Married... with Children
Married... with Children | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
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Starring | |
Theme music composer | |
Opening theme | "Love and Marriage" by Frank Sinatra |
Ending theme | "Love and Marriage" (instrumental) |
Composer | Jonathan Wolff |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 11 |
No. of episodes | 259 (list of episodes) |
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Executive producers |
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Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 22–23 minutes |
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Original release | |
Network | Fox |
Release | April 5, 1987 June 9, 1997 | –
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Married... with Children is an American television situation comedy created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt for the Fox Broadcasting Company,[1] broadcast from April 5, 1987 to June 9, 1997. It is the longest-running live-action sitcom ever aired on Fox. Married... with Children was the first primetime series broadcast on the new Fox network. The series' run ended with the episode broadcast on May 5, 1997.[2][3] Two previously unaired episodes were broadcast on June 9, 1997 and June 18, 2002.
The show is set in
The series is one of the longest running sitcoms in American television history, covering 11 seasons with 259 episodes in its run. Its theme song is "Love and Marriage"[4] by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Frank Sinatra from the 1955 television production Our Town.
The first two seasons were videotaped at
In 2008, the show made the top 100 on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list, placing number 94.[5] In May 2022, an animated revival was in the works.[6]
Cast and characters
Actor | Role | Years | Seasons | Appearances |
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Ed O'Neill | Al Bundy | 1987–1997 | 1–11 | 259 |
Katey Sagal | Margaret "Peggy" Bundy |
1987–1997 | 1–11 | 247 |
Christina Applegate | Kelly Bundy |
1987–1997 | 1–11 | 256 |
David Faustino | Bud Bundy |
1987–1997 | 1–11 | 257 |
Amanda Bearse | Marcy Rhoades/D'Arcy |
1987–1997 | 1–11 | 236 |
David Garrison | Steve Rhoades |
1987–1990, 1992, 1993, 1995 | 1–4, guest 6–7, 9 | 73 |
Ted McGinley | Jefferson D'Arcy |
1989, 1991–97 | Guest 4, main 5–11 | 166 |
- Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) – A misanthrope, afflicted by the so-called "Bundy curse" that consigns him to an unrewarding career selling women's shoes and a life with a family that mocks and disrespects him, who still enjoys the simple things in life. He constantly attempts to relive his high-school football days, when he was an "All State Fullback". His most noted achievement was having scored four touchdowns in a single game for Polk High. His favorite things in life are the local nudie bar, his collection of BigUns magazine, his Dodge car with more than 1 million mi (1.6 million km) on the odometer, and a television show called Psycho Dad.[7] Despite his family's antipathy for him, and his for them, Al is always ready to defend his family and the Bundy honor.
- Peggy Bundy (née Wanker) (Katey Sagal) – Al's wife who is always pestering him about money and refuses to do any housework or get a job. Peggy is a lazy redhead who spends most of her time watching talk shows such as Oprah or stealing Al's limited funds to go shopping; she frequently mocks Al about his unglamourous job, his meager earnings, his hygiene, and his poor sexual abilities. Her careless spending on things like clothes and male strip clubs has run Al into debt on numerous occasions. A recurring joke in the series is Al's and Peggy's regrets of having married each other, although on occasion they will show affection towards one another. Peggy's best friend is Marcy, with whom Peggy occasionally leads into trouble. Peggy's side of the family is a backwoods clan of hillbillieswhom she often forces the other Bundys to endure, especially her morbidly obese mother, whom Al finds intolerable.
- Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate) – the Bundys' firstborn; a dumb blonde who is often derided as promiscuous and dates guys who irritate Al to the point that he wants to physically assault them. Her stupidity manifests in many ways, from forgetting ideas on the spot to mispronouncing or misspelling simple words. She and her brother Bud generally get along, but enjoy belittling one another.
- Budrick "Bud" Franklin Bundy (David Faustino) – the younger Bundy offspring, and sometimes the more level-headed family member, although his preoccupation with sex sometimes leads to inevitable failures with women. He and older sister Kelly constantly taunt each other, but when Kelly is in a legitimate bind he will support her, much like Kelly does for him under similar circumstances.
