Family Affair was a situation comedy television series that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to March 4, 1971 and repeats through September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do bachelor Bill Davis (Keith) as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children. Davis' butler Mr. Giles French (Cabot) also had adjustments to make as he was usually saddled with the responsibility of caring for the children, 15-year-old Cissy (Garver) and 6-year-old twins, Jody (Whitaker) an ...

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Along with the talent he booked each week, he also had recurring characters appear many times a season, such as his puppet sidekick Topo Gigio, and ventriloquist Señor Wences. While most of the episodes aired live from New York City, the show also aired live on occasion from other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan. For many years, Ed Sullivan was a national event each Sunday evening, and was the first expo ...

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The action of the movie takes place in and around the isolated country home of eccentric multi-millionaire Lionel Twain (Capote), inhabited by his blind butler, Jamesir Bensonmum (Alec Guinness) and a deaf-mute maid called Yetta (Nancy Walker). As the movie opens, our heroes, all pastiches of famous detectives, are approaching the house through dense, fog-bound forest, accompanied by their assistants or sidekicks; it emerges that they have been invited to "dinner a ...

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The show starred Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak, who maintained an arsenal of withering put-downs and killer glares; Betty White as dense Minnesotan Rose Nylund; Rue McClanahan as oversexed Southern belle Blanche Devereaux; and Estelle Getty as the wisecracking Sophia Petrillo, Dorothy's mother (although Getty is actually two months younger than Arthur so was heavily made up to seem much older). In the early days of casting, McClanahan auditioned for the role of Rose, while White auditioned for the role of Blanche. During its original run, See also:

The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls - Beginnings, The Golden Girls - Characters, The Golden Girls - Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls - Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls - Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls - Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls - Response, The Golden Girls - Continuity errors, The Golden Girls - The show's popularity and decline, The Golden Girls - Annual Nielsen Ratings, The Golden Girls - Post cancellation, The Golden Girls - Syndication, The Golden Girls - DVD, The Golden Girls - Spinoffs, The Golden Girls - The Golden Palace, The Golden Girls - Brighton Belles, The Golden Girls - SNL Spoof, The Golden Girls - The Golden Girls: Live!, The Golden Girls - Theme song, The Golden Girls - Awards, The Golden Girls - ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, The Golden Girls - American Comedy Awards, The Golden Girls - BMI Film & TV Awards, The Golden Girls - Bambi Awards, The Golden Girls - Directors Guild of America Awards, The Golden Girls - Emmy Awards, The Golden Girls - Golden Globes Awards, The Golden Girls - Retirement Research Foundation Awards, The Golden Girls - TP de Oro Spain Awards, The Golden Girls - Viewers for Quality Television Awards, The Golden Girls - Young Artist Awards

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The show starred Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak, who maintained an arsenal of withering put-downs and killer glares; Betty White as the dense Scandanavian nit-wit Rose Nylund; Rue McClanahan as oversexed Southern belle Blanche Devereaux; and Estelle Getty as the wisecracking Sophia Petrillo, Dorothy's mother (although Getty is actually two months younger than Arthur so was heavily made up to seem much older). In the early days of casting, McClanahan auditioned for the role of Rose, while White auditioned for the role of Blanche. During its or ...

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The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls - Beginnings, The Golden Girls - Characters, The Golden Girls - Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls - Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls - Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls - Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls - Response, The Golden Girls - Continuity errors, The Golden Girls - The show's popularity and decline, The Golden Girls - Annual Nielsen Ratings, The Golden Girls - Post cancellation, The Golden Girls - Syndication, The Golden Girls - DVD, The Golden Girls - Spinoffs, The Golden Girls - The Golden Palace, The Golden Girls - Brighton Belles, The Golden Girls - SNL Spoof, The Golden Girls - The Golden Girls: Live!, The Golden Girls - Theme song, The Golden Girls - Awards, The Golden Girls - ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, The Golden Girls - American Comedy Awards, The Golden Girls - BMI Film & TV Awards, The Golden Girls - Bambi Awards, The Golden Girls - Directors Guild of America Awards, The Golden Girls - Emmy Awards, The Golden Girls - Golden Globes Awards, The Golden Girls - Retirement Research Foundation Awards, The Golden Girls - TP de Oro Spain Awards, The Golden Girls - Viewers for Quality Television Awards, The Golden Girls - Young Artist Awards

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1992 in television - 1940s. Meet the Press (1947-present). Candid Camera (1948-present). Bozo the Clown (1949-present). Come Dancing (UK) (1949-1995). 1992 in television - 1950s. Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951-present). Guiding Light (1952-present). The Today Show (1952-present). Panorama (UK) (1953-present). Face the Nation (1954-present ...

