Shows Like My Wife and Kids
If you liked My Wife and Kids (2001), 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.
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Leave It to Beaver (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and familyAn 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…
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My Three Sons (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and familyA 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…
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Father Knows Best (1954)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and familyFamily man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
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Step by Step (1991)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy and familyStep by Step is an American television sitcom with two single parents, who spontaneously get married after meeting one another during a vacation, resulting in them becoming the heads of a large blended family
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Good Luck Charlie (2010)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy and familyThe Duncans a European-American family in Colorado is adjusting to the surprise birth of their fourth child, Charlie. When parents Amy and Bob return to work they put their latest addition in the care of her three…
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Young Sheldon (2017)
★ 8/10Also comedy and familyThe early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
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The Hogan Family (1986)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and familyThe 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…
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The Jeffersons (1975)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and familySitcom 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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Family Ties (1982)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaFormer 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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A Different World (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and familyA 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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Stuck in the Middle (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and familyHarley is an engineering whiz who uses her inventions to navigate life as the middle child in a large family of seven kids.
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Major Dad (1989)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and familyMajor Dad is an American sitcom created by Richard C. Okie and John G. Stephens, developed by Earl Pomerantz, that originally ran from 1989 to 1993 on CBS, starring Gerald McRaney as Major John D. MacGillis and Shanna…
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7th Heaven (1996)
★ 6.4/10Also family and dramaReverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden household.
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Raising Hope (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and familyJames "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but…
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Family Matters (1989)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and familyA 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.
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See Dad Run (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also family and comedyThe story of David Hobbs, who has spent the last decade playing the perfect father on one of TV’s biggest sitcoms. But when the series ends and his wife resumes her own television career, he finds himself cast in his…
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8 Simple Rules (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaPaul and Cate are raising their three children -- Bridget, Kerry and Rory -- which is no easy task. Oldest daughter Bridget is traversing the dating scene. Kerry is cute and smart, but she has a hard time getting in…
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Full House (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and familyAfter 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.
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All of Us (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and familyRobert James, an entertainment reporter for a local Los Angeles television station, is handsome, smart and thoroughly modern in his thinking. Recently divorced from the somewhat self-absorbed Neesee, the mother of…
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The Cosby Show (1984)
★ 7/10Also comedy and familyThe Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper…