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Order by the year each series first aired. You place all 70 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the Sitcoms timeline game

Every card is a situation comedy, mostly American with a strong showing of British favorites, and the network that first ran it is printed under the title. Place them by the year each series first aired, which may be well before its most popular years. One show opens on the timeline with its year revealed. Choose a gap for each new card. A good placement reveals the year; a bad one still sends the show to its true spot, but costs one of three lives.

Long runs are the main trap. A series you remember from reruns or its final seasons may have premiered much earlier than it feels, since syndication keeps old shows in the living room for decades. The network line offers a hint, because newer channels and streaming services only go back so far, and British channels came along at different times. Remember that a show's setting says little about when it was made, and a period piece can easily fool you.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 70 cards you might be dealt, with 42 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • I Love Lucy CBS
  • Leave It to Beaver CBS
  • The Beverly Hillbillies CBS
  • Gilligan's Island CBS
  • I Dream of Jeannie NBC
  • The Brady Bunch ABC
  • M*A*S*H CBS
  • Happy Days ABC
  • Laverne & Shirley ABC
  • Taxi ABC
  • Cheers NBC
  • Blackadder BBC One
  • ALF NBC
  • Full House ABC
  • Seinfeld NBC
  • Fresh Prince of Bel-Air NBC
  • The Nanny CBS
  • The Vicar of Dibley BBC One
  • Will & Grace NBC
  • Malcolm in the Middle Fox
  • Peep Show Channel 4
  • Two and a Half Men CBS
  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia FX
  • The IT Crowd Channel 4
  • Parks and Recreation NBC
  • Community NBC
  • Schitt's Creek CBC
  • The Good Place NBC

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