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Professional Children's School - Actors/actresses. Brooke Adams Trini Alvarado Adam Arkin Mischa Barton Bonnie Bedelia Milton Berle Tempestt Bledsoe Joan Blondell Jordana Brewster Claude Brooks Irene Cara Phoebe Cates Miles Chapin Holly Marie Combs Jerry O'Connell Donald O'Connor Kieran Culkin Macaulay Culkin Rory Culkin Sandra Dee See also:

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A partial list of guests includes: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Monica Lewis Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Peggy Lee Irving Berlin Bob Hope Julie Andrews Richard Burton Robert Goulet Nanette Fabray Hope Emerson Rudy Vallee Luise Rainer Jule Styne Forrest Tucker Skitch Henderson Lon McCallister Tony Martin Jackie Gleason W.C. Handy Diana Barry ...

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The theme song is Thank You For Being A Friend, which was a #25 Pop hit for Andrew Gold in 1978. However, this version is a re-recorded one sung by Cynthia Fee: Thank you for being a friend Traveled down the road and back again Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant And if you threw a party, invited everyone you knew You would see the biggest gift would be from me And the card attached would say, "Thank you for being a friend" In some episodes the last 3 lines would be repeated twice making for a ...

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The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls - Beginnings, The Golden Girls - Characters, The Golden Girls - Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls - Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls - Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls - Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls - Response, The Golden Girls - Continuity errors, The Golden Girls - The show's popularity and decline, The Golden Girls - Annual Nielsen Ratings, The Golden Girls - Post cancellation, The Golden Girls - Syndication, The Golden Girls - DVD, The Golden Girls - Spinoffs, The Golden Girls - The Golden Palace, The Golden Girls - Brighton Belles, The Golden Girls - SNL Spoof, The Golden Girls - The Golden Girls: Live!, The Golden Girls - Theme song, The Golden Girls - Awards, The Golden Girls - ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, The Golden Girls - American Comedy Awards, The Golden Girls - BMI Film & TV Awards, The Golden Girls - Bambi Awards, The Golden Girls - Directors Guild of America Awards, The Golden Girls - Emmy Awards, The Golden Girls - Golden Globes Awards, The Golden Girls - Retirement Research Foundation Awards, The Golden Girls - TP de Oro Spain Awards, The Golden Girls - Viewers for Quality Television Awards, The Golden Girls - Young Artist Awards

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A partial list of guests includes: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Monica Lewis Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Peggy Lee Irving Berlin Bob Hope Julie Andrews Richard Burton Wayne and Shuster (record 67 appearances) Robert Goulet Nanette Fabray Hope Emerson Rudy Vallee Luise Rainer Jule Styne Forrest Tucker Skitch Henderson Lon McCallister Tony Martin Jack ...

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The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ed Sullivan Show - Background, The Ed Sullivan Show - Famous performances, The Ed Sullivan Show - List of celebrity guests, The Ed Sullivan Show - Reference

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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 episode ...

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The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls - Beginnings, The Golden Girls - Characters, The Golden Girls - Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls - Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls - Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls - Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls - Response, The Golden Girls - Continuity errors, The Golden Girls - The show's popularity and decline, The Golden Girls - Annual Nielsen Ratings, The Golden Girls - Post cancellation, The Golden Girls - Syndication, The Golden Girls - DVD, The Golden Girls - Spinoffs, The Golden Girls - The Golden Palace, The Golden Girls - Brighton Belles, The Golden Girls - SNL Spoof, The Golden Girls - The Golden Girls: Live!, The Golden Girls - Theme song, The Golden Girls - Awards, The Golden Girls - ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, The Golden Girls - American Comedy Awards, The Golden Girls - BMI Film & TV Awards, The Golden Girls - Bambi Awards, The Golden Girls - Directors Guild of America Awards, The Golden Girls - Emmy Awards, The Golden Girls - Golden Globes Awards, The Golden Girls - Retirement Research Foundation Awards, The Golden Girls - TP de Oro Spain Awards, The Golden Girls - Viewers for Quality Television Awards, The Golden Girls - Young Artist Awards

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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 2006. Nightly airing still attract roughly 1.2 million viewers. In 2003, Lifetime hosted a special Golden Girls retrospective, showing some popular episode ...

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The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls - Beginnings, The Golden Girls - Characters, The Golden Girls - Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls - Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls - Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls - Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls - Response, The Golden Girls - Continuity errors, The Golden Girls - The show's popularity and decline, The Golden Girls - Annual Nielsen Ratings, The Golden Girls - Post cancellation, The Golden Girls - Syndication, The Golden Girls - DVD, The Golden Girls - Spinoffs, The Golden Girls - The Golden Palace, The Golden Girls - Brighton Belles, The Golden Girls - SNL Spoof, The Golden Girls - The Golden Girls: Live!, The Golden Girls - Theme song, The Golden Girls - Awards, The Golden Girls - ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, The Golden Girls - American Comedy Awards, The Golden Girls - BMI Film & TV Awards, The Golden Girls - Bambi Awards, The Golden Girls - Directors Guild of America Awards, The Golden Girls - Emmy Awards, The Golden Girls - Golden Globes Awards, The Golden Girls - Retirement Research Foundation Awards, The Golden Girls - TP de Oro Spain Awards, The Golden Girls - Viewers for Quality Television Awards, The Golden Girls - Young Artist Awards

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A partial list of guests includes: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Peggy Lee Irving Berlin Bob Hope Nanette Fabray Hope Emerson Rudy Vallee Luise Rainer Jule Styne Forrest Tucker Skitch Henderson Lon McCallister Tony Martin Jackie Gleason W.C. Handy Diana Barrymore Charles Laughton Anne Jeffreys Nat King Cole John C ...

