Married... with Children

Married... with Children
File:Married with Children.jpg Intertitle
Created by	Michael G. Moye Ron Leavitt
Starring	Ed O'Neill Katey Sagal Christina Applegate David Faustino Amanda Bearse David Garrison (seasons 1-4) Ted McGinley (seasons 5-11)
Theme music composer	Sammy Cahn Jimmy Van Heusen
Opening theme	"Love and Marriage", Performed by Frank Sinatra
Ending theme	"Love and Marriage" (instrumental)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	11
No. of episodes	262 (including 3 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Michael G. Moye (1987–1992 and 1993–1994) Ron Leavitt (1987–1993) Katherine Green (1994–1995) Richard Gurman Kim Weiskopf (both; 1994–1996) Pamela Eells O'Connell (1996–1997)
Producers	Barbara Blachut Cramer (1987–1992) John Maxwell Anderson (1992–1997)
Camera setup	Videotape; Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Embassy Communications (1987-1988) ELP Communications (1988–1997) Columbia Pictures Television (1988–1994) Columbia TriStar Television (1994–1997)
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	April 5, 1987 – June 9, 1997

Married... with Children is an American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago that aired for 11 seasons. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt. The show was known for handling non-standard topics for the time period, which garnered the then-fledgling Fox network a standing among the Big Three television networks (ABC, CBS and NBC). The series' 11-season, 262-episode run makes it the longest-lasting live-action sitcom on the Fox network. The show's famous theme song is "Love and Marriage" by Frank Sinatra from the 1955 television production Our Town.

The first season of the series was videotaped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood. From season three to season eight, the show was taped at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood and the remaining three seasons were taped at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City.

The series was produced by Embassy Communications on its first season and the remaining seasons by ELP Communications under the studio Columbia Pictures Television (and eventually Columbia TriStar Television). Part of Sony Pictures Television's library, it aired in syndication on FX in the United States from 1999 to 2008 and began airing on Spike and TBS in 2008, and on TV Land in 2009. It also airs on Spike in Canada. On November 15, 2008 it began airing on The CW Plus. In January 2010, it began airing on Comedy Central. As of October 2010, all episodes from each season are available to watch on instant Netflix. On January 10, 2011, Married...With Children begins airing on The Hub TV network at 10:00pm & 10:30pm.

Synopsis

The show follows the lives of Al Bundy, a once-glorious high school football player (who scored four touchdowns in a single game for Polk High School) turned hard luck salesman of women's shoes; his tartish, obnoxious wife Peg; their attractive but dimwitted and sexually promiscuous daughter Kelly; and Bud, their unpopular, girl crazy, oily but comparatively smart son (and the only Bundy who ever attended college). Their neighbors are the upwardly mobile Steve Rhoades and his wife Marcy, who later gets remarried to Jefferson D'Arcy, a white-collar criminal who becomes Marcy's "trophy husband" and Al's sidekick. Most storylines involve a scheming Al being foiled by his cartoonish dim wit and bad luck. His rivalry and loathing for Marcy play a significant role in most episodes.

The Bundys live at 9764 Jeopardy Lane, Chicago, Illinois and their phone number is 555-2878.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of characters in Married... with Children

See also: List of Married... with Children cast members

• Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill)–The head of the Bundy household and the show's protagonist; afflicted by the "Bundy curse", which consigns him to an unrewarding career selling women's shoes and a life with a family that constantly mocks and disrespects him but who still can enjoy the simple things in life.

• Peggy Bundy (née Wanker) (Katey Sagal)–Al's lazy, selfish, big-haired wife who spends most of her time parked in front of the TV watching talk shows or robbing Al blind to go shopping; a famously inattentive mother and nagging wife who laughs when Al or her kids beg for food. She has even cried on one occasion after being forced to cook. Her big taste for things like clothes and male strippers have run Al into debt on numerous occasions. A running joke in the series is Al's lack of interest in having married Peg in the first place, due to being forced into marrying her by her dad and his shotgun. Her best friend is Marcy, who she occasionally gets into scuffles with and insults her "chicklett-chest". Her family is a stereotypical backwoods clan of degenerates whom she is forced to put up with from time to time, especially her morbidly obese and intolerable mother.

• Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate)–The eldest child of the Bundy clan; a stereotypical dumb blonde who is often derided as a slut and dates a parade of losers who get under Al's skin. Her repetitive stupidity leads to many humorous incidents, from forgetting ideas on the spot to mispronouncing/misspelling words (like DOG). Like her mother, she is quick to grub Al's money for expensive things. Her favorite hobby is belittling her lonely and sexless brother. Both Bundy children, however, have stood up for each other from time to time.

• Bud Franklin Bundy (David Faustino)–The younger of Al and Peggy's children, and the most intelligent member of the family, but also horny. His awkwardness leads to many shortcomings though, such as a shallow and sexist personality much like his father. Despite his flaws and being named after a beer, Bud is the only Bundy to graduate high school and go to college. In an attempt to improve his success with girls, Bud often uses his alternate persona, "Grandmaster B," a bad boy rapper from Los Angeles. When using the "Grandmaster B" persona, Bud usually wears dark sunglasses and a backwards Los Angeles Raiders hat.

• Marcy D'Arcy (Amanda Bearse)–The Bundys' next-door neighbor; Peggy's best friend and Al's nemesis; an educated banker and Republican, but also a feminist and environmentalist who often protests Al's schemes with his NO MA'AM group. Marcy was formerly married to an emasculated yuppie named Steve Rhoades (David Garrison), who was written off the show during the fourth season and eventually replaced by Jefferson D'Arcy (Ted McGinley), a pretty-boy and a scam-artist with whom Marcy wakes up one morning and discovers she's married.

• Buck (voiced by Cheech Marin, Kevin Curran, and Kim Weiskopf)–The Bundys' wisecracking dog, who insults his family behind their backs and is punished upon his death by being reincarnated as Lucky, the dog the Bundys acquire to replace Buck.

Recurring characters

Main article: List of Married... with Children recurring characters

Fox broadcast history

Date	Time slot
April 1987 – October 1987	Sunday, 8:00 p.m.
October 1987 – July 1989	Sunday, 8:30 p.m.
July 1989 – August 1996	Sunday, 9:00 p.m.
September 1996 – October 1996	Saturday, 9:00 p.m.
November 1996 – June 1997	Sunday, 7:30 p.m.

Episodes

see also List of Married... with Children episodes

Nielsen ratings

• 1987 Season: #142
• 1989–1990 Season: #50 (12.90 rating)
• 1990-1991 Season: #41 (12.40 rating)
• 1991-1992 Season: #29 (13.36 rating)
• 1992-1993 Season: #37 (11.97 rating)
• 1993-1994 Season: #44 (10.77 rating)
• 1994-1995 Season: #64 (9.50 rating)
• 1995-1996 Season: #78 (8.20 rating)
• 1996-1997 Season: #97 (6.70 rating)

Awards

Casting Society of America:

• 1987: Best Casting for TV – Episodic Comedy (nominated)

Emmy Awards:

• 1987: Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Series (for "But I Didn't Shoot the Deputy", nominated)
• 1988: Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Comedy Series (for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", nominated)
• 1989: Outstanding Editing – Multi-Camera Production (for "Requiem for a Dead Barber", nominated)
• 1990: Outstanding Costuming for a Series (for "Raingirl", nominated)
• 1990: Outstanding Editing – Multi-Camera Production (for "Who'll Stop the Rain", nominated)
• 1991: Outstanding Costuming for a Series (for "Married... with Aliens", nominated)
• 1994: Outstanding Costuming for a Series (for "Take My Wife, Please", nominated)

Golden Globe Awards:

• 1990: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series (Katey Sagal for playing "Peggy Bundy", nominated - lost to Kirstie Alley)
• 1990: Best Series – Musical or Comedy (nominated - lost to Cheers)
• 1991: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series (Ed O'Neill for playing "Al Bundy", nominated - lost to Burt Reynolds)
• 1991: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series (Sagal, nominated - lost to Candice Bergen)
• 1992: Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series (O'Neill, nominated - lost to John Goodman)
• 1992: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series (Sagal, nominated - lost to Roseanne Barr)
• 1993: Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series (Sagal, nominated - lost to Helen Hunt)
• 2009: TV Land Awards – Innovator Award (entire cast)

