Photo Courtesy of NBC A Different World begins by following the life of Denise Huxtable, daughter of Cliff and Clair Huxtable of the popular television series The Cosby Show. For the first season, we see Denise (Lisa Bonet) finding her feet at Hillman College, Virginia, her parents’ alma mater. Soon, though, she returns to Brooklyn […]
Murder She Wrote
Photo Courtesy of NBC Murder, She Wrote follows the adventures of retired schoolteacher Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) who takes up writing mystery novels after the death of her husband. Her new career proves an exciting as well as dangerous choice for her golden years, as her knack for fiction proves to be equaled by her […]
Bewitched
Photo Courtesy of ABC Bewitched follows the lives of Darrin and Samantha Stephens, an average couple in every way but one: Samantha is a witch. Darrin goes out to work at advertising agency McMann and Tate whilst Samantha stays at home to keep house in a nice middle-class neighborhood (conflicting information is given on the […]
Family Matters
Photo Courtesy of ABC The series follows the fortunes of the Winslows, a middle-class, African-American family living in Chicago, Illinois and their nerdy next-door neighbour Steve Urkel (Jaleel White). Carl Winslow (Reginald VelJohnson) – Carl is the head of the Winslow family, or “Big Kahuna” as he prefers to be called. Maybe he should have […]
The Waltons
Photo Courtesy of CBS The show is set at the time of the Great Depression and World War II and centers on the lives of the Walton family. It was created by Earl Hamner, Jr. and based on his book Spencer’s Mountain and a 1963 movie of the same name, which starred Henry Fonda and […]
Frasier
Photo Courtesy of NBC Frasier is Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer), a divorced psychiatrist who returns to his hometown of Seattle, Washington after many years of living in Boston, Massachusetts (a period shown in the television show Cheers). His expectations of life as a care-free bachelor are quickly frustrated when his father, Martin Crane (John […]
Hotel
Photo Courtesy of ABC Based on the book of the same name by Arthur Hailey, Hotel follows the lives of the staff and guests at the elegant St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco, California. The hotel is run by Mrs. Victoria Cabot (Anne Baxter) the kindly, aristocratic and wealthy sister-in-law of the owner Laura Trent, […]
The Munsters
Photo Courtesy of CBS The Munsters is a black and white series from the mid 1960’s following the adventures of a family of friendly monsters living in a fictional suburb of California called “Mockingbird Heights”. The family consists of five members: Herman (Fred Gwynne), Lily (Yvonne De Carlo), Eddie (Butch Patrick), Grandpa (Al Lewis) and […]
The Beverly Hillbillies
Photo Courtesy of CBS The Beverly Hillbilllies follows the fortunes of the Clampetts, a poor, backwoods family who strike oil on their swamp land and move to Beverly Hills, California. J.D. “Jed” Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) – Jed is the widowed head of the family who is out trying to hunt his family’s dinner when he […]
Futurama
Photo Courtesy of Fox Animated adult science fiction series Futurama was created by Matt Groening, the man behind The Simpsons. It follows the adventures of Philip J. Fry, a late-20th century pizza delivery boy who lives in New York City and is inadvertently cryogenically frozen for a thousand years. Thawed out on New Year’s Eve, […]