Married... with Children
Married... with Children | |
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Genre | Sitcom Off-color humor |
Created by | Michael G. Moye Ron Leavitt |
Starring | |
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 | 259 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Michael G. Moye (1987–92, 1993–94) Ron Leavitt (1987–93) Katherine Green (1994–95) Richard Gurman Kim Weiskopf (both; 1994–96) Pamela Eells O'Connell (1996–97) |
Producers | Barbara Blachut Cramer (1987–92) John Maxwell Anderson (1992–97) |
Camera setup | Videotape; Multi-camera |
Running time | 23 minutes (Seasons 1–10) 22 minutes (Season 11) |
Production companies | Embassy Communications (1987–88) ELP Communications (1988–97) Columbia Pictures Television (1988–97) |
Original release | |
Network | Fox FX (episode 45) |
Release | April 5, 1987 June 9, 1997 Episode 45: June 18, 2002 | –
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Married... with Children is an American television live-action sitcom that aired on Fox, created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt. Originally broadcast from April 5, 1987 to June 9, 1997, it is the longest-lasting live-action sitcom on Fox, and the first to be broadcast in the network's primetime programming slot.
The show follows the lives of Al Bundy, a once glorious high school football player turned hard-luck women's shoe salesman; his obnoxious wife, Peggy; their attractive, promiscuous, and clueless daughter, Kelly; and their girl-crazy, wisecracking son, Bud. Their neighbors are the upwardly mobile Steve Rhoades and his feminist wife Marcy, who later gets remarried to Jefferson D'Arcy, a white-collar criminal who becomes her "trophy husband" and Al's sidekick. Most storylines involve Al's schemes being foiled by his own cartoonish dim wit and bad luck.
The series comprises 259 episodes and 11 seasons. Its theme song is "Love and Marriage" by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed 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 two 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 during its first season and the remaining seasons by ELP Communications under the studio Columbia Pictures Television.
In 2008, the show placed number 94 on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list.[1]
Cast and characters
Actor | Role | Years | Seasons | Episodes (credited) |
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Ed O'Neill | Al Bundy | 1987–97 | 1–11 | 259 |
Katey Sagal | Margaret "Peggy" Bundy | 1987–97 | 1–11 | 259 |
Amanda Bearse | Marcy Rhoades-D'Arcy | 1987–97 | 1–11 | 259 |
David Garrison | Steve Rhoades | 1987–90, 1992, 1993, 1995 | 1–4, recurring guest 6–91 | 83 |
Christina Applegate | Kelly Bundy | 1987–97 | 1–11 | 259 |
David Faustino | Bud Bundy | 1987–97 | 1–11 | 259 |
Ted McGinley | Jefferson D'Arcy | 1989, 1991–97 | 5–11 | 170 |
- 1 David Garrison left the show during season four, but returned in four episodes as a special guest.
- Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill)—the misanthropic head of the Bundy household; afflicted by the "Bundy curse" that consigns him to an unrewarding career selling women's shoes and a life with a family that mocks and disrespects him, but who still enjoys the simple things in life. He constantly attempts to relive his high-school Big Man On Campus days, when he was the "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 television, his Dodge car with almost 1 million miles on the odometer, and a television show called "Psycho Dad." Despite his family's contempt for him, and his for them, Al is always ready to defend Bundy honor (often with his fists), and he is fiercely protective of daughter Kelly, his "little girl" who rarely had a boyfriend Al didn't beat up.
