The Episode Guide
(1st Season with 25
episodes)
(Aired: Sep 14, 1985 - May 10 1986)
| 001 - | The Engagement (Pilot) | (bigamy) |
| After a fire in her retirement home "Shady Pines" Sophia moves to her daughter Dorothy. It doesn't take long and Dorothy, Rose and Sophia have to look for a new home as Blanche wants to marry her lover Harry. Fortunately Rose is plagued by doubts and so she tries to prevent the marriage. (Annotation: see also episodes #152 and #153) |
| 002 - | Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding | (coming to terms with the past) |
| Dorothy's daughter Kate plans to marry a
"doctor". Kate also invited Stan, which upsets Dorothy. Stan left her after
years of marriage and she didn't cope with it yet. |
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| 003 - | Rose The Prude | (unrelatedness) |
| Arnie is Rose's latest admirer. He helps her
to get over her strong feelings on relations during a cruise. (Annotation: "Arnie" recurrs later as "Miles Webber".) |
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| 004 - | The Transplant | (transplantations) |
| Virginia surprisingly visits her sister
Blanche. They had argued very often when they were young. The true reason for Virginia's
visit is raised very soon: in order not to die she wants a part of Blanche's body: a
kidney! |
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| 005 - | The Triangle | (relationships) |
| Dorothy and Blanche fight over who's about to
get Dr. Elliot Clayton. He likes both. Rose sets up a tricky intrigue in which the two
rivals reunite. Together they send Elliot back to where he belongs. |
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| 006 - | On Golden Girls | (education) |
| Blanche's naughty 13-year-old grandchild
David forces the girls to act. Their disciplinary methods of upbringing show success. |
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| 007 - | The Competition | (pursuit of profit) |
| A bowling contest reveals Rose's embittered
eagerness. Sophia has fallen in love with her former fiancé Augustine Bagatelli. They
plan to go back to Sicily should they win the tournament. Dorothy isn't able to share the
happiness of her mother at all. She allies with Blanche. |
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| 008 - | The Break-In | (trauma) |
| Thieves have just broken in Blanche's house.
Rose is shocked and doesn't feel secure any more. She even organises a gun. The situation
escalates when Rose shots Blanche's most favorite vase. (Annotation: the vase reappears in later episodes.) |
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| 009 - | Blanche and the Younger Man | (different ages) |
| A young and handsome fitness teacher invites
Blanche for dinner because she reminds him of her mother... Rose's mother stays for a while. The poor is cared by Rose around the clock. |
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| 010 - | The Heart Attack | (life & death) |
| Sophia ate much too much and suffers a heart
attack. Dorothy thinks it's a coronary and Sophia prepares to pass away. |
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| 011 - | Stan's Return | (sex with ex) |
| Dorothy's former husband Stan reappears and
disturbs harmony. He urgently needs Dorothy's signature in order to sell a piece of land.
Old honey-moon memories come back to life and last but not least they find themselves in a
motel. Stan's efforts to find a place in Dorothy's heart again come to a sudden end when
his girl-friend Chrissy comes back remorsefully. |
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| 012 - | The Custody Battle | (sisterhood quarrels) |
| Rivalry between Dorothy and her sister
Gloria: Gloria wants her mother Sophia to leave Miami and to stay with her family in
California. Another battle takes place between Blanche and Rose. Both had applied for the
role of "Lady MacBeth". Rose got the addition while Blanche was given the part
of "Witch No. 3". |
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| 013 - | A Little Romance | (short human beings) |
| Rose has fallen in love with a dwarf and
compulsorily gets into lots of funny situations. Surprisingly the decision not to have a
relationship is not Jonathan's size but his religion. |
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| 014 - | That Was No Lady | (unfaithfulness) |
| To the horror of Rose and Sophia, Dorothy has
an affair with a married man. Blanche wants to get rid of her rusty vehicle in order to
buy a new car. She hands out the keys to Rose for a trial and the car is promptly stolen.
Finally Blanche is glad about this happening because her insurance pays off a huge bonus. |
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| 015 - | In a Bed Of Rose's | (unfaithfulness) |
| Rose's friend Al stays over night. Next
morning he is found dead by Sophia. Rose has to notify Lucille Beatty, Al's wife. Rose
didn't know Al was two-timing Lucille. |
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| 016 - | The Truth Will Out | (fatal inheritance) |
| Rose's daughter Kirsten visits Rose to come
into inheritance. Now Rose has to come clean and has to admit that Charly, an insurance
representative, hasn't left as much money as Kirsten used to think of. |
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| 017 - | Nice and Easy | (slut) |
| Blanche's favourite niece Lucy lives quite a
frivolous life like Blanche does. The Girls unanimously want to prevent her from doing so.
