Comedy

<p>The sun isn't setting yet on the once-famous acting coach Sandy Kominsky and his cantankerous longtime agent, Norman Newlander. Academy Award winners Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin star as best friends who keep each other going as they navigate their twilight years in youth-obsessed...

<p>Last season, even the normally boisterous Foster-Lambert household was shaken when Carol (Suzanne Somers) and Frank (Patrick Duffy) delivered a little surprise to the family: a new baby, Lilly Foster-Lambert, the first child who can't be pegged as belonging to one "half" of the...

<p>Synopsis Anna Faris and Emmy and Oscar winner* Allison Janney star in this hilarious and sometimes heart-wrenching comedy from executive producer Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory). After years of questionable choices, Christy (Faris) is trying to get her life on track, although she's...

<p>King Kaiser's Comedy Cavalcade goes on in minutes. But guest star Alan Swann is exiting the building. Fast. "I'm not an actor. I'm a movie star!" he bellows in stark fear. He just found out the show is LIVE! Directed by Richard Benjamin and...

<p>For 10-year-old Sheldon Cooper, being vulnerable, naive and stratospherically smart isn't always helpful in a place like East Texas, where church and sports rule. His football-coach father, George Sr.; fiercely protective mother, Mary; older brother, Georgie; and twin sister, Missy, do their best to...

<p>A married American man working in London begins an affair with a divorced English mother of two. What begins as a casual affair takes an unexpected turn after the pair return from a week in Spain.</p>

<p>Prepare for 17 newly adventures featuring our favorite spinach-eating sailor man and his lovely leading lady, Olive Oyl. This set finishes out Popeye's second decade of screen stardom with cartoons originally released to movie theaters in 1948 and 1949. Providing more globe-trotting and time-traveling...

<p>This year, Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) is, in some ways, like a baby chick that's about to tumble out of the nest. In other ways ,she's that friend who is searching for enlightenment and kinda can't stop yammering about it. As always, Rebecca's actions have...

<p>Entering its third season, Lethal Weapon combines action and drama with friendship and humor as it follows Detective Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans) and the squad -- Captain Avery (Kevin Rahm), Scorsese (Johnathan Fernandez) and Detective Sonya Bailey (Michelle Mitchenor) -- working a crime-ridden beat...

<p>It's the living end, a fancy-dress ball for blood fiends in Count Von Krolock's Transylvanian castle. Surely no mortal would be foolish enough to infiltrate this hemogobbling horror of a soiree. But partygoers notice something in the ballroom mirrors: the reflections of humans --...

<p>Prepare for 17 newly adventures featuring our favorite spinach-eating sailor man and his lovely leading lady, Olive Oyl. This set finishes out Popeye's second decade of screen stardom with cartoons originally released to movie theaters in 1948 and 1949. Providing more globe-trotting and time-traveling...

<p>"Meet George Jetson...Jane, his wife... daughter Judy...his boy, Elroy..." The catchy theme tune for The Jetsons ideally captures the lighthearted essence of the show, a futuristic counterpoint to The Flintstones that reflected the space-age optimism of the times. The Jetsons were the very first...

<p>When two squabbling ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical The Taming of the Shrew, life imitates art and art imitates life -- and it all proves no musical comedy imitates Kiss Me Kate, the backstage/onstage delight from the 1948 Broadway...

<p>Entering its third season, Lethal Weapon combines action and drama with friendship and humor as it follows Detective Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans) and the squad -- Captain Avery (Kevin Rahm), Scorsese (Johnathan Fernandez) and Detective Sonya Bailey (Michelle Mitchenor) -- working a crime-ridden beat...

<p>Edward G. Robinson turns his gangster image on its head and laughs spill from the pockets in a gleeful romp based on the Broadway farce penned by Laura and S.J. Perelman. Robinson plays Pressure Maxwell, who emerges from Sing Sing planning to run a...

<p>The era of the bootlegger is over, ya mugs, and don't let the door smack your backside on the way out. But liquor runner Bugs Ahearn has a plan for what he'll do now that Prohibition has kicked the beer bucket. "I'm going to...

<p>Danny Thomas stars as a widowed doctor dealing with multiple generations of his own family in this seldom- seen seventies sitcom. Irascible and headstrong by nature, but gentle at heart, veteran medical practitioner Dr. Jules Bedford (Thomas) saves his best put-downs for his physician...

