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The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls
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Genre Sitcom
Created by Susan Harris
Starring Beatrice Arthur
Betty White
Rue McClanahan
Estelle Getty
Theme music composer Andrew Gold
Opening theme "Thank You for Being a Friend" by Cynthia Fee
Ending theme "Thank You for Being a Friend" Instrumental
Composer(s) George Tipton
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 7
No. of episodes 180 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Susan Harris
Paul Junger Witt
Tony Thomas
Camera setup Videotape
Multi-camera
Running time 22–24 minutes
Production company(s) Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions
Touchstone Television
Distributor Buena Vista Television
Release
Original network NBC
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Original release September 14, 1985 (1985-09-14) – May 9, 1992 (1992-05-09)
Chronology
Followed by The Golden Palace
Related shows Empty Nest
Nurses

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning over seven seasons. The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, as four older women who share a home in Miami, Florida. It was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers.

The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run and won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series twice. It also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Each of the four stars received an Emmy Award (from multiple nominations during the series' run), making it one of only three sitcoms in the award's history to achieve this. The series also ranked among the top ten highest-rated programs for six out of its seven seasons. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Golden Girls number 54 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. In 2014, the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 69 in their list of the "101 Best Written TV Series of All Time".

The series revolves around four older, single women (three widows and one divorcée) sharing a house in Miami, Florida. The owner of the house is a widow named Blanche Devereaux (McClanahan), who was joined by fellow widow Rose Nylund (White) and divorcée Dorothy Zbornak (Arthur) after they both responded to a room-for-rent ad on the bulletin board of a local grocery store a year prior to the start of the series. In the pilot episode, the three were joined by Dorothy's 80-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo (Getty), after the retirement home where she lived burned down.


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