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| 018 - | The Operation | (fear of operation) |
| Dorothy, Rose and Blanche want to perform a
tap-dance. Dorothy gets hurt while doing the training and is sent to hospital. At first
she escapes from there as she is very scared because of the operation. |
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| 019 - | Second Motherhood? | (emancipation) |
| A new toilet has to be installed. Dorothy and
Rose try to do the work on their own to present some kind of independence. In the meantime
Blanche puts over whether to marry Richard, a man with two little children, or not. |
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| 020 - | Adult Education | (sexual harassment) |
| Blanche's psychologist professor at night
school wants to take up with her in an indecent way. Blanche would pass a course
belatedly. She indignatedly rejects his offer. As a complaint at the director's doesn't
come up with any results, Blanche swots up for the re-examination. |
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| 021 - | The Flu | (appreciation) |
| A flu threatens the girls to participate in a
charity performance which is held every year. Blanche, Dorothy and Rose long for the
charity's award which is finally handed out to Sophia. |
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| 022 - | Job Hunting | (unemployment) |
| Rose loses her job at the Medical Care Centre
and feels that nobody wants her. She doesn't find a new job either. The search comes to an
end when Dorothy glosses over Rose's curriculum vitae. Dorothy happily expects the arrival
of Barry Glick. He's an old school mate. Blanche fights over to lose some weight in the
meantime. |
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| 023 - | Blind Ambition(s) | (blind human beings) |
| Lily, Rose's sister from Chicago, became
blind six months ago and bravely fights for a new kind of self-confidence. Moreover the
girls want to get rid of their junk to earn some extra money. They do hard in splitting up
the old things. |
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| 024 - | Big Daddy | (wishful thinking) |
| Blanche gets a visit from her daddy, whom she
used to lovingly call "Big Daddy". He realized a former dream and has just
become a country singer. However he doesn't seem to be very successful. |
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| 025 - | The Way We Met | (potpourri) |
| Blanche, Dorothy and Rose are unable to sleep because they've just watched "Psycho" on television. Instead they remember former times while eating pieces of cheesecake. The true Golden Girls pilot! |
(2nd Season with 26 episodes)
(Aired: Sep 13, 1986 - May 16, 1987)
| 026 - | Take Him, He's Mine (A Shoulder to Cry on) | (jealousy) |
| Blanche wants Dorothy to go out with Stan.
Dorothy is appalled when Blanche and Stan become a couple. |
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| 027 - | End of the Curse | (change of life) |
| Blanche thinks that she is pregnant. Rose and Dorothy want to grow minks. What a pity - they didn't obey a small thing... |
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| 028 - | Ladies Of The Evening | (arrogance) |
| The girls are looking forward to meeting Burt
Reynolds at a gala. Unfortunately there are only three cards available all in all. The
fight ends up in prison - at least for three of the girls... |
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| 029 - | It's A Miserable Life | (environmental protection) |
| Mrs. Claxton wants to have felled a
200-year-old oak. She suffers a deadly heart attack when Rose insults her. |
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| 030 - | Isn't It Romantic? | (female homosexuality) |
| Dorothy's friend Jean visits the girls.
Fascinated by Rose's naivety Jean falls in love with her. |
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| 031 - | Big Daddy's Little Lady | (mother-in-law) |
| Blanche is very surprised when her father
tells her that he is going to marry the widow Margaret Spencer. At first Blanche doesn't
agree with her father's decision. Meanwhile Blanche, Dorothy and Rose participate in a
$10,000- song contest held for Miami. "M I A another M I... M i a m i spells Miami Beach. Girls! It stirs emotion... Girls! It's by the ocean... Girls! So bring your suntan lotion... Girls! What?..." |
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| 032 - | Family Affair | (contradictions) |
| Dorothy's son Michael as well as Rose's
daughter Bridget visit their mothers. When they first meet Michael and Bridget can't stand
each other. Then the tables are turned... Blanche wanted to impress her aerobics- teacher.
As a result she has wrenched her back! |
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| 033 - | Vacation | (group travel) |
| Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia spend their
spare-time in the Caribbean while Sophia takes up with a Japanese gardener. |
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| 034 - | Joust Between Friends | (jealousy) |
| Blanche gets Dorothy a job at the museum
where she works. Dorothy turns out to be better than Blanche. Rose brings along a dog
which doesn't please Dorothy. |
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| 035 - | Love, Rose | (lovesickness) |
| Scatterbrained Rose publishes a contact
announcement. Blanche writes a letter signed as "Isaac Newton" because nobody
answers her. |
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| 036 - | 'T Was The Nightmare Before Christmas | (christmas) |
| Rose proposes to celebrate an old-fashioned
Christmas. Hence a Christmas with self-made presents. Each of the girls want to spend the
Holy Night together with their families. On departure's day they all meet at the
counselling centre where they are taken as hostages by an armed St. Claus. |
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| 037 - | Sisters | (sisterhood quarrels) |
| Dorothy spents a lot of time and money to
surprise her mother Sophia on her birthday: Aunt Angela comes from Italy to congratulate.
