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The Andy Griffith Show(1960-1968)

25min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 66 votes)

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.

With Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier

Frasier(1993-2004)

FSK: 16+ years
| 24min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 347 votes)

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.

With Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin, John Mahoney, Moose, ...

A Touch of Frost(1992-2010)

2h per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 28 votes)

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

With David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Arthur White

Papá a la deriva(2015-2016)

50min per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A man seeks a wife to raise his children and finds the answer to his prayers in the way he least expects it.

With Gonsalo balensuela

Be Careful With My Heart(2012-)

Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Be Careful With My Heart is a 2012 Philippine daytime television drama which premiered on ABS-CBN on July 9, 2012 airing before It's Showtime. It is also broadcast worldwide on The Filipino Channel. It is topbilled by Jodi Sta. Maria and Richard Yap. It is one of the most successful teleserye of ABS-CBN. It is the first television drama in the Philippines made by ABS-CBN to be filmed and broadcast in high definition.

Directed by Jeffrey Jeturian - With Jodi Santamaria

Everwood(2002-2006)

FSK: 12+ years
| 43min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 87 votes)

After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.

With Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Emily VanCamp, Debra Mooney, John Beasley, Vivien Cardone, ...

The Rifleman(1958-1963)

FSK: 12+ years
| 30min per episode | Action & Adventure, Western, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

With Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix

Brother's Keeper(1998-1999)

22min per episode | Comedy

Widower and professor Porter Waide has his life turned upside down with the arrival of his football player brother, Bobby, who's gotten into so much trouble that he's been contracted to live with a responsible relative. This move also disrupts the lives of Porter's impressionable son, Oscar, and Bobby's perpetually annoyed agent, Dena.

With William Ragsdale, Sean O'Bryan, Justin Cooper

In Sickness and in Health(1985-1992)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Sequel to 'Till Death Us Do Part' with the bad tempered Alf Garnett, who has not mellowed with the years and is as bigoted as ever.

With Warren Mitchell

After Life(2019-2022)

FSK: 16+ years
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 364 votes)

Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

Directed by Ricky Gervais
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Round the Twist(1990-2001)

FSK: 6+ years
| 24min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Documentary
3.6/5 (with 12 votes)

Round the Twist is a Logie Award-winning Australian children's television series about three children and their father who live in a lighthouse and become involved in many bizarre magical adventures.

Directed by Esben Storm - With Richard Moir, Andrew S. Gilbert, Bud Tingwell, Tamsin West, Rodney McLennan, Jeffrey Walker, ...

Smart Guy(1997-1999)

22min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 15 votes)

T.J. is a boy genius who gets bumped up from the fourth grade to high school. T.J. tries to adjust to his new life, but he shares some classes with his 14 year-old brother Marcus, the school jock, and his clueless and self-absorbed 16 year-old sister Yvette.

With Tahj Mowry, John Marshall Jones, Jason Weaver, Omar Gooding, Essence Atkins, Anne-Marie Johnson, ...
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A Daughter Just Like You(2015)

35min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Hong Ae-Ja works as a host at a home shopping channel. She has three accomplished daughters: Ji-Sung, In-Sung and Hee-Sung. Hong Ae-Ja's family interconnects with So Pan-Seok's family and Heo Eun-Sook's as in-laws.

Diff'rent Strokes(1978-1986)

FSK: 12+ years
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama
3.5/5 (with 129 votes)

The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.

Directed by Herbert Kenwith, Gerren Keith, Mel Ferber, Tony Singletary - With Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Dana Plato, Todd Bridges, Charlotte Rae, Nedra Volz, ...

Lilies(2007)

1h per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

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With Catherine Tyldesley, Kerrie Hayes, Leanne Rowe

The Matchmakers(2023)

Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Set during the Joseon Dynasty, the story of the meeting between the young widow Jung Soon-deok and young widower Shim Jung-woo as well as the struggle the two go through together to marry off the four young maidens who represent Joseon.

With Ro-woon, Cho Yi-hyun

Rebecca(1997)

1h 30min per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies. She finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for, and housekeeper Mrs Danvers despises her for taking her darling Rebecca's place. But these are not the only problems to face...

Directed by Jim O'Brien - With Charles Dance, Emilia Fox, Diana Rigg

The Widower(2014)

46min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Over a thirteen year period, a seemingly mild‐mannered male nurse, Malcolm Webster, set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.

With Reece Shearsmith, Sheridan Smith, Kate Fleetwood, Archie Panjabi, John Hannah