Episode
The Golden Palace: Ebbtide for the Defense
Overview
Chuy meets an old friend with a grudge against him; the staff try to make it through the weekend incident free when they realize they don't have any insurance coverage.
Details
- Series
- The Golden Palace
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1992-10-16
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Ebbtide for the Defense is Episode 5 in Season 1 of The Golden Palace. It aired on 1992-10-16. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 4: One Old Lady to Go
Rose adopts a delusional elderly woman who thinks she's her daughter; Sophia and Chuy decide to go into the Chinese takeout business.
Episode 6: Can't Stand Losing You
Blanche and Rose are concerned that Roland overworks himself and decide to compete to find him a new girlfriend. Rose finds a beautiful young girl and Blanche tracks down Roland's southern ex-girlfriend Tricia. Only when Tricia is already on the plane to Miami does Blanche find out that Roland hates her. Sophia is jealous of Chuy because he was chosen over her to represent the hotel at a television show.
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Episode 3: Miles, We Hardly Knew Ye
Rose suspects Miles has been unfaithful to her when his name is found in the hotel registry dating back several years.
Episode 7: Seems Like Old Times (1)
Dorothy visits her ex-roommates at the Golden Palace, hoping to convince Sophia to come and live with her and her husband in Atlanta.
Episode 2: Promotional Considerations
Blanche and Roland clash over who is the boss of the hotel, meanwhile Rose unknowingly opens up the hotel to a serial killer.
Episode 8: Seems Like Old Times (2)
Sophia runs away to her old rest home. When the other girls try to get her, they find that it is no longer anywhere near as bad as she said it was.
Episode 1: Pilot
After their ex-roommate Dorothy moves away to Atlanta with her new husband, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia sell their house and decide to purchase a dilapidated hotel near the beach.
Episode 9: Just a Gigolo
Nick De Carlo, a handsome patron says he cannot pay the bill and wants to work in the kitchen. The girls want to find something more appropriate for him to do and ask him about his trade. Nick says he is a gigolo. Shocked, the girls hire him anyway to wash the dishes.
Episode 10: Marriage on the Rocks, With a Twist
Roland's parents call to visit. He thinks they are flying over to tell him his dog died. It turns out they have decided to get a divorce. A comic duo is coming for a radio show live from The Golden Palace. Sophia advises the duo to use Rose for the show where they need a stupid person to make fun of.
Episode 11: Camp Town Races Aren't Nearly as Much Fun as They Used to Be
When The Daughters of the Traditional South are set to arrive at the hotel, Blanche hangs a Confederate flag on the front counter, though this doesn't bode well with Roland. Meanwhile, Rose is outraged when a married man whom she knows checks in with his mistress.
Episode 12: It's Beginning to Look a Lot (Less) Like Christmas
Chuy does not like Christmas because of bad memories in his childhood. Roland accepts to be Santa at the children's hospital. Rose wants him to be a perfect Santa so she puts him through a training with Sophia.
Episode 13: Rose and Fern
Miles contacts Rose again and wants them back together. Blanche advises Rose to date other people to get over him. Roland tells Blanche something is wrong in the books and he suspects someone may be stealing money from the hotel.