History Series / Sisters

* TomboyishName: Nickname, rather. All of the sisters. This is attributed to their father wanting a boy. Also extends to Alex's daughter Reed, though hers is more of a unisex name. When Charlotte joins the group, it's considered a turning point when they dub her "Charlie".

* TomboyishName: Nickname, rather. All of the sisters. This is attributed to their father wanting a boy. Also extends to Alex's daughter Reed, though hers is more of a unisex name.

* BittersweetEnding: The series finale. Beatrice dies, but Teddy is HappilyMarried, as is Charlie, Georgie and John are reconciling, and Frankie has returned home.

* TomboyishName: Nickname, rather. All of the sisters. This is attributed to their father wanting a boy. Also extends to Alex's daughter Reed, though her's is more of a unisex name.
* UnbalancedByRivalsKid: Beatrice claims to have accepted that her husband had a child with his long-time mistress. Until she meets Charlie and pretty much flips outs. She gets over it and later becomes a surrogate mother to her.

* LongLostRelative: In the final season, a fifth sister named Charlie is added to the show.

* BackForTheDead: Teddy finally finds true love with Detective Falconer, only for him to break her heart when he left her to reconcile with his ex-wife. He returns several episodes later to beg for her forgiveness. They marry, allowing Teddy about five minutes of happiness before her heart was broken again when he was killed by a CarBomb by a drug lord he was preparing to testify against. (the backstory on this is that cop's portrayer, Creator/GeorgeClooney, had left to film the pilot and first few episodes of Series/{{ER}} and returned to wrap up the storyline)

* EstrangedSoapFamily: Frankie moves to Japan for business reasons, and doesn't return until Beatrice takes ill and dies, missing several key events in the meantime--Teddy' s shooting, Teddy' s wedding, Charlie's wedding, etc.

* FalseMemories: Georgie's therapist queries whether she had been molested by anyone, citing that it is frequently a cause of the depression and anxiety that she's been battling. That very night, Georgie apparently has a flashback of her father touching her inappropriately. Within weeks, she's not only convinced that her father repeatedly molested her, she accuses her mother of turning a blind eye to it and her sisters of being in denial as well (when they repeatedly deny being similarly abused), claiming that it would explain the myriad of problems that they've had, accusing her husband of being unsupportive, ultimately cutting them all out of her life, all with her therapist's encouragement. Only months later when watching Charlie, a doctor, examine her ill son, does she realize that what she remembered was not her father abusing her, but examining her (he was a doctor as well). She's horrified to realize that the whole thing was a ploy by her therapist to isolate her from her loved ones and ultimately seduce her.

* EstrangedSoapFamily: Frankie moves to Japan fir business reasons, and doesn't return until Beatrice takes ill and dies, missing several key events in the meantime--Teddy' s shooting, Teddy' s wedding, Charlie's wedding, etc.

** While in the hospital, Teddy asks Alex why they've never discovered this, as aside from being the parents of daughters, they themselves are women.

* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: How Teddy realizes Cat has met with foul play. When she arrives at the track where they are to meet and practice for an upcoming race, she's initially confused to not find her and wonders if she's forgotten. But when she finds her discarded sneaker (it came off as she was struggle with her attacker), she's terrified.

* ConvenientMiscarriage: Teddy seduces her ex the night before he's to marry Frankie and gets pregnant as a result. Just as all the hoopla dies down and everyone accepts the changes the pregnancy will bring, she loses it.

* MistakenForCheating: Alex and her husband, initially. When she confronts him, this is how she finds out he's a crossdresser, but later she discovers that he ''is'' having an affair.

* TomboyishName: All of the sisters. This is attributed to their father wanting a boy. Also extends to Alex's daughter Reed, though her's is more of a Unisex name.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Alex's first husband. She can't deal with it and the strain eventually breaks up their marriage.

* YourCheatingHeart: Georgie cheats on husband John with her therapist.

* WholeseomeCrossdresser: Alex's first husband. She can't deal with it and the strain eventually breaks up their marriage.

* AdultFear: Ethan's leukemia, Trevor's downward spiral, Cat's rape, Reed's joining a cult, Truman developing Alzheimer's and later being a victim of nursing home abuse, etc.

* WhereTheWhiteWomenAt: Subverted. Charlie's friend and colleague is actually very reluctant to act on their mutual attraction because he doesn't want to be viewed as a sellout. He gets over this eventually and they embark on a relationship, marrying shortly before the GrandFinale.

* YankTheDogsChain: Poor Teddy finally finding happiness, only for her husband to be killed via a CarBomb.

* TheAlcoholic: Beatrice, Teddy.
* AdultFear: Ethan's cancer, Trevor's downward spiral, Cat's rape, Reed's joining a cult, Truman developing Alzheimer's and later being a victim of nursing home abuse, etc.

* RapeAsDrama: Cat (Teddy's daughter) is brutally assaulted by a date she's rejected (along with raping her, he beats her within a inch of her life)
* TomboyishName: All of the sisters. This is attributed to their father wanting a boy.

* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/{{Ghost}}'', when Teddy's late husband came back to protect her from his killer.

* MilestoneCelebration: The 100th episode had a guest appearance from [[Series/{{Today}} Willard Scott]]. Come on, you knew that had to be special.

* VerySpecialEpisode: Practically every few episodes (if not every episode period) is this, and it tackled just about every "very special" topic that was in existence at that time.