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The science fiction sitcom genre is a relatively new one having started significant growth only during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Most of the comic science fiction in this genre is considered lightweight compared to the mainstream.

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.
  • Caveman -- Sitcom (and social commentary) about prehistoric cavemen adapting to life in present-day Atlanta, Georgia. Based on the popular GEICO commercials.
  • Come Back Mrs Noah -- Housewife gets stranded on a space station.
  • Far Out Space Nuts -- (insert desciption here)
  • Futurama -- Cartoon space comedy.
  • Garth Marenghi's Darkplace -- Spoof horror/science-fiction soap set in an evil hospital.
  • Goodnight Sweetheart -- Man finds portal to the past, falls in love, starts leading a double life.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams' science fiction farce, on radio, television, computer games, LPs, a towel, and a movie.
  • Homeboys in Outer Space -- Short-lived UPN show.
  • Hyperdrive -- Set on a British spaceship in 2151.
  • Invader Zim -- 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 -- a Hanna-Barbera cartoon about George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy Jetson, family of the future.
  • Kinvig -- a UFO fanatic becomes convinced that the woman who continually rejects him is an alien queen; written by Nigel Kneale of Quatermass fame, but critically panned as not very funny.
  • Luna -- A synthetically produced family in a futuristic urban habitat.
  • Meego -- kids' show in which a shape-shifting alien lives with a family.
  • Metal Mickey -- 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 starring Robin Williams and Pam Dawber.
  • My Favorite Martian -- Oldest SF comedy, based around an alien living on Earth.
  • My Hero -- An alien superhero has difficulty maintaining his subrban secret identity.
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- A man and two robots are trapped in orbit and are forced to watch bad movies.
  • Quark -- Show about space garbage collectors starring Richard Benjamin.
  • Red Dwarf -- Space based comedy, includes many science fiction concepts.
  • The Second Hundred Years -- Sitcom about a prospector frozen via cryogenics, then brought back to live with his much older son and grandson his own age (played by the same actor).
  • -- Former superhero hosts a late-night talk show.
  • The Strangerers -- 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 -- Modern comedy similar in principle to Mork and Mindy.
  • Tripping the Rift -- Animated space opera satire.

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Comic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that exploits the genre's conventions for comic effect. Comic science fiction often mocks or satirizes standard SF conventions like alien invasion of earth, interstellar travel, or futuristic technology.
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ALF is a 30-minute television sitcom that originally ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990. The plot involves the title character Gordon Shumway, an alien nicknamed A.L.F.
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Astronauts is a British sitcom that ran for one series in 1981. It was written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, two of The Goodies. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who wrote Porridge, were script editors. It was made for the ITV network by ATV.
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The Goodies — (left to right)
Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden
a screenshot from the title sequence
of the BBC TV series
Nationality: British
Genre: Sketch comedy, Surreal humour
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Cavemen is an American television comedy created by Joe Lawson and set in San Diego, California.[1] Inspired by the GEICO Cavemen advertisements made for the American vehicle insurance company GEICO that were written by Lawson, the show is described by the network
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Atlanta, Georgia
Downtown Atlanta

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Nickname: Hotlanta,[1] The A-T-L[1]
Location in Fulton and DeKalb counties and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
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Government Employees Insurance Company
(doing business as GEICO)

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Founded 1936, Fort Worth, TX
Headquarters Chevy Chase, Maryland

Key people Olza M.
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Come Back Mrs Noah was a short-lived British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden and Ian Lavender. It aired for a pilot and one series from 1977 to 1978. It was written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who had also written Are You Being Served?
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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.
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Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, who also created The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a comedy series made for Channel 4. Created by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, it is a parody of the horror genre and revolves around the character of Garth Marenghi himself, a writer of pulp fiction played by Matthew Holness.
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Goodnight Sweetheart was a popular BBC sitcom that ran for six series between 1993 and 1999. It starred Nicholas Lyndhurst as the accidental time traveler Gary Sparrow, who discovers he can travel between 1990s London and World War II London.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy 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
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Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams signing books at ApacheCon 2000
Born: 11 March 1952(1952--)
Cambridge, England
Died: 11 May 2001 (aged 49)
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
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Homeboys in Outer Space was a UPN sitcom that aired from 1996 to 1997. The plot centered around an odd couple-type pairing who flew around the universe in a winged car, piloted by a talking computer named Loquatia.
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Type Defunct broadcast television network
Country United States
Availability    United States, Canada
Founder United Television & Paramount Pictures
Owner CBS Corporation
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Hyperdrive is a British television science fiction sitcom produced by the BBC created under the working title of "Full Power." Set in 2151, it follows the crew of HMS Camden Lock
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Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by comic book writer/artist Jhonen Vasquez and aired on Nickelodeon. First broadcast on March 30, 2001 (the same day as The Fairly OddParents), Nickelodeon desired a show aimed at their older viewers.
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It's About Time was an American fantasy-based comedy TV series that aired on CBS for one season of 26 episodes in 1966–1967. The series was created by Sherwood Schwartz.
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The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series that was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963.
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An unidentified flying object, or UFO
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Thomas Nigel Kneale

Nigel Kneale in 1990, discussing his career on BBC Two's The Late Show.
Pseudonym: Nigel Kneale
Born: 18 March 1922(1922--)
Barrow-in-Furness, England
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"Quatermass" may refer to:
  • Professor Bernard Quatermass, a fictional scientist created by the writer Nigel Kneale.
  • A production featuring the above character:
  • The Quatermass Experiment

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Luna, the TV show, was a children's science fiction comedy show shown on television in the UK which ran for two seasons in 1983 and 1984. Luna was also the name used by the show's central character, played by a juvenile Patsy Kensit (1st season) and by Joanna Wyatt
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Meego was a short-lived 1997 science fiction comedy that aired on CBS. It starred Bronson Pinchot (Perfect Strangers) in the title role. Meego was a 9,000-year-old shape-shifting alien from the planet "Marmazon 4.
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Metal Mickey was a 5 foot tall fictional robot character who first appeared on British television in the ITV children's magazine show The Saturday Banana, produced by Southern Television in 1978.
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Mork & Mindy was a sci-fi-based American sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on the ABC. The first episode was broadcast on September 14, 1978. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who came to Earth -- in a large egg-shaped space ship -- from the planet Ork,
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Happy Days was an American television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. The show presents an idealized vision of American life in the 1950s and early 1960s America.
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Robin Williams

Robin Williams entertaining the crew of USS Enterprise in the Persian Gulf in December 2003
Birth name Robin McLaurim Williams
Born July 21 1951 (1951--)
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