<p>Nick and Nora Charles cordially invite you to bring your own alibi to The Thin Man, the jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing. Bantering in the boudoir, enjoying walks with beloved dog Asta or matching each...

<p>All marriages are happy. Living together afterward is tough. But when Bob Hope and Lucille Ball join forces for the fourth time and play Mr. and Mrs., it can also be dizzyingly funny! The two mirth masters shine in the household-in-a-tizzy comedy Critic's Choice,...

<p>Did she or didn't she? Snoopy magazine editor Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) wants to know if Sex and the Single Girl author Helen Gurley Brown (Natalie Wood) based her book on, ahem, personal research. So he gets very personal to find out for himself!...

<p>Footlight Parade is sheer cinematic joy. In this Depression-era romp, a timid stenographer (Ruby Keeler) removes her glasses and wow! she's a star. A gee-whiz tenor (Dick Powell) asserts his independence. Plucky chorines tap, greedy hangers-on get their comeuppances, and an indefatigable producer/dancer (James...

<p>Studio-publicist-turned-producer Pete Smith catapulted to national fame as a narrator for the MGM short subjects created under his aegis, such as the Dogville comedies. Recognizing that Smith was now a name in comedy in his own right, MGM launched the Pete Smith Specialty series....

<p>The hilariously mismatched detective duo of Luella Shakespeare (Jo Joyner, Murdoch Mysteries) and grumpy Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton, Death in Paradise) return for ten more episodes of the hit mystery / comedy drama set in beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon. You might think the birthplace of William...

<p>He's powered his Harley over autos, Mack trucks, snarling lions and seething infernos, and plummeted headlong into a canyon. But if the mob has its way, his next incredible leap will land him six feet under. Death-defying legend Evel Knievel becomes a man in...

Gentleman crime novelist Bob Crane (Preston Foster) and debutante Carolyn Martin (Whitney Bourne) lead lives of luxury. Both are gifted with loyal attendants -- Crane has his valet, Fentriss (Cecil Kellaway), and Carolyn has Taylor (Paul Guilfoyle), her driver. Both are intimate friends with...

<p>What do you do when you have a beautiful house, two great children and a Marriage on the Rocks? If you're bored Val Edwards (Deborah Kerr), you swap your fuddy-duddy hubby Dan (Frank Sinatra) for his swinging-bachelor best friend Ernie (Dean Martin) -- and...

<p>Jobs are scarce. Rooms to rent are scarcer. Times aren't easy for returning GIs in the years after World War II. But falling in love, that's easy. It Happened in Brooklyn. And it happens with Frank Sinatra (in a performance critically hailed as the...

<p>From upper crust to bread crusts! When wealthy Mr. Drake goes broke, the servants hatch a plan to restore his fortune and save their jobs: have a lovely maid pose as Drake's debutante daughter, hoping she'll land a rich beau. Soon, a suitor arrives....

He may be an underpaid bank clerk but his voice is worth a million bucks. Frank Sinatra is $42.50-a-week teller Johnny Dalton, who comes across big money -- and big trouble -- in this frothy comedy. It's Only Money, Sinatra sings with his quipster...

<p>Gordon Miller (George Murphy) has a hit in the works, especially since he latched onto a playwright whose real talent is his singing voice. Now Miller must do a lot of flimflamming to get his musical revue onstage before the rubber check underwriting it...

<p>The future is no mystery to Julie Gillis. She has her life mapped out in details that fall just shy of where the wedding portrait will hang and the number of goldfish swimming in the bowl. Julie even knows she'll be married next March...

<p>Place all the gold under lock and key. All the beautiful senoritas, too. The Kissing Bandit rides again -- if he can somehow manage to stay on horseback! Frank Sinatra plays the kissing (and singing!) title role. Kathryn Grayson is lovely, coloratura-voiced Teresa --...

<p>Here come 15 previously unreleased adventures featuring our favorite two-fisted fighter that are literally out of this world! The secret to the seaman's success is "location, location, location," and with this new collection, you'll travel with Popeye and crew into outer space, all around...

<p>Dick Van Patten stars as Tom Bradford: newspaper journalist, husband to Joan (Diana Hyland) and patriarch to the close-knit Bradford clan...all eight of them! It's not easy staying sane while guiding Mary, David, Joanie, Nancy, Elizabeth, Susan, Tommy and Nicholas through the joys and...

