Shows Like Soap
If you liked Soap (1977), a comedy and soap 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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Newhart (1982)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaDick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley…
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Wings (1990)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaBrothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
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Days of Our Lives (1965)
★ 6.2/10Also soap and dramaThe Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
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Cuckoo (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaCuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
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The Young and the Restless (1973)
★ 7/10Also soap and dramaThe rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman…
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Neighbours (1985)
★ 6.1/10Also soap and dramaNeighbours is an Australian television soap opera. The show's storylines concern the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The…
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How I Met Your Father (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaIn the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they…
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Guiding Light (1952)
★ 5.9/10Also soap and dramaGuiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year…
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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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Martin (1992)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaSassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades with best friends Tommy and Cole.
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Married (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaMarried is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between…
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Men in Trees (2006)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedyRelationship coach Marin Frist knows what to look for, what to avoid and what will make her happy. As the many fans of her two bestselling books could tell you, we're all in charge of our own happiness. But like many…
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Gavin & Stacey (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaEssex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.
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Marlon (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaA loving (but immature) father is committed to co-parenting his two kids with his very-together ex-wife. While his misguided fatherly advice, unstoppable larger-than-life personality and unpredictable Internet…
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Tyler Perry's Sistas (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and dramaThere's nothing that bonds a group of single black women together more than sidestepping the land mines of living, working and dating in Atlanta. In a sea of swipe-lefts, social media drama and unrealistic…
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Felicity (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and soapFelicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things…
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Imposters (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedyMaddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things…
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Last Tango in Halifax (2012)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedyCelia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.
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Mike & Molly (2010)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaA comedy about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
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Freaks and Geeks (1999)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedyHigh school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").