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Best Comedy Series of the 1970s

Best Comedy of the 1970's?

  • M*A*S*H

    Votes: 8 26.7%
  • All In The Family

    Votes: 6 20.0%
  • Sanford & Son

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • Taxi

    Votes: 4 13.3%
  • Mary Tyler Moore

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • The Jeffersons

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Bob Newhart

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Happy Days

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Good Times

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Three's Company

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Welcome Back Kotter

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • WKRP In Cincinnati

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • The Odd Couple

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Alice

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • What's Happening

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Laverne & Shirley

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Barney Miller

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Total voters
    30

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No love for British comedies eh?

I would bust a gut at Faulty Towers.


Never even heard of it, i'm an ass hole American I reckon. I did like Benny Hill and Monty Python...
 

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I think the first 3 years of Mash were amazingly good, when Henry and Trapper left the show went downhill in a hurry, I liked Potter but he wasn't nearly as good as Henry. B.J was horrible IMO. (Never thought i'd think or write or say those words in my life) I did like Charles...

I think they also got a little soft.. At some point they realized that the original Hawkeye was a wise guy who drank too much and want to bang nurses and that wasn't quite where the country going politically.
 

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This was really difficult. I loved WKRP, loved Barney, but Taxi with Louie Depalma, Jim, and Latka Gravis was a winner for me.
Louie, "Rieger, you got a phone call."
Rieger, "who was it?"
Louie, "it will cost you a dollar"
Reluctantly Rieger hands over a dollar
Rieger, "Who was it?"
Louie, "It was a wrong number."

Great Danny Devito scene. He was so good in that role. He is easily one of the best comedy actors. He is great in It's Always Sunny.
 

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Sanford & Son and its not close. Red Foxx was a comedic genius
 

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Little known fact, All In The Family was a British tv series first.


So was Sanford & Son, I believe it was called Steptoe & Son in England.
 

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This was really difficult. I loved WKRP, loved Barney, but Taxi with Louie Depalma, Jim, and Latka Gravis was a winner for me.
Louie, "Rieger, you got a phone call."
Rieger, "who was it?"
Louie, "it will cost you a dollar"
Reluctantly Rieger hands over a dollar
Rieger, "Who was it?"
Louie, "It was a wrong number."

Great Danny Devito scene. He was so good in that role. He is easily one of the best comedy actors. He is great in It's Always Sunny.


My favorite is when Jim was at the DMV trying to get his drivers license.
 

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Fawlty Towers

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This was really difficult. I loved WKRP, loved Barney, but Taxi with Louie Depalma, Jim, and Latka Gravis was a winner for me.
Louie, "Rieger, you got a phone call."
Rieger, "who was it?"
Louie, "it will cost you a dollar"
Reluctantly Rieger hands over a dollar
Rieger, "Who was it?"
Louie, "It was a wrong number."

Great Danny Devito scene. He was so good in that role. He is easily one of the best comedy actors. He is great in It's Always Sunny.

I went with Taxi, too. It was always good. It only lasted 5 years, though, so it didn't get stale like some of the other great ones in the poll. It was pretty off-beat and never got great ratings. It may have been a bit ahead of its time.

Mary Tyler Moore was pretty solid right until the end, too... not as funny as Taxi, though.
The Bob Newhart Show was another that was solid for most of its run.
MASH was great for a few years and kind of sucked for its last several.
All In The Family had a similar arc, though it didn't fade as far and as fast as MASH.
Barney Miller, WKRP, The Odd Couple & Sanford & Son were my other favs listed.
 

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Sanford & Son and its not close. Red Foxx was a comedic genius

Yes he was, but he was the show. There wasn't much else going on there. I wouldn't put it in the same class as some of the others listed, though I liked it and watched it regularly.
 

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Yes he was, but he was the show. There wasn't much else going on there. I wouldn't put it in the same class as some of the others listed, though I liked it and watched it regularly.

yeah, perhaps I was a bit hasty by saying "not close". there was a ton of fine tv shows in that decade
 

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