Golden Girls characters-real life performance

The characters that played in the hit TV series 'The Golden Girls' were all charming and lovable. Viewers not only appreciated their performances but also idolized the stars. Each role was important and the actresses performed in perfect unison. The result was that Golden Girls became an all time hit TV show which is still viewed by people worldwide. The characters were that of Dorothy, Sophia (Dorothy's mother), Rose and Blanche. The four actresses who enacted these characters peaked in their performances in this particular TV show. However in the later years after this show was over they could not create the same magic again.

Golden Girls premiered on the 14th of September 1985 with its very first episode 'The Engagement'. The show went on till May 9 1992 when it was taken off air and discontinued though it is still being aired today by some select TV channels. The lead roles were played by Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty. It was produced by Touchstone Television and distributed by Buena Vista Television.

The Golden Girls episodes were all hits and viewers never found the episodes boring though there were repetitions. The credit for this goes both to the characters that held on their powerful performances and the topics that were chosen for each episode. The topics centered round controversial subjects of those days like gay marriage, menopause, impotence, drug addiction, infidelity, interracial marriage, transsexualism, homophobia, cross-dressing, lesbianism, artificial insemination, sexual harassment, senility etc.

Coming to the episodes there was one titled 'Sick and tired', where Dorothy was fantastic in portraying her frustration because she was suffering from fatigue and lethargy. Her frustration increases more when the doctors were unable to diagnose her illness. Then there were two other episodes namely 'Dancing in the dark' and 'Clinton Avenue Memoirs' notable for the performance of Rose and Dorothy respectively. Rose delivered a great performance in 'Dancing in the dark' when she gives up trying to adjust with the high profile intellectual friends of her boyfriend. Similarly 'Clinton Avenue Memoirs' episode has Dorothy who shows her hopelessness at her mother Sophia's utter forgetfulness. Both these episodes had many hilarious scenes.