--- title: "Family series" canonical: "https://film.one/tv/genre/family" region: "US" total: 10 shown: 10 licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Family series Family, on television, usually means nobody in the room is asking for something else, which is a low bar and most programmes clear it by accident. What we are scoring is whether it talks down. The good ones assume a child can be frightened, bored or trusted to get the joke, and that the adults on the sofa are not chaperones. Our shelf leans towards animation and towards the odd: two brothers lost in an autumn wood sit beside a propane salesman in a small Texas town. Start with [Frasier](/tv/frasier) (88), for writing that knows how long to wait; [Over the Garden Wall](/tv/over-the-garden-wall) (86), a two-hour fairy tale that frightens and amuses in the same minute; and [Gravity Falls](/tv/gravity-falls) (84), funnier and better built than a children's cartoon needs to be, once the first run settles. After those, try King of the Hill if patience is what you liked, or The Storyteller if it was the dark. For US. 10 titles; 10 listed here. Add `?region=XX` for another country. - [*Little House on the Prairie*](https://film.one/tv/little-house-on-the-prairie.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 60 · TV-PG · Drama/Western · on Netflix Rebecca Sonnenshine’s eight-part return to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books is handsome, gentle and more honest about whose land this was than the books ever were. It is also too clean, too tidy and too careful to be much more than pleasant. - [*Planet Earth II*](https://film.one/tv/planet-earth-ii.md) — 2016 · Fi1m 86 · TV-G · Documentary/Family · on Discovery+, HBO Max Ten years on from the first series, this follow-up has cameras that can go where the animals go, and the result is the best-looking television we have seen. It is also scored as if we could not be trusted to feel anything unaided. - [*The Durrells*](https://film.one/tv/the-durrells.md) — 2016 · Fi1m 80 · NR · 46m · Drama/Comedy Keeley Hawes gives *The Durrells* the harassed, affectionate mother its sunny family comedy needs. We recommend it for her performance and the family squabbles, with a caveat about leisurely pacing and Corfu doing rather too much of the work. - [*Over the Garden Wall*](https://film.one/tv/over-the-garden-wall.md) — 2014 · Fi1m 86 · TV-PG · 12m · Mystery/Sci-Fi & Fantasy · on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu McHale and Krentz’s ten-part fairy tale about two brothers lost in an autumn wood is a children’s cartoon that will frighten you and make you laugh in the same minute. The songs are uneven and one episode idles, but it is over in two hours. - [*Gravity Falls*](https://film.one/tv/gravity-falls.md) — 2012 · Fi1m 84 · TV-Y7 · Action & Adventure/Animation · on Disney+ Alex Hirsch’s two series about twins spending a summer in a strange Oregon town are funnier, odder and better built than a children’s cartoon has any need to be. The first run takes a while to find its shape. Stay with it. - [*Outnumbered*](https://film.one/tv/outnumbered.md) — 2007 · Fi1m 78 · NR · 30m · Comedy/Family · on The Roku Channel, Tubi Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin script the parents and let the children say whatever comes into their heads, and for three series it produces a family that looks like one you know. It grows tamer as the children grow older. - [*King of the Hill*](https://film.one/tv/king-of-the-hill-1997.md) — 1997 · Fi1m 82 · TV-14 · 22m · Animation/Comedy · on Hulu Greg Daniels and Mike Judge’s animated sitcom about a propane salesman in a small Texas town is the kindest and most patient of its kind, funny because nothing in it is exaggerated. It runs long, and a few of its stories wear thin, but we recommend it warmly. - [*Frasier*](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) — 1993 · Fi1m 88 · TV-PG · 24m · Comedy/Family · on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Paramount+, The Roku Channel *Frasier* is a fine family comedy, carried by precise writing and actors who know how long to wait. Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce are its chief pleasures, though some misunderstandings drag on past the last good joke. - [*The Storyteller*](https://film.one/tv/the-storyteller.md) — 1988 · Fi1m 82 · TV-Y7 · 25m · Action & Adventure/Family · on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, The Roku Channel Jim Henson’s folk-tale series is absorbing, unsettling family television, with John Hurt an excellent narrator. Its elaborate puppetry rewards close attention, though the solemn tone can make short tales feel heavier than they need to. - [*The Wonder Years*](https://film.one/tv/the-wonder-years.md) — 1988 · Fi1m 82 · TV-PG · 24m · Comedy/Drama · on Hulu Fred Savage makes *The Wonder Years* funny and touching without making adolescence look easy. We recommend it warmly, with a reservation about Daniel Stern’s narration, which sometimes explains what the actors have already made clear. --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/tv/genre/family