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Shows Like Growing Pains

If you liked Growing Pains (1985), a comedy 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. 1Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter living on Long Island with his wife Debra, daughter Ally, and twin sons, Geoffrey and Michael. Ray's meddling parents, Frank and Marie, and brother, Robert, live directly across…

  2. 2The Jeffersons

    The Jeffersons (1975)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy

    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.

  3. 3American Housewife

    American Housewife (2016)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy

    A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.

  4. 4My Three Sons

    My Three Sons (1960)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    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…

  5. 5Family Affair

    Family Affair (1966)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his…

  6. 6The Cosby Show

    The Cosby Show (1984)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    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…

  7. 7The Hogan Family

    The Hogan Family (1986)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    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…

  8. 8Father Knows Best

    Father Knows Best (1954)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

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

  9. 9Who's the Boss?

    Who's the Boss? (1984)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy

    A former professional baseball player, along with his preteen daughter, moves into New York advertising executive Angela Bower's house to be both a housekeeper and a father figure to her young son. Tony 's laid-back…

  10. 10Step by Step

    Step by Step (1991)

    ★ 7.8/10Also comedy

    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. 11Becker

    Becker (1998)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    Becker is a dedicated, outspoken and talented doctor with a gruff exterior. While he tends to offend those who try to get close to him, he is extremely dedicated to his medical practice in the Bronx, N.Y., where he…

  12. 12Man with a Plan

    Man with a Plan (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    A dad finds out that parenting is harder than he thought after his wife goes back to work and he's left at home to take care of the kids.

  13. 13Gimme a Break!

    Gimme a Break! (1981)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.

  14. 14The Danny Thomas Show

    The Danny Thomas Show (1953)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.

  15. 15Major Dad

    Major Dad (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    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…

  16. 16Raising Hope

    Raising Hope (2010)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy

    James "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…

  17. 17Mad About You

    Mad About You (1992)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.

  18. 18The King of Queens

    The King of Queens (1998)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television…

  19. 19Are We There Yet?

    Are We There Yet? (2010)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Are We There Yet? opens where the popular film of the same name left off, with Nick and Suzanne newly married. After six months, their family is beginning to show growing pains, from the complexities of life as…

  20. 20Yes, Dear

    Yes, Dear (2000)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    A comedy about two young couples and their outrageously contrasting views on parenting. Greg and Kim Warner struggle on a daily basis to become perfect at the job. Kim is a neurotic, stay-at-home mother, and although…

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