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The Golden Girls - Post cancellation

The Golden Girls - Syndication

American syndicated reruns began in the fall of 1990, distributed by Buena Vista Television, the syndication arm of Disney, whose Touchstone Pictures division produced the series. Starting in 1997, the Lifetime cable network acquired the exclusive rights to repeat the episodes in the US, which they still have as of 2005. Nightly airing still attract roughly 1.2 million viewers.

In 2003, Lifetime hosted a special Golden Girls retrospective, showing some popular episodes as well as a reunion special featuring Arthur, McClanahan and White reminiscing about their times on the show. Herb Edelman, who had played Dorothy's unorganized ex-husband Stan, had passed away before the reunion was broadcast. Arthur paid tribute to Edelman, saying that he was very nice and was not like his character, Stan.

The Golden Girls - DVD

On November 23, 2004, the first season of the series went on sale on DVD in Region 1 and on June 28, 2005, in Region 2. The second season went on sale in Region 1 on May 17, 2005, while the second season went on sale in Region 2 on August 1, 2005. The third and fourth seasons go on sale in Region 1 on November 22, 2005, and February 14, 2006 (respectively). These discs are the only way to see uncut episodes of the series; these versions have not seen the light of day since their original network airings, and include snippets of dialogue and entire scenes that do not appear in the current syndicated versions. If the remaining seasons are all released at the current rate, they should all be released within the next year, before March 2007

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