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List of science fiction sitcoms

• ALF -- An alien (played by a puppet) living with a family on Earth
• Astronauts -- The misadventures of a group of astronauts on a space station; written by two of The Goodies
  The Goodies
  
  :For information about the television series, see The Goodies The Goodies are a trio of United Kingdom comedians , who created, wrote, and starred in a surrealism British television comedy series called The Goodies during the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketch comedy and situation comedy....
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• Caveman -- Sitcom (and social commentary) about prehistoric cavemen adapting to life in present-day Atlanta, Georgia
  Atlanta, Georgia
  
  Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
  . Based on the popular GEICO
  GEICO
  
  The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and, as of 2007, provided coverage for more than 10 million motor cars, trucks and other motor vehicles owned by more than 9 million insurance contract holders....
   commercials.
• Clone (TV series)
  Clone (TV series)
  
  Clone is a 2008 BBC 3 comedy series starring Jonathan Pryce and Mark Gatiss, centred on the creation and education of the world's first Human cloning....
   -- About a created super soldier who is childlike and most likely to hug someone.
• Come Back Mrs Noah
  Come Back Mrs Noah
  
  Come Back Mrs. Noah is a United Kingdom Situation comedy that aired on BBC One from 1977 to 1978. Starring Mollie Sugden and Ian Lavender, it was written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who had also written Are You Being Served?, which had also starred Mollie Sugden....
   -- Housewife gets stranded on a space station.
• Far Out Space Nuts
  Far Out Space Nuts
  
  Far Out Space Nuts is a Sid and Marty Krofft children's television series starring Bob Denver as Junior, a seemingly dim-witted but uniquely clever maintenance worker employed by NASA, and Chuck McCann as Barney, his grumpy, short-tempered co-worker....
   -- Two NASA maintenance workers accidentally launch a spaceship and have adventures in outer space.
• Futurama
  Futurama
  
  Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
   -- Animated series about a delivery boy who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the year 3000.
• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  
  Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a comedy series made for Channel 4 by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade. Following on from Garth Marenghi's Netherhead at if.comedy award the show revolves around fictional horror author Garth Marenghi and his publisher Dean Learner ....
   -- Spoof horror/science-fiction soap set in an evil hospital.
• Goodnight Sweetheart
  Goodnight Sweetheart
  
  Goodnight Sweetheart is a popular BBC sitcom that ran for six series from 1993 to 1999. It stars Nicholas Lyndhurst as accidental time traveller, Gary Sparrow, who leads a double-life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel between 1990s London and London of WWII....
   -- Man finds portal to the past, falls in love, starts leading a double life.
• The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
  The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
  
  The Hilarious House of Frightenstein was a Canada children's television series which was produced by Hamilton, Ontario's independent station CHCH in 1971....
   -- Spoof horror/science-fiction sitcom starring Vincent Price
  Vincent Price
  
  Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an United States film actor, remembered for his distinctive voice, his 6-foot 4-inch stature and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films done in the latter part of his career....
   and Billy Van
  Billy Van
  
  Billy Van Evera was a Canadian comedian and actor....
  .
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a Comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon....
   -- Douglas Adams
  Douglas Adams
  
  Douglas Noel Adams was an England author, dramatist and musician. He is best known as the author of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series....
  ' science fiction farce, on radio, television, computer games, LPs, a towel, and a movie.
• Homeboys in Outer Space
  Homeboys in Outer Space
  
  Homeboys in Outer Space is a science fiction Situation comedy that aired on UPN from 1996 to 1997. The short lived series starred comedian Flex Alexander and Darryl Bell....
   -- Short-lived UPN
  UPN
  
  United Paramount Network was a television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven years....
   show.
• Hyperdrive
  Hyperdrive (TV series)
  
  Hyperdrive was a United Kingdom television science fiction Situation comedy series produced by the BBC created under the working title of "Full Power." BBC2 broadcast two seasons in 2006 and 2007, but the series was then cancelled....
   -- Set on a British spaceship in 2151.
• Invader Zim
  Invader Zim
  
  Invader Zim, branded as Invader ZIM, is an Emmy-winning Television in the United States animated television series that was produced by and subsequently aired on Nickelodeon ....
   -- an alien is sent to Earth, thinking it is his mission to destroy it, but his leaders are just trying to get rid of him.
• It's About Time -- an early example of the genre, involving astronauts who travel back in time to meet a tribe of cavemen.
• The Jetsons
  The Jetsons
  