Controversy and edited content

One episode of Married... with Children was "lost" due to the efforts of a Michigan housewife (see below); it did, however, air outside the United States since the show went into syndication. Another edited episode involved Al trying to sell his Dodge before he is contacted by a Dodge representative wanting to record the moment when the odometer on the Dodge reaches all zeros (1 million miles). Another episode, the unaired pilot, was never shown on TV. However, it leaked online in 2008.

Rakolta boycott

In 1989, Terry Rakolta, a conservative homemaker from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, led a boycott against Married... with Children after viewing the episode Her Cups Runneth Over – 0306. Offended by the images of an old man wearing a woman's garter and stockings, the scene where Steve touches the panties of a mannequin dressed in S&M gear, a homosexual man wearing a tiara on his head (and Al's line "...and they wonder why we call them 'queens'"), and a half-nude woman who takes off her bra in front of Al (and is shown with her arms covering her bare chest in the next shot), Rakolta began a letter-writing campaign to advertisers, demanding they boycott the show.

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 I'll See You In Court – 0310. This episode would become known as the "Lost Episode" and was aired on Fox on June 18, 2002, with some parts cut. The episode was packaged with the rest of the third season in the January 2005 DVD release (and in the first volume of the Married...With Children Most Outrageous episode DVD set) with the parts cut from syndication restored.

Despite the boycott, the ratings for Married... with Children actually increased due to rising interest in the show caused by Rakolta's crusade to have the show cancelled (a non-Internet example of the Streisand effect). The increased number of viewers brought most of the advertisers back, and it kept the show on the air until 1997.

Rakolta has been referenced twice on the show: Rock and Roll Girl – 0414, when a newscaster mentioned the city Bloomfield Hills, and No Pot To Pease In – 0909, when a television show was made about the Bundy family and then was canceled because (according to Marcy) "some woman in Michigan didn't like it".

DVD releases

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released all eleven seasons of Married... with Children on DVD in Regions 1, 2, & 4.

DVD Name	Ep #	Release dates			Additional Information
		Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
The Complete First Season	13	October 28, 2003	April 7, 2004	October 25, 2005	Reunion special and Bonus trailers; Trailers not included on Region 4 set
The Complete Second Season	22	March 16, 2004	October 26, 2004	September 22, 2008	13 Hidden Easter Eggs featuring Interviews With the Cast
The Complete Third Season	22	January 25, 2005	February 10, 2005	September 22, 2008	Easter Eggs and Previews
The Complete Fourth Season	23	August 30, 2005	December 22, 2005	September 22, 2008	Bonus previews; 7 Syndicated/Edited Episodes. German region 2 sets (titled "Eine Schrecklich Nette Familie") are mostly unedited.
The Complete Fifth Season	25	June 20, 2006	June 27, 2006	September 22, 2008	Bonus previews
The Complete Sixth Season	26	December 19, 2006	August 17, 2006	September 22, 2008	Bonus previews
The Complete Seventh Season	26	September 18, 2007	October 5, 2006	September 22, 2008	Bonus previews
The Complete Eighth Season	26	March 18, 2008	December 19, 2006	October 22, 2008	Bonus previews, minisodes
The Complete Ninth Season	28	August 19, 2008	February 20, 2007	October 22, 2008	Bonus previews, minisodes
The Complete Tenth Season	27	March 17, 2009	March 20, 2007	March 11, 2009	Bonus previews
The Complete Eleventh Season	24	October 13, 2009	May 8, 2007	March 11, 2009

File:Marriedwithchildrendvdseason1.jpg

Married with Children – The Complete First Season DVD cover.

For the most part the episodes on the North American DVD box sets are the unedited versions as seen on the Fox network, however there are some instances where scenes have been cut or the syndicated version of an episode was placed on the DVD instead.

