''Married... with Children'' is an American
sitcom that aired for 11 seasons that featured a
dysfunctional family living in
Chicago, Illinois. 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.
The series' 11-season, 259-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 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 on its first season and the remaining seasons by ELP Communications under the studio Columbia Pictures Television (and eventually Columbia TriStar Television).
In 2007, it was listed as one of ''Time'' Magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time." In 2008, The show placed #94 on ''Entertainment Weekly'' "New TV Classics" list.
On April 22, 2012, Fox showed the series premiere in honor of its 25th anniversary.
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 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 with and loathing for Marcy play a significant role in most episodes.
Cast and characters
Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill)The 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 star running back. His most noted achievement was having scored four touchdowns in a single game.
Peggy Bundy (Katey Sagal)is Al's wife who is always on his case about money and refuses to clean or cook around the house. She is a lazy, big-haired, red-head 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 Peg in the first place, which was a union forced upon him at the point of a shotgun. Peggy's best friend is Marcy, with whom she occasionally colludes to conspire against Al. Her family is a stereotypical backwoods clan of degenerates whom she forces the other Bundys to put up with from time to time, especially her morbidly obese mother whom Al finds intolerable.
Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate)The older child of the Bundy clan; 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/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 Bud against anyone outside of the family.
Bud Bundy (David Faustino)The younger of Al and Peggy's children, and the most intelligent member of the family. His awkwardness and preoccupation with sex leads to inevitable failures with women. Despite his flaws Bud is the only Bundy to attend college. In an attempt to improve his success with girls, Bud often uses his alternate persona, "Grandmaster B", a bad boy rapper from New York. When using the "Grandmaster B" persona, Bud usually wears dark sunglasses and a backwards 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, but when she is in a legitimate bind, Bud will stand up for Kelly.
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 is chauvinistic and the founder and leader of an anti-man support group called "F.A.N.G." (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 a 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 "nudie" magazines. Steve's most prized possession is his Mercedes, 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.
Jefferson D'Arcy (Ted McGinley), a pretty-boy and scam-artist with 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.
Buck (portrayed by Buck Bundy, originally named "Mike", voiced by Cheech Marin, Kevin Curran, and Kim Weiskopf)The Bundys' wisecracking dog, who insults his family and is punished upon his death by being reincarnated as Lucky, the dog the Bundys acquire to replace Buck.
Recurring characters
Fox broadcast history
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| April 1987 – October 1987
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Sunday, 8:00 p.m.
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| October 1987 – July 1989
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Sunday, 8:30 p.m.
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Sunday, 9:00 p.m.
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Saturday, 9:00 p.m.
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Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
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Monday, 9:00 p.m.
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Episodes
During its eleven-season run on the Fox network, ''Married... with Children'' aired 259 episodes. There were also three specials that aired following the series' cancellation, including a cast reunion.
Nielsen ratings
Despite the show's enduring popularity and loyal
fanbase, ''Married... with Children'' never was a true ratings winner. Part of the reason was the simple fact that Fox, being a new start-up 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 only able to get Fox through low quality
UHF channels well into the early 1990s while some areas of the country did not receive the new network at all.
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 which 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'', all of 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 four through eight doing its best overall rating at number 29 for its sixth season. Although these ratings were small in comparison to 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: #142
1987-1988 Season: #116 (4.70 rating)
1988-1989 Season: #58 (10.45 rating)
1989-1990 Season: #50 (12.90 rating)
1990-1991 Season: #50 (11.80 rating)
1991-1992 Season: #29 (13.36 rating)
1992-1993 Season: #37 (11.97 rating)
1993-1994 Season: #46 (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
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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)
'''Other:
2009: TV Land Awards – Innovator Award (entire cast)
Controversy and edited content
Rakolta boycott
In 1989,
Terry Rakolta, a housewife from
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, led a boycott against ''Married... with Children'' after viewing the episode "
Her Cups Runneth Over". 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". 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.
Rakolta has been referenced twice on the show: "Rock and Roll Girl", when a newscaster mentioned the city Bloomfield Hills, and "No Pot to Pease In", 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".
DVD 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.
| rowspan="2" | DVD Name !! rowspan="2"|Ep # !! colspan="3"|Release dates |
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The Complete First Season | | 13 |
October 28, 2003 |
April 7, 2004 |
October 25, 2005
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| The Complete Second Season |
style="text-align:center;"22 || | March 16, 2004 |
October 26, 2004 |
September 22, 2008
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| The Complete Third Season |
style="text-align:center;"22 || | January 25, 2005 |
February 10, 2005 |
September 22, 2008
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| The Complete Fourth Season |
style="text-align:center;"23 || | August 30, 2005 |
December 22, 2005 |
September 22, 2008
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| The Complete Fifth Season |
style="text-align:center;"25 || | June 20, 2006 |
June 27, 2006 |
September 22, 2008
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| The Complete Sixth Season |
style="text-align:center;"26 || | December 19, 2006 |
August 17, 2006 |
September 22, 2008
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| The Complete Seventh Season |
style="text-align:center;"26 || | September 18, 2007 |
October 5, 2006 |
September 22, 2008
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| The Complete Eighth Season |
style="text-align:center;"26 || | March 18, 2008 |
December 19, 2006 |
October 22, 2008
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| The Complete Ninth Season |
style="text-align:center;"26 || | August 19, 2008 |
February 20, 2007 |
October 22, 2008
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| The Complete Tenth Season |
style="text-align:center;"27 || | March 17, 2009 |
March 20, 2007 |
March 11, 2009
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| The Complete Eleventh Season |
style="text-align:center;"24 || | October 13, 2009 |
May 8, 2007 |
March 11, 2009
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DVD special features
Season 1: Married With Children Reunion Special
Season 2: Clips From The Married With Children Reunion Special
Season 3: Clips From The Married With Children Reunion Special
Season 4: None
Season 5: Trailers for other TV Shows
Season 6: Trailers for other TV Shows
Season 7: None
Season 8: None
Season 9: None
Season 10: None
Season 11: Trailers for other TV Shows
(Note: The Big Bundy Box set's Special Features contains interviews with Bud and Peggy)
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.
