Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s

Bob Leszczak has spent the last four decades as an on-air radio personality. A frequent TV and film extra, he is the former writer/producer of a weekly five-hour syndicated music trivia program called “Solid Gold Scrapbook.” He lives in Manchester, New Jersey.

Table of Contents


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Preface

Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s

Action

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

Against the Law

Algo’s Factory

Aliens in the Family

All American Girl

All New Dennis the Menace (animated)

Ally

Alright Already

The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys

American Dreamer

Apartment 2F

The Army Show

Arresting Behavior

Arsenio

Ask Harriet

Austin Stories

Babes

Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V.

Bakersfield P.D.

Big Wave Dave’s

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures

Billy

Black Tie Affair

Bless This House

Blue Skies

Bonkers (animated)

The Bonnie Hunt Show

The Boys

The Boys Are Back

The Bradys

Breaker High

The Brian Benben Show

Bringing Up Jack

Brothers Flub (animated)

Brother’s Keeper

Buddies

The Building

Built to Last

Café Americain

Camp Wilder

Campus Cops

Can’t Hurry Love

Capitol Critters (animated)

Champs

Charlie Hoover

Chicago Sons

The Chimp Channel

City

Claude’s Crib

Cleghorne!

The Closer

Cold Feet

Common Law

Conrad Bloom

Costello

The Crew

Cupid

Cutters

Daddy Dearest

Daddy’s Girls

Damon

Danger Theatre

Delta

DiResta

Double Rush

Downtown (animated)

Drexell’s Class

Dudley

Dumb and Dumber (animated)

Dweebs

Encore Encore

Everything’s Relative

The Faculty

Family Album

Family Dog (animated)

A Family for Joe

Family Man

Family Rules

The Fanelli Boys

Ferris Bueller

First Time Out

Fish Police (animated)

The 5 Mrs. Buchanans

Flash Forward

Flesh ’n’ Blood

Flying Blind

Frannie’s Turn

Freaks and Geeks

George

George & Leo

The George Wendt Show

Get Smart

Going Places

Going to Extremes

The Golden Palace

Good & Evil

Good Company

Good Grief

The Good Life

Good News

Good Sports

Goode Behavior

Goof Troop (animated)

Great Scott!

The Gregory Hines Show

Grown Ups

Guys Like Us

Guys Next Door

Hardball

Harts of the West

Head Over Heels

The Heights

Here and Now

The High Life

High Society

Hiller and Diller

His & Hers

Hitz

Holding the Baby

Home Court

Home Fires

Home Free

Homeboys in Outer Space

House Rules

Hudson Street

If Not for You

Ink

It Had to Be You

The Jackie Thomas Show

Jenny

Joe’s Life

Johnny Bago

Julie

Katie Joplin

Kelly Kelly

The Last Frontier

Laurie Hill

A League of Their Own

Lenny

Life … and Stuff

Life with Roger

Life’s Work

Little Rosey (animated)

Living in Captivity

Local Heroes

Lost on Earth

The Louie Show

Love and Marriage

Love & Money

Lush Life

Madman of the People

Maggie

Maggie Winters

Man in the Family

Man of the People

Married People

The Marshall Chronicles

The Martin Short Show

Maximum Bob

Maybe This Time

Me and the Boys

Meego

The Mighty Jungle

The Mike ­O’Malley Show

Minor Adjustments

Misery Loves Company

Mission Hill (animated)

Mr. Rhodes

Molloy

Monty

Moon Over Miami

Morton & Hayes

Muddling Through

Muscle

My Brother and Me

My Guys

My ­So-Called Life

My Talk Show

My Wildest Dreams

New Addams Family

New Attitude

Normal Life

Odd Man Out

The Office

Oh, Grow Up

On Our Own

On the Air

Out All Night

Out of the Blue

Over the Top

Pacific Station

Parenthood

Partners

Party Girl

Pauly

Payne

Pearl

Phenom

Pig Sty

Piggsburg Pigs! (animated)

Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain (animated)

Platypus Man

Police Academy: The Series

Power Play

The Preston Episodes

Pride & Joy

Princesses

P.S. I Luv U

Public Morals

Pursuit of Happiness

Rachel Gunn, R.N.

Reunited

Rhythm & Blues

Room for Romance

The Royal Family

Running the Halls

Saved by the Bell: The College Years

Scorch

The Second Half

The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer

The Secret Lives of Men

704 Hauser

Shaky Ground

Shasta McNasty

The Show

Sibs

Simon

The Simple Life

The Sinbad Show

Singer & Sons

Social Studies

Someone Like Me

Something Wilder

Sons and Daughters

South Central

Sports Monster

Spy Game

Stand by Your Man

Stark Raving Mad

Stat

Station Zero (animated)

Strange Luck

Style and Substance

Sugar and Spice

Sunday Dinner

Super Adventure Team

Super Dave’s Vegas Spectacular

Sydney

Tall Hopes

Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills

Teech

Teen Angel

Temporarily Yours

Tequila & Bonetti

Thanks

That’s Life

Thea

Tom

The Tom Show

The Tony Danza Show

Too Something

Top of the Heap

Townies

The Trouble with Larry

Two of a Kind

Uncle Buck

Union Square

Vinnie & Bobby

Walter & Emily

What a Dummy

A Whole New Ballgame

Wild Oats

Wish Kid (animated)

Wish You Were Here

Women of the House

Woops!

Work with Me

Working Girl

Working It Out

You Take the Kids

You Wish

You’re the One

Appendix A: Shows with a Short and/or Vastly Different Second Season

Almost Perfect

Baby Talk

Bagdad Café

Beggars and Choosers

Between Brothers

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures (animated)

Bob

Boston Common

Brooklyn Bridge

Brotherly Love

The Critic (animated)

Davis Rules

Dilbert (animated)

Down Home

Down the Shore

Eerie, Indiana

Fired Up

Fudge

The George Carlin Show

Get a Life

Getting By

Getting Personal

Good Advice

Grand

Grapevine (1992 and 2000)

Hi, Honey, I’m Home

Hope & Gloria

It’s Like, You Know…

The Jeff Foxworthy Show

Kirk

Ladies’ Man

Lateline

Love Boat—The Next Wave

Men Behaving Badly

The Mommies

Mother Goose and Grimm (animated)

Movie Stars

Muppets Tonight

Ned and Stacey

Ned’s Newt (animated)

Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher

The Powers That Be

Room for Two

Salute Your Shorts

Sherman Oaks

Something So Right

Soul Man

Sparks

Thunder Alley

The Torkelsons

True Colors

USA High

Where I Live

Working

Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane

Appendix B: Not So Many Happy Returns delete 258

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