What was your favourite old TV comedy series?

Depends on what you’d call old. I like All in the Family and I Love Lucy.

Early to mid seventies or older,so sure they fit the bill nicely.

Hancock’s Half Hour.

@flutherother never heard of it.

@SQUEEKY2 It’s old and it’s British

I love programmes like The Good Life, To The Manor Born, Birds of a Feather and Keeping Up Appearances.

M*A*S*H
SportsNight
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
The KopyKats.

I almost forgot the old Ernie Kovacs Show

Mary Tyler Moore
All in the Family

Not sure about favourite but I love Taxi. Big Andy Kaufman fan.

WKRP in Cincinnati a second vote for M*A*S*H, Good Times and Get Smart. Plus while it cannot be considered top notch television, there will always be a special place in my heart for Gilligan’s Island.

Car 54, Where Are You? , Green Acres , Barney Miller .

Green acres, and Gilligan’s island were great as well.

Leave it to Beaver!

Benny Hill

It’s still Seinfeld.

^ Seinfeld is an old show now? Yikes.

Laverne & Shirley, Three’s Company, Soap

Get Smart…

Ooo, I second @jonsblond‘s Three’s Company and Laverne and Shirley.

The Partridge Family, Family Ties, All In The Family. I’m into families

When I was little, it was The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, All in the Family, MASH, The Jefferson and Sanford and Son.

Punky Brewster and The Wonder Years.

I actually found a torrent for all of the Wonder Years and rewatched it back around 2008. It is still great.

Ok so how come no one but me mentioned the original Addams Family they were super great.

Child: Fractured Fairy Tales
Teen: Soap
Adult: One Foot in the Grave

Mr Ed, The Goodies, Monty Python’s Flying Circus

I totally forgot Dick Van Dyke! It was before my time, but I watched it on Nick and Nite and that show never failed to make me laugh out loud.

I totally forgot the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

I used to love Mr. Ed when I was little. Also Bewitched.

Leave it to Beaver
All in the Family
The Brady Bunch
and the big one….....The Honeymooners!

After thinking about my first answer (Seinfeld) I realized there were/are way, way too many shows over too long a span of time to name one. In fact, there are many dozens including the Honeymooners, Show of Shows, Ernie Kovacs, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, Cosby, Frasier (which I still watch), and many more I was reminded of when I looked at this IMDb list.

At my current age and the point to which my sense of humor has evolved, I probably couldn’t watch many of these series with anything much more than nostalgia—in fact, I might be appalled by how silly they really were. But they certainly made me laugh at the time.

Although, I can’t stand it, I’m surprised nobody has mentioned The Three Stooges.

60’s: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Addams Family, Get Smart, The Monkees, I Dream of Jeanie

70’s: M*A*S*H, Barney Miller, Soap, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Mork and Mindy, The Carol Burnett Show, Maude, Carter Country

80’s: Designing Women, Cheers, The Wonder Years, The Golden Girls, Newhart, Night Court, Kate and Ally

90’s: The Nanny, Ellen, Grace Under Fire, Murphy Brown, Blossom, Frasier, Seinfeld, Friends, Roseanne, Mad About You, News Radio, Just Shoot Me, The Class

2000–2010: Monk, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Will and Grace, Scrubs, My Name is Earl, Freaks and Geeks

For me, for it to qualify as “old” it has to be off the air.

I Love Lucy

@Valerie111, not long ago I watched two of my favorite Lucy episodes, the one in which she and Harpo Marx revive the classic Harpo-Groucho mirror routine, and the one in which Superman (George Reeves) has to rescue her from the ledge of her apartment building.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room The Harpo Marks episode is one of my favorites! I keep picturing when he is trying to trick her and she makes a funny face at him and he jumps away! Seriously, nothing can beat that show.

@Valerie111, just in case you never saw the original mirror routine from “Duck Soup, here it is.

@livelaughlove21, old but still funny. And not altogether dated.