You Can't Do That on Television

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If you enjoyed You Can't Do That on Television, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Outnumbered

   2007 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Comedy about the daily rollercoaster of life with growing children, starring Hugh Dennis as the father and Claire Skinner as the mother.

2. Are You Being Served?

   1972 · Comedy · ended94% match

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

   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.

3. Young Dracula

   2006 · Comedy, Children, Horror · ended94% match

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

   Fitting in is hard enough, but when your dad is Count Dracula, things go from hard to worse! Follow the comic misadventures of Vlad and Ingrid as they move from Transylvania to Britain with their narcissistic single dad, the Count.

4. Fawlty Towers

   1975 · Comedy · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5).

   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.

5. Yes, Prime Minister

   1986 · Comedy · ended94% match

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

   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.

6. The Young Ones

   1982 · Comedy · ended94% match

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

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

7. WKRP in Cincinnati

   1978 · Comedy · ended94% match

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

   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. Looney Tunes

   1929 · Comedy, Children · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Children profile, highly rated (8.5).

   They're the cartoons you grew up with and the ones your own kids will come to know and love. Welcome back to the wonderful, wacky world of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Road Runner and all their zany friends. Brought to life by the creative genius of Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, these classic cartoon characters are some of the best ever to grace the animated stage.

9. Nathan Barley

   2005 · Comedy · ended93% match

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

   Nathan Barley is 26. He is a webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool and therefore secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape Magazine - his bible of cool. Dan Ashcroft writes searing columns for Sugar Ape. He's considered astonishingly cool, but only by those he despises. He is surrounded by idiots and practically worshipped by Nathan (whom he considers to be their king). He is 34. Why has he failed to move on? Claire Ashcroft, 27, is Dan's sister. Like Dan she despises "cool". Unlike Nathan she despises novelty, trash, irony and gadgets. She is furious that no one will fund her hard-hitting documentary about a choir of reformed junkies.

10. Only Fools and Horses

    1981 · Comedy · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5).

    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.