TV Shows about single ladies living in NYC

I was thinking about this subgenre recently and trying to figure out what the lineage was, basically starting with That Girl and then on to Rhoda and then... idk was there a show like this in the 80s? I couldn't think of one. Obviously once we get to the 90s there's Sex in the City and then Girls and then Broad City. I watched the pilot episode of all the aforementioned series and it was p interesting how this trope has evolved over the years.

Felicity and Time of Your Life were some 90s NYCness. I am sure there had to be some 80s ones. Add Kimmy Schmidt to current list.

Days and Nights of Molly Dodd kind of the only 80s show I could think of that fits? but it was a) not a hit, and b) not on for very long ('87-'88) meaning there's a p big gap between that and Rhoda of over a decade.

Maybe women just weren't interested in living in NYC in the 80s lol

kate and allie if divorced women with kids fit your genre.

I am looking at the wiki page of tv shows set in NYC and it looks pretty barren for the 80s (although the list likely isn't complete).

I never watched Beauty and the Beast so it's surprising that it was set in NYC?!?

What’s so unique about nyc
Laverne and Shirley

what's unique about NYC is obviously that so many people think the story of a young woman making her way in it is inherently interesting

looks pretty barren for the 80

Cosby Show runnin shit

what's unique about NYC is obviously that so many people think the story of a young woman making her way in it is inherently interesting

― Οὖτις, Monday, November 12, 20

Oh yeah like that doesn’t happen anywhere else. Of course

I think you’re all inherently interesting

Is there a similar tv lineage for single women moving to London, Paris, uhhh Toronto?

Sorry to be pendantic. Just think “the big city” would be better. But hey It’s your thread bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4HhxicY0rA

As far as the topic, The Mindy Project is a relatively recent example I think

Living Single for 90s, but I guess that was more of a Friends set up.

That Girl 1966-1971
Mary Tyler Moore - 1970-1977
rhoda 1974-1978

I know you didn’t mean to skip over Mary Tyler Moore

oh right, not nyc

Yeah thus the rhoda spinoff

definitely looking to this thread with an eye toward recommendations

watched sex & the city for the first time this year and it's amazing how dated so many things seem when held against nyc of 2018

on the non-nyc side of things, as a kid watching Laverne and Shirley reruns, I somehow connected the show to my mom's early 20s! I should really tell her that because I think she'd find it funny

First thing that came to mind was Anything But Love, but it turns out that was Chicago. The presence of Richard Lewis and Ann Magnuson made me think New York.

re: Laverne & Shirley, once they moved the show to California, it tanked.

Just Shoot Me began as a vehicle for Laura San Giacomo to do exactly this, but it very quickly turned into a workplace comedy because the casting was too good.

Caroline In The City might qualify, except she had a boyfriend the whole time the show was on.

Party Girl was a stab at this from 1996 (pre-Sex and the City) but it lasted just six episodes, only four of them aired

Caroline In The City with Lea Thompson (1995-99)
2 Broke Girls

Murphy Brown?!?

The Netflix ‘She’s gotta have it’ springs to mind and although 30 rock was more workplace it fits the bill

Also the short lived - ‘Super Fun Night’ and ‘Don’t trust the B**** in apartment 23’

Murphy Brown says DC. I couldn't remember where it was set.

I guess there was not really any in the 80s.

Just looked up Lush Life (1996), Lori Petty's post-Tank Girl sitcom, and the imdb description is basically '2 Broke Girls in the '90s'.

Also: Party Girl was a TV spin-off of the Parker Posey movie.

Is there a similar tv lineage for single women moving to London, Paris, uhhh Toronto?

Not especially, I can think of a few shows about men or men & women but in terms of women only, just Babes in the Wood (awful) and Dressing for Breakfast (?)

Girls had such great moments but it's a show that I never finished and never want to see again.

Laverne and Shirley was the first show I watched regularly as a kid that was not based on a family unit or Muppets. It changed my life! My mom used to tell me that she knew I was watching it when she could hear me laughing from the other room. (Some may argue that L & S still had a "family unit" but it wasn't straight nuclear family, adopted kids or otherwise)

I barely even tried it - that scene of her eating spaghetti disgusted me so much that I stopped watching and never looked back, although I regret it slightly now considering that my jolie laide fave Adam Driver is in it.

Wait, does Cagney & Lacey count???

Was Take 3 Girls the show that had pentangle's Light Flight as its soundtrack about single womebn moving to London.

& the Liverbirds about single women moving to the big town of Liverpool.

Also Man About The House largely about the 2 single female flatmates in wherever that was. THough I guess Robin was inevitably the centre of attention.

I am now searching for "Girls Hannah eating spaghetti".

the Liverbirds about single women moving to the big town of Liverpool.
had never heard of this but GIS + the size of liverpool (milwaukee) indicates this could be a UK laverne and shirley?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liver_Birds

would watch!!

her upstairs in rising damp

Can't Cope Wont Cope
& Finding Joy
are both about single women trying to find their way in Dublin.

I guess Fleabag is similarly about a 20 something trying to live alone in London