  The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The original incarnation of the series aired on Sunday nights on American Broadcasting Company from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963....
   -- a Hanna-Barbera
  Hanna-Barbera
  
  Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
   cartoon about George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy Jetson, family of the future.
• Kinvig
  Kinvig
  
  Kinvig was a sci-fi comedy television show on British TV in the 1980s....
   -- a UFO
  Unidentified flying object
  
  An unidentified flying object is any aerial phenomenon whose cause can not be easily or immediately determined. Both military and civilian research show that a significant majority of UFO sightings are identified after further investigation, either explicitly or indirectly The USAF, who coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as thos...
   fanatic becomes convinced that the woman who continually rejects him is an alien queen; written by Nigel Kneale
  Nigel Kneale
  
  Nigel Kneale was a Isle of Man writer, who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Screenplay....
   of Quatermass
  Quatermass
  
  *Professor Bernard Quatermass, a fictional scientist created by the writer Nigel Kneale* A production featuring the above character:**The Quatermass Experiment , a British TV serial...
   fame, but critically panned as not very funny.
• The Lost Saucer
  The Lost Saucer
  
  The Lost Saucer is an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975....
   --a Sid & Marty Krofft series starring Jim Nabors
  Jim Nabors
  
  James Thurston "Jim" Nabors is an United States actor and singer. Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California due to his asthma....
   and Ruth Buzzi
  Ruth Buzzi
  
  Ruth Buzzi is an American actor and comedian of theatre, film, and television. She is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973....
  .
• Luna
  Luna (TV series)
  
  Luna was a children's science fiction TV comedy show produced by Central Television for the ITV Network in the United Kingdom and which ran for two series in 1983 and 1984....
   -- A synthetically produced family in a futuristic urban habitat.
• Meego
  Meego
  
  Meego was a 1997 science fiction comedy that aired on CBS. It starred Bronson Pinchot in the title role. Meego was a 9,000-year-old shape-shifting Extraterrestrial life in popular culture from the planet "Marmazon 4.0" who winds up living with a human family after his ship crashes....
   -- kids' show in which a shape-shifting alien lives with a family.
• Metal Mickey
  Metal Mickey
  
  Metal Mickey was a five foot tall fictional robot who first appeared on British television in the ITV children's magazine show Saturday Banana, produced by Southern Television in 1978....
   -- kids' show in which a wise-cracking robot lives with a family.
• Mike & Angelo -- an alien comes to Earth and inadvertently causes chaos and havoc to the family he lives with.
• Mork & Mindy -- spinoff of Happy Days
  Happy Days
  
  Happy Days is an Television in the United States television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
   starring Robin Williams
  Robin Williams
  
  Robin McLaurim Williams is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy Award-winning United Statesn comedian and actor.Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
   and Pam Dawber
  Pam Dawber
  
  Pam Dawber is an United States actor, best known for her title role as Mindy McConnell in the 1978-1982 situation comedy Mork & Mindy....
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• My Favorite Martian
  My Favorite Martian
  
  My Favorite Martian is an United States television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to September 4, 1966 for 107 episodes . The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara....
   -- Oldest SF comedy, based around an alien living on Earth.
• My Hero -- An alien superhero
  Superhero
  
  A superhero is a Character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to act of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototype superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes?ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas?have dominated American comic books and crossed over into other mass...
   has difficulty maintaining his suburban secret identity.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
  Mystery Science Theater 3000
  
  Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an United States cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains that ran from 1988 in television to 1999 in television....
   -- A man and two robots are trapped in orbit and are forced to watch bad movies.
• Out of This World
  Out of This World (TV series)
  
  Out Of This World is a children's television comedy series about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers....
   -- Children's show about a half-alien girl.
• Nebulous
  Nebulous
  
  Nebulous is a post apocalyptic comic science fiction radio show written by Graham Duff and produced by Ted Dowd from Baby Cow Productions; it is directed by Nicholas Briggs....
   -- Post-apocalyptic
  Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
  
  Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization through nuclear warfare, pandemic, or some other disaster....
   radio sitcom set in 2099, after the Earth has been damaged by various envrionmental disasters.
• Not with a Bang
  Not with a Bang
  
