Married... with Children

American television sitcom (1987-1997)

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★ 7.7

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

Aired: 1987–1997
Seasons: 11 · 258 episodes
Status: Ended
Created by: Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt
Network: FOX
Genres: Comedy

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Genre: Sitcom Surreal humour Satire
Created by: Michael G. Moye Ron Leavitt
Showrunners: Ron Leavitt (seasons 1–7) Michael G. Moye (seasons 1–6; 8–9) Richard Gurman Kim Weiskopf (both; season 10) Pamela Eells (season 11)
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Married... with Children is an American television sitcom created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt for the Fox Broadcasting Company, broadcast from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. It is the longest-running live-action sitcom ever aired on Fox. Married... with Children was the first primetime series broadcast on the new Fox network and Fox's second series overall (after The Late Show starring Joan Rivers debuted in 1986). The series' run ended with the episode broadcast on May 5, 1997. Two previously unaired episodes were broadcast on June 9, 1997, and June 18, 2002.

The show is set in Chicago and follows the lives of Al Bundy, a former high school football player turned hard-luck women's shoe salesman; his lazy wife Peggy; their daughter Kelly; and their son Bud. The show also features their neighbors Steve and Marcy Rhoades, both of whom Al finds annoying, and who feel the same way about him. Later in the series, Marcy marries Jefferson D'Arcy, a white-collar criminal and former CIA agent who becomes her "trophy husband" and Al's best friend.