- Peggy Bundy (Katey Sagal)—Al's wife who is always on his case about money and refuses to clean or cook. She is a lazy, big-haired redhead who spends most of her time parked in front of the TV watching talk shows such as Oprah or robbing Al blind to go shopping; a famously inattentive mother and nagging wife who uses every opportunity to humiliate Al about his job, his meager earnings, and even sexual abilities. Her big taste for things like clothes and male strippers have run Al into debt on numerous occasions. A recurring joke in the series is Al's regret of having married Peggy in the first place; the union was forced on him at shotgun-point. Peggy's best friend is Marcy, with whom she occasionally conspires against Al. Her family is a stereotypical backwoods clan of degenerates whom 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 stereotypical dumb blonde who is often derided as promiscuous and dates men who get under Al's skin to the point of him physically assaulting them. Her stupidity manifests in many ways, from forgetting ideas on the spot to mispronouncing or misspelling simple words. Like her mother, she is quick to steal Al's money for expensive things. Her favorite hobby is belittling her lonely and sexless brother, though she stands up for him against anyone outside the family.
- Bud Bundy (David Faustino)—the younger Bundy offspring, and the most intelligent family member; the first Bundy to attend college. His awkwardness and preoccupation with sex leads to inevitable failures with women. To improve his success with girls, Bud often uses his alternate persona, "Grandmaster B," a bad-boy rapper from New York City. When using the "Grandmaster B" persona, Bud usually wears dark sunglasses and a backward Los Angeles Raiders hat. His mistreatment at the hands of Kelly is returned in kind, making jokes at her expense regarding her promiscuity and stupidity, and tricking her into mixing up TV shows with novels; but when she is in a legitimate bind, Bud will stand up for her, much like Kelly does for him under similar circumstances.
- Marcy Rhoades D'Arcy (Amanda Bearse)—the Bundys' next-door neighbor; Peggy's best friend and Al's nemesis; 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. Ironically, she is just as chauvinistic as Al and the founder and leader of an anti-man support group called "FANG" (Feminists Against Neanderthal Guys). Despite her political correctness and structured life, Marcy harbors a dark, somewhat sexually deviant side, which comes up when she reminisces over events in her past. Al is repulsed by Marcy and frequently belittles her, likening her to a chicken, and mockingly confusing her for an adolescent male. At the outset of the show, Marcy is married to Steve Rhoades. After Steve is written off the show during the fourth season, he is replaced by Jefferson D'Arcy.
- Steve Rhoades (David Garrison) is Marcy's first husband, a nerdy banker who is dragged into Al's schemes, such as going to strip clubs, chasing after girls, watching sports when Marcy disapproves, and reading pornographic magazines. Steve's most prized possession is his Mercedes Benz, which he does not even let Marcy drive. Growing increasingly tired of Marcy's controlling behavior, Steve eventually leaves her during the fourth season to become a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park. He comes back in "The Egg and I" to try and reclaim his old life with Marcy, but finds trouble with Jefferson. Steve later has another job as the chancellor of Bud's college, after blackmailing the previous one he worked under as a chauffeur.
- Jefferson D'Arcy (Ted McGinley), a pretty-boy scam artist to whom Marcy wakes up one morning and discovers she is married. Unlike Steve, Jefferson is an unemployed, lazy dimwit who takes advantage of Marcy. When he gets caught, he distracts her by working his pretty-boy charm and resorting to sexual bartering. Steve and Jefferson do not like each other for personal reasons. In several episodes, Jefferson is implied to have had a past life as a former spy/CIA operative.
It is never explained how Peggy was able to go to high school in Chicago when she lived in Wisconsin. While the audience is aware that Al's father died years ago, his mother's whereabouts are never mentioned or acknowledged.
Recurring characters
- Buck (portrayed by Buck Bundy, originally named "Mike", voiced by Cheech Marin, Kevin Curran, and Kim Weiskopf) – The Bundys' wisecracking dog, that insults his family and is punished upon his death by being reincarnated as Lucky, the dog the Bundys acquire to replace Buck.
