The CBS television sitcom Becker, 1998 – 2004, was more ambiguous.

During its first two seasons, it was the number one program in the U. S. During its second season, it earned some of the highest ratings ever recorded for a half-hour sitcom.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.

Dana Michelle Plato ( November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999 ) was an American actress notable for playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U. S. television sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes.

The movie's title was changed after shooting to tie it to Plato's famous past, but was not connected in any way to the sitcom other than through her involvement.

Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4.

* The name and opening sequence to the popular American animated sitcom Futurama was derived from the exhibition.

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004.

Gary Wayne Coleman ( February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010 ) was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes ( 1978 – 1986 ) and for his small stature as an adult.

Coleman was cast in the role of Arnold Jackson in the television sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes, portraying one of two young black brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in Manhattan.

Midway throughout the show's run, it was competing against another highly rated sitcom, Frasier, which slightly dropped the ratings.

In the 1970-1971 the NBC sitcom Nancy, Fink was cast as an Iowa veterinarian, Dr. Adam Hudson, who marries the daughter of the President of the United States.

2001 marked his first post-Seinfeld return to prime-time television: the heavily promoted but short-lived ABC sitcom Bob Patterson ( which was canceled after just 5 episodes ).

* The song " Christmas Rappin was featured during a Christmas episode of the TV sitcom Martin.

Grammer thought Fox's decision to cancel his TV sitcom Back to You contributed to his health problems, stating that " It was a very stressful time for me, and a surprise that it was cancelled.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series.

The term was popularized in the 1970s by its heavy use in the sitcom Happy Days.

In Episode 4 (" Animals ") of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Dermot ( played by Harry Enfield ) says to Gary ( played by Martin Clunes ), " There she was, just standing there, making Michelle Pfeiffer look like Neil Kinnock.

One Foot in the Grave was a BBC television sitcom series written by David Renwick.

The production of the show was in a conventional sitcom format, with episodes taped live in front of a studio audience, interposed with pre-filmed location material.

Most of the first five series of One Foot in the Grave were produced and directed by Susan Belbin, the exceptions being " Love and Death ," which was partly directed by veteran sitcom director Sydney Lotterby, and " Starbound ," for which Gareth Gwenlan ( who in fact had originally commissioned the series in 1989 ) stepped in to direct some sequences after Belbin was taken ill. Belbin retired due to ill health afterwards, and the final series was produced by Jonathan P. Llewellyn and directed by Christine Gernon.

The contents of this 195-page document would become known to many before it would become known to the man it was written about.

`` This was not merely alleging errors, but was carried out by day-after-day allegations in memos, written charges of serious consequence.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.

In a letter to Meynell, which was written in June, less than a month before Katie's wedding, he was highly melodramatic in his despair and once again announced his intention of returning to the life of the streets: ``

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

The fourteenth name was ( Richard ) Buckenham, written Buckman, admitted to Christ's College under Scott 2 July 1625.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

`` It was a terrible loss to me '', said Kate quietly, feeling the pain twist again at the mention, knowing now that Juanita must have written to him at Grafton.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.