Girls On Top

Four women who are nothing alike end up living together in a flat in England.

10 Votes (6.6)

1985 HD 30min United Kingdom English Ended
Comedy
landlady sitcom flatmates

Credits:

Dawn French

director

Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer

Ruby Wax

Shelley

Tracey Ullman

Candice Valentine

Joan Greenwood

Lady Carlton

S1E1 - Four-Play 1985-10-23

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.

S1E2 - Staying Alive 1985-10-30

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, shes just Jennifer.

S1E3 - C.O.D. 1985-11-06

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

S1E4 - Cancel Toast 1985-11-13

Its Shelleys 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.

S1E5 - Ident: Candy Time 1985-11-20

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.

S1E6 - Skankin' 1985-11-27

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.

S1E7 - Hark 1985-12-04

Oh horror! Oh Calamity! Oh Jennifer! She who is lacking in almost everything, plumbs new depths when she takes Josephine, Lady Carltons 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.

S2E1 - Mr Fluffy Knows Too Much 1986-10-30

Shelley and Amanda stir Jennifer into comforting Candice about her pornographic habits which have corrupted even Lady Carlton. But Candice has left a note saying shes in hospital.

S2E2 - Big Snogs 1986-11-06

The women at Spare Cheeks are taking classes in electrical repair work which is now being taught by Tom, whose sister cant make it. Amanda, always on the lookout for a man, falls head over heels in love.

S2E3 - Who's Ya Uncle Shelley? 1986-11-20

Once the subject of an exploratory brain operation (nothing was found), Jennifer suddenly reaches hitherto unknown areas of intelligence when she becomes a financial whizz-kid.

S2E4 - Bring Me More Flamingoes 1986-11-27

Shelley is determined to be a megastar but, at her glam/glit party, the only invitees who bother to turn up are The Beverley Sisters and the loopy Lady Carlton.

S2E5 - Mr. Yummy Brownie 1986-12-04

Shelleys mother pays a surprise visit and is expecting her offspring to be a fully-fledged member of the Royal Shakespeare Company by now. She is a touch disappointed to discover that Shelley is with a theatre in education group... playing a tadpole.

S2E6 - Lower the Donkey 1986-12-11

Lady Carlton has won a new kitchen in a competition but when her microwave explodes, all the lights go out and Shelley thinks that the world is about to end. She grovels her way into Amandas makeshift shelter but finds theres no food there so they send Jennifer out to forage.