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Season 5 – The Golden Girls

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Four mature women live together in Miami and experience the joys and angst of their golden years; strong-willed Dorothy, spacey Rose, lusty Southern belle Blanche and matriarch Sophia, Dorothy's mom, occasionally clash but are there for one another in the end; after all, when the show's theme song is titled "Thank You for Being a Friend," the ladies have to remain friendly with one another.
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Nikki Tranter PopMatters After four seasons of varying quality... the fifth returns to form. Rated: 6/10 Sep 17, 2018 Full Review Filip Vukcevic IGN Movies The Golden Girls is a very funny show, to be sure. But unless you're really in love with the characters once you've seen an entire season's worth of episodes, it feels like you've seen them all. Rated: 6/10 Sep 17, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Cyrus K My personal favorite TV show of all time! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/02/22 Full Review dave d Slight backwards step, but still funny as hell. Hard to fathom some of the plots to this campaign. Dorothy with a gambling addiction? Yikes! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member So funny. Blanche is my queen. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review andrew k One of the best-written sitcoms ever. An absolute gold standard for the form, while also being a departure at the time. Great show. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member for me the show hit its peak during this season. lots of laughs Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Bea Arthur

Dorothy Zbornak

Rue McClanahan

Blanche Devereaux

Betty White

Rose Nylund

Estelle Getty

Sophia Petrillo

Herbert Edelman

Stanley Zbornak

Harold Gould

Miles Webber

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 23, 1989 Sick and Tired Dorothy consults medical experts about her chronic fatigue, which raises concern in Rose and Sophia. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 30, 1989 Sick and Tired Harry Weston recommends a specialist who diagnoses Dorothy's illness. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 14, 1989 Accurate Conception Blanche's unmarried daughter announces her desire to have a baby. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 21, 1989 Rose Fights Back Rose has to go and get a job when she loses her late husband's pension, where she is confronted for the first time by ageism. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 28, 1989 Love Under the Big Top Dorothy's beau gives up a lucrative legal practice to become a circus clown. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 4, 1989 Dancing in the Dark Rose feels insecure about her romance with a college professor. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 11, 1989 Not Another Monday Sophia faces a moral dilemma when an ill friend asks for help in ending her life. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 18, 1989 That Old Feeling Blanche turns the tables and proposes to her brother-in-law. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 25, 1989 Comedy of Errors Dorothy decides to do something with her life by signing up for a comedy spot at the Comedy Barrel, but Sophia is unimpressed; Blanche is having tax problems, but decides it's nothing that a negligee won't put right. Details Episode 10 Aired Dec 2, 1989 All That Jazz Dorothy sends her unemployed son to live with his equally irresponsible father. Details Episode 11 Aired Dec 9, 1989 Ebb Tide Blanche renews hostilities with her sister when she travels home to attend her father's funeral. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 16, 1989 Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas The ladies grow tired of Christmas shopping during a heat wave; they volunteer to serve Christmas dinner at a soup kitchen. Details Episode 13 Aired Jan 6, 1990 Mary Has a Little Lamb The girls help a pregnant teen and play host to Blanche's visiting pen pal. Details Episode 14 Aired Jan 13, 1990 Great Expectations Blanche cannot bring herself to enter the hospital following her boyfriend's heart attack. Details Episode 15 Aired Jan 27, 1990 Triple Play Rose prepares herself for a visit from her boyfriend's daughter; Blanche schemes to meet wealthy men. Details Episode 16 Aired Feb 3, 1990 Clinton Avenue Memoirs Sophia visits Brooklyn, N.Y., for her anniversary, hoping to confront the ghost of her dead husband. Details Episode 17 Aired Feb 10, 1990 Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom Blanche must have a pacemaker implanted and worries that it will affect her sex life. Details Episode 18 Aired Feb 12, 1990 An Illegitimate Concern A young man claims to be the illegitimate son of Blanche's late husband. Details Episode 19 Aired Feb 17, 1990 72 Hours Rose must test for AIDS following the revelation that she may have received a tainted transfusion. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 24, 1990 Twice in a Lifetime Rose's childhood love reappears and vies with Miles for her attention. Details Episode 21 Aired Mar 3, 1990 Sisters and Other Strangers Blanche's love life is the basis for her sister's romantic novel. Details Episode 22 Aired Mar 24, 1990 Cheaters Dorothy sees an old flame; Blanche and Sophia fall prey to con artists. Details Episode 23 Aired Mar 31, 1990 The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present Blanche supplies a date for wedding-bound Dorothy; Sophia puts a curse on the newlyweds. Details Episode 24 Aired Apr 28, 1990 All Bets Are Off Dorothy's gambling addiction worries Sophia; Blanche dates a co-worker. Details Episode 25 Aired May 5, 1990 The President's Coming! The President's Coming! An FBI agent investigates the girls ahead of a possible visit from President Bush, which leads them to reminisce about their experiences together. Details Episode 26 Aired May 5, 1990 The President's Coming! The President's Coming! The girls continue to reminisce about their experiences together; an FBI agent announces that President Bush will be visiting their home; Dorothy readies a list of points to make to the president. Details

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Season Info

Director
Terry Hughes, Lex Passaris
Screenwriter
Philip Jason Lasker, Tom Whedon, Gail Parent, Robert Bruce, Richard Vaczy, Marc Cherry, Marc Sotkin, Susan Harris, Eugene B. Stein, Don Reo, Harold Apter, Martin Weiss, Jamie Wooten, Tracy Gamble
Network
NBC
Rating
TV-PG (D)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 23, 1989