They weren't hits, but I liked them
Here are some old TV sitcoms that weren't hits, but I liked them. Remember back in the day when a non-hit show lasted an entire season? Some of these were back then. Others are newer and didn't make it that long. I'm listing them in reverse order, so as we count up the list we count down to the one that I most often remember fondly.
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- CreatorSam DenoffBill PerskyStarsJoby BakerRonnie SchellJulie ParrishFollows David and Larry. Dave is happily married, while Larry thinks of himself as a ladies' man.
- CreatorHal KanterStarsAnthony FranciosaJanet WaldoJack SooValentine Farrow works for O.D. Dunstall in a New York publishing house. He is young and single and constantly chased by women. While in the Army, he was saved by "Rocky" Sin, a poker-playing con artist, who now serves as Farrow's valet. Sin lives in the basement of Farrow's townhouse with the handyman Grover Fipple. In the office, Libby is Farrow's secretary and Molly the receptionist.
- CreatorHugh BensonStarsDick KallmanLinda FosterHoward St. JohnCampus lunch wagon operator "drops in" to classes to get college education.
- CreatorRichard NewtonAaron SpellingStarsDick SmothersTom SmothersRoland WintersExecutive Dick's life changes when brother Tom, dead two years, returns as apprentice angel. Tom tries helping people but makes things worse, so Dick must fix the damage.
- CreatorJoe LawsonJosh GordonWill SpeckStarsBill EnglishNick KrollKaitlin DoubledayA trio of Neanderthals struggles to live in modern-day America.
- CreatorDavid CraneJeffrey KlarikStarsAndrea AndersJon BernthalLizzy CaplanA 27-year-old is reunited with his childhood friends.
- CreatorBruce McCullochStarsFred GossFaith FordJerry MinorA group of guys who carpool to work together from their suburban homes.
- CreatorTom HertzStarsBreckin MeyerJosh BraatenDerek WatersWhen an only-child New Yorker moves to Kansas City, Missouri so his wife can be closer to her family, he finds things getting a little too close for comfort. From her bug-collecting brother to her smug, condescending uncle, he struggles to fit in with her family while still keeping his distance.
- CreatorBob Carroll Jr.Madelyn DavisStarsLucille BallGale GordonAnn DusenberryLucy Barker is a grandmother who constantly gets into comedic predicaments while living with her daughter's family.
- CreatorDavid IsaacsKen LevineStarsMary Tyler MooreJames FarentinoJohn AstinThis time Moore portrays 40-something divorcee Mary Brenner who, after the fashion magazine she was writing for goes out of business, is reduced to writing a consumer-assistance column called Helpline for The Chicago Eagle, a seedy tabloid.
- CreatorJames L. BrooksAllan BurnsStarsPaul SandMichael PatakiPenny MarshallShy, unassuming Robert Dreyfus is a Boston based symphony violinist who is constantly falling in love. It never seems to work out so Robert generally hangs out with his brash brother Charlie and his wife Janice.
- CreatorMelville ShavelsonStarsWilliam WindomJoan HotchkisLisa GerritsenJohn Monroe observes and comments on life, to the bemusement of his sensible wife Ellen and intelligent, questioning daughter Lydia.
- CreatorLeonard SternStarsPaula PrentissRichard BenjaminJack CassidyDick and Paula Hollister are a couple living in New York. Dick is a comic-book artist who has become famous for creating a superhero called Jetman, which has been turned into a TV show starring egocentric actor Oscar North.