Episode
The Golden Girls: 72 Hours
Overview
Rose discovers that she may be carrying the HIV virus after learning the blood they used in her gallbladder operation may have contained HIV antibodies. What really gets to her though is the 72 hours she must wait before hearing the test results. Meanwhile, Dorothy organizes a Save the Swamplands charity.
Details
- Series
- The Golden Girls
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 19
- Air date
- 1990-02-17
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
72 Hours is Episode 19 in Season 5 of The Golden Girls. It aired on 1990-02-17. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 18: An Illegitimate Concern
Blanche is stunned when a man comes to the front door and claims to be the illegitimate son of her late husband. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Sophia enter a mother-daughter pageant at Shady Pines.
Episode 20: Twice In A Lifetime
Rose must decide between her boyfriend, Miles or an old boyfriend who has just come to town and asks her to go to Europe with him. Meanwhile, fed up with Dorothy's rules, Sophia decides to move out.
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