The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls was a popular television sitcom that originally aired Saturday nights on the NBC network from September 14, 1985 to September 7, 1992. It can now be seen in syndication frequently on the Lifetime cable network in the United States, Prime in Canada and Living TV in the UK.

Spinoffs

The Golden Palace

After the original series ended, White, McClanahan, and Getty reprised their characters in the CBS series The Golden Palace, which ran from September 1992 to May 1993. The show never approached the popularity or acclaim of the original and ranked 57th place in the annual Nielsen ratings. There was reportedly a second season to this series, but it was cancelled the day before the fall schedule was announced.

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CBS - The Golden Palace - 1992 - 1993

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Lifetime Television, the current US syndicated home of Girls, aired reruns of The Golden Palace in the summer of 2005. This was the first time since the end of the series that The Golden Palace was seen on American television.

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Lifetime Television - The Golden Palace

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Brighton Belles

Also in 1993, ITV premiered Brighton Belles, a United Kingdom version of the American sitcom. The show was nearly identical to Girls except for character name changes and actor portrayals. Only ten episodes of this version ever surfaced, due to low ratings. That was most likely due to the fact that most Britons had seen The Golden Girls.

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SNL Spoof

In the early 2000s, Saturday Night Live had a skit that comically combined The Golden Girls with the then-popular MTV show, Jackass. Satirizing the many teens who had gotten themselves injured or killed by attempting to recreate the dangerous Jackass stunts, an SNL skit featured a group of teenage boys who idolized The Golden Girls and got together to recreate the goings-on of the four old women in the show.

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2000s - Saturday Night Live - MTV - Jackass

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