The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida. It was produced by Witt...
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The Engagement
"The Engagement" is the pilot episode of the US television series The Golden Girls. It first aired on NBC on September 14, 1985.
Viewers are first introduced to the women who will become famous as "The Golden Girls." Dorothy returns home from her...
Original air date:
- Sep 14, 1985
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Episode number:
- 1
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Job Hunting
"Job Hunting" is the twenty-second episode of the sitcom The Golden Girls to be aired, but was the second to be produced. In syndication, this episode airs after the first episode The Engagement.
The grief center has closed due to lack of funding...
Original air date:
- Mar 8, 1986
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Episode number:
- 22
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Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?
"Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?" is the second episode of The Golden Girls. It first aired on September 21, 1985.
A surprise visit from Dorothy's daughter Kate puts all of the girls in a good mood-but Dorothy is even more thrilled when she...
Original air date:
- Sep 21, 1985
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Episode number:
- 2
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Rose the Prude
"Rose the Prude" is the third episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on September 28, 1985.
Rose reluctantly goes on a blind double date with Blanche. Rose's date Arnie turns into a serious relationship and is invited onto a cruise where...
Original air date:
- Sep 28, 1985
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Episode number:
- 3
Transplant
"Transplant" is the fourth episode of The Golden Girls.
Blanche is busy making the house appear perfect for the arrival of her sister, Virginia. Surprisingly, though, she claims to hate her, and only wants to make the house look good to impress...
Original air date:
- Oct 5, 1985
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Episode number:
- 4
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The Triangle
"The Triangle" is the fifth episode of The Golden Girls.
When Sophia needs a new doctor for a check-up, Dr. Elliot Clayton comes to call. Dorothy and Blanche instantly fall for him with Dorothy beating Blanche to the punch and going out with the ...
Original air date:
- Oct 19, 1985
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Episode number:
- 5
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On Golden Girls
"On Golden Girls" is the sixth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on October 26, 1985.
Blanche's fourteen-year-old grandson, David, comes to Miami. He creates a whole new meaning for the term "generation gap" by staying up all night...
Original air date:
- Oct 26, 1985
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Episode number:
- 6
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The Competition
"The Competition" is the seventh episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on November 2, 1985.
Sophia is excited by a telegram one day-old boyfriend Augustine Bagatelli is coming to Miami! The two were sweethearts in Sicily, and Sophia feels...
Original air date:
- Nov 2, 1985
Season:
Episode number:
- 7
Break-In
"Break-In" is the eighth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on November 9, 1985.
The girls go to a Madonna concert one evening. As they comment on her onstage antics ("Slut would be a better name for her"), Dorothy opens the door to...
Original air date:
- Nov 9, 1985
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Episode number:
- 8
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Blanche and the Younger Man
"Blanche and the Younger Man" is the ninth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on November 16, 1985.
Blanche tries hard to look good for her latest boyfriend, Dirk, an aerobics instructor half her age. Meanwhile, Rose's free-spirited...
Original air date:
- Nov 16, 1985
Season:
Episode number:
- 9
Heart Attack
"Heart Attack" is the tenth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on November 23, 1985.
The girls throw a party in their house, with Sophia doing the majority of the cooking. The Italian food is delicious, but while the other girls start...
Original air date:
- Nov 23, 1985
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Episode number:
- 10
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The Return of Dorothy's Ex (a.k.a.) Stan's Return
"The Return of Dorothy's Ex (a.k.a.) Stan's Return" is the eleventh episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on November 30, 1985.
Dorothy's ex-husband Stan comes to settle a piece of land that he and Dorothy bought on their honeymoon. This...
Original air date:
- Nov 30, 1985
Season:
Episode number:
- 11
The Custody Battle
"The Custody Battle" is the twelfth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on December 7, 1985.
Dorothy and Sophia have been bickering a lot, with Dorothy pleading for her mother to give her space. When Dorothy's sister Gloria comes to...
Original air date:
- Dec 7, 1985
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Episode number:
- 12
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A Little Romance
"A Little Romance" is the thirteenth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on December 14, 1985.
Rose has been dating Dr. Johnathan Newman for quite a while, and she thinks the relationship will lead to the altar. Second thoughts (and...
Original air date:
- Dec 14, 1985
Season:
Episode number:
- 13
That Was No Lady
"That Was No Lady" is the fourteenth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on December 21, 1985.
Dorothy's latest boyfriend Glen shocks her when he reveals he's married, but Dorothy is still sneaking around to be with him, surprising...