Fox broadcast history
Season | Time slot |
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1986–87 | Sunday at 8:00 p.m. |
1987–88 | Sunday at 8:00 p.m. (September 27 - October 18, 1987) Sunday at 8:30 p.m. (October 25, 1987 - May 1, 1988) |
1988–89 | Sunday at 8:30 p.m. |
1989–90 | Sunday at 9:00 p.m. |
1990–91 | |
1991–92 | |
1992–93 | |
1993–94 | |
1994–95 | |
1995–96 | |
1996–97 | Saturday at 9:00 p.m. (September 28 - October 12, 1996) Sunday at 7:30 p.m. (November 10 - December 29, 1996) Monday at 9:30 p.m. (January 6 - 27, 1997) Monday at 9:00 p.m. (February 24 - June 9, 1997) |
On April 22, 2012, Fox re-aired the series premiere in commemoration of its 25th anniversary.[2]
Episodes
During its 11-season run on the Fox network, Married ... with Children aired 258 episodes. A 259th episode, "I'll See You in Court" from season 3, never aired on Fox (see below), but premiered on FX and has since been included on DVD and in syndication packages. The episode counts in the chart below include it. Three specials also aired following the series' cancellation, including a cast reunion.
Nielsen ratings
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Despite the show's enduring popularity and loyal fanbase, Married ... with Children was never a huge ratings success. Part of the reason was the simple fact that Fox, being a new startup network, did not have the affiliate base of the Big Three television networks, thus preventing the series from reaching the entire country. In an interview for a special commemorating the series' 20-year anniversary in 2007, Katey Sagal stated that part of the problem the series faced was that many areas of the country were able to get Fox only through low-quality UHF channels well into the early 1990s, while some areas of the country did not receive the new network at all, a problem not largely rectified until the 1994 United States broadcast TV realignment which brought the NFC football rights to the network.
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 The Garry Shandling Show, Duet, and The Tracey Ullman Show, which were canceled in 1988, 1989, and 1990 respectively. 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 top 50 of television shows for seasons 3 through 9 doing its best overall rating at number 8 for its third and tenth season. Although these ratings were somewhat small in comparison with the other three networks, they were good enough for Fox to keep renewing the show.
Ratings data for some seasons courtesy of TVTango.com.
- 1986–1987 Season 1: #142
- 1987–1988 Season 2: #116 (4.70 rating)
- 1988–1989 Season 3: #48 (10.45 rating)
- 1989–1990 Season 4: #50 (10.12 rating)
- 1990–1991 Season 5: #30 (13.00 rating)
- 1991–1992 Season 6: #29 (13.36 rating)
- 1992–1993 Season 7: #37 (11.97 rating)
- 1993–1994 Season 8: #46 (10.77 rating)
- 1994–1995 Season 9: #49 (10.10 rating)
- 1995–1996 Season 10: #56 (9.20 rating)
- 1996–1997 Season 11: #63 (8.70 rating)
Controversy
In 1989, Terry Rakolta, from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, led a boycott[3] of the show after viewing the episode "Her Cups Runneth Over".[4] Offended by the images of an old man wearing a woman's garter and stockings, the scene where Steve touches the pasties 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 whilst 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".[citation needed] This episode would become known as the "Lost Episode" and was aired on FX 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.
Ironically, 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. She has been referenced twice on the show: "Rock and Roll Girl",[citation needed] when a newscaster mentioned the city Bloomfield Hills, and "No Pot to Pease In",[citation needed] when a television show was made about the Bundy family and then was cancelled because (according to Marcy) "some woman in Michigan didn't like it".
The conservative Parents Television Council named Married... with Children the worst show of both the 1995–96 and 1996–97 television seasons in its first two years in operation.[5][6] In 1996, the organization called the show the "crudest comedy on prime time television...peppered with lewd punch lines about sex, masturbation, the gay lifestyle, and the lead character's fondness for pornographic magazines and strip clubs."[5]
Home releases
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released all eleven 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.[7]
In December 2007, the Big Bundy Box — a special collection box with all seasons plus new interviews with Sagal and David Faustino — was released.[8] This boxset was released in Australia (Region 4) on November 23, 2009.[9]
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.[10] 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 had acquired the home media rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library including Married... with Children[11] with the original theme song "Love and Marriage" sung by Frank Sinatra. They have subsequently re-released the 11 seasons on DVD.[12][13][14][15][16][17] A complete series DVD set was re-released on July 7, 2015.
