0 a funny television or radio show in which the same characters appear in each programme in a different story --
1 a sitcom --
It is a leisurely paced domestic situation comedy.
Also, by convention, the term is not generally used for situation comedy or soap opera.
While keeping mostly to the conventions of the situation comedy genre, the shows occasionally stretched the boundaries of what was seen on television.
This may account in part for the popularity of laugh tracks in situation comedy television shows.
This group, formed in 1962, was popular throughout the 1960s; they spawned several hit songs as well as thirteen situation comedy films featuring their music.
It was the perfect preparation for rehearsing situation comedy on television at the rate of one episode a week.
Half-hour series were mostly restricted to situation comedy (sitcoms) or family comedy and were usually aired with either a live or overdubbed laugh track.
For a situation comedy, the episodes are an unconventional length (50 minutes).