Original air date:
- Dec 21, 1985
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Episode number:
- 14
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In A Bed of Rose's
"In A Bed of Rose's" is the fifteenth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on January 11, 1986.
After a date, Rose and her boyfriend Al return to the house. Al wants to "continue the evening", but Rose is nervous-she has never brought...
Original air date:
- Jan 11, 1986
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Episode number:
- 15
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The Truth Will Out (a.k.a.) The Will
"The Truth Will Out (a.k.a.) The Will" is the sixteenth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on January 18, 1986.
Rose is uneasy about a visit from her daughter Kirstenand granddaughter Charley, because they're coming to settle Rose's...
Original air date:
- Jan 18, 1986
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Episode number:
- 16
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Nice and Easy
"Nice and Easy" is the seventeenth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on February 1, 1986.
Blanche's visiting niece Lucy seems to be dating a different man every night. Meanwhile, Dorothy wages war with a mouse living in the house.
Original air date:
- Feb 1, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 17
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The Operation
"The Operation" is the eighteenth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on February 8, 1986.
During a tap dance rehearsal with Rose and Blanche, Dorothy injures her foot and is later hesitant about having foot surgery just as she is...
Original air date:
- Feb 8, 1986
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Episode number:
- 18
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Second Motherhood
"Second Motherhood" is the nineteenth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on February 15, 1986.
Blanche is romanced by a rich suitor with two small children. This dampens his proposal of marriage as Blanche ponders being a mother again....
Original air date:
- Feb 15, 1986
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Episode number:
- 19
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Adult Education
"Adult Education" is the twentieth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on February 22, 1986.
Blanche's professor sexually harasses her when she goes to him for help on a difficult test. He makes her an unusual deal: If she has sex with...
Original air date:
- Feb 22, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 20
Flu Attack (a.k.a.) The Flu
"Flu Attack (a.k.a.) The Flu" is the twenty-first episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on March 1, 1986.
Days before an awards ceremony for Volunteer of the Year, Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy get a nasty flu which compounds their arguing...
Original air date:
- Mar 1, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 21
Blind Ambitions
"Blind Ambitions" is the twenty-third episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on March 29, 1986.
After recently losing her sight, Rose's sister Lily must deal with life as a blind person. Meanwhile, in order to buy a new TV, the girls hold...
Original air date:
- Mar 29, 1986
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Episode number:
- 23
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Big Daddy
"Big Daddy" is the twenty-fourth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on May 3, 1986.
Blanche's father Big Daddy Hollingsworth comes to Miami, announcing that he has sold the family plantation and is setting out to become a country...
Original air date:
- May 3, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 24
The Way We Met
"The Way We Met" is the twenty-fifth episode and first season finale of The Golden Girls. It originally aired on May 10, 1986.
After watching Psycho, Dorothy, Rose and Blanche all come into the kitchen, spooked. As they break into the cheesecake,...
Original air date:
- May 10, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 25
End of the Curse
"End of the Curse" is the twenty-sixth episode and second season premiere of The Golden Girls, originally airing on September 27, 1986.
Rose, Sophia and Dorothy have decided to go into the mink breeding business to gain some quick cash. As they...
Original air date:
- Sep 27, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 1
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Ladies of the Evening
"Ladies of the Evening" is the twenty-seventh episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on October 4, 1986.
The house is being fumigated, and Dorothy, Rose and Sophia are irritated-but their bad moods disappear when Blanche returns home with...
Original air date:
- Oct 4, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 2
Take Him, He's Mine
"Take Him, He's Mine" is the twenty-eighth episode of The Golden Girls, originally airing on October 11, 1986.
Sophia and Rose partner up with each other to start running a sandwich business. They hope to make some easy money by selling lunch to...
Original air date:
- Oct 11, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 3
Little Sister
"Little Sister" is an episode of the American sitcom The Golden Girls.
Sophia shows up with the neighborhood dog Dreyfuss because she volunteered to take care of him while his owners were on vacation. Dorothy refuses to allow this because she has...
Original air date:
- Apr 1, 1989
Season:
Episode number:
- 21
It's a Miserable Life
"It's a Miserable Life" is the twenty-ninth episode of The Golden Girls.
The girls try to save a 200 year old oak tree after it is threated to be cut down. The tree is located on the property of Freida Claxton, the meanest woman in the...
