What are your favorite sitcoms from the 70's?

[YoungOnce]

WKRP was a favorite for me... And Happy Days... Not sitcoms, but Love Boat and Fantasy Island were staples too.

[Grimjohn]

Sanford & Son and Three's Company are the two that can still make me LOL and that I enjoyed the most out of that era.

[FETT1]

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

Now that suCks .....

[cockyhoskins]

Taxi and WKRP always top my list to this day! But y'all have listed many of the other greats. Gonna have to start watching some reruns!

Edit: Also, I always consider the 10 year to be part of the last decade, i.e. 1980 was part of the '70s decade. So I wanna include Too Close for Comfort in my list since it started in 1980.

[TrekStar]

Jack Tripper was my idol, cool guy, lived with two sweet girls, liked to cook, got in and out of trouble
and had to pretend to be gay, classic moments.

Loved the Jeffersons too, great moments with Florence the maid and George, and of course the
classic moments between Fred Sanford and Aunt Esther, and don't forget back then things were said
that you can't say today.

[Spawn67]

At any given moment you can still see one of these shows on reruns on some channel somewhere. It seems all of these shows mentioned have been in syndication on reruns since they first aired.

Why is it that most 70's shows are always shown on reruns and most 80's shows despite being very popular are not shown as much or hardly at all on syndication.

[Mikey]

Good question

I think a lot of owners/distributers are kinda snotty toward 80's TV fans

Personally I've been waiting for Trapper John MD to come on TV forever.

It's not like it wasn't popular back in the day

[dee T.]

I didn't watch much TV in the seventies. I can only think of one tv show that I liked watching and that was Mork and Mindy. That was so great.

[toys2cool]

Not really a 70's show guy since I was an 80's kid.. But Chips was my fave by far.. The Brady bunch , all in the family was good

[HardyGirl]

Do you want my head to expode?

OK, here goes:

The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family
The Odd Couple
Chico & The Man
Sanford & Son
All In The Family
The Bob Newhart Show
Good Times
That's My Mama
Maude
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
One Day At A Time
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Rhoda
Phyllis
Nanny & The Professor
The Fact Of Life
Diff'rent Strokes
Hello Larry
The Jeffersons
Barney Miller
Welcome Back Kotter
Mork & Mindy
Three's Company
The Ropers
The Love Boat
What's Happening

And I'm gonna throw Family Affair and My Three Sons in there, 'cos they did go into the early 70s.

[HardyGirl]

My sister's favorite stand alone show was The Partridge Family, mainly because she had a crush on David Cassidy, lol.

Well, DUH! What 70s girl didn't?

[HardyGirl]

I'm really surprised no one listed The Love Boat. It may have been an hour long show, but it was a sitcom.

[Mikey]

Nanny & The Professor


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Finally, another Nanny and the Professor fan

[TrekStar]

Not sure if this qualifies as a sitcom, but would Saturday Night Live be considered?
still going strong these days, but it started in 75.

[Allie Fox]

I love many of the shows already mentioned with special attention to M*A*S*H and All in the Family. They were and always will be my favorite 70s shows.

. . .and just to mix it up a bit; two shows that at least started in the 70s (both based on good movies of the 70s):

The Bad News Bears - Corey Feldman's first big TV role. It ran from '79 - '80

House Calls - Another movie starring Walter Matthau-based TV series I loved. Wayne Rogers was awesome and Lynn Redgrave was better. She was let go and replaced by Sharon Gless before the show was ultimately cancelled. Too bad really.