Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
Serie de TV de 139 capítulos (2004-2013). Narra las alocadas vidas y amores de los miembros del disparatado clan de los Gallagher, un grupo de hermanos prácticamente abandonados por sus padres, aunque su progenitor vaga alcoholizado por la casa. Los chicos sobreviven a base de ingenio y humor en un ficticio barrio obrero de la afueras de Manchester.
Ambientada en un barrio residencial de clase obrera en Queens, Nueva York, esta serie nos muestra la vida de Doug Heffernan, un amable repartidor, y su esposa, la temperamental secretaria Carrie Heffernan, y como afrontan los retos que cada día le supone a ambos su amor, su familia y sobre todo su matrimonio.
The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of 'Trotters Independent Traders PLC' who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.
La comedia se centra en el excombatiente de la II Guerra Mundial Archie Bunker, quien prácticamente no tolera a nadie que no sea un "blanco anglosajón protestante" heterosexual y políticamente conservador, o con cualquiera inconforme con su visión del mundo, usualmente respondiendo a verdades incómodas soltando una pedorreta o trompetilla (con la lengua). Sin embargo su tenacidad terminaba por destruir sus propios argumentos llenos de malapropismos. Por otra parte, estaba su esposa Edith, bastante más comprensiva, aunque a veces terminaba defendiendo a su marido. A pesar del trato que usualmente recibía Edith de parte de Archie y las diferencias que tenían, en varias ocasiones se muestra que ambos se querían profundamente. Ellos tenían una hija llamada Gloria, quien estaba casada con Michael Stivic, quien tenía una mentalidad basada en la contracultura "hippie" de finales de los años 1960, por lo que se enfrentaba constantemente con Archie (quien lo llamaba "Meathead"). Durante la mayor parte de la serie, Gloria y Michael vivieron en la residencia Bunker para ahorrar dinero, lo que dio pie para que Archie y Mike se enfrentaran entre sí. A finales de la temporada 1974-5, Michael se gradúa y se muda con Gloria a la que resulta ser la casa de junto (la cual era anteriormente propiedad de George Jefferson, quien se había mudado al centro de Manhattan. Jefferson sería desde la temporada posterior el personaje principal de la serie derivada Los Jefferson, el cual sería emitido hasta 1985. En adición a esto, Archie periódicamente aludía a la ascendencia polaca de Mike (aunque en el piloto él era irlandés), refiriéndose a él como "un tonto Polaco".
Un grupo de amigos de la clase trabajadora que encuentra formas poco convencionales de ganar en la vida en los suburbios del norte. Estos muchachos se han enfrentado, estafado, sobornado y engañado durante su adolescencia, pero ahora, al borde de la edad adulta, su trato y robo los está alcanzando y una gran cantidad de problemas se dirigen hacia ellos.
Roc is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on Fox from August 1991 to May 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimore garbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor.
Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. With 71 episodes, Desmond's became Channel 4's longest-running sitcom. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast in January 1989. The show was made in and set in Peckham, London, England and featured a predominantly Black British Guyanese cast.
Conceived and co-written by Trix Worrell, and produced by Charlie Hanson and Humphrey Barclay, this series starred Norman Beaton as barber Desmond Ambrose. Desmond's shop was a gathering place for an assortment of local characters.
On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to a friend, Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television, who loved the idea; the show was accepted and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.
What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series. With good ratings and reviews, and after the failure of several other shows on the network, What's Happening!! returned in November 1976 as a weekly series. It remained a regular show until 1979; ratings were modest. What's Happening!! was loosely based on the motion picture Cooley High, also written by Eric Monte.
Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.
Jeff Foxworthy is a hardworking husband and father. Between paying his mortgage, running his heating and air company business and raising his precocious son, he learns what every self-respecting redneck knows: tractor pulls come and go, but family is forever!
Center of the Universe is a television series on CBS, which ran from October 27, 2004, until January 19, 2005. The sitcom was canceled after just 10 episodes aired. It was set in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.
John Goodman starred as John Barnett, a good-natured and successful operator of a security company. The series involved the dependency of his entire family on John for everything -- money, jobs, housing, and personal guidance in every decision.
Tagline: "The world doesn't revolve around John...but his family does."
A total of 15 episodes were produced.
A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most influential situation comedy television series in American history.
La serie se centraba en la vida de la familia Conner, una familia de clase baja trabajadora estadounidense, que vivía en la ficticia ciudad de Lanford, Illinois, con serias dificultades para llegar a fin de mes con los escasos sueldos de ambos progenitores, Roseanne y Dan. El hecho de representar en una serie por primera vez en Estados Unidos a una familia de clase baja en la que ambos padres trabajaban fuera de casa hizo que destacara entre público y crítica.34 La serie plasmaba con realismo muchos problemas sociales que no se habían mostrado en las comedias familiares anteriores, tocando temas tabú hasta entonces en otras series de máxima audiencia, ya que trataba y bromeaba sobre la pobreza, el alcoholismo, el consumo de drogas, el sexo, la menstruación, los anticonceptivos, el embarazo de los adolescentes, la masturbación, la obesidad, el aborto, los problemas raciales, las clases sociales, la violencia doméstica o la homosexualidad.
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing husbands and gang harassment.
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.
The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, Meet the Wife and On the Buses. Wild, Wild Women was a period variation of The Rag Trade.
The action centred on a small clothing workshop, Fenner Fashions in London. Although run by Harold Fenner and Reg the foreman, the female workers are led by militant shop steward Paddy Fleming, ever ready to strike, with the catchphrase "Everybody out!" Other cast members included Sheila Hancock, Esma Reese Cannon, Wanda Ventham and Barbara Windsor.
The Rag Trade was revived by ITV company LWT in 1977, with Jones and Karlin reprising their roles. The 1977 version ran for two series, most of the scripts being based on the BBC episodes from the 1960s, and featured Anna Karen and future EastEnders star Gillian Taylforth as factory workers.
The theme tune for the LWT series was written and performed by Lynsey De Paul.
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.