- Marcy Rhoades, later Marcy D'Arcy (Amanda Bearse) – the Bundys' next-door neighbor, Al's nemesis and Peggy's best friend; an educated banker, but also a feminist and environmentalist who often protests Al's schemes with his NO MA'AM (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood) group. Marcy is the founder and leader of an anti-man support group called "FANG" (Feminists Against Neanderthal Guys). Marcy and Al constantly bicker and do not get along. For the first few seasons of the show, Marcy is married to Steve Rhoades. After Marcy and Steve divorce and he leaves during the fourth season, Marcy meets and marries Jefferson D'Arcy, giving her the name Marcy D'Arcy.
- Steven "Steve" Bartholomew Rhoades (David Garrison) is Marcy's first husband, a stuffy banker who finds himself frequently entangled in Al's schemes. Steve's most prized possession is his Mercedes-Benz, which he does not even let Marcy drive. Although very much in love at the beginning of the series, Steve and Marcy grow apart and he leaves her during the fourth season to become a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park. He later comes back in "The Egg and I" episode to try and reclaim his old life with Marcy, but finds trouble with Jefferson, Marcy's second husband. Steve later has another job as the dean of Bud's college, after blackmailing the previous one he worked under as a chauffeur.
- Jefferson Milhouse D'Arcy (Ted McGinley), a pretty-boy scammer to whom Marcy wakes up one morning and discovers she has married. Unlike Steve, Jefferson is more of a free spirit, likes to have fun, is constantly unemployed, has no money of his own, and uses Marcy for financial purposes. Marcy is aware of this, but whenever Jefferson gets into trouble with her, he distracts her by working his charm and resorting to sexual bartering. In several episodes, Jefferson is implied, but never confirmed, to have had a past life as a former spy/CIA operative.
Pilot episode
In the show's pilot episode, actors Tina Caspary and Hunter Carson played the roles of Kelly and Bud Bundy, respectively. Before the series aired publicly the roles for the two Bundy children were re-cast. Ed O'Neill and the show's producers worried about a lack of chemistry with the parents and the original actors cast as the children. A re-casting was done and all of the scenes in the pilot with Carson and Caspary were re-shot with David Faustino and Christina Applegate playing Bud and Kelly Bundy.[8]
Recurring characters
Reception
Critical response
For season 1, Metacritic calculated an average of 58 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9] In 1987, the Los Angeles Times commented:[10] "The scripts are one-line oriented and sometimes an ugly howl, and the central characters are perfectly cast. The growly O'Neill and Sagal—who has a terrific mincing walk that she may have picked up from her days as one of Bette Midler's Harlettes—were born to insult and perform bowling-ball humor." Conversely, also in 1987, Tom Shales writing for The Washington Post wrote:[11] "A nasty-minded, overacted and poorly cast sitcom, "Married ... With Children" gets the schedule off on a rousing limp."
Ratings
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Despite the show's enduring popularity and fanbase, Married... with Children was never a huge ratings success. Part of the reason was that Fox, a startup network, did not have the affiliate base of the
Another problem lay in the fact that many of the newly developed series on Fox were unsuccessful, which kept the network from building a popular lineup to draw in a larger audience. In its original airing debut, Married... with Children was part of a Sunday lineup that competed with the popular Murder, She Wrote and Sunday-night movie on CBS. Fellow freshman series included Duet, cancelled in 1989, along with It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Tracey Ullman Show, both of which were canceled in 1990. The success of The Simpsons, which debuted on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, helped draw some viewers over to Fox, allowing Married... with Children to sneak into the Nielsen Top 50 from Season 4 through Season 8, peaking at No. 37 in Season 6. Although these ratings were somewhat small in comparison with the other three networks, they were good enough for Fox to keep renewing the show.
