The Golden Palace was a spin-off of the sitcomThe Golden Girls broadcast during the 1992–93 season on the AmericanTV networkCBS. It featured three of the four characters from The Golden Girls operating an upscale hotel called The Golden Palace. The show was never as popular as its predecessor, perhaps due to the absence of Beatrice Arthur as a regular cast member. Arthur did make two guest appearances, as did others from the original show.
Twenty-four episodes of this series are known to have been filmed. A second season was rumored to be filmed, but CBS decided not to renew the series (it had finished outside the Top 50 TV shows of the year in the ratings) for the 1993-94 season, and if it did exist, the episodes of such have not been broadcast, even in reruns. The series finale featured Blanche contemplating motherhood again.
Cast
Betty White as Rose Nylund, a jack-of-all-trades in the hotel. She is of a notably stronger will than her previous incarnation (as Dorothy Zbornak noted in her guest appearance, "When did she become the strong one?").File:Palacecast.jpgThe cast of The Golden Palace
Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo, the hotel's co-chef. She is beginning to show signs of senility. (Getty herself would develop Lewy body dementia, a degenerative disorder similar to Alzheimer's.)
Prior to this, Lifetime had aired reruns of Palace for a "limited time only" from August 1, 2005 to September 16, 2005; rerunning at 6:30 and 11:00 p.m. (though there was no Friday showing at 11:00 p.m.). The popularity of the "lost series" led Lifetime to insert them into the rotation permanently.
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