The Golden Girls
Series Details & Credits
| NBC | Release Date: September 14, 1985 |
Starring:
Betty White, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty
Summary:
Creator:
Susan Harris
Genre(s):
Comedy
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Recent Episodes
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S7:E27. The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments
Air Date: unknown
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S7:E26. One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (2)
Air Date: May 9, 1992
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S7:E25. One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (1)
Air Date: May 9, 1992
Positive:
5
Mixed:
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Negative:
0
Feb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
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]
Feb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
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]
Feb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
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]
Feb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
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]
Feb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
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]
Feb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
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]
Jul 25, 2020
It's ahead of its time during the 80s. It shows how elderly people are still capable to do things despite their age and it also tackles important issues at that time.
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Season 7
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Season 7 Overview
Air Date: September 21, 1991
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S7:E27. The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments
Air Date: unknown
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S7:E26. One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (2)
Air Date: May 9, 1992
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S7:E25. One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (1)
Air Date: May 9, 1992
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S7:E24. Home Again, Rose (2)
Air Date: May 2, 1992
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S7:E23. Home Again, Rose (1)
Air Date: April 25, 1992
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S7:E22. Rose: Portrait of a Woman
Air Date: March 7, 1992
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S7:E21. A Midwinter Night's Dream (2)
Air Date: February 29, 1992
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S7:E20. A Midwinter Night's Dream (1)
Air Date: February 29, 1992
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S7:E19. Journey to the Center of Attention
Air Date: February 22, 1992
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S7:E18. Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan
Air Date: February 15, 1992
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S7:E17. Questions and Answers
Air Date: February 8, 1992
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S7:E16. The Commitments
Air Date: January 25, 1992
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S7:E15. Goodbye, Mr. Gordon
Air Date: January 11, 1992
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S7:E14. Old Boyfriends
Air Date: January 4, 1992
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S7:E13. The Pope's Ring
Air Date: December 14, 1991
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S7:E12. From Here to the Pharmacy
Air Date: December 7, 1991
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S7:E11. Room 7
Air Date: November 23, 1991
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S7:E10. Ro$e Love$ Mile$
Air Date: November 16, 1991
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S7:E9. The Monkey Show (2)
Air Date: November 9, 1991
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S7:E8. The Monkey Show (1)
Air Date: November 9, 1991
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S7:E7. Dateline: Miami
Air Date: November 2, 1991
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S7:E6. Mother Load
Air Date: October 26, 1991
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S7:E5. Where's Charlie?
Air Date: October 19, 1991
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S7:E4. That's For Me to Know
Air Date: October 12, 1991
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S7:E3. Beauty and the Beast
Air Date: October 5, 1991
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S7:E2. The Case of the Libertine Belle
Air Date: September 28, 1991
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S7:E1. Hey, Look Me Over
Air Date: September 21, 1991
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Season 6
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Season 6 Overview
Air Date: September 22, 1990
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Season 5 Overview
Air Date: September 23, 1989
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Season 4
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Season 4 Overview
Air Date: October 8, 1988
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Season 3
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Season 3 Overview
Air Date: September 19, 1987
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Season 2
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Season 2 Overview
Air Date: September 27, 1986
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: September 14, 1985
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Season 1 Overview