Going Straight

Series Similar to Going Straight

If you enjoyed Going Straight, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Only Fools and Horses

   1981 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5), also on BBC One.

   Classic John Sullivan sitcom set in south London, centred on hapless market trader Del Boy, his brother Rodney, the rest of the Trotter clan and a host of Peckham characters.

2. Miranda

   2009 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on BBC One.

   Sitcom starring Miranda Hart. It doesn't matter what Miranda attempts in life, whether it's dating or simply dealing with her overbearing mother, she always seems to fall flat, quite literally.

3. Are You Being Served?

   1972 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on BBC One.

   This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, with the characters rarely calling their co-workers by their given names. Many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes, including the effeminate Mr. Humphries and the rich-but-stingy store owner.

4. Police Squad!

   1982 · Comedy, Crime · ended97% match

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

   Police Squad! was a parody of the Quinn Martin Productions' police dramas of the 1960s and 1970s, hence the use of "In Color" by the narrator. The show's main staple of entertainment came from sight gags (such as a tow truck being a truck in the shape of a big toe) and misunderstandings in dialogue, mostly from people taking things extremely literally. Several great routines came from these misunderstandings that left characters in the scene very confused, but left the audience with loads of humor.

5. WKRP in Cincinnati

   1978 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with the station's burned-out veteran, Dr. Johnny Fever. Neurotic newsman Les Nessman, eager beaver Jan Smithers, sleazy salesman Herb Tarlek, blonde bombshell Jennifer Marlowe, who serves as the station's ultra-capable receptionist, and station manager Arthur Carlson, whose domineering mother owns WKRP, round out the eccentric bunch.

6. The Young Ones

   1982 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   Anarchic sitcom about degenerate North London students in the 80s.

7. Porridge

   1974 · Comedy, Crime · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Classic comedy series about the inmates and wardens of HM Prison Slade.

8. Parker Lewis Can't Lose

   1990 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   For most teenagers, high school is filled with obstacles nearly impossible to traverse. But then there is Parker Lewis, the one teenager able to overcome any barrier with the use of his wits and the help of his best buds, rock n roller Mikey and their quintessential nerd assistant Jerry. Of course, that does not mean Principal Grace Musso will give up her attempts to foil the Buds' plans to maintain total coolness!

9. Yes Minister

   1980 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

10. The Good Life

    1975 · Comedy · ended97% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

    Tom and Barbara Good are a middle class suburban couple who on Tom's 40th birthday decide to turn their Surbiton home into a self-sufficient allotment. They grow their own food, keep farm animals and have sold or bartered all of their electrical appliances as they have no electricity. This creates friction with their best friends and next door neighbours, Jerry and Margo Leadbetter. But even though the Goods have lowered the tone of the neighbourhood in the Leadbetter's eyes they still can't help but be best of friends.