Angela and Sophia haven't seen each other for over 50 years. And they haven't missed each
other either... |
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| 038 - | The Stan Who Came to Dinner | (operation fear) |
| Dorothy's former husband Stan confesses all
former miscarriages to her because he has to undergo a bypass-operation. |
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| 039 - | The Actor | (love triangle) |
| A guest actor appears at Miami's local
theatre. He gets into time trouble when he meets an arrangement with each: Blanche,
Dorothy and Rose. First they don't know about each others appointments. |
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| 040 - | Before and After | (egoism) |
| Rose suffers a heart attack because she has
worked too much. Having left the hospital she mutates from a cheerful yokel to an
egotistical nanny goat. |
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| 041 - | And Then There Was One | (foundling) |
| Sophia takes part in a walking-marathon,
while Blanche and Dorothy care about the participant's children. One baby is left behind
by its parents... |
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| 042 - | Bedtime Story | (potpourri) |
| While the girls are enjoying a typical
Italian dinner, which had been prepared by Sophia, they tell each other bedtime stories. |
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| 043 - | Forgive Me Father | (celibacy) |
| Finally Dorothy has fallen in love. If he
just wasn't a priest... |
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| 044 - | Long Day's Journey Into Marinara | (sisterhood quarrels) |
| Rose proudly guards a dedicated chicken
called Bessie. It can play the piano. Briefly after its disappearance, Aunt Angela
presents her lunch - chicken... |
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| 045 - | Dorothy's Prized Pupil | (illegal immigrants) |
| Mario is in danger of being expelled to
Mexico. Dorothy helps him. |
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| 046 - | Whose Face is This Anyway? | (beauty) |
| Blanche feels depressive because she doesn't
feel that pretty any more. Rose likes the idea of persuing Dorothy, Blanche and Sophia
with her camcorder. When Blanche watches herself on the video her worries seem to be
confirmed. |
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| 047 - | Diamond In the Rough | (contradictions) |
| The girls go to a banquet which they helped
being organised. Blanche falls in love with Jake who is the chef. Although he wants to
marry her, their relationship doesn't last very long as Blanche prefers to go to the
banquet with Hunter instead of Jake. |
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| 048 - | Son-In-Law Dearest | (unfaithfulness) |
| Dorothy's daughter stays for a while. She
wants to get divorced from Dennis whom she accuses of two-timing her. |
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| 049 - | To Catch a Neighbor | (observation) |
| Big excitement: The MacDowells are the new
neighbours of the four ladies. The police wants to observe them because they are suspects.
Thus the police quarter in Blanche's kitchen. |
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| 050 - | A Piece of Cake | (potpourri) |
| While preparing a party the girls remember
former birthday parties. Rose has organised a birthday party for Dorothy at a fast-food
restaurant but Dorothy doesn't like any of Mr. Haha's jokes. |
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| 051 - | Empty Nest | (loneliness) |
| Renee is a friend of the girls and suffers
marital problems. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche and Rose know what to do. (Annotation: Empty Nest is the name of another TV series and a Golden Palace- spin off. This episode was rather boring though.) |
(3rd Season with 25 episodes)
(Aired: Sep 19, 1987 - May 14, 1988)
| 052 - | Old Friends | (diseases) |
| Sophia often meets Alvin, an elderly coloured
man, on the beach promenade. Sophia likes him though he sometimes behaves in a very
strange way. He suffers from Alzheimer disease. |
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| 053 - | One For The Money | (potpourri) |
| A flashback. Among other things: the girls
take part in a dancing marathon. |
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| 054 - | Bringing Up Baby | (inheritance) |
| Rose will only inherit a fortune when she
cares about the life of an Uncle's pig. Meanwhile Sophia urgently needs new glasses. |
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| 055 - | The Housekeeper | (superstition) |
| After a short period the girls dismiss their
new female housekeeper. Suddenly, there seems to burden a curse on them... |
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| 056 - | Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself | (trauma) |
| Rose is asked to hold a speech at a funeral.
Because she is afraid of doing so, she is accompanied by Dorothy and Blanche. |
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| 057 - | The Audit | (evade taxes) |
| Dorothy and Stan meet again - at the law
court for financial affairs. Rose tries to learn Spanish. |
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| 058 - | Three On A Couch | (at the psychiatrist's) |
| The girls want to separate because they don't
feel as they would belong to each other any more. Each of them shares a story out of their
lives. Finally it's up to Sophia to reunite the girls. |
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| 059 - | Strange Bedfellows | (election) |
| The girls encourage a local candidate for
governor elections. He's a real scaredy-cat. |
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| 060 - | Letter To Gorbachev | (disarmament) |
| Rose is worried about the peace in the world.
