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This series centered on four mature single women living
together in Miami, Florida. Dorothy was the outspoken
divorcee, a substitute teacher whose strong personality
often seemed to overpower her housemates. Rose was a
flaky, naive, soft-spoken widow given to hilarious
misinterpretations of almost everything that was said
in her presence. She worked, believe it or not, as a
grief counselor. Blanche, who owned the house, was also
a widow, but of a different stripe. She was lusty,
man-hungry, and dripping with charm, a Southern bell
that never aged, at least in her own mind. All in their
50s and 60s, the three were joined by Dorothy's elderly
mother Sophia, who moved in when her retirement home,
Shady Pines, burned to the ground. Sophia had the
saltiest mouth in the house. She had had a stroke, it
was said, that destroyed the "tact" cells in her brain.(Tim's TV Showcase)
Cast/Characters
Bea Author as Dorothy Zbornak
Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux
Betty White as Rose Nylund
Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo
Herb Edelman As Stan Zbornak
Harold Gould as Miles Webber
Broadcast History
First Telecast: September 14, 1985
Last Telecast: September 14, 1992
Episode Count: 180
September 1985- July 1991, NBC, Saturday 9:00-9:30pm
August 1991- September 1991, NBC, Saturday 8:00-8:30pm
September 1991- September 1992, NBC, Saturday 9:00-9:30pm
Theme Song Info
"Thank You for Being a Friend," by Andrew Gold, sung by Cynthia Fee
 Click here to listen to theme song
Thank you for being a friend,
Travel down the road and back again,
Your heart is true,
You're a pal and a confidant!
And if you threw a party,
Invited everyone you knew!
You would see,
The biggest gift would be from me,
And the card attached would say,
Thank you for being a friend!
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Episode List
1: The Engagement
2: Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?
3: Rose the Prude
4: Transplant
5: The Triangle
6: On Golden Girls
7: The Competition
8: Break-In
9: Blanche and the Younger Man
10: Heart Attack
11: The Return of Dorothy's Ex
12: The Custody Battle
13: A Little Romance
14: That Was No Lady
15: In a Bed of Rose's
16: The Truth Will Out
17: Nice and Easy
18: The Operation
19: Second Motherhood
20: Adult Education
21: Flu Attack
22: Job Hunting
23: Blind Ambitions
24: Big Daddy
25: The Way We Met
26: End of the Curse
27: Ladies of the Evening
28: Take Him, He's Mine
29: It's a Miserable Life
30: Isn't It Romantic
31: Big Daddy's Little Lady
32: Family Affair
33: Vacation
34: Joust Between Friends
35: Love, Rose
36: 'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas
37: The Sisters
38: The Stan Who Came to Dinner
39: The Actor
40: Before and After
41: And Then There Was One
42: Bedtime Story
43: Forgive Me, Father
44: Long Days Journey into Marinara
45: Whose Face is This, Anyway?
46: Dorothy's Prized Pupil
47: Diamond in the Rough
48: Son-in-Law Dearest
49: To Catch a Neighbor
50: A Piece of Cake
51: Empty Nests
52: Old Friends
53: One For the Money
54: Bringing Up Baby
55: The Housekeeper
56: Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself
57: Letter to Gorbachev
58: Strange Bedfellows
59: Brotherly Love
60: A Visit From Little Sven
61: The Audit
62: Three on a Couch
63: Charlie's Buddy
64: The Artist
65: Blanche's Little Girl
66: Dorothy's New Friend
67: Grab That Dough
68: My Brother, My Father
69: Golden Moments (1)
70: Golden Moments (2)
71: And Ma Makes Three
72: Larceny and Old Lace
73: Rose's Big Adventure
74: Mixed Blessing
75: Mister Terrific
76: Mother's Day
77: Yes, We Have No Havanas
78: The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo
79: The One That Got Away
80: Yokel Hero
81: Bang the Drum, Stanley
82: Sophia's Wedding (1)
83: Sophia's Wedding (2)
84: Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket?
85: Scared Straight
86: Stan Takes a Wife
87: The Auction
88: Blind Date
89: The Impotence of Being Ernest
90: Love Me Tender
91: Valentine's Day
92: Two Rode Together
93: You Gotta Have Hope
94: Fiddler on the Ropes
95: Till Death Do We Volley
96: High Anxiety
97: Little Sister
98: Sophia's Choice
99: Rites of Spring
100: Foreign Exchange
101: We're Outta Here (1)
102: We're Outta Here (2)
103: Sick and Tired (1)
104: Sick and Tired (2)
105: The Accurate Conception
106: Rose Fights Back
107: Love Under the Big Top
108: Dancing in the Dark
109: Not Another Monday
110: That Old Feeling
111: Comedy of Errors
112: All That Jazz
113: Ebb Tide
114: Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas
115: Mary Has a Little Lamb
116: Great Expectations
117: Triple Play
118: Clinton Avenue Memoirs
119: Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom
120: An Illegitimate Concern
121: 72 Hours
122: Twice in a Lifetime
123: Sisters and Other Strangers
124: Cheaters
125: The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present
126: All Bets Are Off
127: The President's Coming!
128: The President's Coming! T
129: Blanche Delivers
130: Once, in St. Olaf
131: If At Last You Do Succeed
132: Snap Out Of It
133: Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy
134: Feelings
135: Zborn Again
136: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?
137: Mrs. George Devereaux
138: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun...Before They Die
139: Stand By Your Man
140: Ebbtide's Revenge
141: The Bloom is Off the Rose
142: Sisters of the Bride
143: Miles to Go
144: There Goes the Bride (1)
145: There Goes the Bride (2)
146: Older and Wiser
147: Melodrama
148: Even Grandmas Get the Blues
149: Witness
150: What a Difference a Date Makes
151: Love for Sale
152: Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (1)
153: Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (2)
154: Henny Penny -- Straight, No Chaser
155: Hey, Look Me Over
156: The Case of the Libertine Belle
157: Beauty and the Beast
158: That's For Me to Know
159: Where's Charlie?
160: Mother Load
161: Dateline: Miami
162: The Monkey Show (1)
163: The Monkey Show (2)
164: Ro$e Love$ Mile$
165: Room 7
166: From Here to the Pharmacy
167: The Pope's Ring
168: Old Boyfriends
169: Goodbye, Mr. Gordon
170: The Commitments
171: Questions and Answers
172: Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan
173: Journey to the Center of Attention
174: A Midwinter Night's Dream (1)
175: A Midwinter Night's Dream (2)
176: Rose: Portrait of a Woman
177: Home Again, Rose (1)
178: Home Again, Rose (2)
179: One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (1)
180: One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (2)
181: The Golden Girls Greatest Moments
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