What would you say are your Top 10 Favorite female characters of television sitcoms?

Mine are:
1) Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy)
2) Ethel Mertz (I Love Lucy)
3) Chrissy Snow (Three's Company)
4) Shirley Feeney (Laverne & Shirley)
5) Laverne Defazio (Laverne & Shirley)
6) Lucy Carmichael (The Lucy Show)
7) Vivian Bagley (The Lucy Show)
8) Lily Munster (The Munsters)
9) Jeannie (I Dream of Jeannie)
10) Florence Johnston (The Jeffersons)

Note: This list is subject to change

1. Helen (Wings)
2. Lisa (NewsRadio)
3. Beth (NewsRadio)
4. Marie (Everybody Loves Raymond)
5. Debra (Everybody Loves raymond)
6. Fay (Wings)
7. Carla (Cheers)
8. Lilith (Cheers)
9. Reggie (Becker)
10. Catherine (NewsRadio)

Not in any order:

Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy)
Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke)
Granny (Beverly Hillbillies)
Lucy Carmicheal (Lucy Show)
Jeannie (I Dream of Jeannie)
Laverne (Laverne & Shirley)
June Cleaver (Leave it to Beaver)
Agent 99 (Get Smart)
Lily Munster (The Munsters)
Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore)

Thelma Harper
Naomi Harper
Eunice Higgins
Stephanie Vanderkellen
Shirley Feeny
Lucy Ricardo
Ethel Mertz
Jackie Harris
Murphy Brown
Chrissie Snow

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1)Lucy Ricardo
2)Ethel Mertz
3)Chrissy Snow
4)Terri Alden
5)Helen Roper
6)Jeannie
7)Phoebe
8)Janet Woods
9)Lucy Carmichael
10)Vivian Bagley

1. Blair Warner[The Facts of Life]
2. Jo Polniaczek(tie) [The Facts of Life]
3. Cindy Snow[Three's Company]
4. Janet Wood [Three's Company]
5. Edith Bunker[All in the Family]
6. Chrissy Snow [Three's Company]
7. Shirley Feeney[Laverne and Shirley]
8. Elyse Keaton [Family Ties]
9. Al Lambert/Dana Foster [Step by Step]
10. Kelly Kapowski [Saved by the Bell]

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1. Hazel/Hazel
2. Lisa/Green Acres
3. Lucy/Lucy Show
4. Viv/Lucy Show
5. Lucy/I Love Lucy
6. Ethel/I Love Lucy
7. Endora/Bewitched
8. Mrs. Kravitz/Bewitched
9. Nanny/Nanny & Professor
10. Aunt Bea/Andy Griffith & Granny
Beverly Hillbillies (tie)

Mine are:
1. Lucy Ricardo
2. Laura Petrie
3. Angela Bower
4. Samantha Micelli
5. Agent 99
6. Jeannie
7. Jo Polniaczek
8. Natalie Green
9. Kimberly Drummond
10. Edith Bunker

1. Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
2. Thelma Harper (Mama's Family)
3. Bernice Clifton (Designing Women)
4. Laverne Todd (Empty Nest)
5. Chrissy Snow (Three's Company)
6. Esther Anderson (Sanford & Son)
7. Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls)
8. Shirley Wilson (What's Happening)
9. Sara Bower (True Colors)
10. Rudy Huxtable (Cosby Show)

In no particular order:

1. Alley Mills (Norma Arnold, "The Wonder Years")
2. Danica McKellar (Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper, "The Wonder Years")
3. Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady, "The Brady Bunch")
4. Florence Henderson (Carol Brady, "The Brady Bunch")
5. Eve Plumb (Jan Brady, "The Brady Bunch")
6. Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver, "Leave It To Beaver")
7. Penny Marshall (Laverne DeFazio, "Laverne & Shirley")
8. Cindy Williams (Shirley Feeney, "Laverne & Shirley")
9. Michael Learned (Olivia Walton, "The Waltons")
10. Judy Norton-Taylor (Mary Ellen Walton, "The Waltons")

When I usually make these kinds of lists, I just list the top favorites that come to my mind but I'm doing this list different. I took 2 days and wrote down all my favorite female sitcom characters, then I eliminated them one by one until I got ten. Then I sorted them in the absolute order of my favorites and the results are below...these may not be the "best" female sitcom characters but they're my favorites.

1. Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy)
2. Iola Boylen (Mama's Family)
3. Thelma "Mama" Harper (Mama's Family)
4. Edith Bunker (All in the Family)
5. Daisy May "Granny" Moses (The Beverly Hillbillies)
6. Julia Sugarbaker (Designing Women)
7. Maude Findlay (Maude)
8. Gladys Kravitz (Bewitched)
9. Helen Roper (Three's Company & The Ropers)
10. Sophia Petrillo (The Golden Girls & The Golden Palace)

1. Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur - Golden Girls)
2. Thelma Harper (Vicki Lawrence - Mama's Family)
3. Louise Jefferson (Isabelle Sanford - The Jeffersons)
4. Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin - Alice)
5. Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball - I Love Lucy)
6. Elaine Benes (Julia Lewis Dreyfuss - Seinfeld)
7. Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams - Laverne & Shirley)
8. Helen Willis (Roxie Roker - The Jeffersons)
9. Mackenzie Phillips (Julie Cooper - One Day At A Time, Carol - American Graffiti)
10. Carrie Heffernan (Leah Remini - King Of Queens)

1. Thelma Evans (Good Times)
2. Florida Evans (Good Times)
3. Wilona Woods (Good Times)
4. Louise Jefferson (The Jeffersons)
5. Florence Johnston (The Jeffersons)
6. Helen Willis (The Jeffersons)
7. Gidget Lawrence (Gidget)
8. Barbara Cooper (One Day At A Time)
9. Tootie Ramsey (The Facts of Life)
10. Julia Baker (Julia)

1. Daphne Moon-Frasier
2. Elaine Benes-Seinfeld
3. Zelda Gilroy-Dobie Gillis
4. Caroline Duffy_Caroline in the City
5. DJ Tanner_Full House
6. Stephanie Tanner-Full House
7. Rebecca Donaldson/Katsopolis-Full House
8. Sue Heck-The Middle
9. Cassidy Finch-The Middle
10.Lilith Sternin Crane-Frasier/Cheers

1. Morticia Addams (Carolyn Jones) - The Addams Family
2. Jennifer Marlowe (Loni Anderson) - WKRP in Cincinnati
3. Samantha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery) - Bewitched
4. Jeannie (Barbara Eden) - I Dream of Jeannie
5. Emily Hartley (Suzanne Pleshette) - The Bob Newhart Show
6. Carol Kester (Marcia Wallace) - The Bob Newhart Show
7. June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) - Leave It to Beaver
8. Marge Simpson (Julie Kavner) - The Simpsons
9. Sylvia Schnauser (Charlotte Rae) - Car 54, Where Are You?
10. Gladys Kravitz (Alice Pearce) - Bewitched (first 2 seasons only)

Honorable mention:

Alicia (Tea Leoni) - Flying Blind (a great character and performance, in a short-lived sitcom I otherwise disliked)

louise jefferson - the jeffersons
florence johnston - the jeffersons
caroline duffy - caroline in the city
jackie warren - in the house
fran fine - the nanny
shirley - what's happening!!
fancy monroe - the jamie foxx show
victoria - hot in cleveland
mrs garrett - diff'rent strokes
thelma evans - good times

Doris Ziffel- Green Acres ( Barbara Pepper)
Ralph Monroe- Green Acres
Kate Bradley - Petticoat junction
Bobbie Jo Bradley - Petticoat Junction ( Lori Saunders)
Florence Jean Castleberry- Alice
Aunt Esther - Sanford and son
Laverne DeFazio - Laverne & Shirley
Lucy Ricardo - I love Lucy
Louise Jefferson - The Jeffersons
Alice Nelson - Brady Bunch

Honorable mention - Ethel Mertz ( I love Lucy) , Hazel (Hazel show), Julie Cooper ( One day at a time), Shirley Feeney ( Laverne & Shirley), Wilma Flintstone ( The Flintstones)

Darlene Conner (Roseanne)
Tessa Altman (Suburgatory)
Elyse Keaton (Family Ties)
Monica Geller (Friends)
Jackie Harris (Roseanne)
Jamie Stemple Buchman (Mad About You)
Roz Doyle (Frasier)
Roseanne Conner (Roseanne)
Daphne Moon (Frasier)
Fran Fine (The Nanny)


need to catch up with some older tv shows I've already put my eyes on...

Add Angela from Mr. Belvedere to my list. I like that blonde dingbat!

