20 Legendary Sitcom Stars Who Have Passed Away

They walked into our living rooms every week and became part of our families. This film remembers twenty sitcom stars in the order they passed, starting with Desi Arnaz in 1986, and looks at what each of them gave us. Stay for all twenty, and laugh a little and cry a little along the way. Chapters: 0:00 Remembering twenty sitcom stars 0:34 Why the sitcom is a special art 0:52 Desi Arnaz and multi-camera filming 1:32 Jackie Gleason, the Great One 2:11 Lucille Ball and Lucy Ricardo 2:56 Redd Foxx of Sanford and Son 3:40 Phil Hartman, glue of SNL 4:18 Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker 5:02 John Ritter and Three's Company 5:38 Art Carney as Ed Norton 6:11 Don Knotts, Mayberry's Barney Fife 6:54 Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo 7:34 Bea Arthur of Maude and Golden Girls 8:12 Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux 8:39 Andy Griffith, sheriff of Mayberry 9:12 Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker 9:43 Mary Tyler Moore's hat toss 10:24 Valerie Harper as Rhoda 10:54 Jerry Stiller and Frank Costanza 11:28 Ed Asner as Lou Grant 11:57 Betty White, Rose Nylund and beyond 12:37 Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing 13:17 Friends waiting in the reruns