Sitcom

And I'm Robert Ross.

And this is a sort of semi-deep dive into one episode of Situation Comedy.

The first episode that we're going to talk about today is from a little series called Carry On Laughing.

And the episode in particular we're going to look at is One in the Eye for Harold.

[laughs]

Well, I was thinking, uh, last time we talked about, and I think we mentioned this last episode, um, since we did sitcom families, let's do, uh, uh, families that, um, non-sitcom.

Okay.

Non-sitcom TV families.

But I digress, as I usually do.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was probably my favorite non-sitcom family.

Uh, the Robinsons from Lost in Space.

He played Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which it was a foundational television show for-

...

both of us growing up.

... to show them the pilot.

That was bordering on, like, Tim Robinson levels of, like, situational comedy where, like, you're showing your little kids a really fucked up show as like, "Oh, it's going on prime time.

You know what that is?" And it's like, "No."

[laughs] Yeah.

No

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but the situational comedy is-

Yeah

Two years later, the writer of the series, Cy Howard, would pen a screenplay which would end up being the film debuts of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

And three years after that, My Friend Irma got its own TV series.

You are listening to An Hour of Sitcoms on Tuned to Yesterday.

I'm your host, Mark Lavonier.

Now time for My Little Margie, a CBS broadcast from the 31st of July, 1955.