If You Liked The Cosby Show, Watch These Next
Finished The Cosby Show (1984) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Cosby Show, most of them are comedy, family.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Jeffersons(1975)
7.3ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
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.
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2.The Hogan Family(1986)
6.8ComedyFamilyAlso 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, along with Tal Productions, Inc., and in association with Lorimar Productions, Lorimar-Telepictures and…
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3.Cosby(1996)
6.1ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
Cosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Madeline Kahn…
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4.Father Knows Best(1954)
6.6ComedyFamilyAlso 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.
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5.Major Dad(1989)
6.5ComedyFamilyAlso 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 Reed as his wife Polly. The cast also includes Beverly Archer, Matt Mulhern, Jon Cypher, Marisa…
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6.The Honeymooners(1955)
7.4ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most influential situation comedy television series in American history.
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7.Family Matters(1989)
6.8ComedyFamilyAlso 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.
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8.Stuck in the Middle(2016)
7.7ComedyFamilyAlso 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.
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9.Leave It to Beaver(1957)
6.9ComedyFamilyAlso 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 parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic…
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10.American Housewife(2016)
7.7ComedyAlso 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.
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11.Step by Step(1991)
7.8ComedyFamilyAlso 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
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12.My Three Sons(1960)
6.6ComedyFamilyAlso 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 the loving family in later seasons.
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13.A Different World(1987)
7.2ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
A 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 Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more…
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14.The Carol Burnett Show(1967)
7.7ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25…
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15.Gimme a Break!(1981)
6.7ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
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.
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16.Raising Hope(2010)
7.5ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
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 well-intentioned family for support in raising the child.
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17.Family Affair(1966)
6.7ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
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 brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's…
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18.The Danny Thomas Show(1953)
6.2ComedyAlso comedy
Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.
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19.Kenan(2021)
7.0ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
The recently widowed host of Atlanta's No. 2 morning show struggles to balance his job and his young daughters despite all the “help” he gets from his grifter father-in-law and his brother/assistant/manager/house guest.
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20.Petticoat Junction(1963)
5.9ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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