The Golden Palace

The Golden Palace
Created by	Susan Harris
Starring	Betty White Rue McClanahan Estelle Getty Don Cheadle Cheech Marin Billy L. Sullivan
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	24
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 18, 1992 – May 7, 1993

The Golden Palace was a spin-off of the sitcom The Golden Girls broadcast during the 1992–93 season on the American TV network CBS. 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.

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?").
• Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux, who served as the main operator of the hotel.
• 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.)
• Don Cheadle as Roland Wilson, the hotel's manager
• Cheech Marin as Chuy Castillos, the chef alongside Sophia.
• Billy L. Sullivan as Oliver Webb, Roland's foster child for the first 6 episodes and Episode 14

Despite her constant appearances on television, this was Betty White's first (and, as of March 2008 only) top-billed role as a TV series regular since the 1977-78 The Betty White Show.

Repeats

LivingTV, a British station, has aired Palace repeats for quite some time now.

Lifetime, the current U.S. syndicated home of The Golden Girls, aired reruns of Palace in rotation along with the regular episodes of The Golden Girls, as a de facto "eighth season" of said series, from December 2005 until April 17 2006. Lifetime had previously aired reruns of Palace for a "limited time only" from August 1 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 network no longer airs the series.

Episodes list

Episode Number	Title	Airdate
01	Pilot	September 18, 1992
02	Promotional Considerations	September 25, 1992
03	Miles, We Hardly Knew Ye	October 2, 1992
04	One Old Lady to Go	October 9, 1992
05	Ebbtide for the Defense	October 16, 1992
06	Can't Stand Losing You	October 23, 1992
07	Seems Like Old Times (Part 1)1	October 30, 1992
08	Seems Like Old Times (Part 2)1	November 6, 1992
09	Just a Gigolo	November 13, 1992
10	Marriage on the Rocks, With a Twist	November 20, 1992
11	Camp Town Races Aren't Nearly as Much Fun as They Used to Be	December 4, 1992
12	It's Beginning to Look a Lot (Less) Like Christmas	December 18, 1992
13	Rose and Fern	January 8, 1993
14	Runaways	January 15, 1993
15	Heartbreak Hotel	January 29, 1993
16	Señor Stinky Learns Absolutely Nothing About Life	February 5, 1993
17	Say Goodbye, Rose	February 12, 1993
18	You've Lost That Livin' Feeling	February 19, 1993
19	A New Leash on Life	April 2, 1993
20	Pro and Concierge	April 9, 1993
21	Tad	April 16, 1993
22	One Angry Stan	April 30, 1993
23	Sex, Lies and Tortillas	May 7, 1993
24	The Chicken and the Egg²	May 14, 1993
Notes: 1 Beatrice Arthur as Dorothy (from The Golden Girls) is a special guest star in "Seems Like Old Times" ²"The Chicken and the Egg" was the season finale. CBS considered a second season but ultimately decided to cancel it for the 1993 fall lineup (CBS).