Only Fools and Horses

Series Similar to Only Fools and Horses

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

1. Blackadder

   1983 · Comedy, History · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), also on BBC One.

   Comedy set in different historical periods that features the ill-fated exploits of the mean-spirited Edmund Blackadder and his dim sidekick Baldrick.

2. Miranda

   2009 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on BBC One.

   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.

3. Are You Being Served?

   1972 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on BBC One.

   This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, with the characters rarely calling their co-workers by their given names. Many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes, including the effeminate Mr. Humphries and the rich-but-stingy store owner.

4. The Young Ones

   1982 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

   Anarchic sitcom about degenerate North London students in the 80s.

5. Yes Minister

   1980 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

   Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

6. The Good Life

   1975 · Comedy · ended99% match

   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.

7. Waiting for God

   1990 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

   Waiting for God is a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1990 to 1994 starring Graham Crowden as Tom and Stephanie Cole as Diana, two spirited residents of a retirement home who spend their time running rings around the home's oppressive management and their own families.Set at the fictional Bayview Retirement Home near Bournemouth, the show was based around Diana Trent and her relationship with Tom Ballard, a former accountant with semi-feigned dementia. He has been exiled there for the convenience of his family.

8. Father Ted

   1995 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

   One small island off the west coast of Ireland. Three priests. One housekeeper. A bunch of nuns - and the most consistently awful weather on the planet.

9. Bottom

   1991 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

   Richard Richard & Edward Elizabeth Hitler, two men with no hope of fitting in with society. Two men who will forever fall foul of lifes little jokes, mainly because they are too stupid to avoid them! Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall take an anarchic look into the lives of these two friends who are forever threatening, and commiting, violence on each other. This series could be said to be a follow up, of a kind, to The Young Ones. Same stars and same attitude but the young ones are now heading into middle age. A succesful series that spawned three live tours (and three videos of these shows) and a big screen film, Guest House Paradiso. Although the film was not released as such it is advertised as a Bottom film on the video release.

10. Yes, Prime Minister

    1986 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

    Continuing the struggle of Minster Jim Hacker to actually get something done in Whitehall politics, Yes, Prime Minister saw Jim achieve every politician's dream and slide up the greasy pole, right to the door of Number 10.