Golden Girls

1985 • NBC
4.8
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Season 5 episodes (26)

1 Sick and Tired (Part 1)
9/23/89
Dorothy is feeling rundown, tired all the time and has a lack of energy. She is sure she is ill, but all of the doctors she visits tell her she's fine. Meanwhile, Blanche decides to write a romance novel.
2 Sick and Tired (Part 2)
9/30/89
Dorothy continues to seek medical advice and turns to Harry Weston for help. Meanwhile, Blanche goes on a writing binge resulting in a novel that is less then enthralling.
3 The Accurate Conception
10/14/89
Blanche's daughter, Rebecca has some wonderful news. She's going to become a mother, through artificial insemination. However, Blanche is less then thrilled, she's totally against the entire thing.
4 Rose Fights Back
10/21/89
When the company that Rose's husband worked for, cuts off their pension plan, Rose must face the fact that she's going to get a new job, one that pays more. However, she quickly finds herself dealing with something she never expected, age discrimination. Meanwhile, Sophia goes wild buying things in quantity at a Shopper's Warehouse.
5 Love Under the Big Top
10/28/89
Dorothy is in a serious relationship with a lawyer and jumps to the conclusion that he's on the verge of proposing. However, his announcement is a shocker: he's leaving law to become a circus clown. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche put together a protest to save some dolphins.
6 Dancing in the Dark
11/4/89
Rose has been dating, Miles Webber, a college professor, but the only thing they seem to have in common is the dance floor. But when Miles invites her to a party, Rose feels like a fish out of water being surrounded by all his intelligent friends. Meanwhile, Blanche battles a dating slump.
7 Not Another Monday
11/11/89
Sophia's friend has come up with an idea that will change her life. She wants to commit suicide and she wants Sophia there to hold her hand. Meanwhile, Blanche, Rose and Dorothy become singing nursemaids to a sick baby that they are taking care of for the weekend.
8 That Old Feeling
11/18/89
Blanche is visited by her brother in-law and is taken back by his resemblance to her deceased husband. She quickly finds herself falling in love with hopes of marriage.
9 Comedy of Errors
11/25/89
Dorothy finds a list of things that she wanted to accomplish before a certain age and finds that she hasn't accomplished many of them. So she decides to go after one of them, entertaining people. This leads her to sign up to do a stand up routine at a nightclub. Meanwhile, Blanche finds herself battling the IRS.
10 All That Jazz
12/2/89
Dorothy's son, Michael, shows up on her doorstep with news that he's separated with his wife and needs a place to stay. However, Dorothy quickly gets tired of his freeloading and dumps him on Stan. Meanwhile, Rose's stress is getting terrible and is reluctant to talk to her boss about cutting back on her "things-to-do" list.
11 Ebbtide
12/9/89
Blanche is shattered after her father, Big Daddy, passes away. However, when she goes back to her childhood home, she gets into a big argument with her sister, Virginia and decides not to attend the funeral.
12 Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas
12/16/89
It's the Christmas season and the girls are fed up with Christmas shopping in a heat wave. So they decide to buy gifts for the one person they pick from a hat. Later, the girls decide to serve Christmas dinner for the homeless, including a recently homeless Stan.
13 Mary Had a Little Lamb
1/6/90
The girls take in a 15 year old girl who has just found out she's pregnant and scared to tell her father. Meanwhile, Blanche's prison pen pal has just been released and is looking for her.
14 Great Expectations
1/13/90
Rose joins a positive thinking group and tries to get a pessimistic Dorothy to join. Meanwhile, Blanche is scared to get serious with her latest boyfriend especially after he has a heart attack.
15 Triple Play
1/27/90
Blanche tries to lure men by placing a fake ad in the paper trying to sell a Mercedes. Meanwhile, Rose has to deal with meeting Miles' daughter who makes it clear she wants their relationship to be no more and Dorothy discovers Sophia is hoarding Social Security money, thanks to a computer error.
16 Clinton Avenue Memoirs
2/3/90
Dorothy becomes alarmed when Sophia forgets the date of her wedding anniversary. This leads Dorothy to face the fact that Sophia is becoming more and more forgetful with age. After visiting a doctor, Sophia decides to regain some of the memories she has lost and decides to take a trip to Brooklyn and their old apartment.
17 Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom
2/10/90
After visiting the doctor, Blanche learns that he wants to put a pacemaker in her. However, after the operation, Blanche is so scared of intimacy that she decides to give up sex.
18 An Illegitimate Concern
2/12/90
Blanche is stunned when a man comes to the front door and claims to be the illegitimate son of her late husband. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Sophia enter a mother-daughter pageant at Shady Pines.
19 72 Hours
2/17/90
Rose discovers that she may be carrying the HIV virus after learning the blood they used in her gallbladder operation may have contained HIV antibodies. What really gets to her though is the 72 hours she must wait before hearing the test results. Meanwhile, Dorothy organizes a Save the Swamplands charity.
20 Twice in a Lifetime
2/24/90
Rose must decide between her boyfriend, Miles or an old boyfriend who has just come to town and asks her to go to Europe with him. Meanwhile, fed up with Dorothy's rules, Sophia decides to move out.
21 Sisters and Other Strangers
3/3/90
Blanche and her sister, Charmaine, reconcile after a life-long rivalry. However, the reconciliation does not last long after Blanche reads her recently published book and realizes the heroine is based on her. Meanwhile, Dorothy becomes fed up with Stan's visiting cousin.
22 Cheaters
3/24/90
The married man whom Dorothy once dated re-enters her life and has news that he's now divorced and would like to reconcile with Dorothy. Meanwhile, Blanche and Sophia become the victims of a con game.
23 The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present
3/31/90
The girls attend the wedding of Dorothy's goddaughter who's father was once engaged to Sophia. Sophia thinks that the wedding reception is the perfect spot for revenge after supposedly putting a curse on him years ago.
24 All Bets Off
4/28/90
Dorothy's gambling problem re-surfaces after a visit to the race track and quickly begins falling in to debt and gaining an apathy to her job. Meanwhile, Rose takes up painting and Blanche is insulted after a man she works with rejects her advances.
25 The President's Coming! (Part 1)
5/5/90
An FBI agent investigates the girls' lives for a possible visit from President Bush. This leads the girls to reminisce about times they have spent together.
26 The President's Coming! (Part 2)
5/5/90
When the FBI agent announces that George Bush will make a visit to their home, the girls continue to reminisce and Dorothy quickly readies a list of points she wants to make to the president.

