If You Liked The Waltons, Watch These Next
Finished The Waltons (1972) and want more of the same? These 18 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Waltons, most of them are drama.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Anne with an E(2017)
8.6DramaFamilyAlso drama
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to…
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2.Everwood(2002)
7.6DramaFamilyAlso drama
After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.
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3.Parenthood(2010)
7.5DramaAlso drama
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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4.Brothers and Sisters(2006)
7.1DramaAlso drama
The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.
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5.Chesapeake Shores(2016)
7.8DramaAlso drama
A 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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6.The Village(2013)
7.3DramaAlso drama
The Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour televised epic—the first series covers 1914 to 1920; the second continued the story into the 1920s. However, it was not commissioned for a third series. An epic drama…
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7.The Winds of War(1983)
7.3War & PoliticsDramaAlso drama
Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
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8.Army Wives(2007)
7.5DramaAlso drama
Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families.
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9.Greenleaf(2016)
7.1DramaAlso drama
The unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, where scandalous secrets and lies are as numerous as the faithful. Born of the church, the Greenleaf family love and care for each other, but beneath the surface lies a den of iniquity—greed, adultery, sibling rivalry and…
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10.Poldark(2015)
7.8DramaAlso drama
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house…
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11.Brideshead Revisited(1981)
7.8DramaAlso drama
Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.
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12.Upstairs, Downstairs(1971)
7.8DramaAlso drama
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
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13.Man in an Orange Shirt(2017)
7.5DramaAlso drama
A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.
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14.Hill Street Blues(1981)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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15.Pan Am(2011)
6.5DramaAlso drama
In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are glamorous, the pilots are rock stars and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. They're trained to handle everything from in-air emergencies to unwanted advances—all…
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16.Tyler Perry's The Oval(2019)
8.2DramaFamilyAlso drama
A seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.
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17.The Couple Next Door(2023)
5.9DramaCrimeAlso drama
Evie and Pete move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny and his wife, glamorous yoga instructor Becka, but after Danny and Evie share a passionate night together there is…
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18.Carl Weber's The Family Business(2018)
8.5DramaCrimeAlso drama
Meet 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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