While the series didn't end on a cliffhanger, it was expected to be renewed for a 12th season (which would have been the final season) and thus didn't have a proper series finale when Fox decided to cancel it in 1997. With Fox announcing the cancellation publicly before informing the cast and crew, most if not all of them found out about the series cancellation from fans and low-level employees instead of from the network itself. Katey Sagal stated that she constantly felt that the series was neglected by Fox despite helping bring the fledgling network on the map (Married with Children having been on even before The Simpsons); for his part, Ed O'Neill attributed possible neglect of the series by Fox to constant turnover of some of the top positions at the network.[15] In a 2013 interview, O'Neill stated that he felt TV stations who owned syndication rights to the series put pressure on Fox and Sony Pictures Television to end the series since the series had nearly three times the episodes needed for syndication and the production of more episodes would have resulted in higher rights fees.[16]
Season | Episodes | Timeslot (EDT) | Premiere | Finale | TV season | Rank | Rating |
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1 | 13 | Sunday 8:00 PM | April 5, 1987 | June 28, 1987 | 1986–87 | #142 | – |
2 | 22 | Sunday 8:00 PM (September 27 – October 18, 1987) Sunday 8:30 PM (October 25, 1987 – May 1, 1988) |
September 27, 1987 | May 1, 1988 | 1987–88 | #115 | 4.7[17] |
3 | 22 | Sunday 8:30 PM | November 6, 1988 | May 21, 1989 | 1988–89 | #63 | 10.5[18] |
4 | 23 | Sunday 9:00 PM | September 3, 1989 | May 13, 1990 | 1989–90 | #41 | 12.9[19] |
5 | 25 | September 23, 1990 | May 19, 1991 | 1990–91 | #41 | 12.4[20] | |
6 | 26 | September 8, 1991 | May 17, 1992 | 1991–92 | #37 | 12.5[21] | |
7 | 26 | September 13, 1992 | May 23, 1993 | 1992–93 | #43 | 11.4[22] | |
8 | 26 | September 5, 1993 | May 22, 1994 | 1993–94 | #46 | 10.8[23] | |
9 | 26 | September 4, 1994 | May 21, 1995 | 1994–95 | #66 | 9.5[24] | |
10 | 26 | September 17, 1995 | May 19, 1996 | 1995–96 | #78 | 8.2[25] | |
11 | 24 | Saturday 9:00 PM (September 28 – October 12, 1996) Sunday 7:30 PM (November 10 – December 29, 1996) Monday 9:30 PM (January 6–27, 1997) Monday 9:00 PM (February 24 – June 9, 1997) |
September 28, 1996 | June 9, 1997 | 1996–97 | #97 | 6.7[26] |
Controversy
The series is considered the first raunchy sitcom to run on regular network television and in 1989,
After advertisers began dropping their support for the show, and while Rakolta made several appearances on television talk shows demanding the show's cancellation, Fox executives refused to air the episode titled "
Viewers' curiosity over the boycott and over the show itself led to a drastic ratings boost in an example of the Streisand effect, which Rakolta has since acknowledged. Rakolta has been alluded to twice on the show: "Rock and Roll Girl",[29] in which a newscaster mentions the city Bloomfield Hills, and "No Pot to Pease In",[30] in which a television show is made about the Bundy family and then cancelled because, as Marcy stated, "some woman in Michigan didn't like it."
The conservative
Despite the series' controversial content and being largely aimed at an adult audience, it did receive recognition as one of the few series at the time that gave women prominent roles behind the scenes. Producers decided to rewrite the sixth season storyline of Peggy's pregnancy, which coincided with Sagal's actual pregnancy, as a dream that Al had. This was done to prevent Sagal from suffering further trauma by having her character Peggy interact with a new baby, when Sagal's pregnancy ended with her going into premature labor and the baby being stillborn.[35] Bearse showed she was a talented director as well as an actress by moving to the director's chair and directing her co-stars for over 30 episodes of the series between 1991 and 1997. Bearse also became one of the first mainstream actresses to publicly come out as lesbian, which she did during the series run and received positive recognition for doing.[15]
On April 22, 2012, Fox re-aired the series premiere in commemoration of its 25th anniversary.[36]
Episodes
During its 11-season run on the Fox network, Married... with Children aired 258 episodes. A 259th episode, "
Home media
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released all 11 seasons of Married... with Children on DVD in Regions 1, 2, & 4. On December 12, 2010, Sony released a complete series set on DVD in Region 1.[37]
In December 2007, the Big Bundy Box—a special collection box with all seasons plus new interviews with Sagal and David Faustino—was released.[38] This boxset was released in Australia (Region 4) on November 23, 2009.[39]
The Sony DVD box sets from season 3 onward do not feature the original "Love and Marriage" theme song in the opening sequence. This was done because Sony was unable to obtain the licensing rights to the song for later sets.[40] Despite this, the end credits on the DVDs for season 3 still include a credit for "Love and Marriage."
