Newhart

Series Similar to Newhart

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

1. The Bob Newhart Show

   1972 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on CBS.

   Dr. Robert Hartley is a Chicago psychologist living with his schoolteacher wife Emily. Complicating life for the serene, stammering doc is his neighbor, Howard, a flighty navigator; and Bob's coworkers, dentist Jerry and flippant receptionist Carol.

2. The Dick Van Dyke Show

   1961 · Comedy · ended96% match

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

   The Dick Van Dyke Show centers on the personal and professional lives of Rob Petrie, a writer for the fictional "Alan Brady Show". The non-stop laughs revolved around Rob's relationships with with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell and Sally Rogers, and producer Mel Cooley. At home, we also got to chuckle (and sometimes cry) over Rob's antics involving his wife, son, and neighbors.

3. Corner Gas

   2004 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Following the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of Brent LeRoy, proprietor of a gas station that is the only stop for miles around and a hub of action on the Prairies.

4. The Phil Silvers Show

   1955 · Comedy · ended96% match

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

   Classic military comedy set on the fictional Army base of Fort Baxter in Kansas and featuring Sgt. Ernest Bilko, a fast-talking sharpster who would do anything to make an extra buck. Colonel Hall was Bilko's harried commanding officer who often found himself stuck in the middle of Bilko's schemes.

5. The Odd Couple

   1970 · Comedy · ended96% match

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

   Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? This TV adaptation of Neil Simon's classic play deserves its place among the best-known and funniest sitcoms of the 1970s.

6. Upstart Crow

   2016 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.

7. Frasier

   1993 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

   Frasier is a half-hour comedy series set in Seattle, which chronicles the lives of an eloquently pompous radio show host Dr. Frasier Crane, his brazen radio producer Roz and his competitive, high-brow brother Niles.

8. Empty Nest

   1988 · Drama, Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   In Empty Nest, the two adult daughters of the recently widowed pediatrician Dr. Harry Weston return to live in the same house.

9. 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.

10. WKRP in Cincinnati

    1978 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

    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.