Married...With Children or Married with Children is an American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago that lasted 11 seasons over a span of 10 years and the first-ever prime time television series to air on Fox, debuting on April 5, 1987, and airing its final first-run broadcast on June 9, 1997. The series was created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt. The show featured various racy topics, which garnered the fledgling Fox network a standing among the Big Three Television Networks (i.e. ABC, CBS and NBC).

The series' 262 episodes over 11 seasons make it the longest lasting live-action sitcom on the Fox network. The show's theme song is "Love and Marriage" by Frank Sinatra from the 1955 television production Our Town.

The series was produced by Embassy Television/ELP Communications, with production being assumed by successor studio Columbia Pictures Television (and eventually Columbia TriStar Television). Part of Sony Pictures Television's library, it aired in syndication on FX Network in the United States since 1999 and will end its run in 2008 and begin airing on Spike in the United States in 2008. It also airs on CMT and TVtropolis in Canada.

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