DVD Name | Ep # | Release dates | DVD Special Features | ||
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Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | |||
Season One | 13 | October 28, 2003[18] | April 7, 2004 | October 25, 2005[19] | Married with Children Reunion |
Season Two | 22 | March 16, 2004[20] | October 26, 2004 | September 22, 2008[21] | Clips From The 2003 Reunion |
Season Three | 22 | January 25, 2005[22] | February 10, 2005 | September 22, 2008[23] | Clips From The 2003 Reunion |
Season Four | 23 | August 30, 2005[24] | December 22, 2005 | September 22, 2008[25] | None |
Season Five | 25 | June 20, 2006[26] | June 27, 2006 | September 22, 2008[27] | Promos For Other TV Shows |
Season Six | 26 | December 19, 2006[28] | August 17, 2006 | September 22, 2008[29] | Promos For Other TV Shows |
Season Seven | 26 | September 18, 2007[30] | October 5, 2006 | September 22, 2008[31] | None |
Season Eight | 26 | March 18, 2008[32] | December 19, 2006 | October 22, 2008[33] | None |
Season Nine | 26 | August 19, 2008[34] | February 20, 2007 | October 22, 2008[35] | None |
Season Ten | 27 | March 17, 2009[36] | March 20, 2007 | March 11, 2009[37] | None |
Season Eleven | 24 | October 13, 2009[38] | May 8, 2007 | March 11, 2009[39] | Promos For Other TV Shows |
The Complete Series | 259 | October 13, 2009[38] | November 22, 2009 | November 23, 2009 [39] | Married With Children Reunion (2003)
Clips From The 2003 Reunion David Faustino Interview Katey Sagal Interview Promo For other TV Shows. Bonus Wall Poster. |
Merchandise
Books
- Pig Out With Peg - Secrets from the Bundy Family Kitchen, 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
Comic books
Married... with Children was adapted into a comic book series by NOW Comics in 1990.[40]
Toys
Board game
Action figures
Two series (10 in all) of 8" action figures were produced by Classic TV Toys in 2005 and 2006.[42]
International remakes
- Argentina
An Argentine remake was made in 2005, called Casados con Hijos. The series was also shown by local channels in Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru. Only two seasons were made (2005 and 2006), but it is still aired Monday through Friday at 2pm and Saturday at 11.30 pm by Telefe.[43]
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 Marcy and Jefferson D'Arcy, 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.[44]
- Bulgaria
In Bulgaria a remake is airing from March 26, 2012 with the name Женени с деца в България (Zheneni s detsa v Bulgaria) (Married with children in Bulgaria).[45]
- 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.[46]
- Germany
In Germany, the 1992 remake Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt, broadcast in the prime time, reached double the audience than the original (broadcast in the early fringe time). This, however, was not enough to maintain the series, so it was cancelled after one season.[47] The remake used the exact translated scripts of the original series (which already substituted localised humour and in-jokes for incomprehensible references to American TV shows not shown in Germany, as well as some totally different jokes) and just renamed place and person names according to the new setting.[48]
Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt was aired from March to December 1993 for 26 episodes.[49]
- 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[50] (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.[51][52][53]
- 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 Happy Together (Sсhastlivy Vmeste; Happy Together), is now airing on TNT channel across the country.[54][55]
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), Baron Bukin (based on Buck and Lucky, played by Bayra).[56]
- 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 UK version called Married for Life, which lasted for one series with seven episodes.[57]
Spin-offs
Top of the Heap was a 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 & Bobby a year later, which was also cancelled.
