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Release year: 1992

Storyline

In this spin-off series of The Golden Girls, Dorothy Zbornak remarries and moves away, so her mother Sophia and their roommates Blanche Devereaux and Rose Nyland open a hotel called The Golden Palace.

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Cast

Betty White — Rose Nylund
Rue McClanahan — Blanche Devereaux
Estelle Getty — Sophia Petrillo
Don Cheadle — Roland Wilson

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Did you know

• The production team were so desperate for Bea Arthur to return for the second and third seasons, that they offered to cut down the episode number, and work around her schedule. Arthur declined the offer several times. Had Arthur returned, the second season would have seen the girls return to their Miami house, and The Golden Girls (1985) would have resumed.

• Syndication of the series is handled by Disney/ABC Domestic Television. Although the series has never been syndicated as a stand-alone series, Lifetime, during the time it owned the rights to The Golden Girls, carried The Golden Palace on several occasions, running the series in rotation as a de facto eighth season of The Golden Girls. The current rights holders to The Golden Girls have, to date, not picked up The Golden Palace. The series did, however, start streaming on Hulu January 10, 2022.

• Susan Harris, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas all pitched their Golden Girls successor series to NBC in early 1992, as a way to continue the saga of Blanche, Rose, and Sophia after Bea Arthur's departure from the role of Dorothy. NBC entertainment chief Warren Littlefield originally committed to airing The Golden Palace, with a 13 episode order for the 1992 to 93 season. However, CBS soon entered the picture and fueled a bidding war for the new series, offering a full season (24 episode) order. Witt, Thomas, and Harris tried to get Littlefield to improve his NBC deal, but he refused to extend his episode order, citing that the declining ratings of The Golden Girls in its seventh season made it risky to give the spin-off a longer commitment. The producers thus went with CBS, which agreed to market The Golden Palace as a show with its own voice separate from that of its parent show.