History TheSmurfettePrinciple / LiveActionTV

** The first half of Season 5 sees Fred keep the spot, with Cordelia removed from the main cast and appearing in only one episode. After Fred dies and Illyria inhabits her body, longtime recurring character Harmony joins the cast; whether this counts as her taking over as the Smurfette or a return to TwoGirlsToATeam depends on one's assessment of ''what'' Illyria is.

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' typically uses a FiveManBand of four guys and one girl. The western adaptation (''Franchise/PowerRangers'') typically changes it by ShesAManInJapan to create TwoGirlsToATeam.
** With Power Rangers, there ''are'' a few shows where there is only one female on the team. ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'', and ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' only have one female Power Rangers and up to 6 male Rangers (Dino Thunder, Jungle Fury, and Beast Morphers are all a primary team of 5 with their Yellow Rangers being the only females. Ninja Storm eventually ends up as a team of 6, with ''Tori'', the Blue Wind Ninja Ranger being their sole female Power Ranger).

** Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen is the only Queen Regnant in the history of Westeros until Cersei takes the throne at the end of Season 6.

* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': The first three series had only one of the five contestants be a woman, with the other four contestants and two hosts being men. Later series typically had [[TwoGirlsToATeam two women out of five]], with the exception of Series 9, 12 and 13 which had three out of five contestants be women. Also applies to the first Champions of Champions special, as the contestants were the winners of the first five series and only one of those (Series 2, won by Katherine Ryan) was won by a woman.

** With Power Rangers, there ''are'' a few shows where there is only one female on the team. ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'', ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' only have one female Power Rangers and up to 6 male Rangers (Dino Thunder and Jungle Fury, and Beast Morphers are all a primary team of 5 with their Yellow Rangers being the only females).

** With Power Rangers, there ''are'' a few shows where there is only one female on the team. ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'', ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers only have one female Power Rangers and up to 6 male Rangers (Dino Thunder and Jungle Fury, and Beast Morphers are all a primary team of 5 with their Yellow Rangers being the only females).

* In ''Series/BlakesSeven'', every armed resistance group or Federation base seems to have a single female member in a speaking role, while everyone else is male. There are never any female mooks in the background, silently working their way up the ranks to the position of Supreme Commander or Rebel Leader. Averted with the Seven however, where there's always TwoGirlsToATeam.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Third Doctor episodes, set on Earth in a male dominated military organisation, used mostly guys, with main cast members being the Doctor, TheBrigadier, Benton, later Harry, and one female character; first Liz, who was replaced by Jo, who was then replaced by Sarah-Jane Smith.

* ''Series/Letterkenny'' in its early seasons has three main male characters and one main female character, the younger sister of one of the males.

** ''Series/Letterkenny '' in its early seasons has three main male characters and one main female character, the younger sister of one of the males.

* ''Series/Letterkenny '' in its early seasons has three main male characters and one main female character, the younger sister of one of the males.

* ''Series/Letterkenney'' in its early seasons has three main male characters and one main female character, the younger sister of one of the males.

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' features four aliens sent to Earth to study mankind, after having learned some about Earth from its popular culture. They maintain occasional communication with the (male) "Big Giant Head", who decided that only one of the four sent to Earth needed to be "[[TheChick The Woman]]". Thanks to their lack of understanding of the culture they would be infiltrating it went to the [[TestosteronePoisoning hyper-masculine]] security officer, who thought breasts looked suitably intimidating when none of the choices had horns .

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' started with five main characters: the four male nerds, and TheChick who lives across the hall (Penny). As the series progressed, more and more female characters were added, until the main cast (four guys and their respective {{Love Interest}}s) has become a GenderEqualEnsemble.

* The only major female Muppet is Miss Piggy, a glamourous diva. When she was first introduced, she was a minor character. The large cast of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' is male-dominant, but this may be due to its slapstick nature (Miss Piggy, for example, rarely takes any of the slapstick, but she certainly dishes it out when provoked). Furthermore, the regular cast used to include other female characters, such as Janice and Hilda, but both became much less prominent after Hilda's puppeteer quit and Janice's puppeteer died, leaving Piggy. Janice herself rarely appeared outside of her FiveManBand (The Electric Mayhem), of which she was TheChick. There have been a few other female Muppets, but their tenure is either short-lived; or they're one-off characters. A notable example is Annie-Sue Pig; a young ingénue and foil to Miss Piggy. Her appearances declined considerably after the 3rd season, although she did still appear from time to time. A number of the [[AmbiguousGender ambiguously-gendered]] monsters are noted in background material as being female; but there is no clear indication of this on the show. This applies to the puppeteers as well; in the first season, there were seven puppeteers, and only one (Eren Ozker) was a woman. Ozker & John Lovelady left after Season 1, so they held auditions for a new female for Season 2, with Louise Gold getting the part (although she was uncredited for the season). In Season 3, they hired another female puppeteer (Kathryn Mullen) but also hired another male (Steve Whitmire) making it 6 guys, 2 girls. Also, in relation to Miss Piggy & Janice, they were (and still are) performed by males. Yeah.