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The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ed Sullivan Show - Background, The Ed Sullivan Show - Famous performances, The Ed Sullivan Show - List of celebrity guests, The Ed Sullivan Show - Reference

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The Ed Sullivan Show is especially known for airing breakthrough performances by Elvis Presley and The Beatles. On September 9, 1956, Presley made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show even though Sullivan had previously vowed never to allow the performer on his show. At the time Presley was filming Love Me Tender so Sullivan's producer Marlo Lewis flew to Los Angeles, California to supervise the Hollywood side of the show taping. Sullivan, however, was not able to host his show in New York City because he ...

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The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ed Sullivan Show - Background, The Ed Sullivan Show - Famous performances, The Ed Sullivan Show - List of celebrity guests, The Ed Sullivan Show - Reference

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The show was created by Susan Harris, who had also created the sitcoms Soap and Benson. In its later years, it was followed by Harris' other series Empty Nest and Nurses, both of which took place in Miami. Because of this, the three shows would occasionally have specials where characters from one show made appearances in the other ones in order to boost ratings. The premise of the show was four older women sharing a fashionable house together. Blanche owned the house, while Dorothy and Rose responded to an ad for roommates, ...

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The Golden Girls was quite risqué for its time, as its main characters were four single older women who lived together, but were still up-to-date with pop culture and sexually active. Mild profanity and strong sexual innuendo were common on the program. Estelle Getty's character, Sophia, was written as a woman who had a stroke that destroyed the part of her brain that censored her speech, thus enabling her to get away with much more than the other women. Nevertheless, the show was hugely successful ...

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The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls - Beginnings, The Golden Girls - Characters, The Golden Girls - Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls - Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls - Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls - Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls - Response, The Golden Girls - Continuity errors, The Golden Girls - The show's popularity and decline, The Golden Girls - Annual Nielsen Ratings, The Golden Girls - Post cancellation, The Golden Girls - Syndication, The Golden Girls - DVD, The Golden Girls - Spinoffs, The Golden Girls - The Golden Palace, The Golden Girls - Brighton Belles, The Golden Girls - SNL Spoof, The Golden Girls - The Golden Girls: Live!, The Golden Girls - Theme song, The Golden Girls - Awards, The Golden Girls - ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, The Golden Girls - American Comedy Awards, The Golden Girls - BMI Film & TV Awards, The Golden Girls - Bambi Awards, The Golden Girls - Directors Guild of America Awards, The Golden Girls - Emmy Awards, The Golden Girls - Golden Globes Awards, The Golden Girls - Retirement Research Foundation Awards, The Golden Girls - TP de Oro Spain Awards, The Golden Girls - Viewers for Quality Television Awards, The Golden Girls - Young Artist Awards

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The first head writers of the series were Kathy Speer and Terry Grossman, and wrote for the show's first four seasons (although it should be noted that as head writers, Speer and Grossman gave general ideas to lower staff writers, and personally wrote a mere handful of scripts each season). It was the popularity of the show's four leads and the stability in the show's writing department that kept the r ...

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The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls - Beginnings, The Golden Girls - Characters, The Golden Girls - Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls - Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls - Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls - Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls - Response, The Golden Girls - Continuity errors, The Golden Girls - The show's popularity and decline, The Golden Girls - Annual Nielsen Ratings, The Golden Girls - Post cancellation, The Golden Girls - Syndication, The Golden Girls - DVD, The Golden Girls - Spinoffs, The Golden Girls - The Golden Palace, The Golden Girls - Brighton Belles, The Golden Girls - SNL Spoof, The Golden Girls - The Golden Girls: Live!, The Golden Girls - Theme song, The Golden Girls - Awards, The Golden Girls - ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, The Golden Girls - American Comedy Awards, The Golden Girls - BMI Film & TV Awards, The Golden Girls - Bambi Awards, The Golden Girls - Directors Guild of America Awards, The Golden Girls - Emmy Awards, The Golden Girls - Golden Globes Awards, The Golden Girls - Retirement Research Foundation Awards, The Golden Girls - TP de Oro Spain Awards, The Golden Girls - Viewers for Quality Television Awards, The Golden Girls - Young Artist Awards

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The Golden Girls was one of the last sitcoms to have its complete initial run before the widespread advent of the Internet. With fans of a TV show now able to watch and discuss each episode, offer suggestions and even point out continuity mistakes, writers and producers have the option of keeping much better tabs on their potential viewers. As The Golden Girls took place before such avenues of communication were as widely available, the characters were written more as "concepts first, people second." While the sitcom was not un ...

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The Golden Girls - 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 th ...

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