On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment
DVD name | Ep # | Release dates | DVD special features | ||
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Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | |||
Season One | 13 | October 28, 2003[49] | April 7, 2004 | October 25, 2005[50] | Married with Children reunion |
Season Two | 22 | March 16, 2004[51] | October 26, 2004 | September 22, 2008[52] | Clips from the 2003 reunion |
Season Three | 22 | January 25, 2005[53] | February 10, 2005 | September 22, 2008[54] | Clips from the 2003 reunion |
Season Four | 23 | August 30, 2005[55] | December 22, 2005 | September 22, 2008[56] | None |
Season Five | 25 | June 20, 2006[57] | June 27, 2006 | September 22, 2008[58] | Promos for other TV shows |
Season Six | 26 | December 19, 2006[59] | August 17, 2006 | September 22, 2008[60] | Promos for other TV shows |
Season Seven | 26 | September 18, 2007[61] | October 5, 2006 | September 22, 2008[62] | None |
Season Eight | 26 | March 18, 2008[63] | December 19, 2006 | October 22, 2008[64] | None |
Season Nine | 26 | August 19, 2008[65] | February 20, 2007 | October 22, 2008[66] | None |
Season Ten | 27 | March 17, 2009[67] | March 20, 2007 | March 11, 2009[68] | None |
Season Eleven | 24 | October 13, 2009[69] | May 8, 2007 | March 11, 2009[70] | Promos for other TV shows |
The Big Bundy Box | 209 | N/A | N/A | December 3, 2008[71] | Seasons 1–9 with room for 10 & 11. Special features same as individual seasons. |
The Complete Series | 259 | October 13, 2009[69] July 7, 2015 (re-release)[72] |
November 22, 2009 | November 23, 2009[73] June 17, 2020 (re-release)[74] |
Married with Children reunion (2003) Clips from the 2003 reunion David Faustino interview Katey Sagal interview Promos for other TV shows Bonus wall poster |
Merchandise
Books
- Pig Out With Peg: Secrets from the Bundy Family Kitchen, by Linda Merinoff and Peg Bundy, Avon Books, November 1990, ISBN 0-380-76431-8
- Bundyisms: The Wit and Wisdom of America's Last Family, Boulevard Books, May 1997, ISBN 1572972513
- The Complete "Married... with Children" Book: TV's Dysfunctional Family Phenomenon, by Denis Noe, Bear Manor Media, August 2017, ISBN 1629331899
- Married... with Children vs. the World, by Richard Gurman, Permuted Press, April 2024, ISBN 9781637588314
Comic books
Married... with Children was adapted into a comic book series by NOW Comics in 1990.[75]
Toys
Board game
- Married With Children: Act Like...Think Like...Be Like a...Bundy was released in 1990 by Galoob.[76]
Action figures
Two series (10 in all) of 8" action figures were produced by Classic TV Toys in 2005 and 2006.[77] In 2018, Funko produced figures of Al, Kelly, Bud and Peggy as a part of their Funko POP! line.[78] That same year, Funko also released a Married... with Children box set as a Comic Con Exclusive. It included retro-styled Al, Peggy, Kelly and Bud action figures.[79] In 2018 and 2019, Mego released Target exclusives of Al, Peggy and Kelly in 1/9 scale.[80]
International remakes
- Armenia
An Armenian remake was made in 2016, called The Azizyans. The Azizyans is an Armenian sitcom television series developed by Robert Martirosyan and Van Grigoryan. The series premiered on Armenia TV on October 31, 2016. However, the series was not available to the public until Armenia TV started airing the sitcom from October 10, 2017. The series takes place in Yerevan, Armenia. The Azizyans sitcom is starred by Hayk Marutyan. He embodies the character of Garnik Azizyan – a clothes store seller, who is the only one working in the family. Mrs. Ruzan Azizyan is lazy enough to perform the duties of a housewife.
The problems of the father of the family don't bother his 3 children – his daughter, who is internet-addicted and is active in all social networks; his unemployed eldest son, who is a complete loser, and his youngest son, who is a schoolboy. The roles in this sitcom, created for family watching, are played by Ani Lupe, Satenik Hazaryan, Ishkhan Gharibyan, Suren Arustamyan and other popular Armenian actors. The project is directed by Arman Marutyan. In the second season of the sitcom, the Azizyan family continues to survive thanks to the meager salary of Garnik.