She writes letters to Reagan and Gorbachev. Everybody is estonished when she receives an
answer. Sophia wants to take part in a talent show for elder people as a magician. |
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| 061 - | Brotherly Love | (genetic make-up) |
| Dorothy gets a visit from Stan and his
brother Ted. She falls in love with Ted and wants to follow him to Acapulco. Rose and
Sophia eagerly try to prevent this from happening. Rose suffers from sleeplessness. |
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| 062 - | A Visit From Little Sven | (driving licence) |
| Rose's cousin Sven from Saint Olaf gets a
crush on Blanche. Furthermore he wants to cancel the marriage with his fiancée Olga
although Sven had never seen her before... Sophia wants to learn driving which upsets
Dorothy. |
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| 063 - | Charlie's Buddy | (wedding swindle) |
| Rose succumbs to a marital swindler who
pretends to be a friend of her former husband Charly. |
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| 064 - | Grap That Dough | (gameshow) |
| The girls take part in a game show called
"Grap That Dough". Embittered competition overwhelmes them. |
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| 065 - | The Artist | (artistic muse) |
| The girls model for an artist for his newest
opus. |
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| 066 - | Blanche's Little Girl | (obesity) |
| Blanche's daughter Rebecca visits her mother.
She suffers from obesity and is being treated in a miserly way by her boy-friend Jeremy. |
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| 067 - | Dorothy's New Friend | (wrong friends) |
| An arrogant snipe from "The Mortimer
Club" makes friend with Dorothy. Rose and Blanche can't stand her at all and tell
Dorothy about it. |
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| 068 - | My Brother, My Father | (blessed sacrament) |
| Uncle Angelo mustn't get to know about
Dorothy's divorce. She and Stan still try and pretend to be a happy couple... |
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| 069 - | And Ma Makes Three | (independence) |
| Raymond invites his girl-friend Dorothy to go
on a Bahamas holiday-weekend. Sophia gets to know that in time and thinks she would fly as
well. |
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| 070 - | Larceny and Old Lace | (breach of trust) |
| Sophia gets involved in dubious circles while
Dorothy and Blanche try to read in Rose's diary. |
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| 071 - | Rose's Big Adventure | (on one's own initiative) |
| Blanche's garage has to be rebuilt. Blanche,
Dorothy and Rose have to do it because they ran out of money. An old lusty Italian friend
from Sophia directs the construction. |
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| 072 - | Mixed Blessings | (racial problems) |
| Dorothy's son Michael is going to marry a
coloured woman. Both Dorothy and the parents of his fiancée aren't really looking forward
to it. Racial problems performed in a happy manner. |
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| 073 - | Mr. Terrific | (jealousy) |
| Dorothy heavily interferes the performance of
a children's TV show. Finally she gets the presentator's job... |
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| 074 - | Mother's Day | (mother's day) |
| Contains many flashbacks. |
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| 075 - | Golden Moments (1) | (potpourri) |
| A mix of former episodes in which cheesecake
again takes over the major part! |
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| 076 - | Golden Moments (2) | (potpourri) |
| Sophia withdraws her decision to go back to Italy to live with her son Phil. The girls show fairly reliefed. |
(4th Season with 26 episodes)
(Aired: Oct 08, 1988 - May 13, 1989)
| 077 - | Yes, We Have No Havanas | (bigamy) |
| Rose struggles to finally pass her
high-school equivalency exam. Meanwhile Blanche and Sophia compulsorily share a charming
man. They even start fighting for his goodwill... |
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| 078 - | The Days And Nights of Sophia Petrillo | (life's work) |
| While Dorothy, Blanche and Rose waste their
time in the kitchen does Sophia turn out from one adventure to another, for example in
hospital where she cheers up Little Sam. |
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| 079 - | The One That Got Away | (UFO's) |
| Rose is sure about having spot an UFO! |
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| 080 - | Yokel Hero | (manipulation) |
| Rose has been declared as "St. Olaf's
Woman Of The Year". She gets very angry and sad when she finds out who has been
responsible for that. |
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| 081 - | Bang The Drum Stanley! | (insurance fraud) |
| Sophia has a little accident. Stan wants to
misuse it for an insurance fraud. |
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| 082 - | Sophia's Wedding (1) | (fatal consequences) |
| Sophia travels to the funeral of her friend
Esther. Hardly does she arrive when she attacks widower Max. Finally, Sophia finds out how
really nice he is. |
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| 083 - | Sophia's Wedding (2) | (marriage) |
| Sophia and Max open a pizza shop at the
beach. A damaged device leads to a fire which ruins their business. |
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| 084 - | Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket? | (poverty) |
| Blanche wins a jackpot in a lottery. If only
the ticket hasn't disappeared... |
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| 085 - | Scared Straight | (male homosexuality) |
