TV shows where people are mannerly and kind

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I like the Great British Baking Show -- yes, it's a reality show, but all of the contestants are so polite, nice, and genuinely seem to care about each other.

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Shteisel. This Hasidic community is very kind to each other. Lots of respect for elders and trying to problem solve together. It seems since most don't work, they have time for kindness, good deeds, and caring for each other. A traditional community.

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Happy Days
Mork and Mindy

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My Name Is Earl

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Anonymous wrote:Gilmore Girls
Hart of Dixie
Friday Night Lights
Offspring

Agree with Friday Night Lights. There is a lot of humanity in that show.

I would not describe the characters on FNL as mannerly and kind. Loved the series, but don't think it fits in with what OP is looking for.

FNL fits perfectly. Not every scene, character, story line is kind, but overall the series leaves with a feeling better.

Agree

FNL may be one of the best TV shows ever made that show you how to live a life with dignity and class and how to help out those around you. It's a tough environment and bad things happen - racism, attempted rape. But, the characters works so hard to overcome the constraints that life puts on them and they learn from their mistakes.

Plus, Coach and Ms. Taylor have one of the best, most inspiring marriages I have ever seen. And so real. You can feel their anger and frustration with each other at times - but then deal with it like adults.

LOVE this show.

I'd also say:
- Homefront -but don't know where you can watch that - but first show I ever saw Kyle Chandler in
- The Good Place
- Hart of Dixie
- Parenthood
- Picket Fences

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Game of Thrones

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Anonymous wrote:Game of Thrones

You tried this joke on page 3.

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Great British Baking Show on Netflix!

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Frasier and also The Nanny.

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Anonymous wrote:Shteisel. This Hasidic community is very kind to each other. Lots of respect for elders and trying to problem solve together. It seems since most don't work, they have time for kindness, good deeds, and caring for each other. A traditional community.

Jew here and no. While the show is quite good, the community in reality is not.

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Anonymous wrote:Due South
Northern Exposure

Have you found a way to watch Northern Exposure? I'd read that it doesn't get picked up by streaming sites because the royalties they'd have to pay for the songs is cost prohibitive.

That’s also the problem with Ed, which otherwise would totally be on this list.

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Anonymous wrote:Due South
Northern Exposure

Have you found a way to watch Northern Exposure? I'd read that it doesn't get picked up by streaming sites because the royalties they'd have to pay for the songs is cost prohibitive.

That’s also the problem with Ed, which otherwise would totally be on this list.

Oh Ed...and even better Love Monkey

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Anonymous wrote:All Creatures Great and Small was king of this kind of show back in the day.

Agree! It's currently being broadcast on Sunday evenings and another time each week on WETA channel 26 (PBS).
Anyone know if it streams somewhere? It holds up so well despite its age!

Agree on many others too, shows as extremely different from each other as "Call the Midwife" and "Schitt's Creek" though it can take some time with the latter to watch the characters grow into their kinder selves as they shed their shells. Worth the time though.

If anyone likes gentle, slowly paced British TV, there's an obscure "dramedy" called "Kingdom" about a solicitor (type of lawyer) in a middle-sized English town. The title character is the kindest person ever created on TV, I think, and basically parent to everyone even when he knows they are not acting kindly themselves. Yet he seems believable to me. You can see it for free on Roku TV and it's also on Acorn TV (Acorn is running a free month trial, code FREE30).

I used to watch that with my dad, who was always impressed with how accurate the detail was. He grew up on a farm in the 30s (drafted in 1945) although in the midwest, not England.

Of course, he always liked Green Acres as well.

Definitely Call the Midwife but also huge vote for Andy Griffith shows.

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Anonymous wrote:Shteisel. This Hasidic community is very kind to each other. Lots of respect for elders and trying to problem solve together. It seems since most don't work, they have time for kindness, good deeds, and caring for each other. A traditional community.

Jew here and no. While the show is quite good, the community in reality is not.

Agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Shteisel. This Hasidic community is very kind to each other. Lots of respect for elders and trying to problem solve together. It seems since most don't work, they have time for kindness, good deeds, and caring for each other. A traditional community.

Jew here and no. While the show is quite good, the community in reality is not.

Why? Yes, I know about the nyc mask hoarder. Is that typical?