The region 4 sets were delayed by three years from the release of the complete Season 1, until the release of Season 2. Sony released the region 4 editions from seasons 2–9. The DVDs are varied from the American counterparts, with some episodes intact, while others are syndicated versions. This is apparent on the Season 4 DVD, where Disc 1 contains non-syndicated episodes (differing from the Region 1 set), however Discs 2 & 3 contain the syndicated versions of some episodes.

The 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 rights to the theme song. It is highly unlikely that the theme song will return in any yet to be released DVD box set.

The replaced theme song was the cause of the syndicated versions of seven episodes in Season 4, as Sony falsely claimed did not have access to the original masters of these episodes, and had to use syndicated prints. This is proved wrong since they used the originals from Season 4 in "Most Outrageous" DVDs that contained some episodes. As the end credits had to be altered to credit the new theme song, certain scenes that originally ran during the end credits had to be replaced with a freeze frame. In most episodes affected, the original audio plays in the background while you see a freeze frame, however in a few cases a freeze frame is used, but the original audio is replaced with the theme song.

In the German speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) all seasons have already been released (region 2). In December 2007 the Big Bundy Box—a special collection box with all seasons plus new interviews with Sagal and David Faustino—was released. This boxset was released in Australia (Region 4) on December 3, 2008. The Australian release contained seasons 1–9 with two extra spots for seasons 10–11.

Season 4 DVD edited episodes controversy

The Season 4 DVD has 7 of the 22 episodes using syndicated prints, losing about 30 seconds each of the show including dialog. The German region 2 Season 4 set (titled "Eine Schrecklich Nette Familie") uses non-syndicated versions of the episodes with an English soundtrack, so is the only DVD with the episodes unedited. The USA, Dutch and French sets only have the syndicated versions. The edited episodes that are complete on the German release are Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics, Buck Saves The Day, At The Zoo, Rock and Roll Girl, You Gotta Know When To Hold 'em (Part 1), Raingirl, Peggy Made A Little Lamb. It's A Bundyful Life (Part 2) originally aired as an extended version, while the version on DVD is the version made for regular tv airings. It does not suffer from syndication cuts, but is still missing a few scenes only seen in original airing, including the 'Snow Cone' introduction and an entire Al, Marcy and Buck scene. The two-part episode Girls Just Wanna Have Fun from season two also featured more footage in original airing, which was omitted when the episode was edited into two.

International remakes

Armenia

In Armenia a remake made in 2009, with the name Բնակարան N2 (Bnakaran N2) (Apartment #2). It was aired on H2. Parents in Armenian family, Gayané "Gayan" and Tigran "Tiko" live in apartment #2 with their children. After first season, the plot changed dramatically, and second season already has very little to do with the original.

Croatia

Croatan TV network Nova TV purchased in 2008 the license rights for a remake show placed in Croatian environment. It was entitled Bračne Vode (eng: "Marriage Waters"). The main story began with family called the Bandić inherit 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. The character names are: Zvonimir Bandić (based on Al, played by Hrvoje Zalar), Sunčica Bandić (based on Peggy, played by Mila Elegović), Kristina "Tina" Bandić (based on Kelly, played by Mirela Videk), Boris "Bobo" Bandić (based on Bud, played by Vid Mekinić), Marica and Ivan "Ivica" Kumarica (based on Marcy and Jefferson D'Arcy, played by Jadranka Đokić and Igor Mešin ).

Hungary

In 2006, Hungarian TV network TV2 purchased the license rights including scripts and hired the original producers from Sony Pictures for a remake show placed in Hungarian environment. It was entitled Egy rém rendes család Budapesten (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 inherit 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. ()

Russia

The Original Married... With Children ran on DTV for almost three years, on a daily basis, broadcasting the episodes from seasons 1–10. The show later aired on Domashniy TV. However, for unknown reasons, most episodes from season 11 were not shown. A Russian adaptation, titled Счастливы вместе (Sсhastlivy Vmeste) (Happy Together), is now airing on TNT channel across the country.

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 Aleksandr 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), Baron Bukin (based on Buck and Lucky, played by Bayra).

