Best Sitcoms

Small hotel in Torquay runned by Basil Fawlty, who is unhappily married, hates his job, hates his customers and hates being in hotel business. Not to mention he does not know a single thing about consumer satisfaction.

Historical saga about the Edmund Blackadder and his successor during the history of Britain. Typical Edmund Blackadder is cunning, back-stabbing and conscienceless man, who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, especially in politics.

Legendery sketch show created by group of British comedians - surreal stories, unique characters and complete lack of respect for anything sacred.

Detective Frank Drebin is one of the finest detectives in Police Squad - smart, dedicated and most of all completely unpredictable, just like the stories he gets involved in.

Parodies of popular catastrophic movies of the 1970s - washed-out former airforce pilot tries to save his relationship with stewardess Elaine and climbs aboard the passenger plane. Later it will turn out that his pilot skills will be invaluable.

Adventures (or rather misadventures) of two witless police detectives that have to count on their questionable abilities and pure luck during their investigations.

John Becker is brilliant doctor, who runs a small practice in Bronx and has just one flaw - he hates people. Not all of them, just those stupid, ignorant, those wasting his time, those taking his parking space, those who do not agree with him... Well, the list is long.

Sketch-based series created by group of British comedians lead by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse.

Parody of war movies and adventure flicks (like Top Gun, Rambo 2, Commando) kept in the format close to Airplane! series.

Staff of Grace Brothers department store in London with their personal problems and their professional secrets.

Minor politician Jim Hacker becomes the Minister of Administrative Affairs and starts his struggle with bureaucracy within ministry and Civil Service.

New York radio station WNYX has everything that is needed to be successful - devoted employees, manager full of ideas and stinking rich owner Jimmy James. Unfortunately employees compete with each other, manager lacks experience and the owner is... eccentric to say the least.

During World War 2 French cafe owner Rene Artois reluctantly gets involved into Resistance affairs, which brings him nothing but the trouble. Not to mention his wife could any day find out about his affairs with the waitresses...

During World War II Great Britain was forced to call up the civilians to form Local Defence Volunteers (later known as the Home Guard) - the formation that would backup the regular army in case of German invasion. This series show how this force looked like. More or less...

Satire on modern television stations set on commercial success rather than quality of material. New satellite channel KYTV begins the broadcasting and offers different theme each week - from European Union to sex and from World War 2 to religion.

The small police station in Gasforth and the policemen that work there every day to keep the thin blue line between good and evil.

Once called a show about nothing which is a good description of Seinfeld. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, his best friend George Costanza, ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes and weird neighbour Kramer - they all stumble upon unusual problems in their lives and unusual ways to deal with them.

Due to some extraordinary coincidences Jim Hacker finds himself in position to become a new Prime Minister and moves up from ministry to diplomacy.

Two brothers, hard working Joe and fun loving Brian, are running small airline on Nuntacket Island struggling to keep their business open.

Sketch based show created by later well known British comedians - Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Marty Feldman.

The last human being alive, the creture that evolved from his cat, hologram of other crew member and an android - all stuck aboard a ship called Red Dwarf drifting through empty space. And yes, this really is comedy series.

Who would guess that Germans have sense of humour? And who would guess that they have great sense of humour? Group of comedians each week prepared sketches that were parodies of tv programs, but also made fun of politicians and current events.

Reginald Perrin is frustrated sales manager at Sunshine Desserts company runned by eccentric CJ. Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis and realises that suicide is the only solution. But finds out that there is another way...

Group of friends share the same neighbourhood, same school and same share of the wild 1970s life. Well, wild for Wisconsin anyway...

The life of citizens of small parish of Dibley are about to be changed when their old vicar dies and the bishop sends the new one - much younger, much fitter, much better looking and... of the opposite sex. The female vicar? They have to get used to the idea...

Young Lennie Godber is sent to Slade Prison for breaking and entering. He is lucky enough to share cell with Norman Fletcher, veteran and father-figure, who can show him the ropes.

