Sisters are an Emmy Award winning television drama which
aired on NBC for six seasons, from 1991 to 1996. The series was created by Ron
Cowen and Daniel Lipman, who also created the Showtime series Queer as Folk and
wrote the acclaimed Emmy and Peabody Award winning drama An Early Frost, also
for NBC. The show debuted on May 11, 1991 for a seven-episode test run and was
subsequently renewed for the 1991 fall schedule. A sister was the first
primetime network television series to focus specifically on the lives of
women, and the issues relating to them. It was also one of the first
'demographic' hits because of its strong female viewership. Other series about
women would eventually follow, but at the time it was groundbreaking.
