TV Comedy
Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. The situation comedy, or sitcom, has been the most common, successful and culturally significant type of television comedy. As the name suggests, these programs feature recurring characters placed in humourous situations. Since the early 1950s with "I Love Lucy" in the US and "Hancock's Half Hour" in Britain, sitcoms have always had a special place in the hearts of viewers and gathered highly devoted followers, as the familar characters often become beloved. Below you may scroll though time to your fondly remembered telly programs. For Alice's motherlode of Television, stay with "Television Shows".
Pictured: Ricky Gervais as The Brentster in the BBC's brilliant 'The Office'.
Fawlty Towers: Series 2 (1979)
8.8/10
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring: Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, John Cleese, Prunella Scales
Basil Fawlty's life is plagued by health inspectors, dead guests and a dead drunk chef. Nagging wife Sybil is still his biggest headache yet somehow t... Read more
Fawlty Towers: The Complete Series (1975)
8.8/10
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth, Andrew Sachs
Fawlty Towers remains a timeless example of comic writing, acting, and characterisation at its very best. This special edition DVD set features all 12... Read more
Flight of the Conchords: Season 1 (2007)
8.6/10
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Rhys Darby, Bret McKenzie, Kristen Schaal, Arj Barker
Inspired musical-comedy duo Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie may modestly describe themselves as "New Zealand's 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo", bu... Read more
Flight of the Conchords: Season 2 (2008)
8.6/10
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie, Rhys Darby, Kristen Schaal, Arj Barker
Bret and Jemaine came home to Wellington to write new material for the second season of their hit HBO show; shorter than the first, it is rumoured to... Read more
For The Love Of Ada (1970)
7.5/10
Starring: Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Mollie Sugden
Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles are two senior citizens who find that as romance blossoms, so too does emotional turmoil. The series gently charts the... Read more
Fortysomething (2003)
7.8/10
Director: Nic Phillips, Hugh Laurie
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Stephen Fry, Anna Chancellor, Benedict Cumberbatch,...
How do you know when you're having a midlife crisis? Maybe it's when you can't remember exactly where your wife works - or whether she works at all. O... Read more
Frasier: Season 2 (1995)
8/10
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Peri Gilpin, Jane Leeves, Bebe...
In Season Two of the popular Cheers spin-off, Frasier manages to alienate most of Seattle after complaining about the weather; he and Niles try to dem... Read more
Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series (1999)
8.8/10
Starring: Joe Flaherty, James Franco, Linda Cardellini, Busy Philipps, Seth Rogen, Becky A...
Finally released in New Zealand, Freaks and Geeks follows two groups of teenagers at McKinley High in the 1980s. A classic that launched the careers o... Read more
French and Saunders: At the Movies (2005)
7.7/10
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
Join outrageously funny femmes Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French for this side-splitting collection of movie parodies from their BBC comedy series. Al... Read more
French and Saunders: Complete Series 1 - 6 (2008)
7.7/10
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
A 6-disc collection featuring all the 'French and Saunders' from Series One (1987) to Series Six (2004). Written by and starring Dawn French and Jenn... Read more