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 called Radio Free Trumaine where Garrison played the Dean.[58] Enemies was another spin-off, but played to be a spoof on the TV series, Friends.[59][60]
On September 11, 2014, it was announced that a spin-off was in the works, centered on the character of Bud Bundy.[61]
Mentions in other media
In the 2001 film Donnie Darko, the eponymous protagonist mentions the series while under hypnosis, confessing he has recurring erotic fantasies involving Christina Applegate.[62]
U.S. syndication and international airings
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Distributed by Columbia Pictures Television Distribution (now Sony Pictures Television Distribution), Married... with Children debuted in off-network syndication in the fall of 1991. The series reran on weeknights at 6pm & 6:30pm on New York's local UPN's affiliate WWOR-TV until it was replaced by reruns of Sister, Sister in Fall 1998. Reruns of the series was followed by the reruns of Martin at 7pm on WWOR-TV. 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".[63]
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 runs for two to three hours (on rare occasions four or five) 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 acquired 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.[64] All three cable channels are owned by Viacom.[65] The comedy began airing on Nick at Nite on July 6, 2011.[66] MTV2 added the series on March 21, 2012 and VH1 Classic began airing the series on April 9, 2012. The series has aired on a total of seven MTV Networks owned cable networks since 2008. It airs on Antenna TV, Ion Television and TBS.
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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Australia | Married...with Children | None | Network Ten Nine Network GO! (a sub-channel of the Nine Network) (2009-2010) 7mate (2015-2016) 7flix (2016-present) TV1 |
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Argentina | Casados con Hijos | Dubbed | Channel 26 Sony Entertainment Television |
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Austria | Eine schrecklich nette Familie (An Awfully Nice Family) |
Dubbed | ORF ATV 2 |
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Belgium (Flanders) | Married... with Children | Subtitled | Eén VIER |
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Brazil | Um amor de Família (A Lovely Family) |
Dubbed Subtitled |
Sony Entertainment Television PlayTV |
The show runs on Sony Entertainment Television and Comedy Central Brasil (since 2012 February) with original sound and subtitles (source: http://www.comedycentral.com.br/programas/married-with-children)/, the dubbed version runs on PlayTV. 57 dubbed and subtitled episodes are now available on Brazilian Netflix. |
Bulgaria | Женени с деца (Married with Children) |
Dubbed | bTV Fox life Diema |
Airing on bTV Comedy. |
Canada | Married...with Children | Dubbed in French in Quebec | CMT Global Spike Deja View TVtropolis CFMT |
Broadcasting on Spike and Deja View. |
Chile | Casado con hijos | Subtitled | Sony Entertainment Television | Today the show runs on Sony Entertainment Television. |
Colombia | Casado con hijos | Subtitled | Cadena 1 Sony Entertainment Television Comedy Central |
The original series aired in Colombia presented by Cinevision on cadena 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 Caracol Channel and CityTv. |
Croatia | Bračne vode (Marriage Waters) |
Subtitled | HRT RTL Televizija Nova TV Fox Life |
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 | TV3 Comedy Central |
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Dominican Republic | Casado con Hijos (Married with Children) |
Dubbed | Telesistema 11 | |
Estonia | Tuvikesed (Loveydoves) |
Subtitled | Kanal 12 | Broadcast before midnight on Kanal 12, episode rerun on next weekday morning. |
Finland | Pulmuset (Loveydoves) |
Subtitled | MTV3 Nelonen TV5 |
Being rerun on TV5. |
France | Mariés, deux enfants (Married, Two Children) |
Dubbed | M6 Comédie! |
Runs on the cable channel Comédie!. |
Germany | Eine schrecklich nette Familie (An Awfully Nice Family) |
Dubbed | RTL ProSieben Kabel1 Comedy Central kabel eins classics RTL Nitro |
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 |
A cable television called CoolTV airs 3 episodes and PrizmaTV 2 episodes each day. |
