Married With Children, 1987
Married with Children was a hit American sitcom from the 1980's that became a huge hit with audiences in the UK.Eleven series, totalling two hundred and fifty nine episodes were...
Moonlighting, 1985
There was a time during the 1980's viewers couldn't get enough American TV. Miami Vice was huge as was Cheers. Moonlighting was another show that really caught on, indeed in 2012 our own U...
The Dukes Of Hazzard, 1979
There was a time when we just couldn't get enough of American TV. Their Cop shows i.e, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch had become must see TV here in Britain. Sadly as much as I enjoyed t...
Laurel And Hardy
You can't have a section dedicated to US comedy that was popular here in the UK without perhaps one of the greatest comedy double acts of all time: Laurel And Hardy.I often feel lucky that...
Soap, 1977
Soap was an American sitcom that found popularity in the UK during the mid 80's.The show originally aired in the USA from 1977 to 1981, running for 4 series. It was picked up in the UK by Chann...
Bewitched, 1964
This US sitcom aired for 8 series over 254 episodes in the USA from 1964 to 1972. It became a popular fixture in the UK when in the 1960's the BBC began showing episodes. These were repeated ...
Steptoe And Son, 1965, Sanford And Son, 1972
By 1965 Steptoe And Son was a huge success in the UK. Writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson were invited to the USA by Joseph E. Levine to create an American version...
ALF, 1986
Hugely popular here in the UK. ALF was the US sitcom that ran for 99 episodes over four series, between 1986 and 1990. However 3 episodes ran for 60 minutes but were divided into two parts for broa...
Mork And Mindy, 1978
Mork and Mindy was the hit US sitcom that became extremely popular in the UK.The series was a spin off from a hugely popular episode of another US sitcom that proved popular in the UK ...
The Phil Silvers Show, 1955
The Americans were doing sitcom long before us and many of their sitcoms have been massively popular here in the UK.The Phil Silvers Show, often referred to as Sergeant Bilko is...