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The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that aired on NBC from September 14, , to May 9, , with a total of half-hour episodes, spanning seven seasons. The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run, and won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series twice.

The series also ranked among the Nielsen ratings ' top ten for six of its seven seasons. In the pilot episode, the three are joined by Dorothy's year-old widowed mother, Sophia Petrillo Getty , after the retirement home where she lived burned down. The writers observed that in many of the proposed scripts, the main interaction between the women occurred in the kitchen while preparing and eating food.

They decided that a separate cook would distract from their friendship. In addition, the character of Sophia had originally been planned as an occasional guest star, but Getty had tested positively with preview audiences, so the producers decided to make her a regular character.

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The pilot was taped on April 17, The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. Sophia is to join her, but in the end, she stays behind with the other women in Miami. This led into the spin-off series The Golden Palace. The series finale of The Golden Girls was watched by As of , it was the 17th-most watched television finale.

Ideas for a comedy series about older women emerged during the filming of a television special at NBC Studios in Burbank, California , in August Shortly afterward, he met with producers Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas , who were pitching a show about a female lawyer.