Original air date:
- Nov 1, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 4
Isn't it Romantic
"Isn't it Romantic" is the thirtieth episode of The Golden Girls.
The girls have just bought a new VCR for their T.V., but Sophia starts renting dirty movies to watch on it. Dorothy catches her and turns off the film. Shortly afterwards, Dorothy's...
Original air date:
- Nov 8, 1986
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Episode number:
- 5
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Big Daddy's Little Lady
"Big Daddy's Little Lady" is the thirty-first episode of The Golden Girls.
Dorothy and Rose decide to enter a songwriting together to see who can come up with the best new song about the city of Miami. Dorothy handles lyrics while Rose handles...
Original air date:
- Nov 15, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 6
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Family Affair
"Family Affair" is the thirty-second episode of The Golden Girls.
Blanche comes home to the girls after her back is injured in aerobics class (She flung herself over trying to impress an admirer in her class). Dorothy's son Michael and Rose's...
Original air date:
- Nov 22, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 7
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Vacation
"Vacation" is the thirty-third episode of The Golden Girls.
Rose, Dorothy, and Blanche decide to go to the Caribbean for their dream vacation. However, they find that their hotel is a dump and has nothing that their brochure promised. Their...
Original air date:
- Nov 29, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 8
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Joust Between Friends
"Joust Between Friends" is the thirty-fourth episode of The Golden Girls.
Rose brings a missing dog home from the supermarket, and Dorothy reluctantly allows her to keep him until she finds his owner (Dorothy hates dogs). Meanwhile, Dorothy is on...
Original air date:
- Dec 6, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 9
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Love, Rose
"Love, Rose" is the thirty-fifth episode of The Golden Girls.
Rose is in a dating slump while all of the other girls have managed to get dates. Feeling bad about her lack of social activity, she sends out a personals ad to find dates. However, she...
Original air date:
- Dec 13, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 10
'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas
"'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas" is the thirty-sixth episode of The Golden Girls.
It's Christmas in Miami, although it is hard to guess with the heat. The girls are involved in many holiday festivities, especially Blanche, who reveals that...
Original air date:
- Dec 20, 1986
Season:
Episode number:
- 11
The Sisters
"The Sisters" is the thirty-seventh episode of The Golden Girls.
Dorothy tries to plan a birthday surprise for Sophia's birthday: her sister Angela, whom she has not seen for more than 30 years. Dorothy confides in Rose to keep the secret but...
Original air date:
- Jan 3, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 12
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The Stan Who Came to Dinner
"The Stan Who Came to Dinner" is the thirty-eighth episode of The Golden Girls. The episode's title is a pun on The Man Who Came to Dinner.
The episode starts off with Blanche and Dorothy double-dating with a pair of identical twins named Rob and...
Original air date:
- Jan 10, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 13
The Actor
"The Actor" is the thirty-ninth episode of The Golden Girls.
Much to Dorothy's surprise, Sophia comes home wearing a trench coat one day. Immediately suspicious, Dorothy asks her to remove it, revealing Sophia's full pirate costume. She has landed...
Original air date:
- Jan 17, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 14
Before and After
"Before and After" is the fortieth episode of The Golden Girls.
Rose suffers a very sudden and very sharp pain in her stomach one night because she has been doing way too much work lately. The girls, terrified, take her to the hospital, but it...
Original air date:
- Jan 24, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 15
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And Then There Was One
"And Then There Was One" is the forty-first episode of The Golden Girls.
Sophia joins a walkathon in town, and Rose volunteers herself and the other girls to take care of the runners' children. She did this without their permission, but they agree...
Original air date:
- Jan 31, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 16
Writer:
High Anxiety
"High Anxiety" is an episode of The Golden Girls.
When Sophia knocks a bottle of Rose's pills into the sink, the girls find out that she is addicted to them. At first, Rose refuses that she is addicted to them, but finally admits that she can't...
Episode number:
- 21
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Director:
Bedtime Story
"Bedtime Story" is the forty-second episode of The Golden Girls.
When a number of the girls' relatives are going to be visiting, the girls remimisce about the times when they've had to share a bed and when they slept in some unusual places. The...
Original air date:
- Feb 7, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 17
Forgive Me, Father
"Forgive Me, Father" is the forty-third episode of The Golden Girls.
Much to everyone in the house's surprise, Dorothy has a secret crush on someone! He is a teacher named Frank Leahy at the church's youth group fair, and Dorothy has been putting...
