Around the World in 80 Days

Series Similar to Around the World in 80 Days

If you enjoyed Around the World in 80 Days, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Musketeers

   2014 · Drama, Action, Adventure · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile, highly rated (8).

   A thrilling world of action, adventure and romance inspired by Dumas' legendary characters.On the streets of 17th century Paris, law and order is more a fledgling idea than reality, and the Musketeers, Athos, Aramis and Porthos, are far more than merely royal bodyguards for King Louis XIII; they are inseparable, loyal unto death and committed to upholding justice. Together, this crack team of highly trained soldiers fight for honour, for valour, for love, and just for the pure thrill of it.

2. Hooten & The Lady

   2016 · Drama, Action, Adventure · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile.

   Hooten & The Lady follows the adventures of the hugely charismatic, roguish American adventurer Hooten and his fantastically feisty partner in crime, Lady Alexandra as they travel the world, from the Vatican to The Himalayas, the Amazon to Egypt, in their quest to save the world's lost treasures.

3. Sandokan

   2025 · Drama, Action, Adventure · returning

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile.

   Borneo, 1841. Sandokan is a pirate sailing the China Sea with his trusted companion Yanez. An ancient prophecy, his forbidden love for the beautiful Marianna, and the ruthless hunt unleashed by Lord Brooke, a bold English adventurer and in love with the same woman, lead the pirate to make a series of choices that will transform him into the "Tiger of Malaysia."

4. Crash Landing on You

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   Crash Landing on You follows a wealthy heiress named Yoon Se Ri, who, while paragliding, is forced to land in North Korea due to high winds. A North Korean officer named Ri Jung Hyuk hides and protects her, and in doing so, comes to love her

5. The End of the F***ing World

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Adventure · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile.

   Based on the award-winning series of comic books by Charles Forsman, The End of the F***ing World invites viewers into the dark and confusing lives of teen outsiders James and Alyssa as they embark on a road trip to find Alyssa's father, who left home when she was a child.

6. Arabian Nights

   2000 · Drama, Adventure, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile, hidden gem.

   To cure a prince's murderous madness, Scheherezade tells him a series of wonderous stories.

7. It's a Sin

   2021 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus starts as a rumour, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight.It's the story of their friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves them and helps them, and galvanises them in the battles to come. Together they will endure the horror of the epidemic, the pain of rejection and the prejudices that gay men faced throughout the decade.

8. Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic

   2008 · Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile.

   The Discworld - a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, ours - has got it's first tourist Twoflower. Rincewind, an inept ex-student wizard is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city state of Ankh Morpork. Rincewind has two problems: firstly, as an expert coward, he doesn't feel he's the best person to guard a naive - and extremely rich, by local standards - tourist through one of the roughest cities in the multiverse. And secondly, the world is coming to an end. Never rains, eh?

9. The Orville

   2017 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile.

   The Orville is a live-action, one-hour space adventure series set 400 years in the future that follows The Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship. Its crew, both human and alien, face the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of everyday life.

10. Not Safe for Work

    2015 · Drama, Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

    Katherine, a civil servant, is reluctantly relocated from London to Northampton as part of public sector cuts. Recently divorced and troubled by secrets in her past, her relocation may just be the last straw for her.Things are made even more difficult for Katherine when she meets her new co-workers: Anthony, who is cited in Katherine's divorce papers, so their relationship is complicated to say the least. The perma-wasted Danny, a chancer who has somehow found himself managing Katherine's new office after he pretended to be a devout Muslim. Struggling to work around his fondness for drink and drugs, he's constantly led astray by his feisty PA, Angela, a terrible influence. Jenny, irrepressibly and irritatingly upbeat. Jenny is a ball of energy with a relentlessly sunny disposition that hides a profound vulnerability. Meanwhile Nathanial, is naïve and well meaning, trying his best to do his job, but never quite certain what his job actually involves. Shell-shocked Jeffries, head of Human Resources and responsible for Katherine and Danny's relocation. She's as surprised as everyone else to find herself on the receiving end of her own wave of cuts. Behind her stoical and affable nature, and with her own problems at home, she's as lost as everyone else..