Shows Like Last Man Standing

Tim Allen leads; same multicam format, stubborn dad resisting change — spiritual successor to LMS on same network.

Same creator Jack Burditt, same star Tim Allen — direct franchise extension of the LMS creative team.

Tim Allen's defining sitcom: manly dad, power tools, family life — the template LMS was directly modeled on.

Multicam CBS sitcom: dad suddenly doing more parenting, same era and format as LMS, similar humor register.

Same-era ABC family sitcom; outspoken parent resisting PC suburbia — overlapping audience and conservative-family tone.

Curmudgeonly blue-collar man navigating family and work — multicam sitcom with the same alpha-male-meets-family premise.

Network multicam family sitcom centered on contrasting parenting styles; dad trying to hold his ground at home.

ABC family sitcom running same years as LMS; working-class Midwest family comedy with broad shared audience.

Working-class family sitcom with strong political/cultural identity — LMS fans heavily overlap with Roseanne/Conners viewers.

Multicam NBC sitcom: dad as comedic center of family chaos, same format and network-era positioning as LMS.

Blue-collar husband/dad multicam sitcom; raunchy update of the manly-dad-vs-modern-life premise LMS shares.

Network family sitcom about a dad defending cultural/identity values at home — same ABC slot demographic as LMS.

ABC sitcom same debut year as LMS; suburban family comedy with a parent clashing against modern cultural norms.

Cantankerous family patriarch (gender-flipped) running a household with old-school values vs. younger relatives.

Classic network sitcom about gender-role reversal in a household; thematic counterpoint to LMS's masculine-identity premise.

ABC sitcom: dad asserting old-fashioned authority over teenage daughters in a modern household — near-identical premise DNA.

Iconic cantankerous older man sitcom; tonal ancestor of the gruff-but-lovable patriarch archetype LMS uses.

Single-father classic sitcom; shares the dad-as-anchor-of-family structure but from a very different era.

Suburban family multicam sitcom; lighter tonal connection — shared sitcom DNA but weaker ideological/format overlap.

ABC sitcom about a lazy, self-centered husband/dad vs. patient wife — same manly-dad-in-modern-family mold as LMS.