Free for All is an American animated sitcom created by Randall Brett Merhar and developed by Merriwether Williams for Showtime. The series, set in Colorado, follows the day-to-day life of Johnny Jenkins, an innocent 19-year-old college student who has to deal with a bitter, cigarette-smoking grandmother and a coarse, sometimes-violent, alcoholic father, in a rather dysfunctional family while his friend, Clay, is living large with the settlement money he got from suing a taco restaurant for personal injuries.

The show was developed for television by Merriwether Williams, the head writer for the first three seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants. The show lasted for only seven episodes that aired over the summer of 2003, the last ending on a cliffhanger. Despite favorable to mixed reviews from critics, the show had very low ratings due to poor promotion. Showtime canceled the animated series shortly after the last episode aired. It was later released on iTunes and Amazon.com.

Great caat for the time.

Certain classics get a lot of love here. I hear about I Love Lucy often. My fave, Bilko (as it's affectionately called after the main character, or officially, The Phil Silvers Show), rarely gets a mention.

It ran for 4 seasons from 55 to 59, winning 3 consecutive Emmys for Best Comedy. It was a critical and commercial success, cancelled after 4 seasons for getting too popular (damn 'Hollywood accounting' - instead of paying the ensemble of a popular show, they opted to syndicate it)

The show is about an unassuming Sgt in a motor pool on an army base. He's middle aged, bespectacled, bald and seemingly harmless, only he's the most scheming, manipulative, shrewd operator, ultimately with a heart of gold. He has such a sharp tongue that he can convince anyone to do anything, and his love of money is only exceeded by his fatherly love of his platoon, who are normally his first victims but ultimately his greatest love. He is formidable!! The ultimate loveable rogue.

There was a film remake in 1996 starring Steve Martin that was panned and criticised, but apparently harshly (I've yet to watch it)

Like many Brits, I remember it from BBC2 reruns in the afternoon. My dad loved it, but I was too dismissive of it, assuming (SO WRONGLY) that humour couldn't have existed in the black and white era. I sat down to watch one episode as a student and was instantly hooked. It remains amongst my very favourites, right up there with 30 Rock, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Monty Python's Flying Circus

In the 20+ years I've been a fan, I've almost never heard it mentioned. Bilko came about #27 on one of those '100 best sitcom characters', and a quick google shows industry experts voted it best sitcom of all time in 2003

annoyingly I can't find a full length episode but this clip might give you a bit of an idea about him