TV Comedy
Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. The situation comedy, or sitcom, has been the most common, successful and culturally significant type of television comedy. As the name suggests, these programs feature recurring characters placed in humourous situations. Since the early 1950s with "I Love Lucy" in the US and "Hancock's Half Hour" in Britain, sitcoms have always had a special place in the hearts of viewers and gathered highly devoted followers, as the familar characters often become beloved. Below you may scroll though time to your fondly remembered telly programs. For Alice's motherlode of Television, stay with "Television Shows".
Pictured: Ricky Gervais as The Brentster in the BBC's brilliant 'The Office'.
The Invisibles (2008)
7.3/10
Director: Metin Huseyin
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Warren Clarke, Mina Anwar, Anthony Head, Darren Tighe, Dean Lenno...
Former crooks and fast friends Maurice Riley (Anthony Head) and Syd Woolsey (Warren Clarke) are back in dear old Britain after 20 years of living off... Read more
The Irish R.M.: Series 1 (1983)
8/10
Starring: Peter Bowles, Brian Murray, Anna Manahan, Brendan Conroy, Lise Ann McLaughlin, N...
Major Sinclair Yeates (Peter Bowles) resigns his commission in the army to become the local magistrate in turn-of-the-century County Kildare in Wester... Read more
The IT Crowd: Version 1.0 (2006)
8.5/10
Director: Graham Linehan
Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Christopher Morris, Adam Buxt...
From Graham Lineham and Ben Fuller, the comic geniuses behind British comedy classics such as 'Black Books' and 'Father Ted' comes this absurd comedy... Read more
The IT Crowd: Version 2.0 (2007)
8.5/10
Director: Graham Linehan
Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding
'The IT Crowd' strikes back in the second series of the Bafta-nominated comedy from Graham Linehan ('Father Ted', 'Black Books'). Hook up with geeks R... Read more
The IT Crowd: Version 3.0 (2008)
8.5/10
Director: Graham Linehan
Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade
Whilst Reynholm Industries boss, Douglas, is spending the pension fund on gold flakes in the water supply, the dysfunctional IT department - Moss, Roy... Read more
The IT Crowd: Version 4.0 (2010)
8.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Christopher Morris, Noel Fiel...
Banished from the ivory towers of Reynholm Industries, the IT crowd lurk below ground, avoiding work and social contact in equal measure... Another s... Read more
The Jaquie Brown Diaries: Series 1 (2008)
8.1/10
Starring: Madeleine Sami, Geeling Ng, Jaquie Brown, Ryan Lampp, Hannah Banks, Jonathan Bru...
Jaquie Brown plays, well, herself: a c-grade celebrity famous for fluff-pieces on current affairs shows. The 'fictional' Brown attempts to raise her p... Read more
The Jaquie Brown Odyssey (2010)
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Starring: Ryan Lampp, Hannah Banks, Madeleine Sami, Jaquie Brown
A.k.a. "The Jaquie Brown Diaries: Series 2". Since losing her job on McHuntly at 7, Jaquie has hit rock bottom. Her only chance to climb back up the m... Read more
The Jetsons: Season 1 (1962)
7/10
Director: Various
Meet George Jetson...an ordinary man who lives with his family and their robot maid, in the future. The space-age counterpart to the stoneage Fred Fl... Read more
The Johnny Carson Show (1955)
8.5/10
Starring: Johnny Carson
Late-night chat king Johnny Carson first graced American airwaves in 1955 when, as a young staff writer for 'The Red Skelton Show', he was asked to st... Read more