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Growing Pains (1985)
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Growing Pains is an American television sitcom about an affluent family, residing in Huntington, Long Island, New York, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, which aired on ABC from September 24, 1985, to April 25, 1992.
Style:
sitcom, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, nostalgic
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
teenager, family relations, psychiatrist, youth, friends, parents and children, family life, love and romance, teenage life, society, suburbs, suburban life, siblings relations, couple relations, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, male female relationship, teenage boy, child, husband wife relationship, problem solving ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
long island, new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sitcom, humorous, realistic and semi serious films and TV series with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, teenage life and teenage girl mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like Growing Pains: Family Ties (1982), Diff'rent Strokes (1978), Full House (1987), The Cosby Show (1984), Home Improvement (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two ...
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family outing, kids
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Full House is an American sitcom television series. Set in San Francisco, the show chronicles widowed father Danny Tanner, who, after the death of his wife Pam, enlists his best friend Joey Gladstone and his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis to help ...
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sitcom, humorous, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
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Place:
san francisco, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen, that aired from September 17, 1991 to May 25, 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s, it was one of the most watched ...
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sitcom, humorous, funny, sweet, not serious ...
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kids
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90s, 20th century
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detroit, michigan, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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family relations, love and romance, couple relations, single parent, remarry, couples, family life, looking for love, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage life, large family ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom starring identical twins Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry. The premise of the show was that the girls were separated and adopted at birth, one to a single mother, one to a single father, and have met again ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Moesha was an American sitcom series that aired on the UPN network from January 23, 1996 to May 14, 2001. The series stars R&B singer Brandy Norwood as Moesha Mitchell, a high school student living with her family in the Leimert Park ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992. Produced by Embassy Television, in association with Hunter-Cohan Productions, and Columbia Pictures ...
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kids
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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After her dentist husband of 20 years leaves her for his dental hygienist, Reba Hart's seemingly perfect world is turned upside down.
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sitcom, humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
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family outing, teens, kids
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man. The show aired for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 ...
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pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It ran on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988, following ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII.
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sitcom, touching, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
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teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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teenage life, siblings relations, family relations, lifestyle, teenager, step siblings, prank, unlikely partners, deal, adolescence vs adulthood, manipulation, disorder ...
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2000s, 21st century
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Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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feel good, humorous, sitcom, touching, semi serious ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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sitcom, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
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kids, family outing
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The Bill Engvall Show is a sitcom which ran on TBS from July 17, 2007 to September 5, 2009. The series starred comedian Bill Engvall and was written and created by Engvall and Michael Leeson. The series was canceled on September 25, 2009.
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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26%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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23%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their six children, a dog named Tiger, and quirky housekeeper Alice.
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22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle to balance their ordinary lives while learning to master their extraordinary powers.
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Cory in the House is an American television sitcom, which aired on the Disney Channel from January 12, 2007 to September 13, 2008 and was a spin-off from the Disney show That's So Raven. The show focuses on Cory Baxter, who moved from San ...
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