| Clayton visits his little sister Blanche. He
wants to finally confess Blanche that he was gay. Rose encourages him to doing so. As a
result of misunderstanding Sophia deeply believes she would have to die next Saturday at
nine o'clock. |
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| 086 - | Stan Takes A Wife | (marriage) |
| Dorothy wants to stop the announced marriage
between Stan and Katherine. She wants Stan back because Sophia fell ill and it was Stan to
comfort her while waiting at the hospital. |
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| 087 - | The Auction | (stop at nothing) |
| The girls need money for an urgent repair of
the roof. They plan something really wicked. They want to buy Jasper DeKimmel's paintures
in order to resell them profitably shortly after his death. However Sophia helps DeKimmel
to survive and the girls' destiny suddenly goes into another direction... |
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| 088 - | Blind Date | (blind human beings) |
| Blanche doesn't know that she has fallen in
love with a blind man. It hurts when she finds out. Rose absolves a trainee programme. |
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| 089 - | The Impotence of Being Ernest (Vendetta) | (impotence) |
| Bad luck for Rose: her new friend Ernie is
impotent. Sophia commits retaliation (Vendetta). |
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| 090 - | Love Me Tender | (teenage crimes) |
| Eddie breaks the heart of every lady in town,
even Dorothy's heart. Blanche and Rose participate in the "His-Mami-Programme"
offered for orphans. |
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| 091 - | Valentine's Day | (valentine's day) |
| Blanche, Dorothy and Rose spend a dull day in
the kitchen while Sophia enjoys a night with Julio Iglesias. |
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| 092 - | Two Rode Together | (difficult team-work) |
| Dorothy and her mother Sophia travel to
Disney World, Orlando. Sophia tries to have fun but Dorothy prefers watching old photos as
well as diapositives with her. At home Rose and Blanche join to create a children's book
in the meantime. |
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| 093 - | You Gotta Have Hope | (talent show) |
| Rose claims to catch up Bob Hope for a
benefit show because he would be her real father... |
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| 094 - | Fiddler On The Ropes | (money difficulties) |
| Sophia catches up the Cuban boxer Pepe at the
bus-stop. He turns out to be a great violinist and actor, but not a "boxer" at
all. |
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| 095 - | Till Death Do We Volley | (class meeting) |
| Dorothy arranges the 40th class
meeting in Blanche's house. Trudy arrives as well. She used to be Dorothy's class mate at
High School where they were hatching doubtful jokes all the time. A tennis tournament
between both ends tragically... |
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| 096 - | High Anxiety | (addiction to medicine) |
| Dorothy takes part in a pizza commercial. At
least she tries to! The girls help Rose to get away from her pills. Rose has been
swallowing pills against pain in the back since over 30 years... |
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| 097 - | Little Sister | (jealousy) |
| Holly, Rose's little sister, visits her. Rose
can't stand Holly but Dorothy and Blanche do so which annoys Rose. Gary Tucker, Blanche's
latest lover, also tries to initiate with Rose. |
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| 098 - | Sophia's Choice | (hijacking) |
| Sophia abducts her friend Lilian out of the
Home. In the meantime Blanche is being plagued by her tits... |
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| 099 - | Rites of Spring [Break In] | (diet) |
| The girls seriously want to go on a diet. |
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| 100 - | Foreign Exchange | (confusions) |
| Sophia's friends arrive from Sicily, claiming
that because of a mix-up at a hospital, their real girl would be Dorothy... |
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| 101 - | We're Outta Here (1) | (potpourri) |
| Another potpourri! Blanche wonders whether to
sell her house or not. |
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| 102 - | We're Outta Here (2) | (potpourri) |
| The offer to buy the house is being withdrawn. |
(5th Season with 26 episodes)
(Aired: Sep 23, 1989 - May 5, 1990)
| 103 - | Sick and Tired (1) | (strange illness) |
| Dorothy suffers a frightening state. She even
gives up her job. Dr. Stevens, a specialist in the neurological field advises her of
meeting men more often... He thinks Dorothy would simply suffer a psychological problem. |
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| 104 - | Sick and Tired (2) | (strange illness) |
| (Annotation: this illness is called CF[ID]S =
Chronic Fatigue [and Immune Dysfunction] Syndrome. 12th of May is
"International CFS-Day") |
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| 105 - | The Accurate Conception | (artifical insemination) |
| Blanche's daughter Rebecca wants to have a
baby - by artifical fertilisation! When Blanche finds out, she wants to die. |
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| 106 - | Rose Fights Back | (impoverishment) |
| When her husband's pension fund is cancelled
because of a corporate bankruptcy, Rose is unable to find a job. She starts to fight
against age discrimination while Sophia brings along many useless discount articles from a
local department store. |
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| 107 - | Love Under The Big Top | (career reorientation) |
| Laywer or Clown, that's the final question!
