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Sitcoms

This group collects the Television Programming Landmarks subcategory's members whose own description names them a situation comedy or sitcom, spanning the American tradition from I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners and The Andy Griffith Show through All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends and The Office (American), the animated sitcoms The Flintstones, The Simpsons and South Park, and the British sitcom tradition of Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army, Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses, Porridge, Steptoe and Son, Are You Being Served?, The Good Life, Yes Minister and The Office (British).

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Mary Kay and Johnny, which premiered in 1947, became the first American television sitcom.
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