<p>Step up to the plate for Damn Yankees, the rousing movie of the 1,019-performance Broadway grand slam that imports nearly all the original New York lineup, including Tony Award-winning stars Gwen Verdon as luscious vamp Lola and Ray Walston as her slyly Satanic boss...

<p>Here come 15 previously unreleased adventures featuring our favorite two-fisted fighter that are literally out of this world! The secret to the seaman's success is "location, location, location," and with this new collection, you'll travel with Popeye and crew into outer space, all around...

<p>An informant sells the same tip to competing Paris news bureaus, triggering a cross-continental rivalry between a newswoman and a novelist that sees them feigning marriage, fighting spies and falling in love. International arms dealer Anton Kronsky (Paul Lukas) is planning to depart from...

<p>"You are my sister. You're supposed to drive me crazy." Twenty-eight-year-old organization freak Valerie Tyler loves her 16-year-old sister, Holly. Even if Holly is rambunctious. Spontaneous. Impulsive. Disconcerting. And definitely disorganized. Then Holly moves in with Val, and the sisters discover they may make...

<p>Fresh from her breakout success in Anne of Green Gables (1934), Anne Shirley shines and sparkles as ebullient and excitable high school girl June Drew in this tale of love's labor's lampooned. June's happy home life with her doting widower father, publisher Christopher Drew...

<p>Belford College benefactor Howard Smith (Grant Mitchell) and Coach Eversmith (Joe Sawyer) enlist talented football player -- and convicted thief -- Tommy "Cherub" Burke (Eddie Quillan) to play for the school. Burke sees this opportunity as a "get out of jail free" card that...

<p>"I yam what I yam," Popeye says. And what he yam is the greatest swabbie ever to sail the cartoon seas, a savvy old salt with outsized forearms and an even larger sense of fair play. Step aboard, mates, for the bestest with the...

<p>Mysterious Seton Mansley (Charles Coburn) is a man of leisure, idly whiling away the hours in Palm Beach, Florida. Prompted to play uncle to young lingerie clerk Kathleen Brown (Anne Shirley) -- who was unfairly fired after millionaire playboy Johnny Kerrigan (James Craig) flirted...

<p>Proud Irish police officer Peter Casey (Thomas Mitchell) is forced into retirement after 20 years of devoted service. To add insult to injury, he's replaced by rookie Angus Ferguson (Dennis Morgan), who, according to Casey, is a "contemptuous Scottishman." While delivering a complaint one...

<p>Wealthy lingerie manufacturer F. Farrington Fowler (Leon Errol) has a problem: He's run out of gas coupons due to the rationing during World War II. With the aid of his rascally butler, Pomeroy (Richard Lane), he hatches a scheme to keep his limo running...

<p>With her music-appreciation class dwindling in size year by year, spinster schoolteacher Malvina Adams (Elisabeth Risdon) makes a last bid for relevancy with the kids in the Newton High School swing band by composing a new school song, "Fight on for Newton High." The...

<p>The final two seasons of this fan-favorite sitcom see changes afoot for wide-eyed Myposian immigrant Balki (Bronson Pinchot) and his American cousin, Larry (Mark Linn-Baker), as they continue to offset each other's contrasting personalities. At the Chicago Chronicle, editor-in-chief Mr. Wainwright (F.J. O'Neil) promotes...

<p>After years of missteps, Tom Wakefield (Robert Young) succeeds in selling his razorless shaving cream for the life-changing sum of $250,000 and promptly goes on a madcap spending spree, much to the dismay of his levelheaded fiancee, June Baylin (June Clayworth). Friends and strangers...

<p>Powerful public-relations man Jeff Bidwell (Robert Montgomery) is the secret king of Broadway, a fixer and advisor to a procession of Manhattan's most powerful. Within the confines of his exclusive club, Bidwell's patrons range from divorcees to generals, and from the district attorney to...

<p>A couple of millionaire businessmen -- henpecked Pete Wells (Charlie Ruggles) and happily single Alan Chandler (radio star Phil Harris) -- are voyaging home to California after successfully completing their deals overseas. Alan is pleased to discover that Elsa (Greta Nissen), the object of...

<p>Season Nine finds the Gallaghers taking justice into their own hands as political fervor hits the South Side. Frank discovers there are financial opportunities in campaigning as he promotes a candidate with questionable morals. Fiona hopes to build on her success with the apartment...