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Shows Like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

If you liked The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990), a comedy and family 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.

  1. 1Moesha

    Moesha (1996)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and family

    The everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dynamics, and friendships.

  2. 2Clarissa Explains It All

    Clarissa Explains It All (1991)

    ★ 7.9/10Also comedy and family

    Clarissa Darling is a teen girl dealing with typical pre-adolescent concerns such as school, boys, pimples, wearing her first training bra and an annoying little brother Ferguson.

  3. 3A Different World

    A Different World (1987)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and family

    A 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…

  4. 4The Bernie Mac Show

    The Bernie Mac Show (2001)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids…

  5. 5The Hogan Family

    The Hogan Family (1986)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and family

    The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991. It was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions…

  6. 6George Lopez

    George Lopez (2002)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy

    George raises daughter Carmen and dyslexic son Max with his wife Angie, after surviving a miserable, dysfunctional childhood at the hands of his neglectful alcoholic mother Benny.

  7. 7Tyler Perry's House of Payne

    Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10Also comedy

    A multigenerational, working-class family experience life's struggles with faith, love and, most importantly, humor. Curtis, aka 'Pops', the uncle and head of the household, has house and home turned upside down when…

  8. 8Arrested Development

    Arrested Development (2003)

    ★ 7.9/10Also comedy

    The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

  9. 9Modern Family

    Modern Family (2009)

    ★ 7.9/10Also comedy

    The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.

  10. 10The Jeffersons

    The Jeffersons (1975)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and family

    Sitcom 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.

  11. 11Fuller House

    Fuller House (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also family and comedy

    The Tanner family's adventures continue as DJ Tanner-Fuller shares a home with her sister Stephanie and friend Kimmy who help raise her three boys.

  12. 12Family Matters

    Family Matters (1989)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and family

    A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

  13. 13Malcolm in the Middle

    Malcolm in the Middle (2000)

    ★ 8.5/10Also comedy

    A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

  14. 14Leave It to Beaver

    Leave It to Beaver (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and family

    An inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's…

  15. 15Unhappily Ever After

    Unhappily Ever After (1995)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    A not-so-happy family is divided further when the father gets a schizophrenic disorder. Jack Malloy is the hallucinating father who works at a used car lot. Jennifer "Jennie" Slattery Malloy is the mother who hates…

  16. 16Stuck in the Middle

    Stuck in the Middle (2016)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy and family

    Harley is an engineering whiz who uses her inventions to navigate life as the middle child in a large family of seven kids.

  17. 17My Three Sons

    My Three Sons (1960)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and family

    A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join…

  18. 18Full House

    Full House (1987)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and family

    After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

  19. 19That's So Raven

    That's So Raven (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    No ordinary teenager; Raven Baxter can see glimpses of the future! Watch her schemes and misadventures as she enlists the help of friends, including best friends Eddie and Chelsea, to change life's little outcomes…

  20. 20The Monkees

    The Monkees (1966)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and family

    Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie…

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