Instead of living in a house, the Bukins live in an apartment on the top floor of a small building, and the Stepanovs/Polenos live in the apartment in front of theirs. Prior to the series' beginning, the Bukins could buy off a part of the building's attic for extra rooms, so apart from the lack of a cellar, the lack of a backdoor, a garage in a separate building instead of being adjacent to the house, and a balcony used instead of the yard, the layout of Bukins' flat looks like the Bundys' house. The apartment is in a mess from some fixes in the house which were never finished, and in the show's early episodes an unfortunately placed construction site outside allowed people (and Baron, the family dog) to go in and out the Bukins' apartment by the balcony.

As a major change, instead of disappearing like Seven after a few episodes, Sema stays with the Bukins until the end of the series, and the often bizarre explanations for his absence from events the whole family should attend became a running gag. Also, the family dog Baron doesn't die and reincarnate, he remains the same until the end of the series. The episode Requiem For The Dead Briard was however adapted, with Baron being sold to a rich person by Sema instead of dying.

In April 2008, the producers announced all episodes of Married... With Children have been adapted as Schastlivy Vmeste (including all the episodes from the seldom seen 11th season) and an online contest was started where fans could submit new ideas for episodes. Starting from the 31 December 2009, the show resumed its run with an initial order of 60 new episodes, the order might be doubled based on the viewers' response. According to the episodes' opening credits, some of the new episodes are co-written by original Married... With Children writers, mostly Richard Gurman and Katherine Green.

Spin-offs

• Married... with Children was adapted into a comic book series by NOW Comics in 1990.
• The episodes Top of the Heap, Radio Free Trumaine, and Enemies were meant to be spin-offs.
  • Top of the Heap was the only episode of the three to get its own show. It was notable as an early sitcom starring Matt LeBlanc. The show was about Vinnie Verducci (played by LeBlanc) and his father Charlie (played by Joseph Bologna) always trying get rich quick schemes. The Verduccis were introduced in an earlier episode where Vinnie dated Kelly Bundy, and Charlie was introduced as an old friend of Al Bundy's. The end of the pilot episode shows Al breaking into their apartment and stealing their TV to replace the one he lost betting on Vinnie in a boxing match. However, the show didn't last long and was ultimately cancelled. It had its own spin-off/sequel called "Vinnie and Bobby" a year later, which was also canceled.
  • Radio Free Trumaine was to be about Bud Bundy's time in college with the campus radio station, with Steve Rhoades as the antagonistic Dean. The episode co-starred Keri Russell.
  • Enemies was a Friends clone, featuring Alan Thicke, based on Kelly Bundy's social circle.
• In addition to those three spin-offs, a spin-off about Kelly Bundy was planned but never made for two reasons: Christina Applegate turned it down, and Fox's contract stated that the two Bundy children couldn't get spin-offs. Also, series co-creator Michael G. Moye proposed a NO MA'AM spin-off, but got turned down mainly due to Fox's fears of alienating much of the female demographic.

U.S. syndication and international airings

The series ran on Fox for its eleven year run but it has also appeared in syndication reruns on other channels. Sony Pictures Television currently owns the rights to the series.

Married...With Children originally debuted in off-network syndication distributed by Columbia Pictures Television (now Sony Pictures Television) starting in the fall of 1991. The series later began airing on cable on FX from September 1998 until 2007. In June 2002, FX became the first television network to air the controversial, previously-banned episode "I'll See You in Court", albeit in an edited format. The fully-uncensored version of "I'll See You in Court" can only be seen on the DVD release Married With Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes Volume 1. The version found on the Third Season DVD set is edited. In 2008, the Spike network reportedly paid US$12 million for broadcast rights to every episode including the unedited version of the infamous episode, "I'll See You in Court". However, the version that Spike aired is still not as complete as the version found on Married With Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes Volume 1.

All episodes are available on Youtube and Smotri.

