diff --git a/python/pyspark/pandas/base.py b/python/pyspark/pandas/base.py
index b45d14e0be437..5b5559837d974 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/pandas/base.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/pandas/base.py
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ def value_counts(
                     ('falcon', 'length')],
                    )
 
-        >>> s.index.value_counts().sort_index() # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> s.index.value_counts().sort_index()
         (cow, length)       1
         (cow, weight)       2
         (falcon, length)    2
@@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ def value_counts(
         (lama, weight)      3
         Name: count, dtype: int64
 
-        >>> s.index.value_counts(normalize=True).sort_index() # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> s.index.value_counts(normalize=True).sort_index()
         (cow, length)       0.111111
         (cow, weight)       0.222222
         (falcon, length)    0.222222
@@ -1745,6 +1745,7 @@ def _test() -> None:
     spark = (
         SparkSession.builder.master("local[4]").appName("pyspark.pandas.base tests").getOrCreate()
     )
+    spark.conf.set("spark.sql.execution.pandas.structHandlingMode", "row")
     (failure_count, test_count) = doctest.testmod(
         pyspark.pandas.base,
         globs=globs,