5 ’70s Sitcoms Too Strange to Last, Ranked

The article ranks five 1970s sitcoms whose unusual premises and short runs made them outliers in the decade’s more successful, socially conscious comedy. It argues that experiments involving space travel, ghosts, animals and a robotic detective struggled to sustain their ideas, and none lasted beyond one season as a live-action series.

The supplied text describes three of the five shows. *Come Back Mrs. Noah*, starring Mollie Sugden as a woman accidentally launched into space, ran for six episodes; *The Ghost Busters*, a children’s comedy about inept paranormal investigators, ran for 15 and later inspired an animated revival after a film borrowed its name. *Me and the Chimp* began with a family taking in a stray chimpanzee, but the article text cuts off before detailing its run or the remaining two shows.