Golden Girls
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Golden Girls |
| Original title | The Golden Girls |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1985-1992 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 180 in 7 seasons |
| genre | Sitcom |
| Theme music | Cynthia Fee - Thank You For Being a Friend (Text: Andrew Gold ) |
| idea | Susan Harris |
| music | George Aliceson Tipton , Andrew Gold |
| First broadcast | September 14, 1985 (USA) on NBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 26, 1990 on Das Erste |
| occupation | |
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Golden Girls is an American sitcom , consisting of seven seasons with a total of 180 episodes, which was filmed from 1985 to 1992 and first broadcast in Germany from 1990 to 1994.
In the television series, many serious, socially critical topics, including taboo topics, were addressed with humor and ease - for example Alzheimer's , homosexuality , discrimination , social isolation , euthanasia , old-age poverty or AIDS .
action
The series revolves around four elderly ladies in a shared apartment in a house in Miami in the US state of Florida to spend their twilight years together while encountering all sorts of everyday problems. The four ladies are the man-obsessed southern woman Blanche Devereaux ( Rue McClanahan ), the good-natured but naive widow Rose Nylund ( Betty White ) from (the fictional) Sankt Olaf, Minnesota , the always sarcastic Dorothy Zbornak ( Beatrice Arthur ) from Brooklyn and her feisty mother Sophia Petrillo ( Estelle Getty ), a Sicilian by birth , who always treats her roommates with irony , cynicism and life experience.
Episodes
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The television series consists of 180 episodes, each about 25 minutes in length. They premiered in seven seasons. Seasons 1 and 3 each consist of 25 episodes, the remaining seasons each consist of 26 episodes. When it was first broadcast in German-speaking countries, the original sequence of the episodes was sometimes very different.
characters
Leading roles
Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux
Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux (nee Hollingsworth ) grew up on a plantation in Atlanta , Georgia , in the southern United States . Despite four other siblings, she was considered his favorite until the death of her father ("Big Daddy"). As a result, she always harbored a kind of love-hate relationship with her two sisters Charmaine ( Barbara Babcock ) and Virginia ( Sheree North ); Blanche also lived with mixed feelings about her homosexual brother Clayton ( Monte Markham ) and her mentally disabled brother Tad ( Ned Beatty , in the follow-up series Golden Palace ) .
As the original owner of what would later become a shared apartment, Blanche had lived in 6151 Richmond Street with her husband George for several years before his death . The couple had five children: two daughters, Rebecca and Janet , and three (or four?) Sons, including the accountant Matthew . Her other sons - Biff , Doug and Skippy - only appeared by name on the series (whether it was a mistake, or whether one of the names Biff , Doug or Skippy refers to Matthew , remains unclear until the series ends). There were also four grandchildren David , Sarah , Melissa and Aurora .
In the course of the series, Blanche flirted more and more with her image of the vain, man-obsessed southern woman. Despite countless rendezvous, however, she does not manage to tie one of her affairs to herself in the long term. Blanche wanted to have her age frozen in her forties. Her real age is not revealed, it has even been removed from her birth certificate (however, in the episode "Mother's Day", her mother remembers an incident in which Blanche was 16 years old in 1949, so the year of birth is 1933). As she goes into menopause , a world collapses for Blanche because she now feels older. But since this doesn't reduce her attractiveness to men, she gets over it.
In one of the last episodes of the third season, Blanche reveals that she actually had most of the affairs she told her friends about, but often refined them afterwards during the portrayal to make them appear more interesting than they really were .
Rose Nylund
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Rose Nylund (nee Lindstrøm ) grew up as one of Alma and Gunter Lindstrom's nine children on a farm in Sankt Olaf, Minnesota, and learned late that she was originally the result of a brief affair between a monk and his lover (she was while Roses Birth died). Nevertheless, she experienced a happy childhood under the protection of her adoptive family of Norwegian descent, including the blind sister Lily ( Polly Holliday ) and the jealous Holly ( Inga Swenson ).
