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Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz filmed before a live studio audience with three cameras, inventing the modern sitcom and the rerun eco...

Rod Serling, Emmy winner turned genre prophet, narrated five seasons of morality plays at the edge of reality. The gremlin on the ...

Korea stood in for Vietnam in the antiwar comedy institution. Alan Alda as Hawkeye grew the show from battlefield farce to moral d...

The show about nothing: Manhattan minutiae, a soup nazi, a puffy shirt, shrinkage, and a show pitched within the show. Seinfeld an...

Tony Soprano, waste management boss, panic attacks, and a therapist: the mob boss in midlife crisis. James Gandolfini delivered th...

Twelve episodes only: Basil Fawlty, Torquay hotelier at war with his guests, his wife Sybil, and Manuel from Barcelona. Cleese and...

Wagon train to the stars, canceled after three seasons, then the most successful failure in tv history. Kirk, Spock, and a multira...

Springfield, a yellow family, and the slow decline of Homer into legend. Groening and James L. Brooks launched the first prime tim...

Baltimore as institutional tragedy: the drug trade, the docks, city hall, the schools, the press. Simon, a Baltimore Sun reporter,...