Ireland | Married...with Children | None | RTÉ Two | All episodes aired; reruns have been aired |
Israel | נשואים פלוס (Married Plus) |
Subtitled | Yes Comedy | It is on the air, on "Yes" satellite, on the "Yes Comedy" Channel. The show can be seen on HOT cable television, in the channel Bip, channel 6. There is a version in the Russian language which is under production and can be seen on channel 9. A shoe store in Herzliya named itself "Bundy Shoes" (even though the fictional shop in the series is named "Gary's"). |
Italy | Sposati ... Con Figli (Married ... With Children) |
Dubbed | Canale 5 and Sky Show | The first broadcast by Canale 5 (later of Mediaset group). |
Kazakhstan | Счастливы вместе (Happy Together) |
NTK | The Russian remake of the show, Счастливы вместе, is 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. |
Latvia | Precējies, ir bērni | Dubbed | TV3 TV6 (Latvia) |
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Mexico | Married...with Children | Dubbed | Comedy Central Sony Entertainment Television |
Runs on Comedy Central. |
Netherlands | Married...with Children | Subtitled | Veronica RTL7 Comedy Central |
Originally aired on Veronica, RTL7. The show is being broadcast on Comedy Central. |
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 named Våre verste år (Our worst years), but was later renamed Bundy. Original run on TV3, now in reruns after midnight every day except weekends on TV3. Reruns have also been shown on TV3's sister channel Viasat 4. |
Paraguay | Matrimonio con Hijos (Marriage with Children) |
Dubbed | Unicanal Sony Entertainment Television |
The sitcom runs on Unicanal from Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 pm |
Peru | Matrimonio con Hijos (Marriage with Children) |
Dubbed | 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 the Bundys) |
Voice-over | Polsat | The show was aired many times on Polsat and is still broadcast on that channel. The series' success brought about a local TV show 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, which is why it is usually not considered a remake. |
Romania | Familia Bundy (The Bundy Family) |
Subtitled | PRO TV PRO Cinema Antena 1 Antena 2 |
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Serbia | Брачне воде / Bračne vode (Marriage Waters) |
Subtitled Dubbed (Season 1) |
Fox televizija Fox Life |
The show airs on Fox Life, all seasons with subtitles only. |
Singapore | Married with Children | None | STAR World | Married with Children is on air every Monday to Friday during the minisodes. |
Slovenia | Družina za umret (Family to die for) |
Subtitled | Kanal A | |
Slovakia | Ženatý se závazky (Married with commitments) |
Dubbed | Markíza | The show is being run with the Czech dubbing on TV Markíza. |
South Africa | Married...with Children | None | M-Net | The original series ran on the pay channel, M-Net. |
Spain | Matrimonio con hijos (Marriage with Children) |
Dubbed | TVE2 TV3 (Catalonia) SET en VEO |
The original series were a classic that ran for a decade in the public national channel TVE2 and in TV3 (Catalonia). The Spanish TV channel Cuatro did a remake of the original series under the name Matrimonio con Hijos.[67] In Catalonia, the show is 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 name "Våra värsta år" is a pun on the name "Våra bästa år" ("Our best years") as "Days of our lives" is called in Sweden. |
Turkey | Evli ve Çocuklu (Married...with Children) |
Dubbed | Star TV aTV CNBC-e |
On e2 in 2000s. |
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. |
United Kingdom | Married...with Children | None | ITV ITV2 Sky1 |
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Uruguay | Matrimonio con hijos (Marriage with children) |
Dubbed | Canal 12 | |
Venezuela | Casado... con Hijos (Married...with Children) |
Dubbed | Venevisión, Sony Entertainment Television |
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. Both the downtown view and the highway entrance shot were omitted from Season 4 onwards, but the remaining fountain shot included an "In Stereo Where Available" note. Non-English versions might differ, e.g. the dubbed German version always includes the expressway shot.[68]
In Pop Culture
- Forensic Files [69] Linda Sobek had an audition for Married with Children the day that she was murdered by Charles Rathbun.
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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