Until his unexpected cardiac death in 1970, Rose was happily married to the (rather unsuccessful) insurance agent Charlie Nylund for many years . The marriage produced five children: three daughters ( Kirsten , Bridget and Gunilla ) and two sons ( Adam and Charlie Jr. ). Several grandchildren followed over the years, including the girls Charlie and Charlene named after their grandfather .
After moving to Miami in the early 1980s, Rose initially worked as a clerk in a counseling center; later she was forced to work as an assistant for local television due to financial difficulties. In addition, Rose occasionally works as a volunteer in the hospital.
Rose is a very honest and animal-loving person, but she brings her roommates to white heat more than once with her naivety that sometimes borders on stupid. She takes many of Dorothy's sarcastic remarks literally. She looks like the typical innocence of the country, which repeatedly tells bizarre stories from her hometown St. Olaf and thus robs her flatmates the last nerve.
Dorothy Zbornak
Dorothy Zbornak (née Petrillo , through her marriage to Lucas Hollingsworth in the final of the Golden Girls Zbornak Hollingsworth ) was born in Brooklyn , New York, as the eldest child of two Sicilian immigrants, Salvatore and Sophia Petrillo . Dorothy has a sister Gloria and a brother Phil .
Dorothy was married to Stanley "Stan" Zbornak for 38 years . They have two children together, Kate Zbornak and Michael Zbornak ( Scott Jacoby ). After divorcing her husband Stan , Dorothy , who occasionally served as a substitute for American history and English , joined Blanche and Rose's shared apartment , closely followed by her widowed mother, Sophia , who after a fire in her nursing home (the Shady Pine ) was looking for a place to stay.
Dorothy is characterized by sarcastic remarks, which Rose in particular experiences more often. Both her mother Sophia and Blanche mock repeatedly about their (meager) love life, because since her divorce from Stan had Dorothy very few appointments, which is probably because of their intimidating appearance, her sometimes stern demeanor and her sonorous voice. In the final episode, Blanche sets her up with her uncle. After marrying him, Dorothy moves out.
The character's last name was inspired by Susan Harris ' assistant Kent Zbornak, who also served as the show's producer.
Sophia Petrillo
Sophia Spirelli Petrillo ( Spirelli from an annulled marriage, later Petrillo Weinstock through her marriage to Max Weinstock ) is the mother of Dorothy . When her retirement home Die Schattige Pine (originally Shady Pines ) burned down in the first episode, she moved in with the three ladies. Also, Blanche and Rose belong to them because of the very close relationship to the family. Sophia has nothing positive to say about her old people's home ; she describes it as a prison, but that doesn't prevent her from occasionally returning as a visitor, for example to win a mother / daughter competition with Dorothy . In addition, she does not shy away from portraying The Shady Pine as paradise if it can be used for a certain purpose.
Sophia is an old Sicilian who was born in 1906 and later immigrated to the United States. Her sister Angela ( Nancy Walker ) and her brother Angelo (Bill Dana) also appear in the Golden Girls , and you get to know her late husband Sal ( vatore ) in flashbacks . She is happy to provide advice to Rose , Blanche and Dorothy , and her stories always begin with the words "Imagine ..." (English: "Picture it ..."). She is endowed with an extremely vicious sarcasm , which she displays in every possible and impossible situation. Nevertheless, she is always there for her flatmates in serious situations and then proves to be tolerant and caring.
Recurring supporting roles
Surroundings of Dorothy and Sophia
Stanley "Stan" Zbornak
Shortly before finishing high school at the age of 17, Dorothy was impregnated by her classmate Stanley "Stan" Zbornak ( Herb Edelman ) and immediately pushed to marry him, but she went to college to become a teacher. Stanley is sometimes more, sometimes less successful seller of joke articles and represents the image of a lovable loser for the viewer. Later he invents a device for opening baked potatoes and ultimately becomes rich. Stanley is also a little vain, because he often hides his pronounced three-quarter bald head with a - mostly ill- fitting - toupee .
The Golden Girls are usually not happy when Stan comes to them. Dorothy slams the door almost every time he says "Hello, it's me, Stan!" After Stan rings the doorbell again, Dorothy lets him in.
