Top 25 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...