If You Liked Family Ties, Watch These Next
Finished Family Ties (1982) 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 Family Ties, most of them are comedy, drama, family.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.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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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.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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4.My Wife and Kids(2001)
7.4ComedyFamilyDramaAlso 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 humor.
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5.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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6.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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7.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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8.The Villains of Valley View(2022)
7.2ComedyFamilyAlso 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.
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9.The Cosby Show(1984)
7.0ComedyFamilyAlso 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 middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
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10.See Dad Run(2012)
6.4FamilyComedyDramaAlso 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 most challenging role to date: handling the day-to-day needs of three kids who've grown accustomed to…
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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.Life with Derek(2005)
7.0FamilyComedyAlso family and comedy
Life with Derek is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on Family and VRAK.TV in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005, and ran for four seasons, ending its run on March 25, 2009. The series starred Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat as the two oldest…
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13.7th Heaven(1996)
6.4FamilyDramaComedyAlso 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.
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14.8 Simple Rules(2002)
6.8ComedyDramaAlso 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 touch with her true feelings because of her lack of self-confidence. The youngest of the three…
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15.All of Us(2003)
7.1ComedyFamilyAlso 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 their endearing 6-year-old son, Robert refuses to buy into the old stereotype that being divorced means…
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16.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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17.Melissa & Joey(2010)
6.8DramaComedyFamilyAlso 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 "manny," after a Ponzi scheme leaves him broke.
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18.Good Luck Charlie(2010)
7.9ComedyFamilyKidsAlso 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 older siblings, PJ, Teddy, and Gabe. Teens PJ and Teddy and tween brother Gabe are typical kids -- that…
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19.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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20.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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