Stan's marriage to Dorothy often experienced ups and downs (he even had to persuade his children, for lack of money, that Christmas had been postponed by two days), but the final break came after 38 years, when Stan his wife for a much younger one The flight attendant left and did not tell her this personally, but had a lawyer do it. Despite everything, Stanley loves Dorothy dearly and sincerely, but his weakness for other women and especially for dubious business ideas repeatedly ensure that he turns Dorothy against him. So it happened, among other things, that despite a reconciliation, a new wedding is canceled at the last moment, because Stan, on the advice of his lawyer, presents her with a marriage contract to sign. When Dorothy marries Blanches' uncle Lucas in the last episode , Stanley realizes that he has lost her for good.
One of the peculiarities of the story: Although Stanley and Dorothy had to get married because a child was away, that child never shows up. Her two other children are in their early 30s when the series begins. Since Stanley and Dorothy had been married for 38 years, there would have to be a third child in their early 40s. But that was probably forgotten.
Michael Zbornak
Michael Zbornak ( Scott Jacoby ) is the oldest of the two children of Dorothy and Stan who appear in the series . The information about his age contradicts one another and varies between early twenties and early thirties. Given the discrepancies described in the previous paragraph, your early thirties are most likely to be true. Michael is a bit of his parents' problem child. Although he is a successfully trained musician, he has difficulties keeping his jobs. He also lacks the maturity to take relationships with women seriously. Over the course of the series, he initially has a one-night stand with Rose's daughter Bridget . He later marries Lorraine , a singer who is over ten years older (almost twice her age on the show). The two have a child, but unspecified circumstances mean that Michael is thrown out by Lorraine and, as before, once again looks for help from his parents.
Dorothy and Stan are not really disappointed in their son, they are just sad that a man of this age still shows many signs of dependency. But they love him, and that's why they help him again and again, but not without teaching him the painful lessons he needs.
Kate Zbornak
Kate Zbornak is the daughter of Dorothy and Stan and works as an interior designer in New York. During the wedding (2nd episode of the first season) with the doctor Dennis (a surname is not mentioned), Dorothy takes the opportunity behind the scenes to settle accounts with her ex-husband Stan , who came as a guest from Hawaii , for leaving her without notice and left the rest to the divorce attorney. However, towards Kate, her newlywed husband Dennis and the guests, they appear as in-laws who warmly welcome the new family member together.
When Kate arrives from New York some time later because Dennis has cheated on her, she only hopes that her parents will listen. But Dorothy in particular can't help but interfere - especially when Kate, after talking to Dennis, decides to forgive him. Dorothy is furious about how to forgive an adulterer because of her experience with Stan . There is almost a falling out between mother and daughter, which can only be steered in a better direction by one of Sophia's bizarre Sicilian stories.
Salvatore "Sal" Petrillo
Sophia's husband Salvatore "Sal" ( Sid Melton ) only appears in dream sequences and flashbacks, since he has already passed away at the time of the series' action. Sal exploits numerous clichés about Italian-Americans: sometimes he's the charming crook, sometimes the henpecked man who has little to say in the family under the command of the “mom” - but also always the caring husband and loving father. In the dream sequences he gives Sophia , who, despite all her strength, occasionally despairs because of her age and the malaises that go with it, the courage to continue living.
Phil Petrillo
Although Dorothy's brother (or Sophia's son) does not appear in person in any episode, Phil Petrillo is present in all seasons. Even if the word in the English original (the term "cross-dresser" is used here) is never pronounced openly, the husband and father Phil is clearly recognizable as a transvestite due to Sophia's numerous remarks about her son wearing women's clothes . In the German translation below 5.10 Mr. Lucky Phil is referred to by his mother as a transvestite. Quote from Sophia: "[...] how should I, my son is a transvestite [...]."
Sophia is always unimpressed by this fact; Only in the episode The Curse of the Dowry (original title: Ebbtide's Revenge ) does the viewer get to see the real picture: Phil has since died, and Sophia drops the mask over a violent argument with his widow Angela (played by Brenda Vaccaro ) : Phil's transvestism was a decades-long trauma for her. In a soulful final scene, Rose and Angela help her to recognize that it was not his style of clothing that made Phil Petrillo , but his warm, loving personality.
