Gilligan's Island

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Modern Family Cast Poses as Old TV Favorites

Originally posted 01/04/2013 03:00PM

Hold the laugh track!

Modern Family is already a TV classic – but members of its cast are looking to the past and paying homage to iconic shows in a new photo. In this exclusive shot, the ensemble from ABC's Emmy-winning hit comedy takes on the personas (in full hair and makeup) of beloved characters from 60-plus years of classic sitcoms. For fuller-sized images, click through the carousel of photos above.

Who among these was your favorite?

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Filed Under: Bewitched, Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy, Modern Family, The Honeymooners, TV News, Ariel Winter, Dawn Wells, Desi Arnaz, Ed O'Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen, Lucille Ball, Sarah Hyland, Sofia Vergara, Tina Louise, Ty Burrell

Pick the Best TV Theme Song

Originally posted 07/03/2012 01:15PM

Great TV show theme songs have a tendency to sneak up on you when you least expect it. Often times, you'll find yourself humming one while taking a shower or walking down the street – and soon enough it'll be stuck in your head for the entire rest of the day!

But that's what makes a theme great. It worms its way into your brain and stays there for as long as you can remember, just like a decent Top 40 hit. Sometimes, if it's good enough, it'll even stick around after a show has ended.

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Filed Under: All in the Family, Cheers, Friends, Gilligan's Island, Hill Street Blues, M*A*S*H, Mission: Impossible, The Addams Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Welcome Back, Kotter, TV News

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Sherwood Schwartz, The Brady Bunch Creator, Dies

Originally posted 07/12/2011 02:25PM

Sherwood Schwartz, who created two of the most popular sitcoms of the '60s and '70s, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, died Tuesday in Los Angeles of natural causes, surrounded by his family, a family member announced. He was 94.

Not only did Schwartz send the passengers and crew of the Minnow on a three-hour tour, one that lasted from 1964 to 1967 (and forever after in reruns), but he also wrote the Gilligan's theme song.

He did the same for the 1969-74 Brady Bunch, about a widow and a widower with a lot of kids – and a sagacious housekeeper.

And while critics threw bricks at both shows, the public lapped them up – possibly, at least in the case of The Brady Bunch, because he grounded the show in some type of reality.