The wife of Garnik – Ruzan, remains in the status of a housewife, without even thinking about finding a job. The elder son of Garnik and Ruzan – Azat, continues to look for a new job, a young man appears in the life of Marie, who is trying to win the girl's heart. Their younger son Levon, continues to live his own life and does not understand what he has in common with this family. And their neighbors Irina and Alik continue to be friends with the family, which Azizyans do not quite approve. The only bright spot in the life of the family is their house, which Garnik inherited from his grandfather.
- Argentina
An Argentine remake was made by
The character names are: José "Pepe" Argento (based on Al, played by Guillermo Francella), Mónica "Moni" Argento (based on Peggy, played by Florencia Peña), Paola Argento (based on Kelly, played by Luisana Lopilato), Alfio "Coqui" Argento (based on Bud, played by Darío Lopilato), Dardo and María Elena Fuseneco (based on Jefferson D'Arcy, Steve Rhoades and Marcy; played by Marcelo de Bellis and Érica Rivas).
- Brazil
In Brazil Rede Bandeirantes made a remake in 1999 with the name A Guerra dos Pintos (The War of The Pintos). 52 episodes were recorded but only 22 aired before cancelation.[82]
- Bulgaria
In Bulgaria a remake is aired from March 26, 2012, with the name Женени с деца в България (Zheneni s detsa v Bulgaria) (Married with children in Bulgaria).[83]
- Croatia
In Croatia a remake called Bračne vode was broadcast from September 2008 until November 2009 on Nova TV channel. The characters based on the Bundys were called Zvonimir, Sunčica, Kristina and Boris Bandić while the ones based on Marcy and Steve were called Marica and Ivan Kumarica.[84]
- Germany
In Germany, the 1992 remake
Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt was aired from March to December 1993 for 26 episodes.[87]
- Hungary
In 2006, Hungarian TV network TV2 purchased the license rights including scripts and hired the original producers from Sony Pictures for a remake of the show placed in a Hungarian environment. It was entitled Egy rém rendes család Budapesten[88] (in English: Married with children in Budapest, loan translation: A gruesomely decent family in Budapest). The main story began with the new family called the Bándis inheriting an outskirt house from their American relatives the Bundys. They filmed a whole season of 26 episodes, all of them being remade versions of the plots of the original first seasons. It was the highest budget sitcom ever made in Hungary. First it was aired on Tuesday nights, but was beaten by a new season of ER, then placed to Wednesday nights. The remake lost its viewers, but stayed on the air due to the contract between Sony and TV2.[89][90][91] Also the Hungarian critics have strongly condemned the copyright infringement of the original series. They also criticized the lack of quality and the dilettante forcing of the American cliches in Eastern European (Hungarian) environment.[92]
- Israel
The complete American series aired in Israel in the 1990s, with reruns of it ever since. There has also been an Israeli remake to the show titled Nesuim Plus (Married Plus) that aired its two seasons from 2012 to 2017.