Environment of Blanche
Rebecca Devereaux
Rebecca Devereaux is one of the daughters of Blanche and George . As a young girl, after an argument with Blanche , she ran away to become a model. On her first visit back to the US, however, it turns out that there isn't much left of Rebecca's (here played by Shawn Shepps) career. She is seriously overweight, and she and Jeremy (Joe Regalbuto) are chained to a man who permanently injures her mentally. A serious argument ensues between mother and daughter, but at the end of which Rebecca realizes that mothers speak the truth - even if it hurts. Rebecca makes up with Blanche and dumps Jeremy . A few years pass before Rebecca's next visit to Miami (from here played by Debra Engle), and here, too, she brings a big surprise: She wants a baby and since she doesn't want to wait for a man as a single, she plans to artificially herself to be fertilized. The otherwise open-minded Blanche is unexpectedly moralistic and completely refuses to introduce herself. However, through the advice of her roommates, Blanche realizes that Rebecca is an adult and must go her own way. In two further episodes, there is further friction because of Rebecca's decision to give birth and later because of Blanche's handling of her status as a grandmother, but all in all mother and daughter are getting closer and closer together and are becoming increasingly harmonious in their dealings with each other.
Curtis "Big Daddy" Hollingsworth
Blanche's father Big Daddy is introduced as a typical head of a southern family from the cliché picture book. After the death of his wife, he horrified "his little darling" Blanche by selling the family seat to become a musician. Unfortunately, he is unsuccessful, but he insists on his career. An argument with Blanche reveals that he wants to live an old dream that the young Hollingsworth couple once shared. Father and daughter speak out, and Big Daddy does return home. A few years later there was another argument when Big Daddy wanted to marry a very young woman. Blanche is horrified and suspects an inheritance stalker, but Big Daddy explains that his new love Margaret is also a widow and that in such a case you only think about getting married again if you discover that you can love again. Blanche gives her blessing to marriage.
When Big Daddy dies, Blanche misses the funeral because she fell out with her sister Virginia and refuses to attend the event. Only then does she say goodbye alone at the grave. Blanche later learns that Big Daddy had a long-term love affair with Blanche's African-American nanny. An idea that shakes Blanche's worldview, because her Big Daddy was "Republican". But none of that can destroy Blanche's love for her Big Daddy .
Virginia Hollingsworth
Virginia ( Sheree North ) is one of Blanche's two sisters. The two are linked by a longstanding sibling rivalry and to a certain extent also quarreled. Only when Virginia becomes seriously ill and needs a donor kidney, which she asks Blanche for , the relationship between the two relaxes and seems to normalize. But Big Daddy's death changes everything again. Big Daddy had asked Blanche to visit him again, but failing to see the location, she'd preferred a celebratory event to preside over. Virginia accuses her of this, and the two clash so that Blanche refuses to attend Big Daddy's funeral. Whether there was another reconciliation between Blanche and Virginia is not reported.
Environment of Rose
Miles Webber
From season five, Rose develops a love affair with Miles Webber ( Harold Gould ), a college professor whose real name - as it turns out in one episode - is Nicholas Carbone and is a participant in a witness protection program after he testified against a criminal. The exposure forces him to change his identity again and disappear from Rose's life. After the criminal is finally put behind bars, Carbone can give up his secret life. He decides to continue his life as Miles Webber and returns to Rose's life for good. The relationship between Rose and Miles was also carried over to the follow-up series Golden Palace and ended there.
Enrique Màs
Enrique Màs (Chick Vennera) is the presenter of a consumer protection program. When Rose needs a new job and is rejected out of age discrimination, she turns to the editorial staff of Enrique's show and by chance learns that employees are wanted there. When she applies and is rejected by Enrique for reasons of age, she messes with him and remains the winner: He not only hires her, in the course of time he also promotes her, provides her with an assistant and ultimately even makes her to the producer of a show on local breakfast television.
