When Calls the Heart

Series Similar to When Calls the Heart

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

1. Chesapeake Shores

   2016 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Hallmark Channel.

   The multi-generational family drama of Chesapeake Shores follows Abby O'Brien, a high-powered career woman, divorcee and mother to twin daughters, who makes a trip from New York City to her hometown of Chesapeake Shores. Her visit home brings Abby face to face with her past, including her high school sweetheart Trace, her uncompromising father Mick and her esteemed grandmother Nell. Abby realizes the toll her career has taken on her ability to be a hands-on mother to her daughters, and considers a permanent move to Chesapeake Shores.Based on the novels of the same name by New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods.

2. Cedar Cove

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Hallmark Channel.

   Cedar Cove is a small lakeside town full of romance and drama. One person in the middle of it all is Judge Olivia Lockhart, whose municipal court unveils the town's secrets and serves as a microcosm of the personal issues that she faces with her own family and friends. Also, Jack Griffith, the editor of the local newspaper, uncovers what goes on behind the courtroom's doors. The drama, Hallmark Channel's first original prime-time series, is based on a book series by New York Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber.

3. Hart of Dixie

   2011 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Fast-talking New Yorker and brand new doctor Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to accept an offer from a stranger, Dr. Harley Wilkes, to work with him at his small practice in Bluebell, Alabama. Zoe arrives in this small Gulf Coast town only to find that Harley has passed away and left his half of the medical practice to her in his will.

4. Land Girls

   2009 · Drama, Romance, War · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Follow the lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army who are working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. Land Girls was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a period drama. Land Girls was filmed in and around the city of Birmingham. The first series features Summer Strallen, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock and Becci Gemmell as four different girls doing their bit for Britain in theWomen's Land Army during the War.Land Girls won the "Best Daytime Programme" at the 2010 Broadcast Awards and in that same year the BBC announced that it had commissioned a second series, comprising five episodes. Woodcock and Gemmell reprised their roles as Bea and Joyce and Seline Hizlimade her debut as new girl, Connie Carter. The second series began airing from 17 January 2011 and two months later BBC Daytime Controller, Liam Keelan, renewed Land Girls for a third series. It began airing from 7 November 2011.

5. Indian Summers

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience. But at the heart of the story lie the implications and ramifications of the tangled web of passions, rivalries and clashes that define the lives of those brought together in this summer which will change everything.

6. Virgin River

   2019 · Drama, Romance · returning

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Melinda Monroe answers an ad to work as a nurse practitioner in the remote California town of Virgin River thinking it will be the perfect place to start fresh and leave her painful memories behind. But she soon discovers that small-town living isn't quite as simple as she expected and that she must learn to heal herself before she can truly make Virgin River her home.

7. Sullivan's Crossing

   2023 · Drama, Romance · returning

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   After Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan's personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan's Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting the painful past she has chosen to ignore for years.

8. Poldark

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

9. North & South

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale, one of 19th century literature's most original heroines.

10. Single Father

    2010 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    When Dave's wife dies unexpectedly, he is forced to try to raise his four children on his own. He begins to question his own judgment when he begins to fall in love with his wife's best friend, Sarah.