Married... with Children is an American television sitcom created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt about shoe salesman Al Bundy who raises a dysfunctional family in Chicago.
The series originally aired in the USA on FOX from 5 April, 1987 to 9 June, 1997. There are 262 half-hour episodes in 11 seasons.
Married... with Children originally aired in South Africa on M-Net, during Open Time. It later aired on DStv's M-Net Series channel.
Season 8 premiered on M-Net Series on Saturday 15 October 2011, at 18h00. New episodes broadcast weekly. There are 26 episodes in the eighth season.
Season 8 Repeats
Sundays: 00h00, 06h00, 12h00
Synopsis
The show follows the lives of Al Bundy, a once-glorious high school football player turned hard-luck salesman of women's shoes; his wife, Peggy, a tartish, uneducated housewife with a large red bouffant hairdo, 1960s clothes and funny walk caused by wearing high heels; Kelly, Al and Peggy's pretty, promiscuous, dim-witted daughter; and Bud, their unpopular, girl-crazy, intelligent son (and the only Bundy who ever attended college).
Their neighbours are the upwardly-mobile Steve and Marcy Rhoades. (Marcy later marries Jefferson D'Arcy.)
Most storylines involve a scheming Al being foiled by his cartoonish dim wit and bad luck. His rivalry and loathing of Marcy also play a significant role in most episodes.
The less-than-lovable Bundys are a radical departure from the saccharine-sweet TV families popular since the days of Father Knows Best.
With offbeat humour and unflinching honesty, Married with Children paints a more realistic picture of middle-class existence, warts and all.