Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Television: 814 Films to Buy & Rent
Marriage Lines (TV Series) (1963-1965)
- Feat. Prunella Scales, Richard Briers
- A classic domestic comedy with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales as a newly married couple jumping hurdles both at home and at work. Included here…
Dick Van Dyke Show, The (TV Series ) (1962-1966)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore
- Seminal sitcom set around a New York comedy writer and his family. Van Dyke's wife was played by Mary Tyler Moore in her first major…
Lucy Show, The (TV Series) (1962-1968)
- Feat. Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon
- Lucille Ball's followup to I LOVE LUCY (without husband Desi Arnaz) was a longrunning classic in its own right, with many of the Ball offspring…
McHale's Navy (TV Series) (1962-1965)
- Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway
- Predating MASH, Borgnine and Flynn engage in naval nonsense in this fondly remembered maritime comedy of hierarchical hi–jinks and seaman…
Mr. Ed (TV Series) (Mister Ed) (1961-1966)
- Feat. Alan Young
- Golden age television sitcom centred around a talking horse who lives in the backyard stable of a husband and wife, but is only conversant with the…
Best of Eric Sykes, The (1960-1979)
- Feat. Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques
- Compilation from the career of Eric Sykes, who forged a reputation as a writer of genius for Peter Sellers and Tony Hancock before hitting the small…
My Three Sons (TV Series) (1960)
- Feat. Fred MacMurray, Don Grady, Stanley Livingston…
- One of the longest–running sitcoms in American television history (at 360 episodes), this 'family values' classic starred Fred MacMurray as a…
Hancock's Half Hour (1957-1961)
- Feat. Tony Hancock, Sid James, Dick Emery…
- Tony Hancock's hilarious and influential 50s/ 60s sitcom:
On DVD, two compilations.
On Vol 1, the earliest surviving episodes, all from 1957:…
Leave It to Beaver (TV Series) (1957)
- Feat. Jerry Mathers, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley
- One of the most beloved family sitcoms of its time set around the mischief–making exploits of young Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver.
Best Of Johnny Carson (1955)
- Feat. Johnny Carson
- 10 half hour episodes of The Johnny Carson Show that capture the King of late–night television's best and worst moments on stage, from screwing…