Making its debut in the fall of 1985, The Golden Girls quickly established itself as a fixture of Saturday night prime time television. Following the lives of four older women living together as roommates in Miami, the show displayed a raw wit and a biting humor. The women live in the house of Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), a Southern belle who loves men of every kind and has dated every eligible bachelor in the Miami area. Her roommates are former high school teacher Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur) and St. Olaff housewife and widower Rose Nylund (Betty White). Rose loves to tell stories about her former hometown, much to the chagrin of the other girls. The three are joined by Dorothy's mother, firebrand Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty), a spunky Italian immigrant who always speaks her mind. In her early-eighties, Sophia may walk at a measured pace, but the velocity of her sarcasm only increases with age.
The Golden Girls (Season 5) DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere "Sick and Tired” in which Dorothy is wrought with frustration when numerous doctors diagnose her constant fatigue and lethargy as "nothing”... Other notable episodes include "Dancing in the Dark” in which Rose feels out of place among her boyfriend's intellectual college professor friends, and "Clinton Avenue Memoirs” in which, distraught over Sophia's increasing forgetfulness, Dorothy takes her mother back to their old apartment in Brooklyn in an attempt to spark her memory…
Below is a list of episodes included on The Golden Girls (Season 5) DVD:
Episode 103 (Sick and Tired: Part 1) Air Date: 09-23-1989 Episode 104 (Sick and Tired: Part 2) Air Date: 09-30-1989 Episode 105 (The Accurate Conception) Air Date: 10-14-1989 Episode 106 (Rose Fights Back) Air Date: 10-21-1989 Episode 107 (Love Under the Big Top) Air Date: 1
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