Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda) and Trapper John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers) stand together in a tent in M*A*S*H - 20th Century Television We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Stacker compiled data on all comedy TV shows from 1970-1979 and ranked them according to iMDb user rating, with ties broken by votes.

The 1970s saw the television medium in the United States push the boundaries of network content restrictions and other pre-existing storytelling limitations. That meant shows like "Saturday Night Live ...

For folks who grew up in the 1970s, television was a wildly different place than it is now. Not only was it an era of some truly wild sci-fi adventures on the small screen, but fantasy was having its ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When it came to television in the 1970s, the times were a-changing — and not a moment too soon. During the decade, the television industry saw ...