The Tracey Ullman Show

The Tracey Ullman Show
Genre	Sketch comedy Variety show
Created by	James L. Brooks Jerry Belson Ken Estin Heide Perlman
Starring	Tracey Ullman Julie Kavner Dan Castellaneta Sam McMurray Joseph Malone Anna Levine (1988–89)
Theme music composer	George Clinton
Opening theme	"You're Thinking Right" performed by George Clinton
Composer	Richard Gibbs
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	81 (270 segments) (+ 1 special) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	James L. Brooks Jerry Belson Ken Estin Heide Perlman Sam Simon
Producers	Ted Bessell Dick Blasucci (co-producer) Gregory Brown (associate producer) Paul Flaherty (co-producer) Marc Flanagan (supervising producer) Lawrence Jordan (associate producer) Dinah Kirgo Craig Knizek (associate producer) Jay Kogen (co-producer) Marilyn Suzanne Miller (senior producer) Richard Sakai Jeffrey Townsend (associate producer) Wallace Wolodarsky (co-producer)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22–24 minutes (excluding commercials)
Production companies	Gracie Films 20th Century Fox Television Klasky Csupo (animation production)
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	April 5, 1987 (1987-04-05) – May 26, 1990 (1990-05-26)
Related
Tracey Takes On... The Simpsons
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The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television sketch comedy variety show starring Tracey Ullman. It debuted on Fox on April 5, 1987, as the network's second original primetime series to air following Married... with Children, and ran for four seasons and 81 episodes, until May 26, 1990. The show was produced by Gracie Films. The show blended sketch comedy with musical numbers and dance routines, choreographed by Paula Abdul, along with animated shorts. The format was conceived by creator and executive producer James L. Brooks, who was looking to showcase the show's multitalented star. Brooks likened the show to producing three pilots a week. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own television sketch show in the United States.^[1]

The show is also known for producing a series of shorts featuring the Simpson family, which was later adapted into the longest-running American scripted primetime television series, The Simpsons. The Tracey Ullman Show was the first Fox primetime show to win an Emmy Award, winning a total of 10 over its run.

Rolling Stone ranked The Tracey Ullman Show as the 25th-best sketch comedy show in its "40 Greatest Sketch-Comedy TV Shows of All Time" list.^[2]