- Russia
The Original Married... With Children ran on
The character names are: Gena Bukin (based on Al, played by Viktor Loginov), Dasha Bukina (based on Peggy, played by Natalya Bochkareva), Sveta Bukina (based on Kelly, played by Darya Sagalova), Roma Bukin (based on Bud, played by Alexander Yakin), Elena and Anatoliy Poleno (based on Marcy and Jefferson D'Arcy, played by Yulia Zaharova and Pavel Savinkov), Evgeniy Stepanov (based on Steve Rhoades, played by Aleksey Sekirin), Sema Bukin (based on Seven, played by Ilya Butkovskiy), and Baron Bukin (based on Buck and Lucky, played by Bayra).[95]
- Turkey
A remake was aired in Turkey in 2004 for one season under the name Evli ve Çocuklu (Married and with Children), featuring Ege Aydan and Yıldız Kaplan in the roles of Niyazi (based on Al) and Jale (based on Peg) Tonguç.[96] The producer, Med Yapım, has published 10 episodes on YouTube in 2018.[97]
- UK
ITV had been screening the original Married... With Children since 1988. In 1996, the UK production company Central Television and Columbia Pictures Television (Columbia TriStar Central Productions) produced a UK version called Married for Life, which lasted for one series with seven episodes.[98]
Spin-offs
Also, an attempt was made to make a spin-off out of David Garrison's Steve Rhoades character which took place on Bud's Trumaine University. The spin-off was called Radio Free Trumaine where Garrison played the Dean.[99] Enemies was another spin-off, but played to be a spoof on the TV series Friends. Meanwhile, a proposed series focusing on the NO MA'AM group without Al Bundy was outright rejected by Fox over fears of misogyny.[100]
On September 11, 2014, it was announced that a spin-off was in the works, centered on the character of Bud Bundy.[101]
Animated revival
On May 13, 2022, Deadline reported that an animated revival of the series was currently in the works with the original cast attached to return. It was further revealed that Sony Pictures Television had been working on the animated series for over a year and waited until they had closed deals with the cast before presenting it to networks and streamers.[6] It was felt that an animated revival worked best due to the original cast's busy schedule as well as Applegate being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, making an animated revival more feasible due to the cast's schedules and Applegate's physical limitations.[6]
Applegate confirmed in a 2023 Vanity Fair interview that she, O'Neill, Sagal, and Faustino remained attached to the revival and were just waiting.[102]
Memoir
In April 2024, Married... with Children writer and producer, Richard Gurman, published a memoir about his time working on the show and how it came to be.[103]
U.S. syndication and international airings
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Distributed by
Broadcast rights to the series are currently held by
Married...with Children has also been a ratings success in other countries around the world.
Country | Foreign title | Translation | Network(s) | Notes |
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Brazil | Um amor de Família (A Lovely Family) |
Dubbed Subtitled |
Sony Entertainment Television
PlayTV |
The show runs on . 57 dubbed and subtitled episodes are now available on the Brazilian version of Netflix. |
Bulgaria | Женени с деца (Married with Children) |
Dubbed | Fox life
Diema |
Airing on bTV Comedy. |
Canada | Married...with Children | None | Broadcasting on Spike, DejaView, Much, and MTV. Episodes available to stream for free (with ads) on the CTV app. | |
Chile | Casado con hijos (Married... with Children) |
Subtitled | Sony Entertainment Television | Today the show runs on Sony Entertainment Television. |
Colombia | Casado con hijos (Married... with Children) |
Subtitled | Cadena 1 Sony Entertainment Television Comedy Central |
The original series aired in Colombia presented by Cinevision on Channel 1 from 1992 to 1994. Reruns on the original language aired on basic cable channels Sony and Comedy Central. The Colombian remake Casados con hijos airs on Teleantioquia (2000-2005), Caracol Channel (2004-2006, 2011–2012) and CityTv (2014-2016).
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Croatia | Bračne vode (Marriage Waters) |
Subtitled | The show runs on Nova TV and Fox Life. | |
Czech Republic | Ženatý se závazky (Married with commitments) |
Dubbed | TV Prima TV Nova Nova Cinema Smíchov |
The show runs weekly from Monday to Friday on TV Smíchov. |
Denmark | Vore værste år (Our Worst Years) |
Subtitled | ||
Dominican Republic | Casado con Hijos (Married with Children) |
Dubbed | Telesistema Canal 11 | |
Estonia | Tuvikesed (Loveydoves) |
Subtitled | Kanal 12
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Broadcast before midnight on Kanal 12 , episodes rerun on the next weekday morning.
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Finland | Pulmuset (Loveydoves) |
Subtitled | Nelonen TV5 |
Being rerun on TV5. |
France | Mariés, deux enfants (Married, Two Children) |
Dubbed | Comédie!
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Runs on the cable channel Comédie! .
