Showing posts with label 70s sitcoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 70s sitcoms. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Who Has The Best Unlimited Free Black Sitcom Downloads

The History Of Black Sitcoms

So, what are black sitcoms? A television situation comedy with a cast that is comprised of mainly black actors and/or comedians best describes what a black TV sitcom is. As a matter of fact, many of the most successful sitcoms on TV were the black sitcoms that aired during the 70's and 80's. Popular black sitcoms like Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons received rave reviews continued to be successful for many years after their pilots were aired on television. In 1972, during Sanford and Son's premier, ads were taken out stating that Red Foxx, the star of Sanford and Son, was NBC's answer to All in the Family's, Archie Bunker.

Speaking of All in the Family, one of televisions most successful sitcoms of all time had one of TV's most successful spin-offs of all time, a black television sitcom called The Jeffersons. The Jefferson's would end up being the longest running black sitcom in television history, lasting for 11 years. Norman Lear who adapted Sanford and Son as well as All in the Family from BBC TV shows also created the characters of George and Louise Jefferson to be Archie Bunker's neighbours in All in the Family. But when George Jefferson's dry cleaning business became more successful they moved to a posh Manhattan apartment which is how The Jefferson's began. This black sitcom revolved around the home life and their relationships with the Jefferson's live-in housekeeper and neighbors.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Where To Download Free 70's Sitcoms

If you remember back in time about 3 decades or more, I bet you can recall a great many 70's sitcoms that were very successful. As a matter of fact, several of the more successful 70's sitcoms are playing on television today. Here is a short list of 70's sitcoms that might be playing on your TV as you read this: Welcome Back Kotter, Happy Days, M*A*S*H, Laverne & Shirley and Good Times to name just a few funny TV shows from that era.

Happy Days, which brought back the 50’s generation into everybody’s living room was a major success with one of televisions most memorable characters (Fonzi). Every week this 70’s sitcom brought us into the Cunningham household where many of us got to grow up with the naïve Richie Cunningham as well as characters like Arthur Mozzarella (The Fonz), Ralph Malph, Potsie Webber and Lavern & Shirley before they got their own popular TV sitcom.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

How Have TV Sitcoms Changed Society?

New If TV sitcoms had never been created, I wonder where we would all be today? What, with all of today's economic and social issues, life is taken much too seriously. In fact, taking some time out to see the lighter side of life would do all of us some good. Television sitcoms provide us with just that. The sarcasm and humor that many of us often see when we watch many of today’s TV sitcoms help in bringing us a much need break from the seriousness that the vast majority of us face in our daily humdrum lives. Had some comedic genius not come up with the idea of TV sitcoms, our lives would probably be far more bleak than they are today. God! do I sound morbid. I think I need to watch a TV sitcom right now!

Over the years, there have been many kinds of TV sitcoms for us to watch. Some dealt with relationship issues, others dealt with the war in Vietnam, and others dared to tackle controversial issues like racism, drugs and alcohol, under age sex, same sex relationships and political issues. All of these issues and a great deal more have been humorously addressed by the many talented writers of TV sitcoms in various ways over the years, and with tremendous success. Download Unlimited Free TV Shows