About this show

An Emmy award winner for outstanding comedy series in its very first year, the Golden Girls has become a landmark in television history and an all-time fan favorite. Beatrice Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White, and Estelle Getty star as four seniors spending their golden years together in Miami, Florida and sharing a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless, and hilarious, these lovely mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
3.7K reviews
melissa Usher
June 11, 2014
Reminds me of my mom used to watch it every night together. I love how Dorothy and her mom Sofia . And I just love Blanche with her Sutherland voice. I love way Rose was born her roommate with crazy stories from her home town. In house in the middle of the night when they could not sleep they going to the kitchen have some coffee and something sweet and then talk go back to bed.O:-) I still watch it at night love itO:-)
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Sherry Brehm
March 26, 2016
The first season of The Golden Girls had an episode titled "That Was No Lady", in which Dorothy, at first unknowingly, has an affair with a married man. It's the prequel to an episode from Season 5 titled "Cheaters" when that same man contacts Dorothy after his divorce. I was thrilled to be able to buy the all 7 seasons from Google Play, but from now on I will question (and research) any series if I purchase again in the future.
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Jerome Dupont
April 11, 2014
This creation of the golden girls has never been surpassed by any other tv series in the world. It is real, funny, very sensitive, sensinble,way ahead of its time and the actors were just exceptional. Most of our new series today are actually taking a lot of lines from the Golden Girls... I own them all and will never be tired of watching them again and again...
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