The year before Modern Family debuted, Fred Goss brought this gem to ABC. Similar in scope to it's successor, it was slightly darker in tone and laugh out loud funny. Eden Sher went on to play another daughter in The Middle.

George Jefferson was a neighbor of Archie Bunker who made it big with his dry cleaning business and moved uptown with his wife, Louise. After airing from 1975-1985, the show wasn't given a proper ending. The Jeffersons later appeared in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and bought the house next to the Banks and George visited Tyler Perry's House of Pain in 2011.

So much death and strife and we just keep coming back for more from this wealthy (and then not so wealthy and then wealthy again) family from England.