What are your favorite sitcoms from the 70's?

[MIB41]

70's television really gave birth to some great sitcoms. Just wondering what shows, outside of the action/adventure variety, were staples in your home during the 70's?
Here's my top ten:

1) All in the Family
2) Sanford & Son
3) Welcome back Kotter
4) Happy Days
5) WKRP in Cincinnati
6) MASH
7) Chico and the Man
8) Bob Newhart show
9) Mork & Mindy
10) Love American Style

[Bronxboykev]

Barney Miller
The Odd Couple

[enyawd72]

The only one we ever really watched was Three's Company. My dad controlled the TV and he didn't like sitcoms.

[megoapesnut]

How can you not have Maude on your list???

[megomania]

70's television really gave birth to some great sitcoms. Just wondering what shows, outside of the action/adventure variety, were staples in your home during the 70's? Here's my top ten: 1) All in the Family 2) Sanford & Son 3) Welcome back Kotter 4) Happy Days 5) WKRP in Cincinnati 6) MASH 7) Chico and the Man 8) Bob Newhart show 9) Mork & Mindy 10) Love American Style

Great list!

Enjoyed all of them except #s 1,2, and 9

MASH up until Trapper left is my all time favorite sitcom

[jwyblejr]

I have to have Lavern & Shirley on my list.

[Hector]

I dig all the "black" shows of the era, Sanford & Son, The Jeffersons, Good Times, What's Happening, etc, ha.

But the one my sister and I religiously watched together was Three's Company.

As the stand alone show for just me would be Happy Days. My sister's favorite stand alone show was The Partridge Family, mainly because she had a crush on David Cassidy, lol.

[Earth 2 Chris]

What did we watch?
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Welcome Back, Kotter
Sanford & Son
WKRP
Three's Company
All in the Family
The Jeffersons
Good Times
MASH
The Brady Bunch

That's off the top of my head.

Chris

[Mikey]

(in no order)

Barney Miller
What's Happen'in
Welcome Back Kotter
Happy Days
When Thing Were Rottin
Holmes and Yoyo
WKRP
Fish
Jeffersons
Facts of Life
Mash
Odd Couple
That's My Momma
Sanford and Son
Alice
Nanny and the Professor
Three's Company
Family Affair
Julia
Sandy Duncan
One Day at a Time
Sanford Arms
Taxi

[Hector]

Holy crap, Mike, thanks for mentioning Taxi...since it went into the early 80s...I tend to bypass it on 70s lists, but it did start in 1978...and Id have to list that as my favorite official 70s comedy show, no doubt, I love Taxi.

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

I'm with Hector and most of the shows I enjoyed as a kid were "black" shows

Sanford & Son, The Jeffersons, Good Times. I actually wanted to grow up to be Red Foxx when I was a kid. Good Times was my favorite without a doubt.

[phil]

A lot of the shows mentioned I watched back then but I don't have any interest in them now. Sitcoms from the '70s that I still watch are

1. Sanford And Son
2. All In The Family-especially the first three years
3. WKRP In Cincinatti
4. What's Happening!

[thunderbolt]

Bob Newhart is at the top of the pile for me. Tried to watch some Mork lately and it doesn't hold up that well.

[Mikey]

One thing that bugs me is the laughter (canned or live) seems awfully loud and annoying on some shows where it hasn't bothered me before -- Specifically most Garry Marshal shows

I dunno if I was more tolerant as a kid or they turned it up on recent showing

Mork and Laverne and Shirley are prime examples

[TomStrong]

Love me some Threes company!