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What are you watching? Readers recommend their favorite sitcoms

which aired on NBC from 1989 to 1998, is my favorite sitcom. But the squabble for second place could be robust. Up for nomination: CBS’s , which aired from 1955 to 1956, and , which ran from is there, too, but is consigned to its historical time period. The topics addressed in “The Honeymooners” and “Amos ’n’  Andy” are timeless, good during in any period, as are the ones in “Seinfeld.”

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