Birds of a Feather (1989)

Name: Birds of a Feather
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Charlie Quirke

Comedy

Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers. The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.

IMDb rating: 6.2 (2,782 votes)
Seasons: 12
Streaming (US): Hoopla
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 12 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1989)

7.66 avg 7 episodes 7.8 → 7.9 29 min avg

Big finale

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Nicked	7.8	57
2	Just Visiting	7.3	48
3	Shift	7.4	43
4	Women's Troubles	7.8	43
5	Cheat!	7.8	44
6	Substitute	7.6	38
7	Sailing	7.9	44

Season 2 (1990)

7.40 avg 16 episodes 7.7 → 7.7 32 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Getting a Grip	7.7	37
2	Sweet Smell of Success	8.0	36
3	Young Guns	7.3	36
4	Muesli	7.2	35
5	Keep Off the Grass	7.4	35
6	Mice	7.0	36
7	Brief Encounter	7.5	35
8	You Pays Yer Money	7.3	35
9	Trust	7.6	32
10	Thirty Something	7.5	32
11	Love on the Run	7.8	31
12	Old Friends	7.0	33
13	Parting	7.4	33
14	Jobs for the Girls	6.8	36
15	Someone Else's Baby	7.2	32
16	Falling in Love Again	7.7	37

Season 3 (1991)

7.51 avg 13 episodes 7.3 → 7.9 31 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Keeping Up Appearances	7.3	35
2	Tinker, Tailor...	7.6	30
3	Baby Come Back	7.1	34
4	Just Family	8.1	34
5	Confidence	7.3	32
6	The Lost Weekend	7.3	33
7	History	7.5	30
8	Poetic Justice	7.6	33
9	Favour of the Month	7.6	30
10	Cuckoo	7.2	33
11	Schooling	7.5	28
12	Business	7.6	28
13	We'll Always Have Majorca	7.9	31

Season 4 (1992)

7.33 avg 14 episodes 7.5 → 7.1

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Breadwinner	7.5	37
2	Food for Thought	7.5	34
3	Commitments	7.6	33
4	Wipe That Smile Off Your Tape	7.2	37
5	Caring	7.6	32
6	Nine and a Half Days	7.2	30
7	Belongings	7.5	31
8	Hungry for Love	6.9	34
9	Time and Tides	7.1	33
10	Sisters Are Doing It...	7.4	31
11	The Front	7.4	37
12	Okey-Cokey-Karaoke	7.8	40
13	Loyalty	6.8	34
14	The Chigwell Connection	7.1	31

Season 5 (1993)

7.34 avg 14 episodes 6.8 → 8.0

Big finale

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	High Fidelity	6.8	37
2	Bang	7.5	34
3	Non Starter	7.4	32
4	Absent Friends	7.4	34
5	Suspicious Minds	7.5	32
6	Dead Loss	7.0	36
7	A Brush with the Law	7.2	35
8	Mind Over Matter	7.3	31
9	East Side Story	7.6	34
10	Find the Lady	7.3	33
11	An Inspector Stays	7.6	34
12	All Gone Pear Shaped	7.0	37
13	The Beautiful Game	7.1	35
14	It Happened in Hollywood	8.0	35

Season 6 (1994)

7.49 avg 15 episodes 7.3 → 7.8

Rebound

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Not in My Backyard	7.3	35
2	Mrs Robinson	7.4	34
3	First Time Caller	7.6	29
4	Compulsion	7.5	32
5	All Day and All of the Night	7.7	32
6	Appreciation Society	7.5	29
7	Moving	7.1	34
8	Out	7.3	33
9	In at the Deep End	6.8	36
10	Business Is Business	7.5	28
11	Puppy Love	7.9	29
12	Still Waters Run Deep	7.9	30
13	On the Glass	7.7	28
14	Christmas in Dreamland	7.4	25
15	The Chigwell Years	7.8	18

Season 7 (1997)

7.67 avg 10 episodes 7.8 → 7.8

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Stand by Your Man	7.8	25
2	Nearest and Dearest	7.5	30
3	Cheers	7.4	29
4	Relative Strangers	7.6	28
5	Porridge	7.9	25
6	Rising Damp	8.0	26
7	Three Up, Two Down	7.6	27
8	Are You Being Served?	7.5	24
9	Never the Twain	7.6	25
10	Three's Company	7.8	23

Season 8 (1997)

7.60 avg 7 episodes 7.3 → 7.6

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Reservoir Birds	7.3	26
2	Trouble and Strife	7.7	28
3	The Essex Patient	7.5	28
4	The Maids of Ongar	7.9	28
5	Baggage	7.7	28
6	Can't Judge a Book	7.5	31
7	Money	7.6	29

Season 9 (1998)

7.55 avg 6 episodes 7.6 → 6.6

Bad finale

Season 9 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Ghost	7.6	31
2	Mummies & Daddies	7.7	27
3	Sunday	7.5	27
4	Model	7.8	27
5	Nuptials	8.1	27
6	Holy Ground	6.6	29

Season 10 (2014)

7.86 avg 8 episodes 8.1 → 8.1 22 min avg

Season 10 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Gimme Shelter	8.1	56
2	Slave	8.1	41
3	Hot Stuff	7.6	36
4	Hearts for Sale	7.6	37
5	Tattoo You	8.0	35
6	Blinded by Love	7.8	35
7	Back to Zero	7.6	35
8	You Can't Always Get What You Want	8.1	34

Season 11 (2014)

7.63 avg 8 episodes 6.9 → 7.7 22 min avg

Season 11 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Birds on a Plane	6.9	35
2	There's Something About Sharon	7.4	30
3	Guess Who's Coming to Essex?	8.0	29
4	The Girls with the Pearl Buttons	7.3	29
5	Tracey's Choice	7.7	28
6	The Chief, the Cook, His Mum and Her Lodger	7.9	27
7	Without a Trace	8.1	31
8	Spa Wars	7.7	28

Season 12 (2016)

8.09 avg 11 episodes 8.4 → 7.2 27 min avg

Season 12 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Knocking on Heaven's Door	8.4	37
2	Too Much of Nothing	8.4	34
3	Tombstone Blues	8.0	29
4	Going, Going, Gone	8.0	31
5	Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You	8.3	32
6	Abandoned Love	8.5	31
7	Blonde on Blonde	8.2	31
8	Forever Young	9.0	40
9	There's a Girl in My Souk	8.2	28
10	The House for the Rising Sons	6.8	25
11	We Gotta Get Out of This Place	7.2	25

Birds of a Feather (1989)

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