Sibs
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Heide Perlman |
Starring | Marsha Mason Alex Rocco Margaret Colin Jami Gertz Dan Castellaneta |
Theme music composer | George Clinton |
Opening theme | "Blood's Thicker Than Mud" |
Composer | Mik Muhlfriedel |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 22 (11 unaired) |
Production | |
Executive producers | James L. Brooks Heide Perlman Sam Simon |
Producers | Richard Sakai Ted Bessell Larina Jean Adamson |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Gracie Films Columbia Pictures Television |
Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | September 17, 1991 April 29, 1992 | –
Chronology | |
Related | The Tracey Ullman Show (1987-1990) The Simpsons (1989-present) |
Sibs is an American sitcom broadcast by ABC from September 17, 1991 until April 29, 1992. The series chronicled the relationship of three sisters, and the support the youngest two especially needed from their eldest married sister. Sibs was created by Heide Perlman and executive produced by Perlman, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon, all of whom had been showrunners of Fox's The Tracey Ullman Show. The series was backed by Brooks' Gracie Films company and Columbia Pictures Television.
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Synopsis
Sibs starred Marsha Mason as Nora Ruscio, a successful accountant and Alex Rocco as her long-suffering husband, Howie. The source of most of Howie's frustration was his wife's younger sisters (the siblings, or "sibs", of the title), Audie (Margaret Colin) and Lily (Jami Gertz). Audie was a real estate agent and hence almost unemployed in the era's weak market; she was also recovering from a recent bout of alcoholism. Lily had just been dumped by her boyfriend, who had fled to Germany without her, and had a host of other problems. Both sisters brought all of their problems to Nora, continuing a pattern that had apparently begun when they were all children. In the beginning of the pilot, Nora was distraught after just having learned that the head of her accounting firm had died. Nora's late boss had left the firm to his boorish, whiny nephew Warren Morris (Dan Castellaneta), who was another ongoing character. Shortly after inheriting his uncle's firm, Warren had fired Nora, only to learn that she was the one most of the client base had trusted, and that most of them left with her. He was now unemployed and constantly begging Nora for a job.
The original title proposed for the series was Grown-ups.
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Cast
- Marsha Mason as Nora Ruscio
- Alex Rocco as Howie Ruscio
- Margaret Colin as Audie
- Jami Gertz as Lily
- Dan Castellaneta as Warren Morris
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Episodes
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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1 | "The Naked and the Damned" | Ted Bessell | Heide Perlman | September 17, 1991 | 92-001 |
2 | "Audie's Bad Day" | Ted Bessell | Dick Blasucci & Marc Flanagan | September 25, 1991 | 92-002 |
3 | "Warren: The Final Days" | Ted Bessell | Jay Kogen & Walace Wolodarsky | October 2, 1991 | TBA |
4 | "The Big Hurt" | Ted Bessell | Dinah Kirgo | October 9, 1991 | 92-004 |
5 | "The Gift" | Ted Bessell | Heide Perlman & Sam Simon | October 16, 1991 | 92-005 |
6 | "Financial Affairs" | Ted Bessell | Frank Mula | October 23, 1991 | 92-006 |
7 | "The Cut Off" | Ted Bessell | David M. Stern | October 30, 1991 | 92-008 |
8 | "Audie's Great Guy" | Ted Bessell | Heide Perlman | April 15, 1992 | 92-010 |
9 | "Warren and the Married Woman" | Ted Bessell | Howard Gerwitz | April 22, 1992 | 92-017 |
10 | "External Revenue" | Unknown | Unknown | April 29, 1992 | TBA |
11 | "The In Crowd" | TBD | TBD | UNAIRED | TBA |
12 | "It Came from Vermont" | TBD | TBD | UNAIRED | TBA |
13 | "Honey, I Shrunk My Head" | TBD | TBD | UNAIRED | TBA |
14 | "The Best Years of My Life" | Sam Simon | Dick Blasucci & Marc Flanagan | UNAIRED | 92-011 |
15 | "Lily Makes a Move" | TBD | TBD | UNAIRED | 92-012 |
16 | "The Patience of St. Audrey" | Ted Bessell | Heide Pearlman | UNAIRED | 92-014 |
17 | "I'll Take Manhattan" | Ted Bessell | Jeff Cohn & Neil Alan Levy | UNAIRED | 92-015 |
18 | "What Makes Lily Run?" | TBD | TBD | UNAIRED | TBA |
19 | "The Eleanor Roosevelt Story" | TBD | TBD | UNAIRED | TBA |
20 | "If I Only Had a Dad" | Ted Bessell | Gina Wendkos | UNAIRED | 92-020 |
21 | "The Crash: Part 1" | TBD | TBD | UNAIRED | TBA |
22 | "The Crash: Part 2" | TBD | TBD | UNAIRED | TBA |
Broadcast
Sibs premiered as a preview telecast on Tuesday, September 17, 1991 at 9:30/8:30c, utilizing a lead-in from Roseanne and airing one hour after the series premiere of Home Improvement. The following night, the show began airing in its regular Wednesday 9:30/8:30c time period, kicking off the latter half of the three-hour Wednesday comedy block that ABC was promoting as The Hump.
Ultimately, Sibs had very little appeal to a mass audience, and garnered weak ratings in its first month on the air. The series' low ratings adversely affected the shows that followed it, Anything but Love and Good & Evil, another freshman comedy, which, in its own right, was struggling due to its 10:30/9:30c scheduling and controversy over its storylines. Sibs was put on hiatus in late October 1991 as the three-hour sitcom block was discontinued (Anything but Love moved into Sibs' time slot, while Good & Evil was canceled). The remaining episodes were aired by ABC in April and May of 1992, on Tuesdays at 9:30/8:30c (again following Roseanne), and the series was officially canceled during May 1992 upfronts.
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Source: "Sibs", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 12th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibs.
Further Reading

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References
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
Categories
- 1990s American sitcoms
- 1991 American television series debuts
- 1992 American television series endings
- American Broadcasting Company original programming
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- Television series about siblings
- Television series by Gracie Films
- Television series by Sony Pictures Television
- Television shows set in New Jersey
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