The Golden Girls - The Complete First Season [DVD] [1985]

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Product Description ------------------- All 25 episodes from the first season of the popular television series. Beatrice Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White and Estelle Getty star as elderly roommates on a mission to prove life really does begin at 65. In the first season, the women have romantic prospects that turn out to be more challenging than they originally seemed. Episodes comprise: 'The Engagement', 'Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?', 'Rose the Prude', 'Trans', 'The Triangle', 'On Golden Girls', 'The Competition', 'Break-In', 'Blanche and the Younger Man', 'Heart Attack', 'The Return of Dorothy's Ex', 'The Custody Battle', 'A Little Romance', 'That Was No Lady', 'In a Bed of Rose's', 'The Truth Will Out', 'Nice and Easy', 'The Operation', 'Second Motherhood', 'Adult Education', 'Flu Attack', 'Job Hunting', 'Blind Ambitions', 'Big Daddy' and 'The Way We Met'. .co.uk Review ------------- Launched during the neon-lit 1980s, The Golden Girls shed light on a side of Miami ignored by Miami Vice. In other words, no drugs, no murder--just four women of "a certain age," spending their golden years in the sun. Like the theme, "Thank You for Being a Friend," the long-running sitcom was about friendship (not crime). As for the "girls," they were tart-tongued Dorothy, former farm girl Rose, Southern belle Blanche, and Dorothy's salty Sicilian mother Sophia. All were widows, with the exception of the divorced Dorothy. Created by Emmy-winning producer Susan Harris, The Golden Girls re-ignited the careers of 1970s TV veterans Arthur and White. At the same time, it made stars of McClanahan, by playing a comic version of A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche Dubois, and the scene-stealing Getty, made to look older than her actual age (she and Arthur were born the same year). The Golden Girls ran for seven seasons and spawned spin-off The Golden Palace (without Arthur) and a British version called The Brighton Belles. By the end of its run in 1992, it had garnered numerous awards, including two Emmys for best comedy series. In addition, each of the four actresses received a well-deserved Emmy for her efforts. --Kathleen C. Fennessy, .com