Favourite Golden Girl

[Bulldog1954]

Originally posted by 35eye


Hey I've got two on my street. I never realised I could use that to my advantage.

Any houses up for sale??? Can u put in a good word for me with some of the dears??? Any Edna Richards (Lou's wife) sort of quality???

 

[M29]

Originally posted by bunsen burner
What the..?????????????????

I was making a quote for what the old geezer would be saying.

 

[M29]

Originally posted by Malibu
Some of you guys need to go and pick up at Retirement Villages!

One word. GUMMIES!

 

[ant]

Wasn't the spin-off called the Golden Tower or something like that?

 

[35eye]

Originally posted by ant
Wasn't the spin-off called the Golden Tower or something like that?

Well thanks for asking...



NBC's hit series The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur decided to leave the show. The show was about three older ladies (Dorothy, Blanche and Rose) sharing a house in Miami along with Dorothy's mom Sophia. The series ended with Bea Arthur's character Dorothy getting married and moved away.

The following season a spin off of the show appeared on CBS called The Golden Palace. In it, Rose, Blanche and Sophia bought a hotel in Miami and ended up running the place with the help of three new charatcers. Chuy Castillos was played by Cheech Marin of Cheech and Chong fame. Roland was played by the not yet famous Don Cheadle who would go on to films like Boogie Nights and Traffic. Finally Oliver was a young boy who hung around the hotel who was played by Billy L. Sullivan who has gone on to success in...uh...well, I mean, he is just a kid. He'll do something else soon I'm sure. Bea Arthur made one guest appearance on the show as Dorothy in which Dorothy wonder about how smart it was for her elderly mother to be helping run a hotel.

After one season the show was cancelled. CBS put it in a bad spot on Friday night where it and the Bob Newhart vehicle Bob both met with little success. The next season the show was gone and Sophia moved back to NBC to be a regular on the other Golden Girls spin off Empty Nest.

Golden Girls was a show about three older women (Dorothy, Blanche and Rose) sharing a house in Miami. On the very first episode, Dorothy's senile mother Sophia moved in with them after the nursing home she was living in had a fire. The show got away with a lot of raunchy humor because its stars were older women.

The show was such a success a spin off of some sort seemed a natural. Suddenly there was an episode of The Golden Girls that had almost nothing to do with the Golden Girls. It concentrated on some of their neighbors (rule of thumb: whenever a show does an episode focusing on a bunch of people you've never seen before and never do again, it's a pilot for a new show). Rita Moreno played a woman married to a doctor. All three of the couples daughters had finally left home leaving the two of them alone. They also had a nutty female relative and a mooching neighbor played by David Leisure. With the children gone, mom felt she was suffering from "Empty Nest Syndrome". After that single episode, this family was never seen again. The powers that be tinkered with the premise though and soon a spin off was born...

Empty Nest was the story of a different group of Golden Girl neighbors. Harry Weston was a widower doctor whose three daughters had all left home. Only at the start of the series two of his full grown daughters, Barbara and Carol, moved home. Barbara was a cop who needed to move home to dig herself out of debt. Carol moved home because she had gotten a divorce, was lonely and feared Barbara getting all their fathers attention. So thus "Empty Nest" became an ironic title. They had a wacky neighbor who was also played by David Leisure but this was a different character than from the initial pilot. So apparently, the Golden Girls had two neighbors who looked like David Leisure, they had two sets of families living nearby with a doctor father and three daughters. Only in one family the mother was dead. Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?

Empty Nest and Golden Girls initially aired back to back and as such the characters from each show would drop by the other on a regular basis. Eventually a third show named Nurses was added that took place at the Hospital where Harry worked. All three shows would air on the same night and elaborate theme nights started airing with characters from all the shows hopping from one to the other. One was a moonlight madness night where a full moon made people act crazy. Another one was a hurricane night where everyone became stranded in different areas, leaving some at the Golden Girl's home, some over at Empty Nest and other unable to leave the hospital on Nurses. All three shows were by the same production company and so these event nights were fun stunts for NBC that made sense.

 

[ant]

Thank you very much for all that 35eye

 

[35eye]

Originally posted by ant
Thank you very much for all that 35eye

Welcome!

 

[lioness]

Definitely Rose!!!!!! So cutely stupid!!!!

I prefer her character (Sue-Anne Nivens) on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, she was almost a cross between the Rose and Blanche characters on The Golden Girls...... had her homely TV cooking and house show, but was very Blanche-like off the set.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

180 episodes 1985-1992. Anybody watched them all?

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Remember the Golden Girls spin off, Empty Nest?

Never saw it

 

[Bomberboyokay]

The show got away with a lot of raunchy humor because its stars were older women.

Has a lot of sex jokes for a free-to-air sitcom from Reagan's America.

 

[Hawk Dork]

keepin it gangster

 

[Beerfish]

Dorothy easily.

That cutting wit.

 

[MatthewB]

180 episodes 1985-1992. Anybody watched them all?

Ive seen them all, my wife loves the show