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The Golden Girls Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
The Engagement
Sat, Sep 14, 198530 mins
Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche are three women who share a house in Miami, Florida. Dorothy's elderly mother, Sophia, unexpectedly moves in after her retirement home burns down, and Blanche accepts a proposal of marriage.
Episode 2
Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?
Sat, Sep 21, 198530 mins
When Dorothy's daughter Kate gets married, Dorothy must confront her ex-husband Stanley, who walked out on their 38 year marriage for a younger woman.
Episode 3
Rose the Prude
Sat, Sep 28, 198530 mins
Rose is afraid of sexual intimacy with her boyfriend, Arnie, because she feels she would be cheating on her late husband, Charlie.
Episode 4
Transplant
Sat, Oct 5, 198530 mins
Blanche's sister, Virginia, with whom she has had a tense relationship for years, comes to visit. She reveals that she needs a kidney transplant to save her life.
Episode 5
The Triangle
Sat, Oct 19, 198530 mins
When Dorothy's doctor boyfriend makes a pass at Blanche, their friendship becomes threatened.
Episode 6
On Golden Girls
Sat, Oct 26, 198530 mins
Blanche's belligerent grandson David comes to visit.
Episode 7
The Competition
Sat, Nov 2, 198530 mins
Rose wants to join a bowling tournament and she needs a partner. And Dorothy is the best bowler she knows. Blanche also wants to join and wants Dorothy to be her partner. Dorothy chooses not to play with either of them. But Rose signs up and puts Dorothy as her partner. She reluctantly agrees. A guy Sophia knows comes and wants Sophia to go with him to Sicily. She wants to go but she doesn't have the money so she hopes Dorothy will give it to her. But she doesn't want her to go alone. She then teams up with Blanche for the bowling tournament and bets that if she wins Dorothy should give her the money. But somehow Blanche ends up with Dorothy as a partner so Rose teams up with Sophia and they resort to all sorts of things to win.
Episode 8
Break In
Sat, Nov 9, 198530 mins
Rose feels unsafe in her own house after a burglary.
Episode 9
Blanche and the Younger Man
Sat, Nov 16, 198530 mins
Blanche dates an aerobics instructor who is considerably younger than she is. Meanwhile, Rose's mother comes to visit and resents the way her daughter treats her.
Episode 10
The Heart Attack
Sat, Nov 23, 198530 mins
Sophia falls ill suddenly, and the other girls worry she may be having a heart attack.
Episode 11
Stan's Return
Sat, Nov 30, 198530 mins
Stan returns to try and make amends with Dorothy.
Episode 12
The Custody Battle
Sat, Dec 7, 198525 mins
Dorothy's wealthy sister Gloria wants Sophia to move to California with her.
Episode 13
A Little Romance
Sat, Dec 14, 198524 mins
Rose doesn't tell her friends that her boyfriend is a little person because she fears people will make fun of them.
Episode 14
That Was No Lady
Sat, Dec 21, 198530 mins
Dorothy's affair with a married co-worker meets with disapproval from her friends and her mother.
Episode 15
In a Bed of Rose's
Sat, Jan 11, 198625 mins
After Rose's boyfriend Al dies of a heart attack in her bed, Rose fears that she is a death jinx in the bedroom because her beloved husband Charlie died of a heart attack in her bed as well. To make matters worse, after Rose tracks down Al's sister to notify her of his death, she comes to find that his "sister" is really in fact his wife!
Episode 16
The Truth Will Out
Sat, Jan 18, 198624 mins
Rose goes over her last will and testament with her daughter, who is shocked when she learns what happened to her expected inheritance.
Episode 17
Nice and Easy
Sat, Feb 1, 198625 mins
Blanche is concerned about the flirtatious behavior of her niece, Lucy.
Episode 18
The Operation
Sat, Feb 8, 198630 mins
Dorothy is afraid to have an operation for a benign growth on her foot.
Episode 19
Second Motherhood
Sat, Feb 15, 198625 mins
A wealthy widower with two young children asks Blanche to marry him.
Episode 20
Adult Education
Sat, Feb 22, 198630 mins
An adult education teacher offers Blanche a passing grade in his course if she sleeps with him.
Episode 21
Flu Attack
Sat, Mar 1, 198630 mins
Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche all come down with the flu at the same time.
Episode 22
Job Hunting
Sat, Mar 8, 198630 mins
Rose loses her job and has trouble finding another one.
Episode 23
Blind Ambitions
Sat, Mar 29, 198630 mins
Rose's sister Lily must come to terms with the fact that she is blind and needs assistance.
Episode 24
Big Daddy
Sat, May 3, 198630 mins
Blanche's father, "Big Daddy" Hollingsworth, visits with the news that he's sold his house and wants to become a singer. Meanwhile, a boundary dispute over a fallen tree leads Sophia to put a curse on the rude neighbor who refuses to move it.
Episode 25
The Way We Met
Sat, May 10, 198630 mins
The girls remember how they came to live together; Blanche put an ad for a room for rent on a grocery store bulletin board, and Rose and Dorothy answered it.