women in sitcoms

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For sitcoms dads army, it ain't arf hot mum, Steptoe and son, on the buses all spring to mind and predominantly male. There were one or two with women in but portrayals not particular good IE. Are you being served or men behaving badly.
The only female leads/dominated sitcom to spring to mind was birds of a feather.
Name me some more, please.
Disclaimer. I did not use the words decent or funny!

 

[Reno]

There are countless US sitcoms starring womeb, the most influential having been The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but there honestly are too many to mention. The likes of The Golden Girls and Designing Women starred women only ensembles.

There were a lot of British ones too, like The Liver Birds, Girls on Top or Dinnerladies.

 

[colacubes]

Just off the top of my head:

Gimme gimme gimme
Absolutely Fabulous
Miranda
Derry Girls
The Vicar of Dibley
Gameface

Of those I think Miranda and Dibley are shite. Haven’t watched Derry Girls.

 

[Indeliblelink]

The Good Life was fairly well split between male and female leads.

 

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Vicar of Dibley, of course. That's the only one I've seen. Know the names of some of the others.

 

[hash tag]

The Good Life was fairly well split between male and female leads.

Goodness, don't we need the good life right now

 

[Fez909]

Spaced

 

[Reno]

Fleabag is probably the most acclaimed recent British sitcom and that’s starring a woman, it’s just that laughter tracks are not that popular anymore.

 

[Poot]

Drifters, which is the female version of The Inbetweeners and equally as highbrow.

 

[Detroit City]

what about that show with Mrs. Bucket? and the one with Judy Dench?

 

[nogojones]

Nighty night

 

[Reno]

what about that show with Mrs. Bucket?

Bouquet !

Keeping Up Appearances.

 

[Detroit City]

Bouquet !

Keeping Up Appearances.

yes that's it

 

[SpookyFrank]

Just off the top of my head:

Gimme gimme gimme
Absolutely Fabulous
Miranda
Derry Girls
The Vicar of Dibley
Gameface

Of those I think Miranda and Dibley are shite. Haven’t watched Derry Girls.

Derry Girls is fucking brilliant.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Rhoda
Take Three Girls

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Lovers
Liver Birds

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Laverne and Shirley

 

[chilango]

Laverne & Shirley
The Golden Girls
Blossom
Clarissa explains it all
Sabrina the teenage witch

 

[chilango]

Mum
Motherland

 

[Dr. Furface]

Daria (ok it's a cartoon, but hey)

 

[Reno]

I Love Lucy with Lucille Ball was the biggest US TV series of the 50s

 

[colacubes]

Derry Girls is fucking brilliant.

Yeah I’ve heard. Haven’t quite got round to it yet but currently have no fucking excuse

 

[lefteri]

to the manor born

 

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The liver birds, whatever happened to...

Bread had a strong woman as did the thing about the LarkinS.

 

[killer b]

Dinnerladies ffs

 

[tim]

In the UK "Man abut the House" and "George and Mildred", Yootha Joyce became the principal character in the former and had the second designed around the character she played . I love Lucy from the USA, which was awful and always on British TV in the late 60's and early 70's.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Robin's Nest

 

[tim]

Goodness, don't we need the good life right now

Click here and your wish will be granted, Effendi

 

[hash tag]

man about the house was very of it's time and terribly sexist. It was all about Robin.

 

[lefteri]

butterflies