Mutual friends and acquaintances
Dr. Harry Weston
The widowed pediatrician Dr. Harry Weston ( Richard Mulligan ) is a neighbor of the Golden Girls who lives under the same roof with his unmarried daughters Carol ( Dinah Manoff ) and Barbara ( Kristy McNichol ). Harry Weston is exposed to constant advances from Blanche, which he successfully fends off. As the series progresses, Harry becomes a good platonic friend to all of the Golden Girls.
Originally, Harry Weston was only supposed to appear in a few episodes of the Golden Girls to introduce the spin-off series Harrys Nest ( Empty Nest ). Due to the popularity of the character with the audience, Harry also appeared in the further course of the Golden Girls , as well as Barbara and Carol as well as all other leading actors from Harry's Nest - consultation assistant Laverne ( Park Overall ), neighbor Charley (David Leisure) and Harry's dog Dreyfuss , who in turn were guests in Empty Nest . Most of the actors in both series also appeared in another spin-off, Hello Sister! (English: Nurses ), on.
synchronization
Siegfried Rabe was responsible for the transmission of the dialogues , who later also translated Alf and the first three seasons of the Simpsons for ZDF . Based on this, Henry Kielmann directed the dubbing.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Zbornak | Beatrice Arthur |
Ursula Vogel (1st voice) Beate Hasenau (2nd voice) |
| Blanche Devereaux | Rue McClanahan | Ursula victory |
| Rose Nylund | Betty White | Verena Wiet |
| Sophia Petrillo | Estelle Getty | Barbara Ratthey |
| Stanley Stan Zbornak | Herb Edelman | Lothar Grützner |
| Nicholas Carbone / Professor Miles Webber |
Harold Gould | Günther Jerschke |
| Salvatore Petrillo | Sid Melton | Peter Heinrich |
| Max Weinstock | Jack Gilford | Manfred Steffen |
background
Emergence
The basics of the sitcom were originally designed by executive producer Brandon Tartikoff , who, after visiting his aunt and her neighbor, found potential for a series about befriended middle-aged women. In 1984, Susan Harris took on his idea. Tartikoff's colleague revised the concept of the show again and added the main characters Blanche , Dorothy and Rose to the supporting role of the homosexual cook and roommate Coco (played by Charles Levin ). However, the character was deleted from the scripts after the first episode of the Golden Girls in favor of the much more popular role of Sophia .
End of series
After declining audience numbers due to various changes in broadcasting times, Beatrice Arthur decided to leave the series at the end of the seventh season, also because she was of the opinion that Golden Girls would run the risk of losing originality and pun in future episodes. Her character Dorothy married consequently Blanches Uncle Lucas (played by Leslie Nielsen ) and left the city in the direction of Atlanta ( Georgia ).
Arthur's colleagues, however, decided to sign the contract for the successor Golden Palace . Although the sitcom premiered the following year and Arthur was a guest in two episodes, it was nowhere near the success of the Golden Girls . As a result, the series was discontinued after just one season. There was a television special in 2003: The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments, in which the highlights of the series were shown again, moderated by Beatrice Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Betty White, Estelle Getty was absent because she was unable to attend for health reasons.
Broadcast in Germany
The German first broadcast of the series took place on Friday at 11 p.m. in the first , later on Tuesday evening around 10 p.m. Repetitions on various third party programs followed. Many of these broadcasts on public television even had the option of receiving the original sound ( two-channel sound ).
The series was then repeated later in the evening program of the private broadcasters RTL and VOX . Since 2001, the Golden Girls ran several times in RTL's night program, most recently at around 00:30. After the loss of the broadcasting rights, the series was replaced by other programs on August 14, 2006.
Between January 2008 and September 2009, the series was broadcast on Comedy Central's program, and again from December 2009. The series also ran on Super RTL from January 2010 . It has been broadcast on Disney Channel since July 2014 .
