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Girls On Top

Girls On Top

★ 5.4/10•1985•30m•15•Comedy
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Four girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender, they barely manage to co-exist.

Dawn French · Writer

Jennifer Saunders · Writer

Ruby Wax · Writer

Tracey Ullman · Writer

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateOct 23, 1985

Episodes

E130m

Four-Play

Amanda manages to snag herself a flat in Chelsea but is unable to pay for it herself. She has no other choice but to look for flatmates.

Oct 23, 1985

E230m

Staying Alive

Candice is cultivating her latest illness; Amanda is quoting liberally from her latest publication "Spare Cheeks"; Shelley has failed yet another audition; and Jennifer, well, she's just Jennifer.

Oct 30, 1985

E330m

C.O.D.

Candice arrives home with her latest Latin lover, Julio, but just as they're about to get down to the nitty-gritty, they are aware that there is another in their company – the inevitable Jennifer.

Nov 6, 1985

E430m

Cancel Toast

It's Shelley's big day. Can her ambition to become the next Glenda Jackson finally be realised at her audition for RADA ? However, instead of asking her to do Shakespearean a Juliet speech, they want her to improvise... as a fried egg.

Nov 13, 1985

E530m

Ident: Candy Time

Amanda is miffed that Candice is not paying her way with the rent even though she keeps buying expensive clothes. Shelley suggests that Candice could be a prostitute so they all decide to follow her one day.

Nov 20, 1985

E630m

Skankin'

Annoyed at not being asked to help with the street festival, Amanda goes out into the streets of Chelsea to look for needy people. She pounces on two black boys and then phones the festival organiser to say she has found a reggae band.

Nov 27, 1985

E730m

Hark

Oh horror! Oh Calamity! Oh Jennifer! She who is lacking in almost everything, plumbs new depths when she takes Josephine, Lady Carlton's stuffed black dog, for a walk and promptly loses her in a shop. The girls plan various schemes, including a stuffed coypu, and giving Lady Carlton a message "from heaven" by a teddy bear, which is supposed to be Josephine, transformed into an angel.

Dec 4, 1985

Actors

Dawn French

Dawn French

Amanda

Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer

Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax

Shelley

Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman

Candice Valentine

Joan Greenwood

Joan Greenwood

Lady Carlton

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