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. Still Open All Hours

   2013 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Still Open All Hours is a BBC television sitcom, a sequel to the 1973 series Open All Hours. The show was based around Granville, now running the corner shop with his son Leroy after inheriting the shop from his Uncle Arkwright.

2. Porridge

   1974 · Comedy, Crime · ended

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

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

3. Keeping Up Appearances

   1990 · Comedy · ended

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

   Played with aplomb by Patricia Routledge, Hyacinth is a character with few, if any, saving graces. Her pompous, self-serving attitude makes life miserable for all around her.

4. Police Squad!

   1982 · Comedy, Crime · ended

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

   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. One Foot in the Grave

   1990 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on BBC One.

   Curmudgeonly Victor Meldrew, forced to take early retirement from his job as a security guard, rails at the trials and tribulations of modern life as he tries to keep himself busy. His long-suffering wife, Margaret, is frequently exasperated by his misfortunes. Neighbours Patrick and Pippa Trench and family friend Jean Warboys are common witnesses to Victor's antics.

6. The Royle Family

   1998 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on BBC One.

   On the surface, The Royle Family appeared to be humdrum and low on incident - but such ordinary appearances belie the fact that it was a groundbreaking work of exceptional comedy invention.

7. Only Fools and Horses

   1981 · Comedy · ended

   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.

8. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

   1976 · Comedy · ended

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

   Leonard Rossiter stars in David Nobbs's black comedy about a sales executive whose mid-life crisis results in him faking his own death.

9. The Good Life

   1975 · Comedy · ended

   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.

10. Fawlty Towers

    1975 · Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5).

    Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay. The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, who is often the peacemaker and voice of reason, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.