller Show

1992–1993FoxComedy

Thirteen episodes, cancelled, then given an Emmy — the writers' room that produced most of the next decade's American comedy.

  • Season 1
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Dream On

1990–1996HBOComedy

A man whose inner life is old black-and-white television clips, which the titles establish before a word is said.

  • Season 1
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I'm Alan Partridge

1997–2002BBC TwoComedy

A theme with all the brass of a chat show its subject is no longer allowed to host, over a Travel Tavern car park.

  • Season 1
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Brum

1991–2002BBC OneComedy

A small yellow car loose in a city, told without dialogue — a preschool series that is closer to silent film than to television.

  • Season 1
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Brass Eye

1997–2001Channel 4Comedy

The Day Today's successor, with a new themed opening built for each episode's subject — crime, drugs, science, sex.

  • Season 1
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The Parkers

1999–2004UPNComedy

The Moesha spin-off, with a mother and daughter enrolled at the same community college.

  • Season 1
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Salute Your Shorts

1991–1992NickelodeonComedy

Camp Anawanna, and a theme song the campers sing badly on purpose.

  • Season 1
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Arli$$

1996–2002HBOComedy

A sports agent played by Robert Wuhl, running seven seasons on almost no critical goodwill.

  • Season 1
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Rosie and Jim

1990–2000ITVComedy

Two rag dolls on a narrowboat who come alive when the adult is not looking.

  • Season 1
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The Day Today

1994BBC TwoComedy

News-graphics bombast pushed just past the point of sense — a parody so accurate that actual bulletins caught up with it within a decade.

  • Season 1
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Smack the Pony

1999–2003Channel 4Comedy

A sketch show written and performed by women, at a point when British television had decided that was a format rather than a fact.

  • Season 1
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Goodness Gracious Me

1998–2001BBC TwoComedy

A radio sketch show that transferred to television and gave British comedy going for an English one.

  • Season 1
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Drop the Dead Donkey

1990–1998Channel 4Comedy

A television newsroom recorded days before broadcast so that real headlines could be written in.

  • Season 5
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The Brittas Empire

1991–1997BBC OneComedy

A leisure centre run by the least suitable manager in British comedy.

  • Season 1
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Tots TV

1993–1998ITVComedy

Three rag dolls with a bag, one of whom only speaks French, from the studio that went on to make Teletubbies.

  • Season 1
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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge

1994–1995BBC TwoComedy

The radio chat show moved to television, opening on a title sequence that is itself the character's idea of a good one.

  • Season 1
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SeaChange

1998–2019ABC (Australia)Comedy

A city lawyer moving to a coastal town, and the series that put the phrase into Australian English.

  • Season 1
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Brooklyn Bridge

1991–1993CBSComedy

Gary David Goldberg's memory of a 1950s Jewish family in Bensonhurst.

  • Season 1
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Men Behaving Badly

1992–1998ITV / BBC OneComedy

Two flatmates and the phrase the British press attached to a decade.

  • Season 1
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Big Train

1998–2002BBC TwoComedy

Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews' sketch show, which opens on nothing explaining itself and never does.

  • Season 1
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Sooty & Co

1993–1998ITVComedy

The Sooty puppets moved to a shop, in the ITV series Matthew Corbett handed over at the end of.

  • Season 1
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Royal Canadian Air Farce

1993–2008CBCComedy

A radio sketch troupe of twenty years' standing moved to television, and kept there for fifteen more.

  • Season 1
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Bananas in Pyjamas

1992–2001ABC (Australia)Comedy

Two bananas, three teddy bears and a rat, made by the ABC and sold to eighty countries.

  • Season 1
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Bear in the Big Blue House

1997–2006Playhouse DisneyComedy

A seven-foot bear who greets the camera by smelling it, and a moon in the window who sings the goodbye song.

  • Season 1
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Becker

1998–2004CBSComedy

A Bronx doctor with no patience for his patients, and a diner where nobody is much happier.

  • Season 1
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Blossom

1990–1995NBCComedy

A teenager narrating her own life to camera in a house otherwise entirely male, opening on a dance she performs herself.

  • Season 1
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Boston Common

1996–1997NBCComedy

A Virginian who follows a woman to Boston and takes a job at the university she attends.

  • Season 1
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California Dreams

1992–1996NBCComedy

A Californian high school band, made by the Saved by the Bell producers for the same Saturday morning block.

  • Season 1
  • Seasons 3–5
Still from the opening titles of Caroline in the City2 sequences

Caroline in the City

1995–1999NBCComedy

A Manhattan cartoonist drawing a strip about her own life, and the colourist who is in love with her.

