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Ted Danson is an American actor best known for his role as Sam Malone on Cheers. He has won two Golden Globes and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Danson was also nominated for an Emmy for Damages and The Good Place. In 1999, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
His latest show, A Man on the Inside, premiered on November 21, 2024, where he plays Charles, a retired professor struggling with life after his wife's death. His daughter then encourages him to find something to keep him occupied, which sparks his journey as a private investigator. He is assigned to solve a mystery at a senior living facility, where he forms new acquaintances. The show explores aging and life's second chances with a humorous tone.
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Here are the 8 best movies and shows to watch if you liked A Man on the Inside starring Ted Danson.
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The Good Place, Cheers and 6 other Ted Danson movies and shows to watch if you liked A Man on the Inside
1) The Good Place (2016-2020)
The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy television show where a deceased lady is placed in a utopian-modeled heaven designed and supervised by the afterlife architect Michael (played by Danson). In the show, characters are transported to "the good place" or "the bad place" once they die.
Based on the morality of their actions throughout their lives, each human is given a numerical score. Only those who receive the highest scores are transferred to the good place, where, under the guidance of artificial intelligence, they are granted all of their wishes and live in eternal happiness; everyone else is tormented for all eternity in the bad place.
Where to watch: Netflix
2) Cheers (1982-1993)
Cheers was created by James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show, which aired for 11 seasons, revolves around conversations at a bar, with episodes focusing on love, death, and bar bets. Ted Danson plays Sam Malone, the bar owner and bartender, who was once a baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. His career ended due to alcoholism, and he has an on-again, off-again relationship with Diane Chambers.
Sam has numerous affairs with women but never pursues a committed relationship. He attempts, with differing degrees of success, to court Rebecca Howe after Diane is written out of the series.
To find out if he will discover the love of his life, watch the entire series.
Where to watch: Hulu, Prime Video
3) Three Men and a Baby (1987)
Three bachelors—actor Jack, cartoonist Michael, and architect Peter—are taken aback when a baby named Mary (from Jack's previous affair), shows up at their door. Initually, they struggle to take care of her.
When they unintentionally exchange Mary for a package of heroin, chaos breaks out, setting off a chain of mishaps involving drug dealers, law enforcement, and a developing attachment with the infant. After enduring the difficulties of 'fatherhood,' they eventually discover Mary's true parentage and create an unexpected family.
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+
4) Fargo (season 2) (2014)
Despite sharing the same continuity as the 1996 movie, Fargo is an anthology series with self-contained seasons. The show follows a series of organized crime, law enforcement, and regular civilians, as their entwined lives turn violent and conflictual, albeit the stories change from season to season.
Season 2 of Fargo takes place in the Upper Midwest in 1979. It focuses on the life of a young couple, Peggy and Ed Blumquist, as they attempt to conceal the hit-and-run and murder of Rye Gerhardt, the son of the matriarch of the Gerhardt crime family.
Rock County Sheriff Hank Larsson (played by Danson) and Minnesota state trooper Lou Solverson look into three killings connected to Rye during this period.
Where to watch: Hulu, Prime Video
5) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2015)
The series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (often known as CSI and CSI: Las Vegas) and in the CSI franchise, is the original series.
Ted Danson plays D.B. Russell, head of the Las Vegas Crime Lab and supervisor of the graveyard shift CSI in seasons 12-15 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. A skilled detective and botanist, Russell is brought in to take charge after the Langston incident and later becomes the lab's director, a position he holds until his retirement.
Where to watch: Prime Video, Netflix
6) A Fine Mess (1986)
Blake Edwards wrote and directed the 1986 American comedy A Fine Mess, which stars Ted Danson and Howie Mandel. In the movie, Spencer Holden (played by Danson) an actor who lives life on scams, overhears two incompetent goons doping a race horse with an allegedly undetectable super stimulant while filming on set at a racetrack.
When the thugs learn that Spence heard them, they will stop at nothing to apprehend him and stop him from reporting the information to the police. But in order to get some guaranteed cash, Spence asks his best friend Dennis Powell to wager on the race with that horse.
Where to watch: Prime Video
7) Becker (1998-2004)
Danson plays the character, John Becker, an antisocial doctor with a small clinic who seems to be irked by his patients, co-workers and basically everyone around him. They remain faithful in spite of everything because Becker truly cares about his patients and friends.
The main plot revolves around Becker's relationships with Reggie and, later, Chris. More serious topics like race, transgender identities, addiction, schizophrenia, and political correctness are also covered in the show.
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+
8) Something About Amelia (1984)
A father's m*lestation of his daughter causes psychological damage in a family, as depicted in the 1984 television movie Something About Amelia. Ted Danson, Glenn Close, Roxana Zal, and Missy Francis play the lead roles.
Amelia Bennett was s*xually m*lested by her father, Steven Bennett (played by Danson), but was silent about it out of shame and fear. However, Amelia lets go of her terrible secret when she begins to worry that Steven might hurt her younger sibling in the same way.
When faced with this terrible news, Steven claims his innocence, and his wife, Gail does not believe it to be true. However, the family is completely upended as new information comes to light.
Although comedy has always been Ted Danson's forte, his shows and films have crossed many genres throughout the years. Check out his most recent work, A Man on the Inside, streaming on Netflix.