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 November 23, 2009.
The DVD box set is rated PG for Parental Guidance in Australia and PG in New Zealand for sexual references.
International remakes
An Argentine remake was made in 2005, called ''
Casados con Hijos''. The success of the series trascended the borders of
Argentina, being also issued by local channels in
Uruguay,
Paraguay and
Peru. It only had two seasons (2005 and 2006), but thanks to the incredible success of the sitcom, still airs Monday through Friday at 2pm by
Telefe.
In Armenia a remake made in 2009, with the name ''Բնակարան N2'' (Bnakaran N2) (Apartment #2).
In Bulgaria a remake is currently airing from March 26, 2012 with the name ''Женени с деца в България'' (Zheneni s deca v Balgaria) (Married with children in Bulgaria).
In Germany, the 1992 remake ''""'', 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. 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.
'''' was aired from March to December 1993 for 26 episodes.
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 '''' (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.
The Original ''Married... With Children'' ran off at the mouth 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 a box on the top floor of a small building, and the Stepanovs/Polenos live in the box 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.
In 1996, the UK production company Carlton Television produced ''
Married for Life'', a seven-episode sitcom that lasted one season. The Bundys were renamed as the Butlers,
Russ Abbott played Ted/Al, Susan Kydd was Pam/Peggy, Lucy Blakely played Lucy/Kelly, and Peter England was Lee/Bud. The D'Arcys were renamed Hollingsworth and the Steve character was recast with
Hugh Bonneville and Marcy was renamed Judy and played by
Julie Dawn Cole. The series featured an early performance from
Rob Brydon.
Episode List
1. For Whom The Bell Tolls (5 Mar)
2. If I Were A Rich Man (12 Mar)
3. Sixteen Years And What Do You Get? (19 Mar)
4. Where's The Boss? (26 Mar)
5. Whose Room Is It Anyway? (2 Apr)
6. My Mum, The Mum (9 Apr)
7. Eating Out (16 Apr)
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 & 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.
''Married... with Children'' originally debuted in off-network syndication distributed by Columbia Pictures Television Distribution (now Sony Pictures Television Distribution) 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".
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 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. All three cable channels are owned by Viacom. The comedy began aring on Nick at Nite on July 6, 2011. 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.
''Married...with Children'' has also been a ratings success in other countries around the world.
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Брачне воде / Bračne vode(''Marriage Waters'')
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[[Fox televizijaFox Life
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The show airs on Fox Life, all seasons with subtitles only.
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Married with Children
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Star World
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Married with Children is currently on air every Monday to Friday during the minisodes.
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Družina za umret(''Family to die for'')
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Kanal A
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Married...with Children
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TV Markíza
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The show is being run with the Czech dubbing on TV Markíza.
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Married...with Children
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M-Net
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The original series ran on the pay channel, M-Net.
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Matrimonio con hijos (''Marriage with Children'')
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Dubbed
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TVE2Canal 300SET en VEO
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The original series were a classic that ran for a decade in the public national channel TVE2. Recently the Spanish TV channel Cuatro TV |
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Våra värsta år(''Our Worst Years'')
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Subtitled
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Evli ve Çocuklu(''Married...with Children'')
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Currently on e2 in 2000s (decade).
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Щасливі разом(''Happy Together'')
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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.
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Married...with Children
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ITVSky One
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Matrimonio con hijos(''Marriage with children'')
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Dubbed
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Canal 12
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Precējies, ir bērni
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Dubbed
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(EVERY DAY.)
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Casado... con Hijos (''Married...with Children'')
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Venevision, Sony
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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 an "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 641 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.
References
External links
Official site from Sony Pictures Television
UK Official site from Sony Pictures Television
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
http://www.russabbot.co.uk/html/married_for_life.html
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Category:Television shows set in Chicago, Illinois
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be-x-old:Шлюб... зь дзецьмі
bg:Женени с деца
cs:Ženatý se závazky
da:Vore værste år
de:Eine schrecklich nette Familie
et:Tuvikesed
es:Married with Children
fr:Mariés, deux enfants
hr:Bračne vode
id:Married with Children
it:Sposati... con figli
he:נשואים פלוס
la:Married... with Children
lv:Precējies. Ir bērni
lt:Vedęs ir turi vaikų
hu:Egy rém rendes család
nl:Married... with Children
no:Våre verste år
pl:Świat według Bundych
pt:Married... with Children
ro:Familia Bundy
ru:Женаты… с детьми
sk:Ženatý so záväzkami
sl:Družina za umret
sr:Брачне воде
sh:Married... with Children
fi:Pulmuset
sv:Våra värsta år
tr:Evli ve Çocuklu
uk:Одружені … та з дітьми