Detective Frank Drebin is dedicated to his work and will stop at nothing to prevent the crimes. But when he falls in love with beautifuk Jane Spencer his life suddenly changes. Movies based on characters from TV series Police Squad.

Successful New York cartoonist Caroline Duffy, author of comic strip called Caroline in the City, hires an uptight artists Richard as the colorist. With her midwest approach she just can’t help trying to change his cynical mind.

Fictional General Assistance Department was created to help other ministries with often trivial problems. Incompetent civil servants that are running it get into trouble everytime they try to do their job. But most of the time they just try to look like they are doing any job.

Another of the great British comedy duos - Gareth Hale and Norman Pace - kept their show for 10 years and still they decided to stop, which is remarkable for sketch-based show.

Nonverbal comedy from Rowan Atkinson as one of the most successful losers in the world - Mr Bean, lives in small suburnan house, he finds it difficult to deal with even most prosaic tasks and always finds unusual ways to deal with them.

Aulus Paulinus, as a punishment given by the emperor Hadrian, is given the worst job Hadrian could think of - he becomes new governor of Britain. Although he heard about the land being damp and gloomy, the reality of his new job is worse than his worst nightmares.

MJN Air is a small charter airline that will travel anywhere and will carry anything with equal professionalism and dedication. Well, dedication anyway...

Del Trotter runs a family business called Trotters Independent Traders, but he tries to avoid any formalities, like licences, taxes or business ethics. The whole operation consists of a cluttered flat and Reliant Regal as the company van.

After divorce of his parents Will moves from private school to public one and meets three new friends - all of them exactly as socially awkward as him.

Three eccentric scientists are sacked from their jobs at the university, so they decide to go private with their research into the ghost stories. When New York City is being invaded by thousands of ghosts of any kind... who you gonna call?

Lee is not very ambitious man, but he is lucky enough to share apartment with woman, who don’t mind his laziness.

Alien spaceship crashes on the garage of typical suburban family, the Tanners. The creature inside is far from what you have seen on the scifi movies - he doesn’t want to take over the world, he doesn’t have superpowers, he doesn’t have superior brain...

Childish and irresponsible Gary Strang and his way of going through the life - with lager in one hand and another lager in the other. His flatmate Tony shares his hobbies and his unortodox views on life, women, dating...

English tutor takes up group of imigrants on "English for foreigners" course, but his naive enthusiasm quickly fades away when he realizes what problems he will have to face.

Bundy family isn’t an ordinary American family... Or is it? Al works hard in the shoe store, his wife Peg spends all his money, his dim-witted daughter Kelly is just pregnancy waiting to happen and his teenage son Bud is smart, but rather awkward.

Series centered around snobbish Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet") and her tormented husband Richard as they do everything Hyacinth thinks is needed to keep the neighbours convinced they are the upper class.

Life in the 1920s wasn’t in any way simplier than ours - take a look at th Lord Meldrum household, his family and his staff. In this house every day is full of surprises.

The show built around Benny Hill, who for almost 20 years became one of the most recognizable comedians from Great Britain. Simple, sometimes childish, usually politically incorrect and universally funny.

Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York which isn’t as simple job as it may seem, especially when you have boss like Mayor Randall M. Winston, who commits one blunder after another.

Two stupid dogs... Well, what more can be said - they are dogs, they are stupid and there are two of them. The scripts don’t really make much sense than this description.

After winning on lottery and losing the winning ticket Earl decides to change his life of slacker, so Karma would bring him a good luck. To do that he makes a list of all the people he had hurt in the past and now he tries to make ammends.

Sketch-based series built around characters developed by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.

TV news station GlobeLink News is taken over by new owner, who puts Gus Hedges as head of the station to oversee the whole operation. The journalists have of course total freedom... as long as they follow certain guidelines.

The lifes of four really geeky workers of university in Pasadena changes completely when they meet Penny, a actually normal girl. For them nothing is gonna be the same as before.