The series started airing on Spike TV on September 29, 2008 with a weeklong marathon. TBS also began airing the show shortly after, acquiring the show in fall 2008 to run in the early morning hours, it currently runs for two to three hours on TBS during the early morning hours (depending on the length of overnight programming). TV Land picked up the rights to broadcast the show from its MTV Networks sister Spike in August 2009. Comedy Central began airing the show on February 8, 2010; Comedy Central acquired rights to air the series from TV Land, who in turn, had earlier acquried the rights to the series from Spike, though Comedy Central dropped the rights to the series in April 2010. Spike picked up the rights to series again, and began airing the series for the second time on July 10, 2010, airing on weekend mornings only. All three cable channels are owned by Viacom. Comedy Central and TV Land do not show the production closing credits; TV Land airings featured a network generic credit near the end of the show, while Comedy Central and Spike airings show the closing credits over the start of an additional episode of the show or another program, which when the former occurs during episodes from seasons 1-10 is posted over the show's opening credits, with Comedy Central versions partially obscuring cast member's names on the bottom of the screen.

All episodes from seasons six and seven along with some episodes from season five and eight are available to view for free on Sony owned Crackle, along with several Minisodes.

Married...with Children has also been a ratings success in other countries around the world.

Country	Foreign title	Translation	Network(s)	Notes
Australia	Married...with Children	None	Network Ten Nine Network TV1 GO! (2009–present)	Reruns of the show run four times during week at 10pm and three episodes are shown from 9am Sunday on the cable network TV1. Original episodes aired on the Ten Network and later on the Nine Network. (Ten aired the show as a filler late weeknights before it was picked up by Nine and put into its Primetime schedule.)
Argentina	Married...with Children	Subtitled	Sony Entertainment Television
Austria	Eine schrecklich nette Familie (An Awfully Nice Family)	Dubbed	ORF	The show aired from March 6, 1995 until March 18, 1998 on the Pubcaster ORF. It started airing again on July 13, 2007, weekdays.
Belgium	Married...with Children	Subtitled	Eén Ketnet VTM VT4 2BE	The show is currently running on the commercial network 2BE and has previously been aired on the public networks Eén and Ketnet and the commercial networks VTM and VT4.
Brazil	Um amor de Família (A Lovely Family)	Dubbed Subtitled	Sony Entertainment Television PlayTV	Has been running (on and off) since 1991 on different national channels. Today the show runs on Sony Entertainment Television with original sound and subtitles, the dubbed version runs on PlayTV.
Bulgaria	Женени с деца (Married with Children)	Dubbed	bTV Fox life Diema	The show ran its all seasons on bTV with Bulgarian dub. It was repeated on Fox life. It is currently airing on Diema with different dub, and on GTV with same dub as Fox.
Canada	Married...with Children		CMT Global Spike TVtropolis	First-run episodes aired on Global. The show ran for a short period of time on CMT during 2006–2007 and aired on TVtropolis from 2007 until early 2010. It is currently broadcasting on Spike.
Chile	Married...with Children	Subtitled	Sony Entertainment Television	Today the show runs on Sony Entertainment Television and it was aired on Mega, a national channel.
Croatia	Bračne vode (Marriage Waters)	Subtitled	HRT RTL Televizija Nova TV Fox Life	The show runs on Nova TV and Fox Life. It was originally aired on Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) in late 1990s.
Czech Republic	Ženatý se závazky (Married with Liabilities)	Dubbed	TV Nova TV Prima	The family name is "Bunda," which means "coat" in Czech. The show was first aired on TV Nova and then reran on Prima TV several times.
Denmark	Vore værste år (Our Worst Years)	Subtitled	TV3
Dominican Republic	Casado con Hijos (Married with Children)	Dubbed	Telesistema 11
Estonia	Tuvikesed (Lovebirds)	Subtitled	Kanal 2	Broadcast after midnight on Kanal 2
Finland	Pulmuset (Loveydoves)	Subtitled	MTV3 Nelonen	Originally shown by MTV3, currently being rerun on Nelonen.
