Long before Friends, Seinfeld, Cheers, and even M*A*S*H, one landmark sitcom that laid the blueprint for this staple genre of modern television.

In a 1992 book, "Honey, I'm Home! Sitcoms: Selling the American Dream," writer Gerard Jones deconstructed what, on the surface, isn't a deep subject. To those not into pop culture, situation comedies ...

The central conceit of classic sitcom The Munsters was that the family of vampires and ghouls was just like the clan on Leave It to Beaver, except the relatives occasionally transformed into bats. To ...

There are classic TV Moms, and then there are classic TV Moms. Barbara Billingsley is one of them, her role as June Cleaver on the 1950s sitcom Leave It to Beaver proving itself to be truly iconic. It ...