Still Open All Hours

Series Similar to Still Open All Hours

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

1. Going Straight

   1978 · Comedy, Crime · ended96% match

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

   Sitcom sequel to Porridge. Fletch is finally released from Slade Prison, will he be able to stop himself from going back?

2. Big School

   2013 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Set in an urban secondary school, Big School is a comedy about a dysfunctional staff room, unrequited love and interactive white boards.

3. Shifting Gears

   2025 · Comedy · returning96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Shifting Gears centers on Matt, a stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt's estranged daughter and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.

4. On the Buses

   1969 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Stan Butler works as a bus driver for the Luxton & District Bus Company. He lives at home with his overbearing mother, his frumpy sister Olive and his lazy brother in law Arthur. Stan's route is the number 11 to the Cemetary Gates which he works with his conductor Jack. Stan and Jack have an eye for the ladies and are often found chatting up either the female bus conductors or the canteen staff. The bane of Stan's life is Inspector 'Blakey' Blake who is often checking up of them and threatening them with the sack for lateness and untidyness.

5. Peter Kay's Car Share

   2015 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

   John and Kayleigh have been thrown together in a company car share scheme.

6. Only Fools and Horses

   1981 · Comedy · ended95% 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.

7. Still Game

   2002 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Comedy in which lifelong friends cope with everything modern life has to throw at them.

8. Corner Gas

   2004 · Comedy · ended95% 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.

9. dinnerladies

   1998 · Comedy · ended95% match

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

   dinnerladies is a British sitcom which aired on BBC 1 from 1998-2000. It was created, written and co-produced by Victoria Wood.The series is set entirely in the canteen of HWD Components, a fictional factory in Manchester and featured the caterers and regular customers as the main characters.

10. Miranda

    2009 · Comedy · ended95% 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.