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Best Comedy TV Series of the 1980s

Top 500 most popular Comedy series that started in the 1980s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Talking Heads

★ 8.6
441 6 1988–1988
Comedy · Drama

Private Benjamin

★ 6.2
441 39 1981–1983
Comedy

Double Trouble

★ 7.3
439 23 1984–1985
Comedy

Teen Wolf

★ 5.8
438 21 1986–1988
Adventure · Animation · Comedy

Großstadtrevier

★ 6.2
424 527 1986–present
Comedy · Crime · Drama

Acropolis Now

★ 7.1
424 63 1989–1992
Comedy

Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi

★ 8.7
424 55 1984–present
Comedy

Fruitopia

★ 8.7
422 47 1985–1988
Animation · Comedy · Family

Hey Dad..!

★ 5.8
417 293 1987–1994
Comedy

Welcome to Pooh Corner

★ 7.8
415 32 1983–1986
Comedy · Family · Musical

Popeye and Son

★ 5.7
415 13 1987–1987
Adventure · Animation · Comedy

Blott on the Landscape

★ 7.6
410 6 1985–1985
Comedy

Zeg 'ns Aaa

★ 6.7
408 227 1981–2010
Comedy

School of mice

★ 7.1
405 3 1981–1984
Animation · Comedy · Fantasy

Lucy the Menace of Street

★ 7.6
404 6 1980–1980
Comedy · Family

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

★ 6.6
404 23 1982–1983
Adventure · Comedy · Drama

Flo

★ 5.7
403 29 1980–1981
Comedy

Kidd Video

★ 7.4
403 27 1984–1985
Adventure · Animation · Comedy

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley

★ 7.8
400 13 1988–1989
Adventure · Animation · Comedy

Fast Forward

★ 7.9
400 90 1989–1992
Comedy

Fresh Fields

★ 6.6
400 27 1984–1986
Comedy

Duarte & C.a

★ 8.4
396 39 1985–1989
Action · Comedy · Crime

The Brady Brides

★ 5.9
393 7 1981–1981
Comedy

Pulttibois

★ 6.3
389 58 1989–1991
Comedy
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