The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an American television series about four women together in the same House at age one and living in Miami. The series was from september 14, 1985 to7 september 1992 broadcast by NBC. In Netherlands, the series was broadcast from 1986 at the VARA. NBC Executive Boris Tartikoff did the idea for the series on when he joined his older aunt was visiting. The neighbor was her best friend and although the two disputed about it the entire time they were best friends and they held each other.Tartikoff thought this would be a good comedy and The Golden Girls were born. The series is considered the forerunner of seen Sex and the City . [source? ] Since March 2013 is repeated by Comedy Central Family.



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[hide] *1 Cast  ==Cast[ Edit] == ==Characters[ Edit] == Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak-grew up in Brooklyn (New York), where she was born in 1929. She was raised by her mother Sophia Petrillo and her father Salvador Petrillo, immigrants from Italy. Her mother calls her often affectionately known as ' pussycat '. Dorothy has a younger brother, Phil (he died later in the series), and a younger sister, Gloria. After Dorothy moved to Miami in her secondary years, she continued to work as a teacher of RAID.
 * 2 Characters
 * 3 Music
 * 4 DVD and repeats
 * 5 Trivia
 * 6 Episodes
 * Beatrice Arthur (1922-2009) as Dorothy Zbornak
 * Betty White (b. 1922) as Rose Nylund
 * Rue McClanahan (1934-2010) as Blanche Devereaux
 * Estelle Getty (1923-2008) as Sophia Petrillo
 * Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak-

In high school made Stanley Zbornak Dorothy pregnant, hence the two were married. Stan and Dorothy were married for 38 years, but Stan went often strange and ultimately for a flight attendant named Chrissy dumped Dorothy. Dorothy has two children: Michael and Kate. She has one grandchild named Robbie (the son of Michael and his wife Lorraine). In the series mentioned Robbie comes hardly.

Although Dorothy and Stan were separated, came Stan still regularly pass in the series. Usually he sought support to Dorothy whenever something went wrong in his life. He saw Dorothy as a warm, reliable female, despite the fact that he himself had made an end to their marriage. Dorothy came from this separation as a strong, independent woman. Stan was just more dependent on and more childlike. In the later seasons, the two made to closely again and again even wedding plans. Dorothy wanted to marry not at the last minute with Stan, because Stan wanted that Dorothy would marry on prenuptial agreements.

In the last episode of the series, marries Dorothy with the uncle of Blanche, Lucas Hollingsworth. Her name was then so Dorothy Zbornak-Hollingsworth. Stan was sad because he saw that Dorothy continued with her life and that without him, but he wished her a happy marriage. She was played by Beatrice Arthur.

Blanche Devereaux-Hollingsworth was a Zuidse clean. She grew up on a plantation, just outside of Atlanta (United States). Blanche was always the Apple of her father (Big Daddy), even though they tried often enough to this not to be. Blanche had a love-hate relationship with her sisters Charmaine and Virginia. They had it too difficult with the coming out of her brother Clayton and with the mental illness of her other brother, Tad.
 * Blanche Devereaux-Hollingsworth

The House on Richmond Street was at the beginning of the series of Blanche. They lived there for many years with her husband George. Later in the series she sold parts of the House to Dorothy and Rose. Blanche and George had six children; two daughters, Rebecca and Janet, and four sons, Matthew, Biff, Doug, and Skippy.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Later in the series, Blanche found out that George had another son, David. This kid came through at Blanche to his father George that he had never seen. By this incident came to light that George during his marriage with Blanche was cheating. Blanche had it here very difficult.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Blanche was a decent men's Devourer. She had therefore most worshipers. At the kitchen table told Blanche like her stories about her numerous dates with men, sometimes to boredom of Dorothy, Rose and Sophia.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Blanche was very vain and she did always younger than she really was. Her real age was never mentioned, but in season 3, Episode 25 ("Mothers Day"), the viewer came out that Blanche was 17 in 1949. That meant that she was at the beginning of the series 53 and 60 at the end.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Blanche can be difficult with both of her sisters Virginia and Charmaine find. At first she had trouble getting her to donate kidney to her for surgery and at the last she got is marked by extreme hassle when she made her suspicious of writing a love novel that would be based on her adventures. With her brother Clayton could they better hurry, though she had trouble accepting his homosexual nature, especially when it built with a police officer Doug. She loves her father very Curtis Hollingsworth, nicknamed Big Daddy, who after the death of her mother married a much younger wife where they had to nothing. Also her mother Elisabeth came into focus during a terugflits over her last Christmas with her mother in a retirement home. She also had a governess, the black Viola Watkins, who opbiechtte her to have had a love affair with her father.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Blanche worked in an art museum. Her boss, Mr. Allen, was very friendly, but he went strange with the wife of his best friend. Dorothy also worked for a while in the museum where Blanche worked. She also has a lat relationship with Mel Bushman, until it, mourning following a false ad about Blanche, decided to return to his ex-wife. She was played by Rue McClanahan.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sophia Spirelli Petrillo-is the oldest. She is the mother of Dorothy Zbornak and she was born and raised in Sicily. In addition to that they can come from the corner sharply sarcastic and often, she is also very cunning and she steals money from her daughter Dorothy. In the first episode she came in the House of Blanche Shady Pines retirement home because it is burned down. Since then she lives with her three girlfriends. She has a brother named Angelo and a sister named Angela. With her sister she has a love hate relationship. The first time because she believes that everyone in her village on Angela to Sicily had been told that she was molested by Salvatore (not her husband). The second time because she believes that they want to take away her boyfriend Tony had her. She is played by Estelle Getty.
 * Sophia Spirelli Petrillo-

