The Golden Girls (Season 5) DVD Review
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: 10-28-1989
Episode 108 (Dancing in the Dark) Air Date: 11-04-1989
Episode 109 (Not Another Monday) Air Date: 11-11-1989
Episode 110 (That Old Feeling) Air Date: 11-18-1989
Episode 111 (Comedy of Errors) Air Date: 11-25-1989
Episode 112 (All That Jazz) Air Date: 12-02-1989
Episode 113 (Ebb Tide) Air Date: 12-09-1989
Episode 114 (Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas) Air Date: 12-16-1989
Episode 115 (Mary Has a Little Lamb) Air Date: 01-06-1990
Episode 116 (Great Expectations) Air Date: 01-13-1990
Episode 117 (Triple Play) Air Date: 01-27-1990
Episode 118 (Clinton Avenue Memoirs) Air Date: 02-03-1990
Episode 119 (Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom) Air Date: 02-10-1990
Episode 120 (An Illegitimate Concern) Air Date: 02-12-1990
Episode 121 (72 Hours) Air Date: 02-17-1990
Episode 122 (Twice in a Lifetime) Air Date: 02-24-1990
Episode 123 (Sisters and Other Strangers) Air Date: 03-03-1990
Episode 124 (Cheaters) Air Date: 03-24-1990
Episode 125 (The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present) Air Date: 03-31-1990
Episode 126 (All Bets Are Off) Air Date: 04-28-1990
Episode 127 (The President’s Coming! The President’s Coming!: Part 1) Air Date: 05-05-1990
Episode 128 (The President’s Coming! The President’s Coming!: Part 2) Air Date: 05-05-1990
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