Episode
The Golden Girls: Great Expectations
Overview
Rose joins a positive thinking group and tries to get a pessimistic Dorothy to join. Meanwhile, Blanche is scared to get serious with her latest boyfriend especially after he has a heart attack.
Details
- Series
- The Golden Girls
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1990-01-13
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Great Expectations is Episode 14 in Season 5 of The Golden Girls. It aired on 1990-01-13. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 13: Mary Has A Little Lamb
The girls take in a 15 year old girl who has just found out she's pregnant and scared to tell her father. Meanwhile, Blanche's prison pen pal has just been released and is looking for her.
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Blanche tries to lure men by placing a fake ad in the paper trying to sell a Mercedes. Meanwhile, Rose has to deal with meeting Miles's daughter who makes it clear she wants their relationship to be no more and Dorothy discovers Sophia is hoarding Social Security money, thanks to a computer error.
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