France	Mariés, deux enfants (Married, Two Children)	Dubbed	M6 Comédie!	The show has been seen on M6 since 1989. It also runs on the cable channel Comédie! since 2002.
Germany	Eine schrecklich nette Familie (An Awfully Nice Family)	Dubbed	RTL ProSieben Kabel1	It first ran from 1992 on RTL ("RTLplus" at that time), moving to ProSieben for the final 51 episodes, ending in 1997. It currently airs two episodes a day Monday-Friday on Kabel1. The show runs in a constant loop. It runs Season 1–11 and then starts all over again.
Greece	Παντρεμένοι με παιδιά (Married with Children)	Subtitled	ANT1 Mega Channel Macedonia TV	Has been on and off the air in ANT1 channel from the nineties onwards, while Mega Channel provided the last 2 seasons never played from ANT1. The show has seen many reruns, currently airing from Macedonia TV for the 4th time on that channel.
Hungary	Egy rém rendes család (A gruesomely decent family)	Dubbed	TV3 RTL Klub Viasat 3 CoolTV	The show has ventured from channel to channel over the years, from the now-defunct TV3 through RTL Klub to Viasat 3, where it is occasionally repeated. A cable television called CoolTV airs 3 episodes each day.
Ireland	Married...with Children	None	RTÉ Two Paramount Comedy Sky1 RTÉ One	Shown on RTÉ Two and on the UK's Paramount Comedy. In the '90s it aired on the UK's Sky1.It disappeared in the early 2000s. Very recently on RTÉ One it appeared early January 2007 on a Late Thursday Night/Early Friday Morning at 4am and showed two episodes each time. It disappeared off of the schedule in late April 2007. It's not currently showing on Irish television.
Israel	נשואים פלוס (Married Plus)	Subtitled	Bip	Since 2006 the show can be seen on HOT cable television, in the channel Bip, channel 6. A shoe store in Herzliya named itself Bundy Shoes (though the shop in the series is Gary's). In the past the show was shown on Channel 2, Channel 3 and Channel 6. An Israeli made Russian language version is currently being produced and can be seen on channel 9.
Italy	Sposati ... Con Figli (Married ... With Children)	Dubbed	FX	It is currently on the air, on satellite Sky, Channel FX.
Kazakhstan	Счастливы вместе (Happy Together)		NTK	The Russian remake of the show, Счастливы вместе, is currently being shown on NTK (Independent Television Channel) every weekday night from 8:00–9:00.
Lithuania	Vedęs ir turi vaikų (Married and has children)	Voice-over	TV3 TV6 Lithuania	The show periodically runs on TV3 and TV6 Lithuania.
Mexico	Married...with Children		Sony Entertainment Television TV Azteca	Runs on Sony Entertainment Television and ran on and off on TV Azteca.
Netherlands	Married...with Children	Subtitled	Veronica RTL7	Originally aired on Veronica. The show is currently being broadcast on RTL7.
New Zealand	Married...with Children	None	TV2 Sky TV	Ran for many years on TV2, now on Sky TV.
Norway	Bundy (Bundy)	Subtitled	TV3 Viasat 4	Originally (some ten years ago on TV3) aired as Våre verste år (Our Worst Years), the show is now called Bundy and is currently in reruns after midnight every day except weekends on TV3. Is also shown daily on Viasat 4.
Peru	Matrimonio con Hijos (Marriage with Children)		TV 13 – RED GLOBAL Sony Entertainment Television	The show runs on TV 13 – RED GLOBAL from Monday to Friday at 8:00 p.m.
Poland	Świat według Bundych (The World According to Bundys)	Dubbed	Polsat	The show was aired many times on Polsat, and it is still on air there today. Its popularity spawned a sitcom with similar premise made by Polsat, Świat według Kiepskich (The World According to Kiepscy).
Romania	Familia Bundy (The Bundy Family)	Subtitled	PRO TV PRO Cinema Antena 1	Originally, the show aired on PRO TV, and then on the sister channel PRO Cinema. As of November 2009, it runs weekly, from Monday to Friday on Antena 1.
Russia	Женаты... с детьми (Married... with children)	Dubbed	TV6 (Russia) NTV Domashny DTV	The Original Married... With Children ran on NTV for almost three years, broadcasting most of the episodes from seasons 1–10. The show later aired on TV6 and the "Domashniy Channel." However, for unknown reasons, most episodes from season 11 were not shown. After being pushed into a late night schedule, the show has been dropped entirely in favour of the current Russian remake, titled Schastlivi Vmesti ("Happy Together.")