Guest stars
Numerous well-known or later well-known actors have appeared several times in guest roles for an episode, including:
Don Ameche , Christopher Daniel Barnes , Ken Berry , Lloyd Bochner , Sonny Bono , Eddie Bracken , Joseph Campanella , Virginia Capers , Rosalind Cash , George Clooney , Robert Culp , Ruby Dee , the Del Rubio triplets , Jeane Dixon , Johnny Gilbert , Alice Ghostley , Peter Graves , Merv Griffin , George Grizzard , Gary Grubbs , Murray Hamilton , Bob Hope , Julio Iglesias , Tony Jay , Paula Kelly , Terry Kiser , Hal Linden , Mario Lopez , Dinah Manoff , Edie McClurg , Marian Mercer , Mark Moses , Martin Mull , Leslie Nielsen , Jerry Orbach , Leland Orser , Tony Plana , Peggy Pope , Joe Regalbuto , Burt Reynolds , Debbie Reynolds , Donnelly Rhodes , Richard Riehle , Ariana Richards , Alex Rocco , Cesar Romero , Mickey Rooney , Harry Shearer , McLean Stevenson , Inga Swenson , Jeffrey Tambor , Quentin Tarantino , Meshach Taylor , Jay Thomas , Alex Trebek , Dick Van Dyke , Lyle Wagoner and Fred Willard .
Theme song
The title song, which can be heard during the opening and closing credits, is a shortened version of the song Thank You For Being a Friend , interpreted by Cynthia Fee . The song was written by Andrew Gold and originally appeared on his album All This and Heaven Too . While the German, Italian and Spanish versions of the series also use the English title track, the song was sung in French for the French version with the title Merci a toi, mon ami .
The (abridged) English version of the text reads:
- Thank you for being a friend
- Traveled down the road and back again
- your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant
- And if you threw a party
- Invited everyone you knew
- You would see, the biggest gift would be from me
- and the card attached would say,
- Thank you for being a friend.
DVD release
The NTSC versions (for North America) are already complete.
The Golden Girls have so far been brought onto the market in Germany in the form of 3 or 4-disc DVD box sets. Release dates:
- 1st season July 14, 2005
- 2nd season September 1, 2005
- 3rd season February 9, 2006
- 4th season December 6, 2007
- 5th season April 17th, 2008
- Season 6 November 13, 2008
- 7th season April 2, 2009
- Golden Girls Complete Box (24 DVDs) July 8, 2010
After the German publication of the series was initially to be discontinued after the third season, over 1500 people signed up for a Golden Girls online petition to Buena Vista in order to achieve the publication of the missing seasons in German.
Golden Palace, the follow-up series to Golden Girls, has not yet been released on DVD. When and whether it will appear on DVD in Germany is not yet known.
Others
- Betty White is the only surviving actress from the series since the death of actress Rue McClanahan in June 2010.
- The originally planned title of the series was Miami Nice .
- Contrary to her roles, Betty White (born January 17, 1922) is the oldest actress, followed by Beatrice Arthur (May 13, 1922 - April 25, 2009), Estelle Getty (July 25, 1923 - July 22, 2008) and Rue McClanahan ( February 21, 1934 - June 3, 2010).
- Betty White was originally intended for the role of Blanche , but since she had already played the man-hungry blonde on The Mary Tyler Moore Show , she preferred the character of Rose and Rue McClanahan got the role of the man-devouring vamp.
- Even in Maude , Beatrice Arthur and Rue McClanahan played side by side. Here Rue McClanahan played the role of the naive, so that Rue McClanahan and Betty White swapped the basic characters they had previously played in their most successful series roles in Maude and the Mary Tyler Moore Show when they joined the Golden Girls .
- Betty White and Rue McClanahan also appeared together in front of the Golden Girls in another series: Mama's Family with Carol Burnett in the lead role.
- Harold Gould , who later appears as Rose's long-time friend Miles Webber (in reality Nicholas Carbone ), played a friend of hers named Arnie Peterson in the first season .
- Blanche's maiden name Hollingsworth is sometimes pronounced without an "s" in the series.
- The series Golden Girls , Golden Palace , Harrys Nest ( Empty Nest ) and Hallo Sister! ( Nurses ) share a series universe .
- Of all the characters, Sophia had the longest presence on American television, as her character was the only one to appear in both spin-offs Empty Nest and Nurses , even after Golden Girls and Golden Palace were already discontinued. She was also seen in a dream sequence from an episode of the sitcom Blossom , which, however, was not related to the aforementioned series.
