Comedy Series - The first domestic sitcom MARY KAY AND JOHNNY/DUM/NBC/CBS/1947-50 starred real-life married couple Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns as a newlywed couple who lived in New York's Greenwich Village. True to the sitcom formulas of the early days of television, Mary Kay was a zany, trouble prone wife and Johnny Stearns was the responsible, level-headed husband who rescued her from comic mix ups. The Stearns had a child in real-life in December 1948 and within a month of the birth, the baby was written into the script. This predated the historic birth of another husband and wife comedy team (Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz) on the sitcom I LOVE LUCY who gave birth to Desi Arnaz, Jr. on January 19, 1953. Some, however, consider THE GOLDBERGS/CBS/NBC/DUM/1949-55 to be the first sitcom on television because it was a televised continuation of a program which had been running successfully on radio since 1929. Norman Lear's sitcom ALL IN THE FAMILY was the first sitcom to abandon film for the videotape format. BROTHERS/HBO/1984 was the first sitcom produced for pay cable TV.