Serbia	Брачне воде / Bračne vode (Marriage Waters)	Subtitled Dubbed (Season 1)	Fox televizija Fox Life	Married... With Children ran on Fox televizija for three years. Season 1 was dubbed, while remaining seasons were subtitled since dubbing is not popular in Serbia. The show still airs on Fox Life, all seasons with subtitles only.
Singapore	Married with Children	None	Star World	Married with Children is currently on air every Monday to Friday during the minisodes.
Slovenia	Družina za umret (Family to die for)	Subtitled	Kanal A	The show was first aired in the early 90s and it has been repeated numerous times every year.
Slovakia	Married...with Children	Dubbed	TV Markíza	The show is being run with the Czech dubbing on TV Markíza (due to the huge similarity of the Czech and Slovak language there is no special need for a Slovak dubbing).
South Africa	Married...with Children		M-Net	The original series ran on the pay channel, M-Net.
Spain	Matrimonio con hijos (Marriage with Children)	Dubbed	TVE2 Canal 300 SET en VEO	The original series were a classic that ran for a decade in the public national channel TVE2. Recently the Spanish TV channel Cuatro did a remake of the original series under the name Matrimonio con Hijos. In Catalonia, the show also ran in Catalan as Casats... i amb fills on TV3 and is currently running on the DTT channels Canal 300 and Sony Entertainment Television en VEO.
Sweden	Våra värsta år (Our Worst Years)	Subtitled	TV3 ZTV TV6	The title is a pun for the title of the long-running soap opera Days of our Lives called Våra bästa år which is Our Best Years. The show has been running repeatedly on the Kinnevik-owned channels TV3 and ZTV since the start of the show and with repeated reruns. After several years off the air, it returned in 2006 as a part of TV6's launch schedule. During the 80s, SVT ran a few seasons of the show, the only channel in Sweden at the time.
Turkey	Evli ve Çocuklu (Married...with Children)		Star TV aTV CNBC-e	The show ran on TRT 2 in the 80s, the making its second run on Star TV and aTV in 90s, CNBC-E with subtitles and currently on e2 in 2000s.
United Kingdom	Married...with Children	None	ITV4 Paramount ITV Sky1 ITV2	The show first aired regionally on ITV between 1988 and 1996, usually late on a Friday night or in the early hours on Saturdays, where it built up a cult following. The then regional structure of ITV meant that people who were able to pick up more than one ITV region could often watch more than one episode a night. From 1996 to 1997 the programme transferred to Sky1 and later aired on ITV2 from 2004 to 2006. It recently appeared for a time on ITV4 and has been shown on cable comedy channel Paramount since 1999. The show does not currently air on UK television.
Ukraine	Щасливі разом (Happy Together)		Novij Kanal	The Russian remake of the show, Счастливы вместе, is currently being shown on Novij Kanal (New Channel) every weekday night from 9:30–10:30.
Latvia	Precējies , ir bērni	Dubbed	TV3 TV6 (Latvia)	(EVERY DAY.)
Venezuela	Casado... con Hijos (Married...with Children)		Venevision, Sony	The show aired from 1994 to 1998 on Venevision. The show still airs on Sony.

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. Both the downtown view and the highway entrance shot were omitted from Season 4 onwards, but the remaining fountain shot included a "In Stereo Where Available" note. Non-English versions might differ, e.g. the dubbed German version always includes the expressway shot. The house exterior seen in the opening sequence is located on Castlewood Lane, Deerfield, IL.

See also

• Unhappily Ever After, another show created by Ron Leavitt, treating similar themes.
• Star-ving, a web series created by David Faustino, where the original cast was reunited.
• Modern Family, a show where Ed O'Neill also plays a family man.
• 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter, a show where Ed O'Neill and Katey Sagal were reunited.

External links

• Official site from Sony Pictures Television
• UK Official site from Sony Pictures Television
• Married with Children at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com
• Married with Children
• Text scripts of many episodes
• Bundyology: floor plans, complete history
• The Married... with Children set in QuickTime VR
• Spike brings back Married