  • Season 1
  • Season 3
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Clueless

1996–1999ABC / UPNComedy

The film continued at Bronson Alcott High, with most of the cast replaced and Dionne kept.

  • Season 1
  • Season 3
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Cousin Skeeter

1998–2002NickelodeonComedy

A boy and the puppet cousin who moves in with him, which nobody in the series treats as unusual.

  • Season 1
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Cybill

1995–1998CBSComedy

An actress whose career never quite happened, written closely around the one its star actually had.

  • Season 1
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The Darling Buds of May

1991–1993ITVComedy

H. E. Bates's Kent farming family, and the series that made Catherine Zeta-Jones a household name inside a fortnight.

  • Season 1
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Dave's World

1993–1997CBSComedy

Dave Barry's columns turned into a sitcom, with the household drawn rather than filmed in the titles.

  • Season 1
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Dinosaurs

1991–1994ABCComedy

A Henson animatronic sitcom about a working family in the Mesozoic, which finished by freezing the world over.

  • Season 1
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The Drew Carey Show

1995–2004ABCComedy

A Cleveland department-store personnel manager, opened for two seasons by a cartoon of his own face.

  • Seasons 1–2
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Ellen

1994–1998ABCComedy

A Los Angeles bookshop owner, in the sitcom whose fourth season changed what American television would say out loud.

  • Season 1
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The Famous Jett Jackson

1998–2001Disney ChannelComedy

A teenage action star who moves his own production to his grandmother's town in North Carolina.

  • Season 1
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Ferris Bueller

1990–1991NBCComedy

The film adapted for television without its star, and remembered mostly for opening with a joke about that.

  • Season 1
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Fired Up

1997–1998NBCComedy

Two women sacked from a public relations firm who start their own out of a spare room.

  • Season 1
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Frontline

1994–1997ABC (Australia)Comedy

A current affairs programme satirised from inside its own newsroom, and the model most workplace mockumentaries since have followed.

  • Season 1
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Game On

1995–1998BBC TwoComedy

Three flatmates and an agoraphobic landlord, recast in the middle and carried on regardless.

  • Season 1
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Get a Life

1990–1992FoxComedy

A thirty-year-old paperboy still living at home, in a sitcom that got stranger every week.

  • Season 1
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The Golden Palace

1992–1993CBSComedy

The Golden Girls minus one, running a Miami hotel for a single season before CBS stopped.

  • Season 1
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Grace & Favour

1992–1993BBC OneComedy

The Are You Being Served? staff inheriting a country manor, with most of the original cast.

  • Season 1
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Grace Under Fire

1993–1998ABCComedy

Brett Butler as a single mother working at an oil refinery, in a sitcom built on her stand-up.

  • Season 1
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Hang Time

1995–2000NBCComedy

A girl on a boys' high school basketball team, made for the Saturday morning block.

  • Season 2
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Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

1992–1997ABCComedy

A retired basketball player teaching gym in Oakland and sharing a house with two women he went to school with.

  • Season 1
  • Seasons 4–5
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Harry Enfield & Chums

1990–1992BBC TwoComedy

Enfield's characters given a series each week, and most of British catchphrase comedy for a decade after.

  • Season 1
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Herman's Head

1991–1994FoxComedy

A man's four personified impulses arguing inside his skull while the plot happens outside it.

  • Season 1
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Hope & Gloria

1995–1996NBCComedy

A talk show producer and a hairdresser sharing a Pittsburgh apartment building.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
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The Hughleys

1998–2000ABCComedy

A family moving to a white suburb and the father who cannot stop noticing it.

  • Season 1
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The Jamie Foxx Show

1996–2001The WBComedy

A hotel in Los Angeles run by relatives, and the nephew who wants to act instead.

  • Season 1
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Jeeves and Wooster

1990–1993ITVComedy

Wodehouse played by Fry and Laurie, who had spent the previous decade writing sketches together.

  • Season 1
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Jesse

1998–2000NBCComedy

A single mother working in her father's Buffalo bar while training as a nurse.

  • Season 1
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The John Larroquette Show

1993–1996NBCComedy

A recovering alcoholic managing a bus terminal at night, in a sitcom NBC steadily made lighter against its writers' wishes.

  • Season 1
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Lamb Chop's Play-Along

1992–1995PBSComedy

Shari Lewis and her puppets, and the song that does not end.

  • Season 1
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993–2009NBCComedy

An unknown writer handed the 12.30 slot, and sixteen years to grow into it.

  • Season 1
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Late Show with David Letterman

1993–2015CBSComedy

Letterman moved to CBS and to a theatre on Broadway, which the titles put on screen every night for twenty-two years.

  • Season 1
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Malcolm & Eddie

1996–2000UPNComedy

Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin sharing a Kansas City bar, four years after The Cosby Show ended.

