The Golden Girls (1986)
Four previously married women live together in Miami, sharing their various experiences together and enjoying themselves despite hard times.
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Episode 1 - Yes, We Have No Havanas
Release Date: 8 Oct. 1988Blanche and Sophia are caught in a love triangle with an elderly Cuban cigar mogul.
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Episode 2 - The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo
Release Date: 22 Oct. 1988While Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche sit around and feel like their lives are boring, Sophia goes out and fights with the grocery store over a nectarine and a piece of meat, conducts a jazz band made up of old ladies, and volunteers at the hospital.
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Episode 3 - The One That Got Away
Release Date: 29 Oct. 1988Blanche tries to woo Ham Lushbough, the only man who ever turned her down. Meanwhile, Rose believes she saw a UFO fly over the house.
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Episode 4 - Yokel Hero
Release Date: 5 Nov. 1988Rose is nominated for the St. Olaf Woman of the Year award, while Blanche and Dorothy embellish her accomplishments on her entry form.
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Episode 5 - Bang the Drum, Stanley
Release Date: 12 Nov. 1988When Sophia gets hit in the head by a baseball at a game, Stan encourages her to exaggerate her injuries to try and get a class action settlement out of it.
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Episode 6 - Sophia's Wedding: Part 1
Release Date: 19 Nov. 1988When Sophia's friend Esther Weinstock dies, she goes to her funeral in Brooklyn. There, she confronts Esther's widower, Max, whom Sophia blames for the failure of her husband's old business.
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Episode 7 - Sophia's Wedding: Part 2
Release Date: 26 Nov. 1988Newlyweds Max and Sophia open a pizza knish stand on the beach, while Dorothy has gotten into the habit of smoking cigarettes.
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Episode 8 - Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket?
Release Date: 3 Dec. 1988Sophia donates an old jacket to charity, not knowing that it contains a winning lottery ticket.
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Episode 9 - Scared Straight
Release Date: 10 Dec. 1988Blanche's brother Clayton is afraid to admit his homosexuality, so he claims he slept with Rose.
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Episode 10 - Stan Takes a Wife
Release Date: 7 Jan. 1989When Sophia is hospitalized with pneumonia, Stan comforts Dorothy. At the hospital, she sees a side of him that impresses her, and she tries to prevent him from getting married again to another woman.
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Episode 11 - The Auction
Release Date: 14 Jan. 1989The girls need a new roof, so they scheme to buy and then sell a painting by Jasper DeKimmel, an arrogant painter who has a few days to live.
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Episode 12 - Blind Date
Release Date: 28 Jan. 1989Blanche makes a date with a man without realizing that he is blind.
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Episode 13 - The Impotence of Being Ernest
Release Date: 4 Feb. 1989Rose tries to do something about her boyfriend's sexual dysfunction.
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Episode 14 - Love Me Tender
Release Date: 6 Feb. 1989Dorothy dates a short, bald man with whom she has nothing in common - except for great lovemaking. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche volunteer as big sisters for two teenage girls.
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Episode 15 - Valentine's Day
Release Date: 11 Feb. 1989The girls Valentine's Day dates all stand them up, so they sit around, eat cheesecake, and look back at memorable Valentine's Days past.
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Episode 16 - Two Rode Together
Release Date: 18 Feb. 1989Dorothy takes Sophia to Walt Disney World for "quality time," but Sophia wants to ride Space Mountain instead. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche collaborate on a children's book.
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Episode 17 - You Gotta Have Hope
Release Date: 25 Feb. 1989Rose is convinced that Bob Hope is her real father and that he will perform as the Master of Ceremonies at an upcoming charity benefit.
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Episode 18 - Fiddler on the Ropes
Release Date: 4 Mar. 1989Sophia is given money that is intended to be put into a Certificate of Deposit, but she buys a Cuban prizefighter instead.
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Episode 19 - Till Death Do We Volley
Release Date: 18 Mar. 1989Dorothy blames herself when her friend and former classmate Trudy dies suddenly while playing tennis.
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Episode 20 - High Anxiety
Release Date: 25 Mar. 1989Rose tries to overcome her addiction to painkillers. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Sophia appear in a TV commercial for a pizzeria.
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Episode 21 - Little Sister
Release Date: 1 Apr. 1989Nobody believes Rose when she says that her younger sister Holly is a troublemaker.
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Episode 22 - Sophia's Choice
Release Date: 15 Apr. 1989Sophia breaks her friend Lillian out of a retirement home that is worse than Shady Pines was. Meanwhile, Blanche decides to use her work bonus to have her breasts enlarged.
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Episode 23 - Rites of Spring
Release Date: 29 Apr. 1989As the girls vow to get in shape for an upcoming beach party, they recall past attempts at self-improvement.
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Episode 24 - Foreign Exchange
Release Date: 6 May 1989Two friends of Sophia's come to visit from Sicily with the revelation that Dorothy and their daughter, Gina, may have been switched at birth.
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Episode 25 - We're Outta Here: Part 1
Release Date: 13 May 1989A wealthy Japanese businessman offers to buy the house.
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Episode 26 - We're Outta Here: Part 2
Release Date: 13 May 1989The girls plan to accept a generous offer for the house.