Shows Like Little House on the Prairie
If you liked Little House on the Prairie (1974), a western and drama 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 Big Valley (1965)
★ 6.2/10Also western and dramaThe Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It…
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Little House on the Prairie (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and westernThe close-knit Ingalls family builds a new life on the Western frontier, where the joys of nature and the struggle for survival are deeply intertwined.
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Bonanza (1959)
★ 7.5/10Also western and dramaThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Wagon Train (1957)
★ 6.6/10Also western and dramaThe series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert…
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The High Chaparral (1967)
★ 6.7/10Also western and dramaThe High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC…
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
★ 7.6/10Also western and dramaDr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.
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Rawhide (1959)
★ 7.3/10Also western and dramaThe tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Into the West (2005)
★ 8/10Also western and dramaThe lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.
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Cheyenne (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also western and dramaCheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American…
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The Virginian (1962)
★ 6.5/10Also western and dramaThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character…
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The Rifleman (1958)
★ 7.1/10Also western and familyThe Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico…
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Centennial (1978)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and westernThe economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late…
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Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
★ 7.1/10Also western and dramaWanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a…
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The Young Riders (1989)
★ 7.4/10Also western and dramaThe Young Riders was an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory…
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When Calls the Heart (2014)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and westernElizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
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Tyler Perry's The Oval (2019)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and familyA seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.
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Everwood (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and familyAfter the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly…
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Road to Avonlea (1990)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and familyIn the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and Olivia King…
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Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
★ 7.3/10Also western and dramaHave Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one…
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Anne with an E (2017)
★ 8.7/10Also drama and familyA coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who…