  • Season 1
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Minor Adjustments

1995NBCComedy

A child psychologist who is markedly better with other people's children than with his own.

  • Season 1
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks

1996–2015BBC TwoComedy

A music panel game whose identity parade round outlasted most of the acts standing in it.

  • Season 1
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The New Addams Family

1998–1999YTV / Fox FamilyComedy

The 1964 scripts remade almost line for line in Vancouver, thirty-four years afterwards.

  • Season 1
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Noel's House Party

1991–1999BBC OneComedy

Saturday night from a fictional house in Crinkley Bottom, and the programme that dropped celebrities into gunge on purpose.

  • Season 2
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The Norm Show

1999–2001ABCComedy

Norm Macdonald as a hockey player struck off and sentenced to social work.

  • Season 1
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Oh, Doctor Beeching!

1995–1997BBC OneComedy

A branch-line station waiting to be closed by the Beeching cuts, from the writers of Hi-de-Hi!

  • Season 1
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Parker Lewis Can't Lose

1990–1993FoxComedy

Ferris Bueller as a weekly series, shot on wide lenses with a narrator who never once stops talking.

  • Season 1
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The Queen's Nose

1995–2003BBC OneComedy

A fifty pence piece that grants wishes, from the Dick King-Smith book.

  • Season 1
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The Red Green Show

1991–2006CHCH-TV / CBCComedy

A lodge of middle-aged Canadian men and the duct tape with which they solve everything.

  • Season 1
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Roc

1991–1994FoxComedy

A Baltimore refuse collector and his family, and a season shot live to air on purpose.

  • Season 1
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The Royal Family

1991–1992CBSComedy

Redd Foxx and Della Reese as a couple whose children move back in, and the series Foxx died making.

  • Season 1
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Saved by the Bell: The College Years

1993–1994NBCComedy

The Bayside cast moved to a university for one season, in prime time rather than Saturday morning.

  • Season 1
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Saved by the Bell: The New Class

1993–2000NBCComedy

Bayside kept and the pupils replaced, for seven seasons rather more than anyone had expected.

  • Season 1
  • Seasons 6–7
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The Single Guy

1995–1997NBCComedy

A novelist whose friends are all married, scheduled by NBC between Friends and Seinfeld and never forgiven for it.

  • Season 1
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Sister, Sister

1994–1999ABC / The WBComedy

Twins separated at birth and reunited in a shopping mall, played by twins.

  • Season 1
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Smart Guy

1997–1999The WBComedy

A ten-year-old skipped ahead to high school, and the two older siblings who have to sit next to him.

  • Season 1
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Something So Right

1996–1997NBCComedy

A remarried couple with children from three previous marriages between them.

  • Season 1
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The Steve Harvey Show

1996–2002The WBComedy

A funk musician turned high school teacher, in the sitcom that carried The WB's Monday nights for six years.

  • Season 1
  • Seasons 4–6
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Suddenly Susan

1996–2000NBCComedy

A columnist who leaves her fiancé at the altar and then has to write about it every week.

  • Season 1
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Two Guys and a Girl

1998–2001ABCComedy

A Boston pizza place the series was named after for two seasons and then quietly dropped from the title.

  • Season 1
  • Seasons 3–4
Still from the opening titles of Unhappily Ever After1 sequence

Unhappily Ever After

1995–1999The WBComedy

Married… with Children's writers doing it again, with a talking stuffed rabbit only the father can hear.

  • Season 1
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Union Square

1997–1998NBCComedy

A New York diner and the people in it, taken off after fifteen episodes.

  • Season 1
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The Upper Hand

1990–1996ITVComedy

Who's the Boss? remade for ITV, and one of the few American formats that worked coming the other way.

  • Season 1
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Veronica's Closet

1997–2000NBCComedy

A lingerie magnate whose marriage collapses in public, in one of NBC's Thursday night bets after Seinfeld.

  • Season 1
  • Season 3
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The Wayans Bros.

1995–1999The WBComedy

Two brothers running a Harlem newsstand, made by the family whose name is over the door.

  • Season 1
  • Season 3
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Weird Science

1994–1998USA NetworkComedy

The film turned into a series, with the computer-made woman staying on as a regular.

  • Season 1
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The Wiggles

1998–ABC (Australia)Comedy

Four early-childhood teachers from Sydney who worked out that a children's band could tour like a rock one.

  • Season 1
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Working

1997–1999NBCComedy

A graduate's first office job, narrated by him straight to camera.

  • Season 1
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Yo soy Betty, la fea

1999–2001RCN (Colombia)Comedy

The most adapted television format in history — remade in more than twenty countries, including as Ugly Betty, which this catalogue also holds.

  • Season 1