- In the course of the series there were some uncommented house redesigns ( continuity ). In their autobiographies, Betty White and Rue McClanahan report that this was due, among other things, to the change from Sunset Gower Studios to Ren-Mar Studios and the changed dimensions of the stage.
- There are also several inconsistencies with the various locations in the house. In some episodes, for example, the ladies' individual rooms have their own bathroom, in other episodes only a shared bathroom is mentioned. And the house owner Blanche also lives in a completely different part of the house at the beginning of the series, later adjoining the rooms of the other roommates.
- In the episode, in which Bob Hope has a guest appearance, Rose explains in the German dubbing that she is not the daughter of the Nylund couple, but has been adopted instead. This contradicts other episodes in which she gives Lindström as the maiden name. Nylund was the name of her late husband Charly.
- The date of death of Rose's husband Charly varies, sometimes Rose's stories suggest that he died around 1970, on the other hand it can also be dated to the early 1980s.
- The circumstances of Blanche's mother's death also vary. In the first season, her father points out that his mother was his world "until a drunk driver destroyed my whole world". In the last episode of the third season (Mother's Day), however, Blanche tells of the last visit to her mother in the old people's home, during which she obviously seems to be demented.
- In one episode, Dorothy argues with her mother Sophia and threatens her to send her back to her previous home, Shady Pine . To give her mother a little scare, she claims that the home is now Saddam Hussein's . In the English version, however, Dorothy says that the home was sold to "a few Germans".
- The first letters of the names of the "man-hungry" Blanche result in the name "Bett" (Blanche, Elizabeth, Trudi, Tamara) or "Bed" (Blanche, Elizabeth, Devereaux) in both the English and German versions. This curiosity is coquettishly brought up by Blanche in one episode. However, she seems to have had another first name, because in the episode Big Daddy's Sin (English: Wham, bam, thank you, Mammy ) Blanche is addressed by her former nanny as "Blanche Marie Hollingsworth".
- In the 65th episode of the series Night Shift with John ( Golden Girls - The Musical , OT: Here We Go Again ), the main character John Hemingway is to stage a Golden Girls musical with Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan and Betty White.
- In the 2010 film You Again (You Again) , Grandma Bunny, played by Betty White , is approached by her rival about whether her dress is still from the Golden Girls' pool. This allusion comes from Nana Spier , who wrote the dialogue book for the German dubbing. In the original, Grandma asks Bunny's rival if her dress was still from the Great Depression .
Awards
Between 1986 and 1993, the series received more than 75 nominations. In addition to a large number of prizes for technology, make-up and crew, the acting performance of the four actresses made up the main part of the 35 awards won. The most important prizes include:
- 1986, 1987 and 1988 " Best Series - Comedy or Musical "
- 1985 (awarded January 24, 1986) “ Best Actress in a Series - Comedy or Musical ” for Estelle Getty
- 1986 and 1987 "Outstanding Comedy Series"
- 1986 "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" for Betty White
- 1987 “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series” for Rue McClanahan
- 1988 “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series” for Beatrice Arthur
- 1988 "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series" for Estelle Getty
- 1992 Audience Award for Beatrice Arthur
literature
- Jim Colucci: Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY 2016, ISBN 978-0-06-242290-3 .
- Heike Klippel: orgy in pastel. To the television series Golden Girls. In: Frauen und Film 50/51 (1991), pp. 92-106.
- Thomas Küpper: Blanche and the Younger Man: Age Mimicry and the Ambivalence of Laughter in "The Golden Girls". In: Maricel Oró-Piqueras and Anita Wohlmann (eds.): Serializing Age. Aging and Old Age in TV Series. Bielefeld: transcript 2016, pp. 249–266.
Web links
- Golden Girls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Episode guide at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jim Colucci: Golden Girls Forever. HarperCollins, New York, NY 2016, ISBN 978-0-06-242290-3 , p. 9.
- ^ Betty White: Here we go again - My life in Television - Scribner New York, 1995 ISBN 0-684-80042-X