Original air date:
- Feb 14, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 18
Long Days Journey into Marinara
"Long Days Journey into Marinara" is the forty-fourth episode of The Golden Girls.
Sophia's sister Angela arrives in Miami for a visit and after some convincing, decides to move to Miami. However, Sophia is not happy with this, as she thinks that...
Original air date:
- Feb 21, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 19
Old Friends
"Old Friends" is the fifty-second episode of The Golden Girls.
The girls are preparing items to sell at an upcoming rummage sale, and Daisy, a very kind Sunshine Cadet, volunteers to help. When Daisy finds Rose's teddy bear Fernando, who ended up...
Original air date:
- Sep 19, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 1
Bringing Up Baby
"Bringing Up Baby" is the fifty-fourth episode of The Golden Girls. The episode's title is taken from the Katharine Hepburn film of the same name.
Sophia comes home from the mall totally blinded because she broke her glasses at the mall, and...
Original air date:
- Oct 3, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 3
The Housekeeper
"The Housekeeper" is the fifty-fifth episode of The Golden Girls.
Good things start to happen after the girls hire a housekeeper named Marguerite. Dorothy is sleeping better and Blanche is dating a man she's intereseted in. After looking back at...
Original air date:
- Oct 17, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 4
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Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself
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Original air date:
- Oct 24, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 5
Writer:
One For the Money
"One For the Money" is the fifty-third episode of The Golden Girls.
Sophia demonstrates to the other girls how she hopes to carry out a get-rich-quick scheme by selling water from the garden hose while they eat pizza. The girls start reminiscing...
Original air date:
- Sep 26, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 2
Whose Face is This, Anyway?
"Whose Face is This, Anyway?" is the forty-fifth episode of The Golden Girls.
After seeing many of her former classmates with facelifts at her high school reunion, Blanche is convinced that her beauty is fading and decides to have major plastic...
Original air date:
- Feb 28, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 20
Writer:
Stand by Your Man
"Stand by Your Man" is the hundred-and-thirty-ninth episode of The Golden Girls.
Blanche makes a date with a man she met in a library, but soon after discovers that he is in a wheelchair. Meanwhile, Rose tries to convince her roommates to let her...
Original air date:
- Dec 1, 1990
Season:
Episode number:
- 11
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Director:
Mrs. George Devereaux
"Mrs. George Devereaux" is the hundred-and-thirty-seventh episode of The Golden Girls.
Blanche has been receiving tons of flowers from a secret admirer, and she plans to meet him for dinner. Meanwhile, Dorothy is also receiving flowers... from...
Original air date:
- Nov 17, 1990
Season:
Episode number:
- 9
Director:
Letter to Gorbachev
"Letter to Gorbachev" is the fifty-seventh episode of The Golden Girls.
Sophia is trying to earn a spot in a local talent show and tries card tricks and ventriloquism, but fails with every attempt. Meanwhile, Rose becomes concerned about nuclear...
Original air date:
- Oct 31, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 6
Strange Bedfellows
"Strange Bedfellows" is the fifty-eighth episode of The Golden Girls.
The girls throw a campaign party to get Gil Kessler, a local politician, elected for city councilman. After the party, Blanche returns Gil's forgotten folder back to his house....
Original air date:
- Nov 7, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 7
Writer:
Brotherly Love
"Brotherly Love" is the fifty-ninth episode of The Golden Girls.
Rose comes into the kitchen barely able to keep her eyes open due to a lack of sleep. The girls try to suggest ways to help Rose sleep better, but she rejects them all. A few minutes...
Original air date:
- Nov 14, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 8
Dorothy's Prized Pupil
"Dorothy's Prized Pupil" is the forty-sixth episode of The Golden Girls.
During the beginning of the episode, Blanche prepares to go on one of her dates(as usual). However, she asks Rose to give her her earrings that Rose had previously borrowed....
Original air date:
- Mar 14, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 21
Writer:
Diamond in the Rough
Diamond in the Rough is a Snellville, Georgia based youth development and leadership non-profit organization. Its purpose is to prepare, inspire, nurture and provide knowledge to girls through a variety of preventative programs and enrichment...
Original air date:
- Mar 21, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 22
Son-in-Law Dearest
"Son-in-Law Dearest" is the forty-eighth episode of The Golden Girls.
The episode begins with Blanche preparing twelve hours worth of snacks so that she can watch an I Love Lucy marathon. Rose also agrees to watch the show with Blanche, but she...
Original air date:
- Apr 11, 1987
Season:
Episode number:
- 23
