The undeniable chemistry between the series’s central figures, as well as their stellar comic timing, add to the sitcom’s ageless allure. Today, The Golden Girls is finding new life in syndication, and on Hulu, where viewers of all ages - including those that were not even born when the show went off the air in 1992 - binge on the series, which tackles still timely topics like racism, women’s rights, domestic assault, and medical ethics. Over the course of its seven seasons, it broke barriers in storytelling, winning 11 Primetime Emmy Awards and 68 nominations. At times fearlessly challenging, The Golden Girls, created by veteran TV writer Susan Harris, was not your grandma’s sitcom. Starring Bea Arthur as world-weary Dorothy Zbornak, Estelle Getty as her sharp-tongued mother Sophia Petrillo, Rue McClanahan as Southern belle Blanche Devereaux, and Betty White as wide-eyed Rose Nylund, this show about Miami Beach housemates presented a refreshing, hilarious slice-of-life look at the joys and antics of women over 50 - with a side of cheesecake. ACCORDING TO entertainment writer Jim Colucci, it was immediately evident to all on the night of April 17, 1985, at the taping of The Golden Girls ’s pilot episode, that a potential classic - and certainly a sitcom with long-term potential - was being born.
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