science fiction sitcoms

• ALF -- An alien (played by a puppet) living with a family on Earth
• Astronauts -- The misadventures of a group of astronauts on a space station; written by two of The Goodies.
• Caveman -- Sitcom (and social commentary) about prehistoric cavemen adapting to life in present-day Atlanta, Georgia. Based on the popular GEICO commercials.
• Clone (TV series) -- 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 -- Two NASA maintenance workers accidentally launch a spaceship and have adventures in outer space.
• Futurama -- Animated series about a delivery boy who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the year 3000.
• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace -- Spoof horror/science-fiction soap set in an evil hospital.
• Goodnight Sweetheart -- Man finds portal to the past, falls in love, starts leading a double life.
• The Hilarious House of Frightenstein -- Spoof horror/science-fiction sitcom starring Vincent Price and Billy Van.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams' science fiction farce, on radio, television, computer games, LPs, a towel, and a movie.
• Homeboys in Outer Space -- Short-lived UPN show.
• Hyperdrive -- Set on a British spaceship in 2151.
• Invader Zim -- 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 -- Oldest SF comedy, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon about George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy Jetson, family of the future.
• Kinvig -- a UFO fanatic becomes convinced that the woman who continually rejects him is an alien queen; written by Nigel Kneale of Quatermass fame, but critically panned as not very funny.
• Lost in Space -- a science fiction adaptation of Swiss Family Robinson, which focuses around the misadventures of its breakout character, Dr. Smith.
• The Lost Saucer --a Sid & Marty Krofft series starring Jim Nabors and Ruth Buzzi.
• Luna -- A synthetically produced family in a futuristic urban habitat.
• Meego -- kids' show in which a shape-shifting alien lives with a family.
• Metal Mickey -- 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 starring Robin Williams and Pam Dawber.
• My Favorite Martian -- an alien living on Earth.
• My Hero -- An alien superhero has difficulty maintaining his suburban secret identity.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- A man and two robots are trapped in orbit and are forced to watch bad movies.
• Nebulous -- Post-apocalyptic radio sitcom set in 2099, after the Earth has been damaged by various environmental disasters.
• Not with a Bang -- Post-apocalyptic sitcom about the last people on Earth.
• Out of This World -- Children's show about a half-alien girl.
• Phil of the Future -- 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 -- Show about space garbage collectors starring Richard Benjamin.
• Red Dwarf -- A low-ranking technician on a space mining ship is placed in stasis 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, 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 -- Radio sitcom set on a spaceship in 2104, looking for alien life.
• The Strangerers -- 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 -- Four aliens try to fit into modern earth posing as a normal family.
• Tripping the Rift -- Computer animated space opera satire.
• Undone -- Radio sitcom set in London across various parallel universes. One is Undone - "Where the weirdness comes from."

Episodes of shows

• Ren & Stimpy
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• NewsRadio
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