A South Korean heiress paraglides into North Korea and a captain hides her; the K-drama gateway.
The Boston bar where everybody knows your name; eleven seasons of Sam and Diane, then Rebecca.
Donald Glover manages his rapper cousin; the series that could be anything each week.
The Bluth family after the arrest of the father; the sitcom built for rewatching.
Lucille Ball and the chocolate factory; the sitcom that invented the three-camera format.
Mark and Jez in a Croydon flat, filmed from their eyes with their thoughts on the soundtrack.
Sir Humphrey runs the minister; Margaret Thatcher's favourite programme.
Aziz Ansari in New York and Modena; the "Thanksgiving" episode.
Malcolm Tucker swears his way through Whitehall; Armando Iannucci before Veep.
Larry David plays Larry David, improvised, for twelve seasons of social crimes.
A start-up with a compression algorithm and the tech industry as farce; Mike Judge.
A pizza boy frozen until the year 3000; the Simpsons team does science fiction.
Four boys in a Colorado town since 1997, written a week before air; the satire nobody escapes.
Four Native teenagers in Oklahoma trying to get to California; the first all-Indigenous writers' room.
The Cheers psychiatrist hosts a Seattle radio show with his brother and father; the best-written sitcom.
Have you tried turning it off and on again? A basement IT department in London.
A drunk scientist and his grandson across the multiverse; Dan Harmon's nihilist cartoon.
Leslie Knope and the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana; Ron Swanson.
Tina Fey runs a sketch show under Alec Baldwin's executive; the fastest joke rate on television.
A study group at a community college and the paintball episodes; six seasons and no movie yet.
The worst people in Philadelphia run a bar; the longest-running live-action sitcom.
A fine-dining chef takes over his dead brother's Chicago sandwich shop; the kitchen as panic attack.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a vice president surrounded by idiots; the best insults on television.
Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.
Twelve episodes of John Cleese running a Torquay hotel badly; "don't mention the war".
One year at a Michigan high school in 1980; eighteen episodes and every future star.
A Korean War field hospital for eleven seasons; the finale is still the most watched episode ever.
The Ministry of Silly Walks, the Dead Parrot and the giant foot; 45 episodes from 1969.
An American football coach takes over an English Premier League club; kindness as a plot.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks to the camera through grief and a hot priest; two perfect seasons.
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