Rose wants to save the "Dolphin" light tower. |
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| 108 - | Dancing In The Dark | (rendez-vous) |
| Rose gets to know Miles at a dance bar. |
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| 109 - | Not Another Monday | (suicide) |
| Martha plans suiciding. She pleads Sophia to
assist her. |
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| 110 - | That Old Feeling | (similarities) |
| Blanche falls in love with her brother-in-law
Jamie, who reminds her of her died husband. (Annotation: "Jamie" and
"George Devereaux" are played by the same actor.) |
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| 111 - | Comedy of Errors | (talent show) |
| Dorothy on stage: she wants to perform as a
comedian artist. The audience boos at Dorothy till she starts talking about her life with
the girls. |
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| 112 - | Mr. Lucky (All That Jazz) | (free spirits) |
| Dorothy's 30-year-old son Michael wants to be
a "free spirit". She finds means and ways to stop that. |
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| 113 - | Separated From Big Daddy (Ebbtide) | (funeral) |
| Blanche can't cope with the sudden death of
"Big Daddy". |
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| 114 - | Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas | (impoverishment) |
| The girls volunteer to serve Christmas dinner
at a soup kitchen. They didn't expect to meet Stan there. |
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| 115- | Mary Had A Little Lamb | (education) |
| Mary is such a blissful child - but she can
be very different as well. Rose knows what to do. |
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| 116 - | Great Expectations Goes Here (Great Expectations) | (irresponsibility) |
| Blanche doesn't want to take responsibility
so she refuses to visit Steven, her new boy-friend, in hospital. He has just suffered a
heart attack. |
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| 117 - | Triple Play | (intrigues) |
| Mile's daughter Caroline wants him to leave
Rose. Fortunately Miles doesn't agree with her. |
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| 118 - | Clinton Avenue Memoirs | (infirmity) |
| Sophia's remembrance gradually decreases. |
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| 119 - | Like The Beep Beep Beep of the Tom Tom (Palpitation) | (pacemaker) |
| Blanche has to wear a pacemaker. |
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| 120 - | An Illegitimate Concern | (illegitimate son) |
| A mysterious young man identifies himself as
the illegitimate son of Blanche's late husband. Sophia wants Dorothy to take part in a
mother-daughter competition. |
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| 121 - | 72 Hours | (AIDS test) |
| Rose has to wait for three days for the
results of her AIDS-Test. (Annotation: 1st of December is World-AIDS-Day) |
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| 122 - | Twice In A Lifetime | (good-will visit) |
| Rose gets very excited. Buzz Mueller, a
former school-friend from St. Olaf, visits her. She did like him very much 40 years ago.
Sophia is fed up and decides to move to another residence. |
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| 123 - | Sisters And Other Strangers | (sisterhood quarrels) |
| Blanche's sister Charmaine writes a
biography. Blanche thinks that her life would be part of the book but she doesn't like the
style of being performed. |
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| 124 - | Cheaters | (fraud) |
| A crook lays down Blanche and Sophia.
Dorothy's new boy-friend misuses her as kind of age provision. |
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| 125 - | The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present | (escort service) |
| Dorothy urgently needs an accompanist for a
wedding. She convinces Blanche to let her select a man out of Blanche's reservist
collection of man. |
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| 126 - | All Bets Off (All Bets Are Off) | (addiction to bets) |
| Dorothy succumbs to her betting passion and
cheats Sophia. Blanche has a rendez-vous with the director of the museum, Donald. It's
getting fairly embarrassing for her... |
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| 127 - | The President's Coming (1) | (potpourri) |
| The President of the United States wants to
visit Blanche's house. Also a remix of former episodes. Blanche receives a bonus from the
museum. She wants to use the money to have her tits extended... |
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| 128 - | The President's Coming (2) | (potpourri) |
| The girls buy condoms at the supermarket. Dorothy waits for president Bush to come. She wants to tell him her radical views. |
(6th Season with 26 episodes)
(Aired: 22-Sep-90 - May 4, 1991)
| 129 - | Blanche Delivers | (birth) |
| Continuation from episode 105. The baby comes
into the world. |
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| 130 - | Once In St. Olaf | (adoption) |
| Rose, who was adopted, coincidencely meets
friar Martin from St. Olaf at hospital. She finds out that he is her real father! Sophia
has to stand an operation because of a break. She's left behind in an elevator by the
hospital staff. |
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| 131 - | If At Last You Do Succeed | (promotion) |
| Stan presents his newest invention: the
"Sporny"! It's a special opener for baked potatoes. |
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| 132 - | Snap Out Of It | (dropout) |
| Dorothy and Sophia get to know Jimmy who has
problems with civilisation for more than 22 years. Blanche doesn't celebrate her birthday. |
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| 133 - | Wham Bam Thank You, Mammy | (family drama) |
| Blanche gets rid of her father's stuff. A
battle flares up because of a musical box which is claimed by Blanche's former maid.
Sophia secretly engages a single agency for Dorothy. |
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| 134 - | Feelings | (blackmail) |
| A priest tries to blackmail Dorothy because
of a football game. Dorothy sends him away without further ado. She receives a dead fish
as a warning briefly after that... Rose thinks that her dentist touched her immorally while she was anaesthetized. |
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| 135 - | Zborn Again | (sex with ex) |
| Dorothy falls in love again with Stan. The
romance ends the same way it did at high school: in the back of Stan's old car. |
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| 136 - | How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sophia? | (belief) |
| Blanche has an accident with Rose's car and a
man gets injured. Sophia's friend Sister Agnes died which causes Sophia to join a convent
as a nun. |
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| 137 - | Mrs. George Devereaux | (resurrection) |
| George Devereaux, who was thought to be dead,
surprises Blanche very vividly after nine years of absence! Meanwhile, Dorothy is made
happy by the two artists Lyle Waggoner and Sonny Bono. |
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| 138 - | Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Before They Die | (love school) |
| St. Olaf citizens suffer from a dryness. All
citizens are told to abstain from sex for having rain again. Rose doesn't tell Miles about
it. Blanche advises Sophia how to catch Tony Delveccio. She wants him to say the words
"I Love You". |
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| 139 - | Stand By Your Man | (handicaped human beings) |
| Blanche gets to know Ted, a handicaped man.
