The first two seasons of the series were videotaped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood. Its theme song is ' Love and Marriage' by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Frank Sinatra from the 1955 television production Our Town. The series is one of the longest running sitcoms in television history, comprising eleven seasons with 259 episodes during its run. The show also prominently features their neighbors, the stuffy Steve and Marcy Rhoades, both of whom Al finds somewhat annoying, although the feeling is mutual from the Rhoades and later, Marcy's second husband Jefferson D'Arcy, a white-collar criminal who becomes her 'trophy husband' and Al's sidekick. The show follows the Chicago lives of Al Bundy, a once-glorious high school football player turned hard-luck women's shoe salesman his lazy wife, Peggy their pretty and dim-witted daughter, Kelly and their smart-aleck son, Bud. In addition to the show's original run, one episode that was not screened on Fox when filmed on January 6, 1989, was aired on FX on June 18, 2002, five years after its conclusion. Originally broadcast from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997, it is the longest-lasting live-action sitcom on Fox and one of the longest-running live-action sitcoms in television history alongside Cheers of NBC and M*A*S*H of CBS and the first to be broadcast in the network's primetime slot. with Children is an American television sitcom created by Michael G.
