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Shows Like Family Ties

If you liked Family Ties (1982), a comedy 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.

  1. 1Leave 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…

  2. 2The 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…

  3. 3Father Knows Best

    Father Knows Best (1954)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and family

    Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.

  4. 4My Wife and Kids

    My Wife and Kids (2001)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and family

    Michael Kyle is a loving husband and modern-day patriarch who rules his household with a unique and distinct parenting style. As he teaches his three children some of life's lessons, he does so with his own brand of…

  5. 5My 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…

  6. 6Family 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.

  7. 7The Villains of Valley View

    The Villains of Valley View (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and family

    A family of raucous supervillains who recently ran afoul of the League of Villains and now must somehow beat a path to normalcy in a small Texas town.

  8. 8See Dad Run

    See Dad Run (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10Also family and comedy

    The 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…

  9. 9Major Dad

    Major Dad (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and family

    Major 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…

  10. 10Step by Step

    Step by Step (1991)

    ★ 7.8/10Also comedy and family

    Step 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

  11. 11The Cosby Show

    The Cosby Show (1984)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and family

    The 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…

  12. 12The Donna Reed Show

    The Donna Reed Show (1958)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and family

    Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.

  13. 137th Heaven

    7th Heaven (1996)

    ★ 6.4/10Also family and drama

    Reverend 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.

  14. 14All of Us

    All of Us (2003)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and family

    Robert 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…

  15. 158 Simple Rules

    8 Simple Rules (2002)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama

    Paul 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…

  16. 16Life with Derek

    Life with Derek (2005)

    ★ 7/10Also family and comedy

    Before their parents got married to one another, 15-year-old Derek and 14-year-old Casey ruled their respective houses as the oldest sibling. Now they're in constant rivalry for top dog status of the five kids all…

  17. 17Melissa & Joey

    Melissa & Joey (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedy

    Mel is a local politician from a political family. When a family scandal leaves her niece, Lennox, and nephew, Ryder, without their parents, Mel takes them in. She hires Joe to become the family's male nanny, or…

  18. 18Stuck 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.

  19. 19Good Luck Charlie

    Good Luck Charlie (2010)

    ★ 7.9/10Also comedy and family

    The 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…

  20. 20Big City Greens

    Big City Greens (2018)

    ★ 7.6/10Also family and comedy

    The offbeat adventures of 10-year-old Cricket Green, a mischievous and optimistic country boy who moves to the big city with his wildly out of place family – older sister Tilly, father Bill and Gramma Alice.

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