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Germany | Eine schrecklich nette Familie (An Awfully Nice Family) |
Dubbed | RTL Nitro
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It first ran from 1992 on RTL ("RTLplus" at that time), moving to ProSieben for the final 51 episodes, ending in 1997. It airs two episodes a day Monday-Friday on RTL Nitro, with an additional two episodes on Thursday night. |
Greece | Παντρεμένοι με παιδιά (Married with Children) |
Subtitled | ANT1 Mega Channel Makedonia TV |
The series returned on January 9, 2016, for reruns, airing every weekend at 10:40 p.m., starting from season 1, on Mega Channel which initially aired just the last seasons. |
Hungary | Egy rém rendes család (A gruesomely decent family) |
Dubbed | TV3 RTL Klub Viasat 3 CoolTV Humor+ |
A cable television called CoolTV airs 3 episodes and PrizmaTV 2 episodes each day. |
Italy | Sposati...con figli (Married...with Children) |
Dubbed | Canale 5 Sky Show |
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Norway | Bundy (Bundy) |
Subtitled | Viasat 4
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Originally named Våre verste år (Our worst years), but was later renamed Bundy. It had its on run on TV3, and now in reruns after midnight every day except weekends on TV3. Reruns have also been shown on TV3's sister channel Viasat 4. |
Poland | Świat według Bundych (The World According to the Bundys) |
Voice-over | Polsat | The show was aired many times on Świat według Kiepskich (The World According to the Kiepskis) that paraphrased the Polish title of Married... with Children; however, the premise of the Polish show is significantly different from that of the American original (e.g. has got other characters only similar to the original ones and makes laugh of Polish, not American reality), which is why it is usually not considered a remake. In the book "Świat według Kiepskich. Zwariowana historia kultowego serialu" (The World According to the Kiepskis. A crazy story of the cult TV series) by Jabłonka and Łęczuk, a producer of Świat według Kiepskich- Tomasz Kurzewski says that Polsat wanted to create a brand new sitcom and announced a competition for the best idea and Kurzewski was advised to make a Polish version of the most popular Polsat sitcom, which was Married... with Children and competitive ideas were not connected with Married... with Children, so the American TV series is only an inspiration of the Polish one, not an original version of a remake. Świat według Kiepskich was not made under the American licence.
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Romania | Familia Bundy (The Bundy Family) | Subtitled | Pro TV | The show was aired in the 1990s, multiple times. |
Russia | Женаты... с детьми (Married... with Children), Счастливы вместе (Happy Together) |
Voice-over (original) | TV-6, DTV, Domashniy TV (original) TNT (remake) |
The Russian remake of the show, Счастливы вместе, has been broadcast since March 2006 on TNT every weekday. The series was cancelled in 2013. |
Serbia | Брачне воде / Bračne vode (Marriage Waters) |
Dubbed (Season 1) Subtitled |
Fox televizija
Fox Life |
Fox televizija aired season 1 dubbed, by the studio "Prizor". The show aired on Fox Life too, with all of its seasons in subtitles only. |
Spain | Matrimonio con hijos (Marriage with Children) |
Dubbed | TVE2 SET en VEO |
The original series was a classic that ran for a decade in the public national channel the full series was aired with a dub of their own. |
Sweden | Våra värsta år (Our Worst Years) |
Subtitled | TV6
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The name "Våra värsta år" is a pun on the name "Våra bästa år" ("Our best years") as Days of Our Lives is called in Swedish. |
Ukraine | Одружені... та з дітьми (Married... with Children) Щасливі разом (Happy Together) |
Voice-over | TET, 1+1 (original) Novyi Kanal (Russian remake) |
The show aired on TET (first two seasons) in 2009 and on 1+1 (all seasons) in 2011–2012. The Russian remake of the show, Счастливы вместе, is being shown on Novyi Kanal (New Channel) every Sunday from 12:20–14:20. There was also a Ukrainian version of Polish Świat według Kiepskich which was called Nepruhi and was aired in 2010. |
Locations
The opening footage comprises views of Chicago, opening with a shot of Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park. The aerial downtown shot was taken from the Lake Shore Drive section north of the Loop. The expressway entrance shot was taken from the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation featuring the Griswolds' green family truckster with a northeastward view of the Dan Ryan/Stevenson junction southwest of the Loop. The exterior shot used for the Bundys' house was taken in a subdivision in Deerfield, Illinois.[109] Non-English versions might differ, e.g. the dubbed German version always includes the expressway shot.[110]
See also
- Modern Family, a show where Ed O'Neill also plays a family man.
- Star-ving, a web series created by David Faustino, where the original cast was reunited.
- Unhappily Ever After, another show created by Ron Leavitt, treating similar themes.
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