Leave It to Beaver

Series Similar to Leave It to Beaver

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

1. Father Knows Best

   1954 · Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   Father Knows Best portrayed a family that was surprising similar to real people. The parents managed to ride through almost any family situation without violent injury to their dignity, and the three Anderson youngsters were presented as decently behaved children who respected and loved their parents. A newspaper critic at the time wrote that "Jim Anderson may be the first intelligent father permitted on TV since they invented the thing".

2. Good Luck Charlie

   2010 · Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   The series follows two teenagers, Teddy and PJ Duncan and their 10-year-old brother, Gabe whose parents enlist their help when they return to work after the birth of their fourth child, Charlotte (nicknamed "Charlie"). With their parents juggling full time careers, they pitch in, getting very familiar with baby formula, burps, clothes, and babysitting while navigating typical teenage life. In each episode, Teddy creates a personalized video diary for Charlie. Each video will chronicle Teddy's daily adventures and mishaps for Charlie to use as advice when her big sister is no longer living at home.

3. Surviving Jack

   2014 · Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   Set in Southern California, in 1991, the series centers on Jack Dunlevy, an ex-military man and no-nonsense guy who becomes a full-time parent when his wife decides to go to law school. He takes an unorthodox approach to keeping his teenagers, Frankie and Rachel, in line.

4. The Addams Family

   1964 · Comedy, Family, Horror · ended

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

   The Addams Family is the creation of American cartoonist Charles Addams. A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.

5. Growing Up Fisher

   2014 · Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   Growing Up Fisher follows Mel Fisher, the proud family patriarch who does not let his blindness affect him as a father, husband and breadwinner.

6. My Three Sons

   1960 · Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law and, later, by the boys' great-uncle.

7. Mr. Belvedere

   1985 · Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile, also on ABC.

   Very loosely based on a 1940s movie character created by Clifton Webb, this family sitcom is set in the suburban Pittsburgh home of the Owens family, where dapper English housekeeper Lynn Belvedere draws on a history of service to such distinguished figures as Winston Churchill to keep things running smoothly. With father George Owens, a busy sports columnist, and mom Marsha trying to juggle challenging schedules as both a homemaker and law student, it falls to Mr. Belvedere to serve as adviser to their three kids: teenagers Kevin and Heather, plus 8-year-old Wesley.

8. Summer Heights High

   2007 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem, also on ABC.

   Over one term, a documentary crew films the everyday activities of Summer Heights High and the revelations are hilarious, absurd and frequently shocking.

9. The Goldbergs

   2013 · Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile, also on ABC.

   Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky and movie obsessed youngest child Adam, these were his wonder years, and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other -- just with a lot more yelling. Mom Beverly is a classic "smother," an overbearing, overprotective matriarch who loves her delicious kids, but still rules this brood with 100% authority and zero sense of boundaries. Dad Murray is gruff and sometimes oblivious, parenting with half his attention span but all his heart. Sister Erica is popular and terrifying, doing her best to cover up that she's the smartest of the clan. Barry is a passionate dreamer, who maybe dreams a little too big and who always gets the short end of the stick. Adam is the youngest, a camera-wielding future director who's navigating first love, and growing up with his family. Rounding out the family is beloved grandfather Al "Pops" Solomon, the wild man of the clan, a shameless Don Juan who's learning as much from his family as he teaches them.

10. Home Improvement

    1991 · Comedy, Family · ended

    Recommended for similar Family profile, also on ABC.

    The universal themes of family, parenting, the battle of the sexes -- and of course, man's need for "more power" -- come to play each and every weekday on Home Improvement. Every episode finds Tim the "Tool Man" Taylor causing his share of goof-ups and mishaps and leaving his long-suffering wife, Jill, family and friends to mop up the mess.