The Golden Girls (season 7)
| The Golden Girls (season 7) | |
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 Season 7 DVD Cover | |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 21, 1991 – May 9, 1992 |
| Season chronology | |
The seventh and final season of The Golden Girls premiered on NBC on September 21, 1991, and concluded on May 9, 1992. The season consisted of 26 episodes.
Broadcast history
The season originally aired Saturdays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST) on NBC from September 21, 1991 to May 9, 1992.[1][2]
DVD release
The Region 1 DVD was released on February 13, 2007. The Region 2 and 4 DVDs were respectively released on April 2 and March 18, 2009.
Episodes
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No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate |
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| 155 | 1 | "Hey, Look Me Over" | Lex Passaris | Mitchell Hurwitz | September 21, 1991 |
| A photograph shows Rose's Charlie in bed with Blanche; Sophia resists getting a hearing aid. | |||||
| 156 | 2 | "The Case of the Libertine Belle" | Lex Passaris | Tom Whedon | September 28, 1991 |
| The girls participate in a murder-mystery weekend and Dorothy is a keen amateur sleuth. But when the show's over and the case is solved, there's another stabbing, and Blanche is suspected. This episode was meant as parody of the popular CBS series Murder, She Wrote starring Bea Arthur's real life best friend Angela Lansbury. | |||||
| 157 | 3 | "Beauty and the Beast" | Lex Passaris | Marc Cherry & Jamie Wooten | October 5, 1991 |
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Blanche wants her visiting granddaughter (Alisan Porter) to win the Little Miss Beauty contest. Meanwhile, Dorothy hires a nurse to look after a wheelchair-bound Sophia, who is less than thrilled when her nurse turns out to be an old enemy from Shady Pines. Guest star: Edie McClurg. | |||||
| 158 | 4 | "That's for Me to Know" | Lex Passaris | Kevin Abbott | October 12, 1991 |
| When Blanche tries to put in a hot tub, she learns from a city inspector that she must either lose a renter or make costly modifications to her home. Meanwhile, Dorothy wants to know the truth behind a photo of Sophia as a young bride with a man who is not Dorothy's father. | |||||
| 159 | 5 | "Where's Charlie?" | Lex Passaris | Gail Parent & Jim Vallely | October 19, 1991 |
| After Miles gives Rose a friendship ring, Rose becomes convinced Charlie is trying to contact her from the grave with the message that he disapproves of her relationship with Miles; Blanche begins coaching her new baseball-player boyfriend, Stevie (Tim Thomerson). | |||||
| 160 | 6 | "Mother Load" | Lex Passaris | Don Seigel & Jerry Perzigian | October 26, 1991 |
| Blanche begins dating a newscaster (Peter Graves), who has an overprotective, overbearing mother; Rose tries to find out embarrassing secrets about him, but whenever they're revealed, she gets the wrong bit of info for her roast; Stan asks Dorothy to attend a counseling session with him. | |||||
| 161 | 7 | "Dateline: Miami" | Peter D. Beyt | Marc Cherry & Jamie Wooten | November 2, 1991 |
| As she prepares to go out on a Saturday night, Dorothy realizes she is the only one with a date. Soon the other girls are reminiscing about some of the worst dates they have ever had. | |||||
| 162 163 | 8 9 | "The Monkey Show" | Lex Passaris | Mitchell Hurwitz & Marc Sotkin | November 9, 1991 |
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As a hurricane threatens Miami, Dorothy discovers that Stan is "moving on" with her sister, Gloria, while Blanche and Rose hold a telethon to save a lighthouse. Dorothy later catches Gloria with Stan in her bed, then learns that Sophia pushed Stan and Gloria together. As the storm intensifies, Dorothy and Sophia get into a fight and Sophia goes out into the hurricane. Note: One-hour episode. Cop #2 is Bea Arthur's son. | |||||
| 164 | 10 | "Ro$e Love$ Mile$" | Lex Passaris | Don Seigel & Jerry Perzigian Richard Vaczy & Tracy Gamble | November 16, 1991 |
| Rose, tired of Miles' penny-pinching ways, decides to take Blanche's advice and go out with her and some big spenders. Meanwhile, Blanche has been left in charge of Sophia while Dorothy is away, and Sophia decides to go to Sicily to square things with the man she stood up at the altar decades earlier. | |||||
| 165 | 11 | "Room 7" | Peter D. Beyt | Tracy Gamble & Richard Vaczy | November 23, 1991 |
| After a choking spell renders her unconscious, Sophia has an after-life experience, seeing her late husband in heaven, which Dorothy refuses to believe. Meanwhile, Blanche is distraught over the demolition of her grandmother's plantation, so the girls travel to Atlanta where Blanche handcuffs herself to the radiator. | |||||
| 166 | 12 | "From Here to the Pharmacy" | Lex Passaris | Gail Parent & Jim Vallely | December 7, 1991 |
| A man Blanche has no memory of, a soldier returning from the Persian Gulf, charges her with the promise he says she made to him before he left: that she would be his and only his. Meanwhile, Rose helps Sophia with her will. | |||||
| 167 | 13 | "The Pope's Ring" | Lex Passaris | Kevin Abbott | December 14, 1991 |
| Pope John Paul II's in town and Sophia goes to his mass to get a blessing for an ailing friend; while there, she somehow gets and loses the pope's piscatory ring. Meanwhile, as a birthday gift, Blanche hires Rose a detective to spy on Miles. | |||||
| 168 | 14 | "Old Boyfriends" | Peter D. Beyt | Jamie Wooten & Marc Cherry | January 4, 1992 |
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Rose cannot remember an acquaintance named Thor from St. Olaf; Sophia meets a man through an ad whose sister insists on coming with them on all their dates. Guest stars: Ken Berry and Betty Garrett. | |||||
| 169 | 15 | "Goodbye, Mr. Gordon" | Lex Passaris | Gail Parent & Jim Vallely | January 11, 1992 |
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Dorothy is contacted by her high-school teacher on whom she once had a crush and apparently still has. Meanwhile, Rose arranges for Dorothy and Blanche to appear on a talk show with the topic of "women who live together," not realizing that the show is about lesbian relationships. Guest stars: James T. Callahan. | |||||
| 170 | 16 | "The Commitments" | Lex Passaris | Tracy Gamble & Richard Vaczy | January 25, 1992 |
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Dorothy goes to see "Beatlemania" and begins bedding a Beatle impersonator from the show on the night she meets him. In contrast, Blanche worries about her sex appeal when she pulls out all the stops to get an attractive widower into bed and he has not so much as kissed her after five dates. Guest stars: Ken Howard, Terry Kiser. | |||||
| 171 | 17 | "Questions and Answers" | Lex Passaris | Don Seigel & Jerry Perzigian | February 8, 1992 |
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Dorothy is all excited when she learns that Jeopardy! is having tryouts in Miami; Blanche and Dorothy give Rose a dog to cheer her up when her candy-striper job at the hospital begins to get her down. Guest stars: Alex Trebek, Johnny Gilbert and Merv Griffin as themselves. | |||||
| 172 | 18 | "Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan" | Lex Passaris | Marc Sotkin | February 15, 1992 |
| Dorothy and Stan are ordered to live in their bug-infested building; Sophia's annual trip to buy shoes goes awry. | |||||
| 173 | 19 | "Journey to the Center of Attention" | Lex Passaris | Jamie Wooten & Marc Cherry | February 22, 1992 |
| Blanche takes a lonely Dorothy down to the Rusty Anchor, Blanche's favorite hangout, and gets more than she bargained for when Dorothy's singing is a hit with all the guys; Sophia hosts her own wake. Note: Rue McClanahan's favorite episode. | |||||
| 174 175 | 20 21 | "A Midwinter Night's Dream" | Lex Passaris | Kevin Abbott & Tom Whedon | February 29, 1992 |
| A full moon on Leap Day prompts Blanche to throw a Moonlight Madness Party, but Dorothy gets all the attention; Rose proposes to Miles after winning a free honeymoon to Paris. The full moon and festivities prompt strange happenings: Dorothy and Miles find themselves sharing a passionate kiss, and Blanche's necklace disappears while she necks with a British man. Note: One-hour episode. | |||||
| 176 | 22 | "Rose: Portrait of a Woman" | Lex Passaris | Robert Spina | March 7, 1992 |
| It is Miles's birthday and Rose is planning on giving him a golf club; Blanche suggests she spice up her relationship by giving him naughty pictures instead. Meanwhile, Career Day results in a new job for Dorothy. | |||||
| 177 | 23 | "Home Again, Rose: Part 1" | Peter D. Beyt | Gail Parent | April 25, 1992 |
| Rose is upset when she misses her high-school reunion, so Blanche persuades the girls to crash a reunion held in Miami, but during the festivities, Rose suffers a heart attack. | |||||
| 178 | 24 | "Home Again, Rose: Part 2" | Peter D. Beyt | Jim Vallely | May 2, 1992 |
| As Rose undergoes triple bypass surgery, Blanche, Dorothy, and Sophia grapple with the possibility of losing Rose. Meanwhile, Rose's daughter Kirsten arrives and expresses her disapproval of her mother's living arrangements. | |||||
| 179 180 | 25 26 | "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest" | Lex Passaris | Mitchell Hurwitz and Don Seigel & Jerry Perzigian | May 9, 1992 |
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Blanche needs someone to entertain her visiting Uncle Lucas, and persuades Dorothy to go out with him. Uncle Lucas makes a joking marriage proposal that soon becomes sincere. As Dorothy's wedding day approaches, everyone prepares for changes in the household: Rose plans to move in with her daughter, and Sophia plans to move with Dorothy and Lucas to Atlanta. Guest star: Leslie Nielsen. Note: "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest" won an Emmy for Outstanding Technical Direction/Camera/Video for a Series. One-hour episode. | |||||
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