In no particular order:

1. Murphy Brown (Murphy Brown)
2. Roz Doyle (Frasier)
3. Phoebe Buffet - (Friends)
4. Kitty Forman (That 70's Show)
5. Grace Adler (Will and Grace)
6. Granny (the Beverly Hillbillies)
7. Julia Sugarbaker (Designing Women)
8. Sally Solomon (3rd Rock From the Sun)
9. Suzanne Sugarbaker (Designing Women)
10. Harriet Nelson (the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)

1. Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy)
2. Laverne Defazio (Laverne & Shirley)
3. Shirley Feeney (Lavern & Shirley)
4. Caroline Duffy (Caroline in the City)
5. Fran Fine (The Nanny)
6. Annie Spadaro (Caroline in the City)
7. Jessica Huang (Fresh Off the Boat)
8. Max Black (2 Broke Girls)
9. Florence Jean Castleberry (Alice)
10. Edith Bunker (All in the Family)

This was a rather hard list to make as I had to go with the characters rather than the series as a whole. Thus, favorites such as MAMA'S FAMILY, ROSEANNE, DESIGNING WOMEN and THE GOLDEN GIRLS surprisingly (to myself) didn't make the cut. Here goes:

Maude Findlay (Bea Arthur - MAUDE)
Cassie Cranston (Ann Jillian - IT'S A LIVING)
Maggie McBurney (Louise Lasser - MAKING A LIVING)
Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth - HAZEL)
Ginny Wrobliki (Mary-Louise Wilson - ONE DAY AT A TIME)
Flo Castleberry (Polly Holliday - ALICE/FLO)
Brenda Morgenstern (Julie Kavner - RHODA)
Vivian Buchanan (Harriet Samson-Harris - THE 5 MRS. BUCHANANS)
Serena (Elizabeth Montgomery - BEWITCHED)
Sylvia Fine (Renee Taylor - THE NANNY)

As I looked this list over I realized a lot of my favorite ladies are scene-stealing supporting characters.

As I looked this list over I realized a lot of my favorite ladies are scene-stealing supporting characters.
I also realized this. Most of the time I like the supporting characters more than the lead.

My favorite characters cover a wide interest in TV. I'm only gonna go with one character per show

1...MaryAnn---Gilligans Island
2...Lucy Ricardo---I Love Lucy
3...Marcia Brady---The Brady Bunch
4...Mary Bradford---Eight is Enough
5...Mrs. Roper---The Ropers
6...Agent 99---Get Smart
7...LT Uhura---Star Trek
8...Marianne Cunningham---Happy Days
9...Lisa Douglas ---Green Acres
10...Janet Wood---Threes Company

1. Samantha Stevens (Bewitched)
2. Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke Show)
3. 99 (Get Smart)
4. Jeannie (I Dream Of Jeannie)
5. (tie) Lucy Ricardo/Carmichael/Carter
6. Gracie Allen (The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show)
7. (tie) Laverne & Shirley
8. Mary Ann (Gilligan's Island)
9. Bobbie Jo Bradley #2 (Lori Saunders - Petticoat Junction)
10. Polly Williams Douglas (My Three Sons)

1. Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy)
2. Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
3. Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
4. Samantha Stephens (Bewitched)
5. Rachel Green (Friends)
6. Rhoda Morgenstern (Mary Tyler Moore Show/Rhoda)
7. Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke Show)
8. Claire Dunphy (Modern Family)
9. Marion Cunningham (Happy Days)
10. Jamie Buchmann (Mad About You)

1. Virginia Chance (Raising Hope)
2. Janet Wood (Threes Company)
3. Grace Musso (Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
4. Terri Alden (Threes Company)
5. Chrissy Snow (Threes Company)
6. Lou Ann Poovie (Gomer Pyle USMC)
7. Shirley Feeney (Laverne & Shirley)
8. Laverne DeFazio (Laverne & Shirley)
9. Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
10. Alice Mitchell (Dennis the Menace)

No particular order:

1. Lisa Turtle (Saved By The Bell)
2. Mrs. G (Facts of Life)
3. Tootie Ramsey (Facts of Life)
4. Jo Polniaczek (Facts of Life)
5. Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
6. Khadijah James (Living Single)
7. Moesha Denise Mitchell (Moesha)
8. Clair Huxtable (The Cosby Show)
9. Raven Baxter (That's So Raven)
10. Topanga Lawrence (Boy Meets World)