Sophia serves as a chaperon when they meet for dinner. |
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| 140 - | Ebbtides' Revenge | (transvestism) |
| Sophia's son Phil died. She finds him in
women's clothes at the funeral. |
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| 141 - | The Bloom Is Off The Rose | (long-time relationships) |
| Sophia phones a radio show and complains
about her daughter Dorothy. Rose and her friend Miles want to liven up their relationship:
they arrange a parachute jump! |
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| 142 - | Sister of the Bride | (gay marriage) |
| Blanche's brother Clayton visits his sister
and presents her his friend Doug. Meanwhile, Rose is convinced of receiving an annually
awarded brace. |
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| 143 - | Miles To Go | (main authority) |
| Miles reveals his true identity: he's
Nicholas Carbone, a former Chicago mob accountant in the FBI's Witness Relocation Program.
Now that the gangster who pursued him is dead, he wants to go home and take Rose with him.
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| 144 - | Alliance For A Lifetime (There Goes The Bride) (1) | (remarriage) |
| Stan wants Dorothy to marry him again. Thus,
Sophia considers suiciding. Rose is bothered by Myra, the wife of a friend. Blanche mixes
up a cop-like stripper with a real cop. |
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| 145 - | Alliance For A Lifetime (There Goes The Bride) (2) | (potpourri) |
| Blanche searches for a roommate who could
replace Dorothy while Sophia still tries to avoid the marriage. Also contains many
flashbacks. |
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| 146 - | Sophia Is Starting Off (Older And Wiser) | (enjoyment of life) |
| Dorothy again drags her mother to a
retirement home - as a cheerleader. Blanche is selected to take part in a photo-shooting. |
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| 147 - | Melodrama | (reporter's everyday life) |
| Blanche discovers her feelings for Mel
Bushman while Rose tries to be lucky as a TV reporter on a dog show. Her report is being
interrupted by an armed robbery. |
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| 148 - | Even Grandmas Get The Blues | (vanities) |
| Blanche does baby-sitting for her
granddaughter Aurora. She takes the baby along to an audition for a play. Jason assumes
Aurora being Blanche's daughter... |
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| 149 - | The Cheeseman (Witness) | (escape) |
| Miles visits Rose in disguise. A raider,
Rose's new boy-friend, wants to catch him - no matter dead or alive! Blanche longs to becoming a member of "The Daughters From The Traditional South" which is an elitist club of women. (Annotation: see also episode #11 of the Golden Palace) |
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| 150 - | What A Difference A Date Makes | (fatal consequences) |
| Dorothy meets her former dance partner from
school who stood her up at the final school ball. Blanche is on a diet again. |
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| 151 - | Love For Sale | (blackmail) |
| Stan blackmails Dorothy: as soon as she
should give up being in contact with him, Stan would chuck out Dorothy's Uncle Angelo out
of their apartment. (Annotation: see also episode #172) |
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| 152 - | Never Yell "Fire" In A Crowded Retirement Home (1) | (potpourri) |
| Another potpourri of old episodes! A deathbed
confession makes the police accuse Sophia of having put fire in "Shady Pines"
five years ago. Sophia is sent to jail! |
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| 153 - | Never Yell "Fire" In A Crowded Retirement Home (2) | (potpourri) |
| 154 - | Henny Penny-Straight, No Chaser | (theatre) |
| Dorothy's class prepares for the performance of "Henny Penny", a nursury rhyme. When most pupils become ill Dorothy has to recast. The girls take over the parts with Sophia as the narrator, with Rose as Henny Penny, Dorothy plays Turkey Lurkey and Blanche performs as Goosey Loosey. Unfortunately Rose doesn't cope with the end of the story and rewrites it. |
(7th Season with 26 episodes)
(Aired: Sep 21, 1991 - May 9, 1992)
| 155 - | Hey, Look Me Over | (wrong suspicion) |
| Rose discovers an old camera from her
deceased husband Charly. She lets eagerly develop the photos but she doesn't like what she
sees... |
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| 156 - | The Case of the Libertine Belle | (party games) |
| Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia travel to
the "Maltesse Falcon Club". At first, the girls enjoy the party game. They have
to guess who was the murderer. Then, Blanche is charged for murder and therefore she
pleads Dorothy to get her out... |
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| 157 - | Beauty and the Beast | ("child abuse") |
| Blanche makes her granddaughter take part in
a children's contest. Sophia cures in a wheelchair and is cared by the "Angel Of
Death" from "Shady Pines". |
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| 158 - | That's For Me to Know | (bureaucracy) |
| The permission for a swimming-pool strains on
the nerves of the four girls. Nevertheless Dorothy occupies with her ancestry and finds
out that Sophia has obviously been married before the marriage to her father. |
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| 159 - | Where's Charlie? | (extrasensory perception) |
| Rose is absolutely convinced that Charly
