Little House on the Prairie

Series Similar to Little House on the Prairie

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

1. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

   1993 · Drama, Family, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Western profile.

   The trials and adventures of a female doctor in a small wild west town.

2. Crossroad Springs

   2025 · Drama, Family, Western · returning

   Recommended for similar Family / Western profile.

   The Hamilton family faces financial struggles and staffing shortages on Hamilton Ranch. Pastor James and Janet return to help the family, encountering a generational feud between the family owners. James starts a cowboy church on the farm, where faith, family, and ranch life are intertwined, despite the lack of worship spaces on the vast farmland.

3. The Waltons

   1972 · Drama, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   Enjoy the heart-warming stories of the Waltons family, living in a rural community during the Depression and World War II. John and Olivia Walton are the proud parents of three girls and five boys: John-Boy, Jason, Mary Ellen, Erin, Ben, twins Jim-Bob & Joseph, and Elizabeth; Joseph died at birth. Grandma and Grandpa Walton (Esther and Zeb) are John's parents are also an integral part of the family.

4. The Madison

   2026 · Drama, Family, Western · returning

   Recommended for similar Family / Western profile, highly rated (8).

   The Madison is a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana. It is a profound love story channeled through a deeply personal family drama about resilience and transformation. The Madison is unfolding across two distinct worlds - the beautiful landscape of Montana and the vibrant energy of Manhattan - as it examines the ties that bind families together.

5. How the West Was Won

   1977 · Drama, Western · ended

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

   Family Macahan's is the story of the white man's conquest of the American West, which we follow through family Macahan valiant struggle for survival. It is the story of mountain men who went west to explore the world beyond the next river bend, the fur trappers who nearly extinct buffalo herds, the gold graves searching for El Dorado, about peasants who became wealthy landowners and the simple people who were on the run. There is also a story about the American Indians. Brave and fearless, but hopelessly outnumbered, these primitive people were the ultimate losers in the battle for land in the west.

6. Everwood

   2002 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   As a world-class neurosurgeon, Dr. Andrew Brown is a hero. As a father, he's a zero. But that is changing. Tragedy makes him a single parent to his two children. And as the first act of his new life, Andy leaves Manhattan and moves his family to Everwood, the tiny Colorado town where big dreams can grow.

7. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

8. Godless

   2017 · Drama, Western · ended

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

   A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who's found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

9. Heartland

   2007 · Drama, Family · returning

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?

10. 1883

    2021 · Drama, Adventure, Western · ended

    Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.8).

    1883 follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land - Montana.