List of science fiction sitcoms

• ALF
  ALF (TV series)
  ALF is an American science fiction sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1986 to 1990, created by Paul Fusco. The title character was Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF , who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family.The series starred Max...
  
  -- An alien (played by a puppet) living with a family on Earth
• Astronauts
  Astronauts (TV series)
  Astronauts was a British sitcom that aired on ITV 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, which became Central midway through the production...
  
  -- The misadventures of a group of astronauts on a space station; written by two of The Goodies
  The Goodies
  The Goodies are a trio of British comedians who created, wrote, and starred in a surreal British television comedy series called The Goodies during the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy.-Honours:All three Goodies now have OBEs...
  
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• Caveman -- Sitcom (and social commentary) about prehistoric cavemen adapting to life in present-day Atlanta, Georgia
  Atlanta, Georgia
  Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
  
  . Based on the popular GEICO
  GEICO
  The Government Employees Insurance Company is an auto insurance company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that as of 2007 provided coverage for more than 10 million motor vehicles owned by more than 9 million policy holders. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance...
  
   commercials.
• Clone
  Clone (TV series)
  Clone is a 2008 BBC Three comedy series starring Jonathan Pryce and Mark Gatiss, centred on the creation and education of the world's first human clone...
  
  -- About a created super soldier who is childlike and most likely to hug someone.
• Come Back Mrs. Noah -- Housewife gets stranded on a space station.
• Far Out Space Nuts
  Far Out Space Nuts
  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. Patty Maloney played Honk, their furry friend...
  
  -- Two NASA maintenance workers accidentally launch a spaceship and have adventures in outer space.
• Futurama
  Futurama
  Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
  
  -- Animated series about a delivery boy who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the year 3000.
• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British dark comedy show made for Channel 4 by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade. Following on from Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, which won the 2001 Perrier Awards, the show revolves around fictional horror author Garth Marenghi and his publisher Dean Learner...
  
  -- Spoof horror/science-fiction soap set in an evil hospital.
• Goodnight Sweetheart
  Goodnight Sweetheart
  Goodnight Sweetheart is a sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999. It stars Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel between the London of the 1990s and the same area during the...
  
  -- Man finds portal to the past, falls in love, starts leading a double life.
• The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
  The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
  The Hilarious House of Frightenstein was a Canadian children's television series produced by Hamilton, Ontario's independent station CHCH-TV in 1971. It was syndicated to television stations across Canada and the United States and occasionally still appears today in some television markets...
  
  -- Spoof horror/science-fiction sitcom starring Vincent Price
  Vincent Price
  Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St...
  
   and Billy Van
  Billy Van
  William Allan Van Evera, , known by the stage name Billy Van, was a Canadian comedian, actor and singer.-Biography:...
  
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  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 phenomenon...
  
  -- Douglas Adams
  Douglas Adams
  Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
  
  ' science fiction farce, on radio, television, computer games, LPs, a towel, and a film.
• Homeboys in Outer Space
  Homeboys in Outer Space
  Homeboys in Outer Space is an American science fiction/fantasy sitcom that aired on UPN from 1996 to 1997. The series stars comedian Flex and Darryl Bell.-Synopsis:...
  
  -- Short-lived UPN
  UPN
  United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
  
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• Hyperdrive
  Hyperdrive (TV series)
  Hyperdrive is a British television science fiction sitcom series produced by the BBC created under the working title of "Full Power." BBC2 broadcast two series in 2006 and 2007, A third series is yet to be commissioned and the actor Kevin Eldon has indicated that is unlikely to be...
  
  -- Set on a British spaceship in 2151.
• Invader Zim
  Invader Zim
  Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by Jhonen Vasquez. It was produced by and subsequently aired on Nickelodeon. The series revolves around an extraterrestrial named Zim from the planet Irk, and his ongoing mission to conquer and destroy Earth...
  
  -- 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
  The Jetsons
  The Jetsons is a animated American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in prime-time from 1962–1963 and again from 1985–1987...
  
  -- Oldest SF comedy, a Hanna-Barbera
  Hanna-Barbera
  Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...
  
   cartoon about George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy Jetson, family of the future.
• Kinvig
  Kinvig
  - Synopsis :Des Kinvig runs an electrical repair shop in the small town of Bingleton.One day his store is visited by Miss Griffin , who is from the planet Mercury and in need of Des' help...
  
  -- a UFO
  Unidentified flying object
  A term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object...
  
   fanatic becomes convinced that the woman who continually rejects him is an alien queen; written by Nigel Kneale
  Nigel Kneale
  Nigel Kneale was a British screenwriter from the Isle of Man. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose fiction, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Film Award for Best Screenplay...
  
   of Quatermass
  Quatermass
  Quatermass may best be known as the surname of the title character of a British science fiction franchise of several television serials and films, and a radio production...
  
   fame, but critically panned as not very funny.
• Lost in Space
  Lost in Space
  Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968...
  
  -- a science fiction
  Science fiction
  Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
  
   adaptation of Swiss Family Robinson, which focuses around the misadventures of its breakout character, Dr. Zachary Smith.
• The Lost Saucer
  The Lost Saucer
  The Lost Saucer is an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975.-Premise:The Lost Saucer was about two time-travelling futuristic androids named Fi and Fum who land their flying saucer on present day Earth...
  
  --a Sid & Marty Krofft series starring Jim Nabors
  Jim Nabors
  James Thurston "Jim" Nabors is an American actor and singer. Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California because of his asthma. While working at a Santa Monica nightclub, The Horn, he was discovered by Andy Griffith and later joined The Andy Griffith Show, playing...
  
   and Ruth Buzzi
  Ruth Buzzi
  Ruth Ann Buzzi is an American comedienne and actress of theatre, film, and television. She is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.-Early life:...
  
