The Golden Girls (1985)

Comedy · Drama

Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.

IMDb rating: 8.2 (52,891 votes)
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Hulu · Philo
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1985)

7.70 avg 25 episodes 8.0 → 8.6 29 min avg

Big finale
Rebound
Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Engagement	8.0	1,405
2	Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?	7.7	1,107
3	Rose the Prude	7.5	1,002
4	Transplant	7.6	947
5	The Triangle	7.8	934
6	On Golden Girls	7.2	936
7	The Competition	8.0	919
8	Break In	8.0	924
9	Blanche and the Younger Man	7.7	872
10	The Heart Attack	7.8	838
11	Stan's Return	7.4	770
12	The Custody Battle	7.5	774
13	A Little Romance	8.3	944
14	That Was No Lady	7.2	779
15	In a Bed of Rose's	8.2	850
16	The Truth Will Out	7.1	781
17	Nice and Easy	7.4	784
18	The Operation	8.0	793
19	Second Motherhood	7.5	715
20	Adult Education	7.6	719
21	Flu Attack	8.3	820
22	Job Hunting	7.6	734
23	Blind Ambitions	7.4	737
24	Big Daddy	7.2	722
25	The Way We Met	8.6	849

Season 2 (1986)

7.63 avg 26 episodes 8.0 → 3.6 30 min avg

Bad finale
Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	End of the Curse	8.0	754
2	Ladies of the Evening	8.7	905
3	Take Him, He's Mine	7.5	696
4	It's a Miserable Life	8.5	873
5	Isn't It Romantic?	8.8	1,042
6	Big Daddy's Little Lady	7.6	716
7	Family Affair	7.1	683
8	Vacation	7.5	749
9	Joust Between Friends	7.7	660
10	Love, Rose	7.5	644
11	'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas	7.7	735
12	The Sisters	8.0	690
13	The Stan Who Came to Dinner	7.3	605
14	The Actor	8.2	747
15	Before and After	7.2	612
16	And Then There Was One	7.5	618
17	Bedtime Story	7.7	635
18	Forgive Me, Father	8.0	667
19	Long Day's Journey Into Marinara	8.1	670
20	Whose Face Is This, Anyway?	7.4	592
21	Dorothy's Prized Pupil	7.2	638
22	Diamond in the Rough	7.8	637
23	Son-in-Law Dearest	7.2	605
24	To Catch a Neighbor	8.4	802
25	A Piece of Cake	8.1	715
26	Empty Nests	3.6	1,110

Season 3 (1987)

7.55 avg 25 episodes 9.0 → 8.2 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Old Friends	9.0	1,024
2	One for the Money	8.1	683
3	Bringing Up Baby	7.6	623
4	The Housekeeper	7.4	620
5	Nothing to Fear, But Fear Itself	7.8	601
6	Letter to Gorbachev	7.2	611
7	Strange Bedfellows	7.3	582
8	Brotherly Love	7.6	592
9	A Visit from Little Sven	7.5	601
10	The Audit	7.4	570
11	Three on a Couch	7.8	588
12	Charlie's Buddy	7.2	566
13	The Artist	8.1	655
14	Blanche's Little Girl	7.1	716
15	Dorothy's New Friend	8.0	658
16	Grab That Dough	7.7	645
17	My Brother, My Father	8.2	644
18	Golden Moments: Part 1	6.7	510
19	Golden Moments: Part 2	6.7	502
20	And Ma Makes Three	7.3	524
21	Larceny and Old Lace	7.5	552
22	Rose's Big Adventure	7.2	517
23	Mixed Blessings	8.0	647
24	Mister Terrific	6.2	604
25	Mother's Day	8.2	620

Season 4 (1988)

7.60 avg 26 episodes 8.0 → 6.5 30 min avg

Bad finale
Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Yes, We Have No Havanas	8.0	607
2	The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo	8.0	657
3	The One That Got Away	7.5	548
4	Yokel Hero	7.8	570
5	Bang the Drum, Stanley	7.4	502
6	Sophia's Wedding: Part 1	7.8	616
7	Sophia's Wedding: Part 2	7.5	549
8	Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket?	7.9	727
9	Scared Straight	8.4	672
10	Stan Takes a Wife	7.7	532
11	The Auction	7.8	538
12	Blind Date	7.6	530
13	The Impotence of Being Ernest	7.3	510
14	Love Me Tender	7.8	565
15	Valentine's Day	8.3	576
16	Two Rode Together	7.3	509
17	You Gotta Have Hope	7.3	546
18	Fiddler on the Ropes	6.6	523
19	Till Death Do We Volley	8.0	589
20	High Anxiety	7.8	551
21	Little Sister	7.4	513
22	Sophia's Choice	7.7	523
23	Rites of Spring	7.8	540
24	Foreign Exchange	7.9	545
25	We're Outta Here: Part 1	6.6	471
26	We're Outta Here: Part 2	6.5	460

Season 5 (1989)

7.55 avg 26 episodes 8.0 → 6.2 30 min avg

Bad finale

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Sick and Tired: Part 1	8.0	595
2	Sick and Tired: Part 2	8.3	667
3	The Accurate Conception	7.8	547
4	Rose Fights Back	7.4	493
5	Love Under the Big Top	7.4	546
6	Dancing in the Dark	7.5	494
7	Not Another Monday	8.3	600
8	That Old Feeling	7.5	475
9	Comedy of Errors	7.5	468
10	All That Jazz	7.0	476
11	Ebb Tide	7.8	488
12	Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas	7.5	514
13	Mary Has a Little Lamb	7.2	517
14	Great Expectations	7.4	455
15	Triple Play	7.9	505
16	Clinton Avenue Memoirs	7.8	490
17	Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom Tom	7.9	486
18	An Illegitimate Concern	8.3	535
19	72 Hours	8.1	531
20	Twice in a Lifetime	7.3	460
21	Sisters and Other Strangers	7.8	515
22	Cheaters	7.2	462
23	The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present	7.5	465
24	All Bets Are Off	7.4	439
25	The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 1	6.2	456
26	The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 2	6.2	459

Season 6 (1990)

7.67 avg 26 episodes 7.5 → 7.8 29 min avg

Rebound
Rollercoaster
Mid-peak

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Blanche Delivers	7.5	501
2	Once in St. Olaf	7.7	506
3	If at Last You Do Succeed	7.6	437
4	Snap Out of It	7.4	469
5	Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy	7.7	487
6	Feelings	7.6	499
7	Zborn Again	7.6	456
8	How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?	7.7	472
9	Mrs. George Devereaux	8.5	685
10	Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die	8.0	488
11	Stand by Your Man	7.5	465
12	Ebbtide's Revenge	8.3	597
13	The Bloom Is Off the Rose	7.5	450
14	Sister of the Bride	8.7	647
15	Miles to Go	7.5	463
16	There Goes the Bride: Part 1	8.0	494
17	There Goes the Bride: Part 2	8.1	483
18	Older and Wiser	7.5	443
19	Melodrama	7.5	449
20	Even Grandmas Get the Blues	7.4	450
21	Witness	7.6	474
22	What a Difference a Date Makes	8.3	518
23	Love for Sale	7.6	434
24	Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home: Part 1	6.4	450
25	Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home: Part 2	6.5	434
26	Henny Penny - Straight, No Chaser	7.8	523