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Rose Nylund-Lindstrom is a blonde from a Norwegian community in Minnesota. Often makes them her friends crazy with her stupidity or with her stories about St. Olaf (the village where they came from). Also her Norwegian pronunciations are funny to hear the dessert, for example "Genurkenflurken". She was portrayed by Betty White.
 * Rose Nylund-Lindstrom

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Stan Zbornak is the ex-husband of Dorothy Zbornak. He has made pregnant Dorothy somewhere in the 1940s and was therefore forced to marry her. The wedding has thirty-eight years lasted until he chose to be with a young stewardess Chrissy to proceed. Stan is a great failure with big plans, but a lot of bad luck. He always tries to lend money to others. Previously, he was a commercial agent in trinkets, but there he is stopped. Stan married later in the series with one Catherine, but also that went bad. Somewhere in season 7, he inherited the apartment of his uncle Morris. He only got great success when he invented the potato opener where he patented to early. But he also got problems when it became apparent that the apartment did not meet the requirements of his uncle and the uncle of Dorothy, Angelo Spirelli, indicted him. He was played by Herbert Edelman.
 * Stanley "Stan" Zbornak

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Rose Nylund met Miles Weber as a learned professor. First thought they don't fit with him because of her illiteracy, but later reconciled with him anyway, she has. Later, Rose still problems with the daughter of Miles that found that her father not yet is ready for a relationship with another woman. Miles Weber also known that he is actually no professor is and also not Miles Weber hot. His real name is Nicholas Carbone and he was an accountant employed by the infamous top criminal the kaasboer (English: The Cheeseman). He had to against the kaasboer witnesses. But by a flaw came the kaasboer smoking and had to get a new identity Carbone.Later had to get a new identity because the Miles kaasboer behind his false identity has come. He was an Amish and now Samuel was called Planckmaeker. Miles returns to Rose who made it to the one that has been established with Carl kaasboer turns out to be. Carl is nabbed and Miles and Rose could again join forces. Miles has also once Dorothy mistakenly kissing making them nothing to Rose dare to say, but which summed up the kiss very sporty on. He was played by Harold Gould.
 * Miles Weber, aka Nicholas Carbone

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Angelo Spirelli is the brother of Sophia and the uncle of Dorothy. He was also one of the three witnesses that the priest their wedding in Sicily. That is why Sophia that Stan and Dorothy just wanted did as if they still were married. But later bekendde Angelo that he is not a priest because he is on the way to the seminar met the woman of his life and chose to marry her. Not to disappoint his family, he has just done fifty years as if he was a priest. In the later seasons, Dorothy and Sophia Angelo Spirelli comes in because he has all his money and possessions to team to the whims of a young woman needs. He could withdraw in Stan's apartment.Later, he, along with Rose Nylund who had gotten a job as a reporter, both Stan and Dorothy nailed to the pillory publicly when it appeared that the apartment of Stan did not meet the requirements. He was played byBill Dana. ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Leader "Thank You For Being A Friend" is sung by Cynthia Fee. The song was originally written and sung by Andrew Gold, and stood on his album All This and Heaven Too from 1978. The number is only later reused for the television series. ==DVD and repeats<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the United States, the series still repeated, in Netherlands are the episodes released on dvd. The episodes are shown on the full, there are no scenes cut out like that on television often is the case. Only the first three seasons are available in Netherlands (unlike for example neighbour Germany where more seasons are released), if and when the later seasons come out in Netherlands is not known.
 * Angelo Spirelli

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Dutch (gay) lifestyle channel OUTTV broadcasts the series regularly. Since February 2013 is to see the series on Comedy Central Family daily. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Beatrice Arthur plays the daughter of Estelle Getty, but was in fact older than she.
 * The series Empty Nest is a spin-off of the series, just like the series Nurses .
 * After the end of the series, it was succeeded by The Golden Palace, in which Rose, Blanche and Sophia sell their home and put together a hotel.
 * The series was imitated in "the TV Cafeteria", a program of RTL 4 in which Irene Moors (Dorothy), Viola Holt (Blanche), Willeke Alberti (Sophia) and Loretta Writer (Rose) the ladies play.
 * In 2012-2013, made a Dutch version of this series starring: Loes Luca, Beppie Melissen, Cecile Heuer and Pleuni Touw
 * See: list of episodes of The Golden Girls