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What was the first sitcom on TV?
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Hello! What was the first sitcom on TV?
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The first sitcom was called Pinwright's Progress. 
Was it about two losers sharing a flat?
Nope, it was about a shop, Macgillygally's Stores, owned by J. Pinwright.
Kind of a precursor to Are You Being Served?, I believe.
When?
1652.
Haha, not quite.
It was broadcast over the winter and spring of 1946-7.
I was always under the impression that Family Affairs was the first half-hour British sitcom
Actually the question just asks what was the first sitcom so doesn't specify which country - so it was most likely an American show.
Quote: Alan C @ June 9 2008, 7:56 PM BSTActually the question just asks what was the first sitcom so doesn't specify which country - so it was most likely an American show.
Perhaps - but I still can't find any sitcom before Pinwright's Progress.
cheers i found it on wiki after putting it on here.
i was looking for the 1st britcom sitcom
Quote: Aaron @ June 9 2008, 8:09 PM BSTPerhaps - but I still can't find any sitcom before Pinwright's Progress.
Family Affairs was 1949 but Michael Mills, the producer, wrote in Michael Norden's "Coming to You Live" book in 1985 that he was involved in the first British sitcom. Pinwright's Progress preceded it by 2 years but was rarely mentioned in any British TV History books until Tise put it in his book. I suppose Michael Mills could have been bigging his own show up. Always controversy in television history 
Quote: hellboy @ June 9 2008, 8:16 PM BSTcheers i found it on wiki
Oh christ then it must be right 
Quote: Alan C @ June 9 2008, 8:18 PM BSTFamily Affairs was 1949 but Michael Mills, the producer, wrote in Michael Norden's "Coming to You Live" book in 1985 that he was involved in the first British sitcom. ... I suppose Michael Mills could have been bigging his own show up.
Entirely possible - but of course the definition of 'sitcom', and indeed of 'comedy', differ wildly from person to person, so in his own mind he could have been correct.
Of course, given the very limited scope of the medium then, it seems to me highly likely that he would have been involved with both.
(Tise?)
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