  Not with a Bang was a short-lived United Kingdom television sitcom produced by London Weekend Television in 1990. It ran for seven episodes, each 30 minutes long, before being cancelled due to poor ratings and a stagnant plot....
   -- Post-apocalyptic sitcom about the last people on Earth.
• Phil of the Future
  Phil of the Future
  
  Phil of the Future is a Disney Channel Original Series that was produced by 2121 Productions .Phil of the Future ended its run on television on September 8, 2008 in the USA since Disney Channel removed this show from the line-up....
   -- Show about a teenage boy named Phil from year 2121, whose family went on vacation in 2004 and wound up getting stuck there untill the last episode.
• Quark -- Show about space garbage collectors starring Richard Benjamin
  Richard Benjamin
  
  Richard Benjamin is an American actor and film director.He has starred in a number of productions, including the 1969 film, Goodbye, Columbus based upon the novella of the same name by Philip Roth, and with Yul Brynner in Westworld in 1973....
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• Red Dwarf
  Red Dwarf
  
  Red Dwarf is a United Kingdom science fiction television situation comedy Media franchise, primarily comprising eight series of a television sitcom that ran on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and gained a cult following....
   -- A low-ranking technician on a space mining ship is placed in stasis
  Stasis (fiction)
  
  Stasis , or hypersleep, is a science fiction concept akin to suspended animation. Whereas suspended animation usually refers to a greatly reduced state of life processes, stasis implies a complete cessation of these processes, which can be easily restarted or restart spontaneously when stasis is removed....
   for 3 million years and awakes to find he is the last human left alive.
• The Second Hundred Years
  The Second Hundred Years (television)
  
  The Second Hundred Years is an United States Situation comedy starring Monte Markham which aired on the American Broadcasting Company television network for one season from September 6, 1967 to March 28, 1968 ....
   -- Sitcom about a prospector frozen via cryogenics
  Cryogenics
  
  In physics, cryogenics is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. Rather than the familiar temperature scales of Fahrenheit and Celsius, cryogenicists use the Kelvin scales....
  , then brought back to live with his much older son and grandson his own age (played by the same actor).
• Space Ghost: Coast to Coast -- Former superhero hosts a late-night talk show.
• The Spaceship
  The Spaceship
  
  The Spaceship is a science fiction comedy set in the year 2104 and onwards that premiered on BBC Radio 7 over the course of five days during the last week of June 2005....
   -- Radio sitcom set on a spaceship in 2104, looking for alien life.
• The Strangerers
  The Strangerers
  
  The Strangerers is a British television science fiction comedy drama serial written by Rob Grant and was broadcast on Sky One between February and April 2000....
   -- Two highly eccentric alien agents on an equally eccentric alternative Earth; ends on an unresolved cliffhanger.
• Small Wonder -- (1984-1989) About a father who invents a robot child.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
  3rd Rock from the Sun
  
  3rd Rock from the Sun is an Emmy Award-winning American situation comedy that aired from 1996 in television until 2001 in television on NBC....
   -- Four aliens try to fit into modern earth posing as a normal family.
• Tripping the Rift
  Tripping the Rift
  
  Tripping the Rift is a Computer-generated imagery science fiction comedy television series. It is based on two short animations published on the Internet by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen....
   -- Computer animated space opera satire.
• Undone
  Undone (radio series)
  
  Undone is the title of a radio comedy broadcast by the BBC on the digital channel BBC 7. It uses a sci-fi theme of parallel universes to poke fun at life and especially the media business in London....
   -- Radio sitcom set in London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
   across various parallel universes
  Parallel universe (fiction)
  
  Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a multiverse , although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that comprise physical reality....
  . One is Undone - "Where the weirdness comes from."

Episodes of shows

• Ren & Stimpy
• Space Madness
• NewsRadio
  NewsRadio
  
  NewsRadio is an United States Situation comedy, originally broadcast from 1995 in television to 1999 in television on NBC.The show was created by executive producer Paul Simms and taped in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center....
  
• Space

See also

• Science fiction television
• List of science fiction television programs
  List of science fiction television programs
  
  List of television shows with significant science fiction elements....
  
• Situation comedy
  Situation comedy
  
  A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
  
• Cult television