Shows Like The Golden Girls
If you liked The Golden Girls (1985), a comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Golden Palace (1992)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyThe Golden Palace begins where The Golden Girls had ended, in the quartet's now-sold Miami house. With Dorothy Zbornak having married and left in the previous series finale, the three remaining cast members (Dorothy's…
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Hot in Cleveland (2010)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyThree fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."
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Laverne & Shirley (1976)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyBest friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and keep each other's spirits up at home.
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The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
★ 7.6/10Also comedyThe Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers…
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The Jeffersons (1975)
★ 7.3/10Also comedySitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.
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American Housewife (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also comedyA family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
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Three's Company (1977)
★ 7.5/10Also comedyWhen two single girls, Janet and Chrissy, need a roommate to share their Santa Monica apartment, they decide to offer a room to Jack, a man they find passed out in the bathtub after the going-away party for their last…
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Cosby (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyCosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia…
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Who's the Boss? (1984)
★ 7.4/10Also comedyA former professional baseball player, along with his preteen daughter, moves into New York advertising executive Angela Bower's house to be both a housekeeper and a father figure to her young son. Tony 's laid-back…
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I Love Lucy (1951)
★ 7.9/10Also comedyCuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment…
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Episodes (2011)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyA British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda…
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227 (1985)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyA housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.
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A Different World (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyA Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of…
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Shifting Gears (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyMatt is a stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt's estranged daughter Riley and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.
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Green Acres (1965)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyGreen Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first…
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The King of Queens (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyLife’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television…
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Friends with Better Lives (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyA comedy about six friends at different stages in their lives – married, divorced, newly engaged and single – who are outwardly happy, but secretly questioning if their friends have it better. Andi and Bobby are…
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One Day at a Time (1975)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyThe misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and their new building superintendent in Indianapolis.
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Man About the House (1973)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyMan About the House is a British sitcom created and written by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer, and starring Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett, Richard O'Sullivan, Brian Murphy, and Yootha Joyce. Six series were broadcast…