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  • 1985
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • 1985
  • TV-14
  • NBC

Summary The Golden Girls, which aired on NBC from 1985 until 1992, features four women all near or above the age of 50. Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak (Bea Arthur) is the tall, headstrong, witty and sometimes mean Golden Girl. Rose Lindstrom Nylund (Betty White) is the innocent Minnesota dumb (bleached) blonde of the girls. Blanche Elizabeth Hollingsw...

Created By: Susan Harris

  • 1985
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • 1985
  • TV-14
  • NBC

The Golden Girls

7 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 14, 1985
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 6 Critic Reviews
82
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 52 User Ratings
9.3
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Summary The Golden Girls, which aired on NBC from 1985 until 1992, features four women all near or above the age of 50. Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak (Bea Arthur) is the tall, headstrong, witty and sometimes mean Golden Girl. Rose Lindstrom Nylund (Betty White) is the innocent Minnesota dumb (bleached) blonde of the girls. Blanche Elizabeth Hollingsw...

Created By: Susan Harris

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 6 Critic Reviews
82
83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 6 Critic Reviews
82
83% Positive
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Feb 27, 2013
This wonderful half-hour pilot has distinguished this show as the very best of the crop of new series this fall. The writing, by the bawdy, brilliant Susan Harris, who was lured back to television by the promise of doing a show with the kind of characters seldom seen on the tube, is on a par with her wittiest days as the creator of "Soap". [14 Sept 1985, p.D5]
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90
Feb 27, 2013
The reason it works so well is that performers and script are ideally matched; they join forces to obliterate resistance. [14 Sept 1985, p.C1]
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90
Feb 27, 2013
Not only does The Golden Girls offer meaningful portrayals of women in their post-middle-age years, but, as a bonus, it's one of those TV rarities, a comedy that's funny. Very funny. [13 Sept 1985, p.C1]
By Howard Rosenberg FULL REVIEW
90
Feb 27, 2013
If anybody ever doubted the funny-lady talents of Bea Arthur, even after ''Maude,'' then her many golden moments in Golden Girls should win her a permanent place in everybody's hierarchy of comic genius, ranking with Sid Caesar and Lucille Ball...The Golden Girls is adult, literate, witty, poignant, funny. And, oh yes, honest. [12 Sept 1985, p.26]
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80
Feb 27, 2013
Watching Golden Girls, you get the feeling that Harris had the good sense to fit the brand of humor with the actresses. There is a kind of Borsch Belt, take-my-wife-please approach to chasing the laughs, with everything in place but the nightclub rim shot, the obligatory ba-bump from the drummer on top of the punch line. [13 Sept 1995, p.5]
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60
Feb 27, 2013
Everyone is clearly having a good time, and the fun is catching. One should be grateful for that much, perhaps, but the sheer professionalism cannot entirely hide some potential weaknesses. A little too much of the humor is directed at ridiculing certain signs of aging, from having hair in one's ears to incontinence. Bathroom jokes have their limitations. And Miss Getty's character threatens to demolish the ensemble work with the need to get a laugh every time she opens her outrageous mouth. [14 Sept 1985]
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Universal Acclaim Based on 52 User Ratings
9.3
96% Positive
50 Ratings
2% Mixed
1 Rating
2% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 52 User Ratings
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Production Company:
  • Touchstone Television
  • Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions
Initial Release Date: Sep 14, 1985
Number of seasons: 7 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Wins & 21 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 11 Wins & 68 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 6 Wins & 6 Nominations

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