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• Luna
  Luna (TV series)
  Luna was a children's science fiction TV comedy show produced by Central Television for the ITV Network in the UK and which ran for two series in 1983 and 1984...
  
  -- A synthetically produced family in a futuristic urban habitat.
• Meego -- Childrens' show in which a shape-shifting alien lives with a family.
• Metal Mickey
  Metal Mickey
  thumb|Metal Mickey, a robot character on UK children's television in the 1980sMetal Mickey was a five-foot-tall fictional robot, which was created, controlled and voiced by Johnny Edward. A modernised vision of a 1950s space toy, Metal Mickey first appeared on British television in the ITV...
  
  -- 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
  Happy Days
  Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in mid-1950s to mid-1960s America....
  
  starring Robin Williams
  Robin Williams
  Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
  
   and Pam Dawber
  Pam Dawber
  Pam Dawber is an American actress best known for her lead television sitcom roles as Mindy McConnell in Mork & Mindy and Samantha Russell in My Sister Sam .-Life and career:...
  
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• My Favorite Martian
  My Favorite Martian
  My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes...
  
  -- an alien living on Earth.
• My Hero -- An alien superhero
  Superhero
  A superhero is a type of stock character, possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers", dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas —...
  
   has difficulty maintaining his suburban secret identity.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
  Mystery Science Theater 3000
  Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....
  
  -- A man and two robots are trapped in orbit and are forced to watch bad films.
• Nebulous
  Nebulous
  Nebulous is a post apocalyptic science fiction comedy radio show written by Graham Duff and produced by Ted Dowd from Baby Cow Productions; it is directed by Nicholas Briggs. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4...
  
  -- Post-apocalyptic
  Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
  Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural...
  
   radio sitcom set in 2099, after the Earth has been damaged by various environmental disasters.
• Not with a Bang
  Not with a Bang
  Not with a Bang was a short-lived British television sitcom produced by London Weekend Television in 1990. It ran for seven episodes, each 30 minutes long, before being cancelled due to poor ratings and a stagnant plot. The show was a dark science fiction comedy, focusing on the end of the human...
  
  -- Post-apocalyptic sitcom about the last people on Earth.
• Out of This World
  Out of This World (TV series)
  Out Of This World is an American fantasy sitcom about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in U.S. syndication on September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991. It was first broadcast in the UK on the ITV network on April 9, 1990, usually at...
  
  -- Children's show about a half-alien girl.
• Phil of the Future
  Phil of the Future
  Phil of the Future is an American situation comedy that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 18, 2004, to August 19, 2006 for a total of two seasons. The series was created by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber and produced by 2121 Productions, a part of Brookwell McNamara Entertainment...
  
  -- Show about a teenage boy named Phil from year 2121, whose family went on vacation in 2004 and wound up getting stuck there until the last episode.
• Quark
  Quark (TV series)
  Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the...
  
  -- Show about space garbage collectors starring Richard Benjamin
  Richard Benjamin
  Richard Benjamin is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of productions, including Goodbye, Columbus , based on the novella by Philip Roth, and Westworld .-Life and career:...
  
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• Red Dwarf
  Red Dwarf
  Red Dwarf is a British comedy franchise which primarily comprises eight series of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and Dave from 2009–present. It gained cult following. It was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who also wrote the first six series...
  
  -- A low-ranking technician on a space mining ship is placed in stasis
  Stasis (fiction)
  Stasis , or hypersleep, is a science fiction concept akin to suspended animation. Whereas suspended animation usually refers to a greatly reduced state of life processes, stasis implies a complete cessation of these processes, which can be easily restarted or restart spontaneously when stasis is...
  
   for 3 million years and awakes to find he is the last human left alive.
• The Second Hundred Years -- Sitcom about a prospector frozen via cryogenics
  Cryogenics
  In physics, cryogenics is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. A person who studies elements under extremely cold temperature is called a cryogenicist. Rather than the relative temperature scales of Celsius and Fahrenheit,...
  
  , then brought back to live with his much older son and grandson his own age (played by the same actor).
• Space Ghost: Coast to Coast -- Former superhero hosts a late-night talk show.
• The Spaceship
  The Spaceship
  The Spaceship is a science fiction comedy set in the year 2104 and onwards that premiered on BBC Radio 7 over the course of five days during the last week of June 2005...
  
  -- Radio sitcom set on a spaceship in 2104, looking for alien life.
• The Strangerers
  The Strangerers
  The Strangerers is a British television science fiction comedy drama serial written by Rob Grant and was broadcast on Sky One between February and April 2000....
  
  -- 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
  3rd Rock from the Sun
  3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet...
  
  -- Four aliens try to fit into modern earth posing as a normal family.
• Tripping the Rift
  Tripping the Rift
  Tripping the Rift is a CGI science fiction comedy television series. It is based on two short animations published on the Internet by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen. The series was produced by CineGroupe in association with the Sci Fi Channel...
  
  -- Computer animated space opera satire.
• Undone
  Undone (radio series)
  Undone is a radio comedy broadcast by the BBC on the digital channel BBC 7, written by and starring Ben Moor. It uses a sci-fi theme of parallel universes to poke fun at life and especially the media business in London...
  
  -- Radio sitcom set in London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
   across various parallel universes
  Parallel universe (fiction)
  A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...
  
  . One is Undone - "Where the weirdness comes from."

See also

• Science fiction television
• List of science fiction television programs
• Situation comedy
  Situation comedy
  A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
  
  
• Cult television