Laverne & Shirley

Series Similar to Laverne & Shirley

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

1. That Girl

   1966 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on ABC.

   A perky aspiring actress tries to start a career in New York, getting encouragement from her boyfriend, Don, and her family. For many young women, Ann Marie was an independent role model for the times (the late '60s) for having left the nest in pursuit of a career. She also inspired trends in fashion with her flipped-up hairdo and cute, mod clothes.

2. Less Than Perfect

   2002 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on ABC.

   Less Than Perfect follows Claude Casey, her friends and colleagues at fictional television network GCB.

3. Miranda

   2009 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1).

   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.

4. Hot in Cleveland

   2010 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Hot in Cleveland revolves around three fabulous L.A. women of a certain age who are best friends. Their lives are changed forever when their plane -- headed to Paris for a girls-only celebration -- unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in a new 'promised land'. Loving their new home, the women find themselves living under one roof and battling the sassy caretaker of the property they have rented.

5. Fawlty Towers

   1975 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), hidden gem.

   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.

6. Soap

   1977 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on ABC.

   Soap is an outrageous comedy saga serializing the hilarious exploits of the characters in two unusual families. Meet the Tates and the Campbells, two families who have relationships as complex as those in a Russian novel. But the fun is in the unraveling.The well-to-do Tate family is comprised of Chester Tate the father, and Jessica, the mother, the parents of three children. Their two daughters, Corinne and Eunice, have distinctly different personalities. Their son, Billy, compared to the rest of the family, is the only sane member of the group, according to Benson, their hired employee who knows everything about everyone. The witty Benson does his best to hold the family together. Living with the Tate family is Jessica's father, referred to as the Major -- who doesn't quite believe that World War II is over.On the other side of town lives Mary Dallas Campbell, Jessica Tate's younger sister. Mary is wed to Burt Campbell who is not as prosperous a breadwinner as Chester. Mary's former husband, Johnny Dallas, has passed on, leaving her with two sons, Danny and Jodie. The older son, Danny, does not quite see eye-to-eye with his stepfather, and while the rest of the family knows Jodie is gay, Danny just thinks Jodie has a wonderful sense of humor.

7. Birds of a Feather

   1989 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Return of the classic sitcom. Sharon is back living in her council flat and Tracey is still in Chigwell with younger son Travis - but what has become of Dorien?

8. Better Off Ted

   2009 · Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.2), also on ABC.

   Better Off Ted is a satirical office comedy about successful good guy, Ted Crisp, who runs research and development at Veridian Dynamics, a company with a morally questionable approach to its employees. Whether it's standing by a memo with a typo that encourages employees to now (as opposed to not) use offensive language with each other, to championing interoffice dating based on DNA matching to save money on health care, Veridian is a company that puts its bottom line first and employees last. Ted's a single dad to a seven year old girl, and he loves his job, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely dubious practices.

9. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

   1976 · Comedy · ended94% match

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

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

10. Barney Miller

    1975 · Drama, Comedy · ended94% match

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

    Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. He is always sensible. He maintains order over a squad room of detectives who gamble for a hobby, get hit on by anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing.