Porridge

Series Similar to Porridge

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

1. Only Fools and Horses

   1981 · Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5), also on BBC One.

   Classic John Sullivan sitcom set in south London, centred on hapless market trader Del Boy, his brother Rodney, the rest of the Trotter clan and a host of Peckham characters.

2. Brooklyn Nine-Nine

   2013 · Comedy, Action, Crime · ended97% match

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

   Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an ensemble comedy about a talented-but-carefree detective, a by-the-book police captain and their precinct colleagues. While based in the workplace, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is not really about the job – it's about the men and women behind the badge.

3. Detectorists

   2014 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   Comedy series about two friends who go in search of their hearts' desire with a couple of metal detectors.

4. Miranda

   2009 · Comedy · ended97% 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.

5. Are You Being Served?

   1972 · Comedy · ended97% 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.

6. Police Squad!

   1982 · Comedy, Crime · ended97% match

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

   Police Squad! was a parody of the Quinn Martin Productions' police dramas of the 1960s and 1970s, hence the use of "In Color" by the narrator. The show's main staple of entertainment came from sight gags (such as a tow truck being a truck in the shape of a big toe) and misunderstandings in dialogue, mostly from people taking things extremely literally. Several great routines came from these misunderstandings that left characters in the scene very confused, but left the audience with loads of humor.

7. WKRP in Cincinnati

   1978 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   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.

8. The Young Ones

   1982 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

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

9. The Good Life

   1975 · Comedy · ended97% 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.

10. Waiting for God

    1990 · Comedy · ended97% 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.