Shows Like Life Goes On
If you liked Life Goes On (1989), a drama 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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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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Switched at Birth (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and familyThe story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her…
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Holly Hobbie (2018)
★ 8.4/10Also family and dramaHolly's a 13-year-old singer-songwriter who's got her best friends and close-knit family by her side, but she's dreaming of ways to save the world - even if it's starting in her own backyard.
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Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018)
★ 8.5/10Also dramaMeet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.
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Dallas (1978)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and familyThe world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV…
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The Next Step (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also family and dramaFollow the lives of an elite group of young dancers who train at The Next Step Studio.
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Diagnosis: Murder (1993)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and familyDr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (2010)
★ 8.2/10Also family and dramaR. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books…
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Chesapeake Shores (2016)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaA divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.
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Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaBased on the best-selling 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw, the series follows the divergent career courses of the impoverished German American Jordache brothers.
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Free Rein (2017)
★ 8/10Also family and dramaA 15-year-old from LA spends the summer at her mom's childhood home on an island off the coast of England, where she bonds with a mysterious horse.
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Mosaic (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaExplore the psychological underpinnings of love and murder in a small mountain resort town while following popular children’s book author and illustrator Olivia Lake, whose literary success makes her a local celebrity…
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London Kills (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaWith a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s…
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Melrose Place (1992)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaFollow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
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Home and Away (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaHome and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher…
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Little House on the Prairie (1974)
★ 8/10Also drama and familyWhen the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s…
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Gentle Ben (1967)
★ 6.7/10Also family and dramaGentle Ben is an American family series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1967 to April 27, 1969. The series follows the adventures, in the Florida Everglades, of a game warden, Tom Wedloe, his wife Ellen, his son…
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Summerland (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaBradin, Nikki and Derrick are three kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are tragically killed in a car accident. Ava Gregory, their aunt, gets custody…
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McMillan & Wife (1971)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaMcMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute…
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Roots (1977)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaThe epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family…