The Best Shows About Family
The best shows about families are those sitcoms and family shows that give us a break from our own families and give us a peek into these best fictional families lives. You favorite TV show about families might depend on during which generation you were raised but regardless of age, these best shows about families are also among the best TV shows of all time.
Unsurprisingly, these best shows about families feature many of the best TV families. Few can say they didn't grow up alongside the kids from The Waltons, Full House, or The Simpsons. Similarly, it's hard not to remember the Huxtables on The Cosby Show, the Keatons on Family Ties, and the Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie as some of the best television families of all time.
But not all of the families on television are traditional but the quirky interaction between blended families, like on The Brady Bunch or Step by Step, or the unconventional families like on Modern Family, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and The Addams Family, work and make those shows even more memorable.
So which of these is your favorite family TV show of recent memory?? Are you partial to the often inappropriate comedy of Family Guy or more into the wholesome family shows like The Wonder Years? Vote for your favorite shows about families, add any not listed or re-rank this list below!
- Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts
- Premiered: October 3, 1960
- John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier
- Premiered: September 22, 1987
- Will Smith, James Avery, Daphne Maxwell-Reid
- Premiered: September 10, 1990
- Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley
- Premiered: January 15, 1974
- Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Dick Sargent
- Premiered: September 17, 1964
- Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Earl Hindman
- Premiered: September 17, 1991
- Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert
- Premiered: September 11, 1974
- Michael J. Fox, Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross
- Premiered: September 22, 1982
- Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis
- Premiered: September 26, 1969
- Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
- Premiered: October 15, 1951
- Ben Savage, William Daniels, Betsy Randle
- Premiered: September 24, 1993
- Fred Savage, Jason Hervey, Olivia d'Abo
- Premiered: January 31, 1988
- Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis
- Premiered: September 24, 1964
- George O'Hanlon, Penny Singleton, Janet Waldo
- Premiered: September 23, 1962
- Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan
- Premiered: September 18, 1964
- Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc
- Premiered: September 30, 1960
- Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Kirk Cameron
- Premiered: September 24, 1985
- Jon Walmsley, Mary Beth McDonough, Eric Scott
- Premiered: September 14, 1972
- Ed O'Neill, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell
- Premiered: September 23, 2009
- Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie
- Premiered: October 3, 1961
- Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts
- Premiered: September 13, 1996
- Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow
- Premiered: October 4, 1957
- Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm-Jamal Warner
- Premiered: September 20, 1984
- Reginald VelJohnson, Judyann Elder, Darius McCrary
- Premiered: September 22, 1989
- Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas
- Premiered: September 26, 1962