The Flying Nun

Series Similar to The Flying Nun

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

1. Best Friends Forever

   2012 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Jessica St. Clair ("Bridesmaids") and Lennon Parham ("Accidentally on Purpose") star as Jessica and Lennon, best friends who live on opposite sides of the country with the men in their lives. When Jessica is overnighted divorce papers, Lennon convinces her to return home to Brooklyn and back into the apartment they used to share. It doesn't take long for the girls to fall into old habits: movie marathons and late night girl talk sessions - none of which is good news for Lennon's live-in boyfriend, Joe (Luka Jones, Upright Citizens Brigade). Joe tries to be understanding but begins to feel like a stranger in his own home. Meanwhile, Jessica is trying to get used to her new single life. Will she have to start buying matching sets of underwear again? Also, reconnecting with old friends like Rav (Stephen Schneider, "Happy Endings"), who may or may not have feelings for her, is more complicated than she thought. All of Jessica's new efforts are met with the critique of the friends' precocious nine-year-old neighbor, Queenetta (Daija Owens), who is not shy about doling out advice on their life choices.

2. Mama's Family

   1983 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Based on a series of sketches from The Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family mined humor from a squabbling family in the Midwestern blue collar suburb of Raytown. The noisy clan was headed by Mama, a buxom, gray-haired widow with sharp opinions and a sharper tongue who shared her small house with her high-strung sister Fran. Mama's lazy, dimwitted son, Vinton, moved in at the start of the series with his troublesome teenage children, Buzz and Sonja, after his wife had run off to become a Las Vegas showgirl. Vint soon became romantically involved with Naomi, Mama's promiscuous next-door neighbor, and the two eventually were married. Further uproar was caused by the periodic visits from Mama's two married daughters, the foul mouthed Eunice and the snobbish Ellen.Though the series initially ran for only two seasons on NBC, producer Joe Hamilton revived the series for first-run syndication in 1986. The show's "second life" brought about several changes, including the absence of such characters as Aunt Fran (who had died by choking on a toothpick), Buzz and Sonja (who had gone off to college), and Eunice, who had moved with her husband Ed to Florida... without telling their son Bubba, just as he was being released from juvenile hall. As a result, Bubba moved into the household with Mama, Vint and Naomi as a new character. Also joining the cast was Iola, Mama's uptight spinster neighbor with an unrequited crush on Vint. This second run was considerably more successful than the first, ending in 1990.

3. That Girl

   1966 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on ABC.

   A perky aspiring actress tries to start a career in New York, getting encouragement from her boyfriend, Don, and her family. For many young women, Ann Marie was an independent role model for the times (the late '60s) for having left the nest in pursuit of a career. She also inspired trends in fashion with her flipped-up hairdo and cute, mod clothes.

4. The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

   1968 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, also on ABC.

   A situation comedy/drama/fantasy in which a recent widow, Mrs. Carolyn Muir, her two children, her maid, and their dog move into an old seaside house. They are surprised to learn that the house is already occupied, by the ghost of Captain Daniel Gregg.

5. Bewitched

   1964 · Comedy, Family, Fantasy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, also on ABC.

   Bewitched is an American fantasy sitcom television series about a witch (Samantha) who marries an ordinary mortal man (Darrin) and vows to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife. Although they agree that Sam is not to use witchcraft now that they are married, a problem always seems to crop up and Sam always resorts to spells. Things become even more complicated when Endora, Samantha's witch mother, starts to interfere.

6. I Dream of Jeannie

   1965 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   I Dream of Jeannie is an American sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show featured a 2,000-year-old genie and an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries.

7. Timewasters

   2017 · Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Fantasy profile.

   Timewasters is a comedy about a struggling four-piece South London jazz band who travel back in time to the 1920's via a urine-sodden lift in a dilapidated block of flats.Stuck in the past after their ‘time machine' is destroyed, our gang decide to explore, before quickly discovering that being young and black in the Jazz Age is a lot less genteel and a lot more shady than Downton Abbey had led them to believe.Aided and abetted by a pair of oddball twins and some 1920s luminaries, the band are forced to navigate the parties and pitfalls of the Roaring Twenties while searching for a way back home. All the while, not missing the opportunity to introduce the Bright Young Things to some of the twenty-first century's finest tunes.

8. Fawlty Towers

   1975 · Comedy · ended93% 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.

9. Dwight in Shining Armor

   2019 · Comedy, Fantasy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   After Dwight, a 21st-century teen, falls into an ancient, underground chamber, he awakens a warrior princess, her court magician, and many medieval villains that have been sleeping for a thousand years! Consequently, Dwight is now spellbound to protect Princess Gretta as her unconventional champion while her enemies from the past invade his hometown of Woodside.

10. Yonderland

    2013 · Comedy, Fantasy · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

    A 33-year old mum Debbie Maddox unexpectedly find herself in an extraordinary world inhabited by a collection of eccentric and usually idiotic characters - some of whom happen to be puppets - with only an Elf by her side.Fortunately most of the imagining for Sky 1 HD's comedy, Yonderland is done for you by those terribly clever people behind the Horrible Histories series.The story begins with Debbie dropping her five year old twins off for their first day of school. For the first time in five long years, she has her days entirely to herself, and by the time shes cleaned the house from top to bottom and become frighteningly-addicted to a daytime quiz show, she starts to think she may be going mad.And perhaps she is, as a wildly enthusiastic Elf appears from a kitchen cupboard, telling her that she is needed in another world. Apparently she is their unlikely saviour, prophesied to save the world from the dark forces that are gathering to subdue it.Debbie's convinced that there has been some kind of mistake. (Well you would, wouldn't you?) But nevertheless decides that whatever the Elf might need her to do cant be any worse than watching another episode of Whats in the Box?, so she lets him drag her through a portal to the other world.As she does her best to help incompetent knights, monks who are incapable of lying and a race of people intent on firing the cleverest among them into the sun, the big question is never far away: can she fulfil the prophecy? And will she make it back to the real world in time for the school pick up?