kate and allie if divorced women with kids fit your genre.
― mizzell, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
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).
― Yerac, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
I never watched Beauty and the Beast so it's surprising that it was set in NYC?!?
― Yerac, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
What’s so unique about nycLaverne and Shirley
― calstars, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
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, 12 November 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
looks pretty barren for the 80
Cosby Show runnin shit
― Οὖτις, Monday, November 12, 20
Oh yeah like that doesn’t happen anywhere else. Of course
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
I think you’re all inherently interesting
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
Is there a similar tv lineage for single women moving to London, Paris, uhhh Toronto?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
Sorry to be pendantic. Just think “the big city” would be better. But hey It’s your thread bro
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4HhxicY0rA
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
As far as the topic, The Mindy Project is a relatively recent example I think
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
Living Single for 90s, but I guess that was more of a Friends set up.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
That Girl 1966-1971Mary Tyler Moore - 1970-1977rhoda 1974-1978
I know you didn’t mean to skip over Mary Tyler Moore
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
oh right, not nyc
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Yeah thus the rhoda spinoff
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
re: Laverne & Shirley, once they moved the show to California, it tanked.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 04:31 (five years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
Caroline In The City with Lea Thompson (1995-99)2 Broke Girls
― nickn, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 06:55 (five years ago) link
Murphy Brown?!?
― suzy, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 09:03 (five years ago) link
The Netflix ‘She’s gotta have it’ springs to mind and although 30 rock was more workplace it fits the bill
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 10:51 (five years ago) link
Also the short lived - ‘Super Fun Night’ and ‘Don’t trust the B**** in apartment 23’
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
Murphy Brown says DC. I couldn't remember where it was set.
I guess there was not really any in the 80s.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 12:13 (five years ago) link
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'.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Also: Party Girl was a TV spin-off of the Parker Posey movie.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
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 (?)
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
Girls had such great moments but it's a show that I never finished and never want to see again.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
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)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Wait, does Cagney & Lacey count???
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
I am now searching for "Girls Hannah eating spaghetti".
― Yerac, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
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!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
her upstairs in rising damp
― unproven (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
Can't Cope Wont Cope & Finding Joyare 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
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link