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WandaVision: Classic TV Inspiration

Did you love WandaVision’s clever recreation of classic sitcoms through the years? Many of the great shows referenced are available in our DVD collection. Find out what made Wanda love them or revisit one of your old favorites!

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  • From the set to the acting choices, this show was one of the biggest influences on WandaVision's early episodes. Trip into the living room of comedy writer Rob Petrie, lovely wife, Laura, his son, wisecracking co-workers and nutty neighbors. And…
    DVD, 2003Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment ; [United States] : Paul Brownstein Productions, [2003] — DVD DICK VA
  • Ricky loves madcap Lucy and she loves him in one of the most influential sitcoms of all time. WandaVision tips its hat to this show by using separate beds for the romantic leads - just like Ricky and Lucy and other 1950s sitcom couples.
    DVD, 2012Hollywood, Calif. : CBS DVD, [2012] — DVD I LOVE
  • You'll be as bewitched as Wanda by this classic television show about a housewife with magical powers.
    DVD, 2014Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Television, [2014] — DVD BEWITCH
  • After a broken engagement, Mary Richards moves to the big city to prove she's "gonna make it after all" in this iconic 70s sitcom.
    DVD, 2002Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2002] — DVD MARY TY
  • Here's the story of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls, and a man named Brady, who was busy with three boys of his own. Put them together and that's the way they all became the Brady Bunch!
    DVD, 2005Hollwood, Calif. : Paramount, [2005] — DVD BRADY B
  • Poor Mary Hartman. She just wants to get her floors gleaming, but keeps getting interrupted by the increasingly strange and violent activities occurring in her small town in this deranged satire.
    DVD, 2007Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007] — DVD MAR1400
  • The show that introduced us to Micheal J. Fox and asked, "what would we do baby, without us? Sha la la la."
    DVD, 2007Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2007] — DVD FAMILY
  • If you were an adolescent during the mid-80s, these opening theme lyrics have been permanently branded in your memory: "Show me that smile again and don't waste another minute on your cryin'!" How many Tiger Beat covers did Kirk Cameron's portrayal…
    DVD, 2006Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006] — DVD GROWING
  • This late 80s/early 90s sitcom about a recently widowed Dad raising his daughters with the help of two roommates featured the Olsen twins - the sisters of WandaVision's lead, Elizabeth Olsen!
    DVD, 2005Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005. — DVD FULL HO
  • Utilizing "mockumentary" camerawork and confessional interviews, Modern Family takes a refreshing and funny view of what it means to raise a family.
    DVD, 2010Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2010] — DVD MODERN
  • Follow the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees at the Scranton, Pa. office of the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company via a documentary film crew's cameras. WandaVision cheekily mimics The Office by having characters side…
    DVD, 2007Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2007] — DVD OFFICE
  • A couple who break up on their wedding day force their friends to pick a side.
    DVD, 2011Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2011] — DVD HAP8738
  • While WandaVision reinvents many sitcom tropes, its suspenseful, eerie tone and a creeping sense of dread announce that you have actually entered The Twilight Zone.
    DVD, 2016Hollywood, Calif : CBS DVD : Paramount, [2016] — DVD TWILIGH