Sibs was an American sitcom broadcast by ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 as part of its 1991-92 prime time lineup

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Sibs starred veteran actress Marsha Mason

Marsha Mason

Marsha Mason is an American actress and television director.She received four Academy Award nominations as Best Actress for her performances in Cinderella Liberty, The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, and Only When I Laugh. She is also known for starring in the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge.-Life:Mason was...

 as Nora Rusico, a successful accountant and Alex Rocco

Alex Rocco

Alex Rocco is an American actor. His roles have ranged from comedy to playing gangsters in Mafia movies.-Early life:...

 as her longsuffering husband, Howie. The source of most of Howie's suffering was his wife's younger sisters (the siblings, or "sibs", of the title), Audie (Margaret Colin

Margaret Colin

Margaret Colin is an American actress. She is known for her role as Margo Montgomery Hughes # 1 on As the World Turns and for her role as Eleanor Waldorf-Rose on Gossip Girl.-Early life:...

) and Lily (Jami Gertz

Jami Gertz

Jami Beth Gertz is an American actress. Gertz is known for her early roles in the films Sixteen Candles, Crossroads, The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero, the 1980s TV series Square Pegs with Sarah Jessica Parker, and 1996's Twister, as well as for her role as Judy Miller in the CBS sitcom Still Standing...

). Audie was a real estate

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 agent and hence almost unemployed in the era's weak market; Lily had just been dumped by her boyfriend 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.