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Going Straight (1978)
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Going Straight (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set. It sees Fletcher trying to become an honest member of society, having vowed to stay away from crime on his release. The title refers to his attempt, 'straight' being a slang term meaning being honest, in contrast to 'bent', i.e., dishonest. Also re-appearing was Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber, who was Fletcher's naïve young cellmate and was now in a relationship with his daughter Ingrid. Her brother Raymond was played by a teenage Nicholas Lyndhurst. Only one series, of six episodes, was made in 1978. It attracted an audience of over 15 million viewers and won a BAFTA award in March 1979, but hopes of a further series had already been dashed by Beckinsale's premature death earlier in the same month.
Style: sitcom
Plot: ex convict, daughter, teenage son, truck, blonde, family relations, single father, truck driver, father daughter relationship, unemployment, british, single parent, working class, parent grown child relationship, cockney, reformed criminal, 26 year old, british humour, variety, blonde woman, family
Time: 70s
Place: london

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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 british humour, family relations, british, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, working class and society mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Going Straight: Open All Hours (1976), On the Buses (1969), After You've Gone (2007), The Upper Hand (1990), Till Death Us Do Part (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Open All Hours (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who works as his errand boy. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which premiered in 1976, 1981, 1982 ...
Style: sitcom, contemplative, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: humour, cooking show, nephew, uncle, storekeeper, customer, nurse, miser, working class, bicycle, workaholic, generation gap ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: northern england, yorkshire, england, europe
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On the Buses (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: On the Buses is a British comedy programme created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation ...
Style: sitcom, controversial, humorous
Audience: kids
Plot: bus, working class, working conditions, mother, sister, british, working class family, bachelor, bus driver, inspector, marriage, worker
Time: 20th century
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After You've Gone (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After You've Gone was a British comedy that aired on BBC One from 12 January 2007 to 21 December 2008. Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, Celia Imrie, Dani Harmer and Ryan Sampson, After You've Gone was created by Fred Barron, who also created ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: in-laws, grandparent grandchild relationship, three generations, family relations, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, high school student, brother sister relationship, barmaid, british, family home ...
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The Upper Hand (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: household, ex football player, single father, housekeeper, three generations, advertising executive, single mother, father daughter relationship, businesswoman, single parent, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: london
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Till Death Us Do Part (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Till Death Us Do Part is a ground-breaking British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975. First airing as a Comedy Playhouse pilot, the show aired in seven series until 1975. Six years later, ITV continued the sitcom, calling it Till Death.... ...
Style: sitcom, political, controversial, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: working class, racism, satire, conservative, wife, husband, daughter, baby, fanatic, family relations, sexist, marital argument ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: london, england
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Man About the House (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sitcom exploring the trials and tribulations created by one man and two women flat-sharing in the 70s.
Style: sitcom
Audience: kids
Plot: chef, landlady, roommate, british, husband and wife, husband wife relationship, flirting, platonic relationship, landlord, flatmate, pretending to be gay, friend ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: london
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2point4 Children (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: 2point4 children is a 1990s British sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It follows the lives of the Porter family; an average family that is persistently faced with surreal situations and sheer bad luck. The show was originally ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
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Love Thy Neighbour (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Love Thy Neighbour is a British sitcom, which was transmitted from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976, spanning seven series. The sitcom was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. The principal cast included Jack Smethurst, Rudolph ...
Style: sitcom, controversial, sexy, hot
Audience: kids
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Time: 70s
Place: england, london
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In Sickness and in Health (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In Sickness and in Health is a BBC television sitcom which ran between 1985 and 1992. It was a sequel to the highly successful Til Death Us Do Part, which ran between 1966 and 1975, and Till Death..., which ran for one series of six episodes in 1981.
Style: sitcom
Plot: husband, death, widower, church, neighbor, daughter, wife, milkman, religion, pension, sexist, old man ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: australia, london
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Sykes (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes, who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and A... and Sykes and a Big, Big Show. Forty-three of the 1970s ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england
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21%
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Me and My Girl (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Me and My Girl was a 1980s British television situation comedy starring Richard O'Sullivan, which centred on the challenges faced by a widower raising his adolescent daughter. It was broadcast on ITV between 1984 and 1988.
