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Shows that feel like I Love Lucy (1951–1957)

If you loved I Love Lucy, the closest series we have are Leave It to Beaver (1957), Bewitched (1964) and El Chapulín Colorado (1973). All three share I Love Lucy's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

8.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗6 seasons · CBScreated by Bob Carroll Jr.wittyplayfulwarmcozy
Stream it:Paramount+
Buy seasons:Amazon see price ↗Apple TV$34.99 buyI Love Lucy, The Complete Series · Apple price as of 2026-09-09

If I Love Lucy hit the spot, these will too

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Leave It to Beaver
1957–1963 · 6 seasons · ABC
7.6comedy · family

One thread runs through both: sitcom

An inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

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Bewitched
1964–1972 · 8 seasons · ABC
7.6sci-fi & fantasy · comedy · family

Two things both keep coming back to: housewife and slapstick comedy

The difference: Sits closer to sci-fi & fantasy than I Love Lucy does

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.

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El Chapulín Colorado
1973–1979 · 7 seasons · Las Estrellas
8.5comedy · family

Common ground: sitcom

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

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Vecinos
2005– · 21 seasons · Distrito Comedia
7.2comedy · family · kids

Both are built on the same subject: neighbor

The everyday life of people in Mexican neighborhoods, where anything can be found. Each episode interacts between these peculiar neighbors, where they encounter real and fictitious problems.

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I Dream of Jeannie
1965–1970 · 5 seasons · NBC
7.4sci-fi & fantasy · comedy · family

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".

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Full House
1987–1995 · 8 seasons · ABC
6.8comedy · family

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

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The Nanny
1993–1999 · 6 seasons · CBS
7.2comedy · family

New York City shapes both of them

That flashy girl from Flushing with the heart of an angel (and the voice of a slighty more nasal angel). The comic misadventures of the sweet and sassy Fran Fine, her sophisticated employer, Broadway producer Mr. Sheffield, his boisterous brood and his wisecracking staff.

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The Flintstones
1960–1966 · 6 seasons · ABC
7.5family · animation · comedy

Both land warmth and comfort at once

The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.

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Girl Meets World
2014–2017 · 3 seasons · Disney Channel
7comedy · family

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The adventures of relatable and adventurous Riley Matthews, the tween daughter of Cory and Topanga Matthews, and her bold best friend Maya as they traverse the twists and turns of teenage years at Manhattan's John Quincy Adams Middle School where Riley's dad is their History teacher.

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iCarly
2007–2012 · 6 seasons · Nickelodeon
6.8comedy · family · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

Watch Carly, Sam, and Freddie, as they try to balance their everyday 8th grade lives with their newfound fame managing and starring in the most awesome show on the web.

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Desperate Housewives
2004–2012 · 8 seasons · ABC
7.6mystery · drama · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: housewife

The difference: None of the comfort I Love Lucy is built on

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.

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Frasier
1993–2004 · 11 seasons · NBC
8.2comedy · family

Family built on play, twice over

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.

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