Shows Like Home and Away

The other long-running Australian soap of the same era; Neighbours and Home and Away are constantly twinned as the two iconic Aussie daily soaps about everyday suburban/coastal lives.

Long-running daytime soap with overlapping families and decades of romantic, family and small-town drama in the same continuous-serial format.

Long-running British prime-time drama-soap launched in the same era, with a rotating ensemble cast and ongoing personal/professional storylines.

Prime-time soap centred on the interconnected lives of families in a small coastal Californian community - the closest US equivalent to Summer Bay's ensemble drama.

Daily continuing soap following the trials and tribulations of an ensemble cast - same daily-soap DNA, just transplanted to South Africa.

Modern Australian family drama with teen pregnancy, blended families and ensemble personal-life storytelling - very much in the Home and Away tradition.

Australian coastal teen drama set in a small surf town - rebellious newcomer adapts to seaside community life, mirroring Summer Bay's recurring beach-town setup.

Small coastal-town teen/young-adult soap with ongoing romantic and friendship arcs - the US analogue for Home and Away's teen-led seaside storytelling.

Light dramedy soap about an outsider settling into a quirky, close-knit small town - same soft-soap small-town ensemble feel.

Modern serialised soap with intertwined family dramas and ongoing personal/professional storylines, although glossier and more melodramatic than Summer Bay.

1980s prime-time drama-soap with a recurring ensemble setting and revolving personal storylines - same era and serial format, different setting.

Seaside small-town ensemble drama where the community itself is a character - shares the coastal-town atmosphere despite a darker crime focus.

Australian seaside-town drama with intertwined family secrets - matches the coastal-community setting and ensemble personal storytelling.

Australian family drama with strong period and place-based storytelling; shares the local-Australian-life flavour central to Home and Away.

Ongoing dramedy about overlapping romantic and professional lives within a tight social circle - similar serialised relationship-driven structure.

Small-town comfort series with recurring townsfolk and gentle ongoing storylines - cousin appeal as a low-stakes community show.

Light family-life ensemble with rotating relationship and household dramas; a softer comedic cousin to the family-soap formula.

Beach-house ensemble dramedy about families, divorces and reinventions - shares the coastal setting and relationship-driven serial format, though more comedic.