Style: sitcom
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21%
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Desmond's (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. With 71 episodes, Desmond's became Channel 4's longest-running sitcom. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast ...
Style: sitcom, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: working class, business, barbershop, family relations, immigrant, social differences, family business, couples, beauty salon, friends, couple relations, social relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, england, britain
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Bless This House (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bless this house is a British sitcom starring Sid James and Diana Coupland that aired on ITV from the 2nd February 1971 to the 22nd April 1976. It was written by Derek Collyer, David Comming, B.C. Cummins, Harry Driver, George Evans, Dave Freeman, ...
Style: sitcom
Audience: kids
Plot: misunderstanding, teenager, artist, husband and wife, family values, father and son, father and daughter, best friend, generation gap, father son relationship, neighbor, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century
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Citizen Smith (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who later wrote Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series proper ran from 3 ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, witty, humorous, realistic
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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The Royle Family (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: manchester, northern england, england, europe
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Steptoe and Son (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: working class, son, father, family business, love hate relationship, melancholy, business, partner, odd couple, lifestyle, reluctant partners, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe, london, united kingdom
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George and Mildred (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: George and Mildred is a British sitcom produced by Thames Television that aired from 1976 to 1979. It was a spin-off from Man About the House and starred Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce as an ill-matched married couple, George and Mildred Roper. The ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: neighbor, married couple, british, husband wife relationship
Time: 20th century
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The Kennedys (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Multi-generation family sitcom set in the 1970s, loosely based on Emma Kennedy's memoirs. The Kennedy family pursue every opportunity they can to climb the social ladder on their housing estate.
Style: semi serious, entertaining, captivating, humorous, sitcom ...
Plot: family relations, slice of life, mother daughter relationship, society, parents and children, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, male female relationship, relationships, family life, satire, boots
Time: 70s
Place: england
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19%
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Home to Roost (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Matthew. The premise is that Henry Willows is ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic
Plot: teenage son, chambermaid, father, lifestyle, disorder, family relations, single parent, eccentric family, parents and children, youth, teenage life, mischievous children ...
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Place: england, europe
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Lord, Give Me Patience (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Follows Gregorio, an ultra-conservative, reactionary and prejudiced family man, as he must deal everyday with his children and do whatever it takes to keep his family together, without the help of his wife.
Style: captivating, humorous, satirical, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: family life, family relations, kids and family, single parent, satire, slice of life, father daughter relationship, father, lifestyle, family problems, father son relationship, single father ...
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Barbara (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Barbara is a British sitcom starring Gwen Taylor in the title role. A pilot was broadcast in 1995, and three series were then televised from 1999 to 2003. It was made by Central Television, and filmed at their Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham in ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
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Time: 90s
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
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18%
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Grady (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Grady is an spin-off of the sitcom, Sanford and Son. In this series, Fred Sanford's widower friend Grady moves out of Watts and moves in with his daughter and her family in Westwood. Executive producer Norman Lear served as a consultant to the ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: black, african american, american culture, middle class, african american protagonist, male protagonist, family relations, father daughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, father in law son in law relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california
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18%
Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures ...
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, elderly, small town, countryside, retirement, social relations, unemployment, working class, trio, veteran, library, pub ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 21st century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, england, united kingdom, europe
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18%
Only Fools and Horses (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story: The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of “Trotters Independent Traders PLC” who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: working class, cockney, grandfather, world war two veteran, black market, disorder, eccentric family, brother brother relationship, pub, short man, veteran, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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18%
Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Roger & Val Have Just Got In is a British sitcom that stars Dawn French and Alfred Molina playing married couple Roger and Val Stevenson. The show premiered on BBC Two on 6 August 2010 and six episodes were broadcast for the first series. The ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: married couple, couple relations, working class, family relations, everyday life, rivalry, long term relationship, bittersweet, couples, realism, verbal byplay, british humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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18%
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Kenan (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The recently widowed host of Atlanta's No. 2 morning show struggles to balance his job and his young daughters despite all the “help” he gets from his grifter father-in-law and his brother/assistant/manager/house guest.
Style: funny, captivating, satirical, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: kids
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Time: 2020s, 21st century
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The Two Ronnies (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show which aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the "Two Ronnies" of the title.
Style: sketch comedy, witty, humorous, sitcom, not serious ...
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Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: england
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