wants to get in contact with her. Blanche makes a baseball player wear her underwear... |
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| 160 - | Motherload | (sorrow) |
| Stan wants Dorothy to join a psychiatrist
with him. Blanche, Rose and Sophia are in trouble as well. |
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| 161 - | Dateline: Miami | (memories) |
| Dorothy takes up with a real doctor. Blanche
is jealous. She remembers a newyears eve she spent together with Rose. Sophia remembers the day Dorothy told her of being pregnant. |
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| 162 - | The Monkey Show (1) | (therapy) |
| Stan undergoes a therapy to get rid of the
feelings for Dorothy. Very soon, Stan falls in love again: with a fake monkey! |
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| 163 - | The Monkey Show (2) | (therapy) |
| Dorothy catches Stan in bed with her sister. |
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| 164 - | Ro$e Loves Miles | (age miserliness) |
| Dorothy has gone on a holiday trip and asked
Blanche to look after her mother. However Sophia travels to Sicily. Rose is fed up with
Miles' miserly behaviour. Blanche advices her to cheat on him. |
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| 165 - | Room 7 | (memories) |
| Blanche goes back to her dead father's
plantation before it's teared down. Finally she decides to save the place and handcuffs
herself inside the building. |
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| 166 - | From Here to the Pharmacy | (awkwardness) |
| Blanche is embarrassed by a returning soldier
from the Gulf War. She can't even remember him. |
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| 167 - | The Pope's Ring | (church) |
| Sophia finds a holy ring. It belongs to the
pope. She refuses to give it back and proposes a deal instead... |
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| 168 - | Old Boyfriends | (the first time) |
| An old friend from Saint Olaf visits Rose.
Sophia's new boy-friend insists that his sister accompanies them whereever they are. When
Sophia complaints she finds out that the sister is actually his wife. The woman was told
to die soon and for this reason wants to go for sure that her husband will have a new wife
to take care of him. |
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| 169 - | Good-bye, Mr. Gordon | (female homosexuality) |
| Dorothy gets visit by her old class teacher,
Mr. Gordon. Rose arranges an interview with her local TV station. She wants Blanche and
Dorothy to complain in the "Wake-Up Miami" show about the difficulties of living
together... |
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| 170 - | The Commitments (Old Commitments) | (ageing process) |
| A man sends Blanche packing. She doesn't get
over it. |
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| 171 - | Questions and Answers | (fatal eagerness) |
| Dorothy prepares very eagerly for her
appearance at "Jeopardy!". It's her favorite TV show. |
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| 172 - | Ebbtide IV: The Wrath of Stan | (unscrupulous landlords) |
| Dorothy and Stan own an infected apartment.
Thanks to Rose the TV news get wind of it. (Annotation: see also episode #151) |
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| 173 - | Journey to the Center of Attention | (jealousy) |
| Blanche takes Dorothy to her favorite bar
"Rusty Anker" to cheer her up. Unfortunately, this time it's Dorothy who becomes
the center of attention. |
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| 174 - | A Midwinter Night's Dream (1) | (superstition) |
| The girls celebrate a full moon night's party
in a leap year. Sophia has to turn away a curse from Dorothy. Therefore she has to perform
three strange tasks. |
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| 175 - | A Midwinter Night's Dream (2) | (engagement) |
| Rose and Miles pronounce their engagement at
the party. |
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| 176 - | Rose: Portrait of a Woman | (awkwardness) |
| Rose has a very special gift for Mile's
birthday - a nude portrait. Unfortunately does Miles unwrap the photograph in front of all
his pals. |
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| 177 - | Home Again Rose (1) | (heart attack) |
| Rose suffers a heart attack at a fake high
school reunion. Blanche feels guilty and makes an agreement with God: In case Rose
survives, she wants to give up her "sinful" life. |
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| 178 - | Home Again Rose (2) | (potpourri) |
| The girls are shocked because Rose's recovery
is getting worse again. She has to be operated. Distressed, they sit in the waiting room
and remember funny times they shared altogether. |
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| 179 - | One Flew Out Of The Cuckoo's Nest (1) | (engagement) |
| Dorothy is out to dinner with Blanche's Uncle
Lucas. Back home they announce their fake engagement. Blanche is enraged but finally she
agrees. In the meantime Dorothy has fallen in love with Lucas and decides to marry him for
real. |
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| 180 - | One Flew Out Of The Cuckoo's Nest (2) | (wedding) |
| Last episode because Bea Arthur "Dorothy" left the Golden Girls in reality. "Blanche, Rose and Sophia" continue in the follow-up series called Golden Palace where Dorothy appears twice as a guest but only lasted one season on CBS before it was canceled for good. |