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Starring: Beatrice Arthur,  Betty White,  Rue McClanahan, 
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Release Date: 1985-09-14
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Format: Box set,  Color,  DVD-Video,  NTSC, 

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Travel to Miami for a visit with the original girls gone wild The Golden Girls! Beatrice Arthur Rue McClanahan Betty White and Estelle Getty are back for Season Five of this multiple Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning comedy. These four young-at-heart ladies couldn't be more different but they stick together through thick and thin. Enjoy every side-splitting episode of Season Five in this laugh-packed DVD box set complete with exclusive bonus material. The hilarious adventures include Sophia going on a bulk-buying binge Rose and Blanche joining a protest to save some dolphins and Dorothy dating a real clown. The girls are also joined by classic guest stars including Dick Van Dyke and they just might be paid a visit by the Commander in Chief himself! It s off-the-wall entertainment at its finest from the gals who wrote the recipe for great comedy.System Requirements:Running Time: 616 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: PG UPC: 786936695892 Manufacturer No: 04974300

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It's a good sign when a new year begins with Jeffrey Tambor (The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development) and ends with Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Simpsons). Tambor shows up as Dorothy's doctor in the The Golden Girls two-part fifth season premiere ("Sick and Tired"). Unfortunately, he isn't able to determine why she's feeling run down, so she pays a visit to Empty Nest's Dr. Weston (Richard Mulligan, who returns a few episodes later). Blanche (Rue McClanahan), meanwhile, decides to become a romance novelist, despite the fact that she can't write. Dorothy (Bea Arthur) will eventually find out she has chronic fatigue syndrome (an affliction shared by writer/creator Susan Harris, who'll soon exit the show), while the flighty Blanche will retire from writing as suddenly as she took it up. Then she'll get the news that her daughter, Rebecca, has decided to become a single mother--via artificial insemination. Blanche is aghast. As for Rose, she'll get a new job as the assistant to a consumer affairs reporter and find second love with professor Miles Webber (Harold Gould). Other guests during the 1989-1990 season include Dick Van Dyke ("Love Under the Big Top"), Robert Culp ("Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom"), and a pre-Law & Order Jerry Orbach ("Cheaters"). Then there's Shearer ("The President's Coming! The President's Coming!"), who provides the voice for the first George Bush. Also, Marc Cherry, the man behind Desperate Housewives, receives his first writing credit, while Mark Moses--now best known as the murderous Rex--appears as Blanche's stepson. Unlike previous sets, this collection includes commentary from Arthur, McClanahan, and White. --Kathleen C Fennessy

Customer Reviews for The Golden Girls - The Complete Fifth Season

Rest In Peace Estelle Getty
I watch 'The Golden Girls' on 'Lifetime' TV: I watch it over and over! It's Great. Seven years wasn't enough! The 'Golden Girls' popularity may be as high as it was while the show was on. Recently, one of the Presumptive Presidential candidates featured them in one of their political ads - Interestingly, Senator Hillary Clinton earned more votes than any Presidential Primary candidate in history (Interesting reading is Peniel Cronin, Primary v Caucus)The Golden Girls - The Complete Fifth Season

excellent product!
great product - exactly as described! great for any golden girls fan - the perfect gift!The Golden Girls - The Complete Fifth Season

the golden girls. season 5
The golden girls is by far the best sitcom I have watch.
The conversation between the girls are sharp,witty and refreshing.
The fashion sense is good.
You get a good deal for story, laugh, fashion and de-stress.
Buy all the season. Is a golden collection.The Golden Girls - The Complete Fifth Season

BLANCHE I CAN GET HERPES LISTENING TO THIS STORY!!
As a very small child I would fight with my brother every Saturday night when this came on because he never wanted to watch these four old broads. But I did! And so did most of the country! The GG's is classic eighties comedy, at its best! I love watching this show because it's sorta corny in a way but still almost nostalgic. It totally reminds me of my grannys. And, the writing, the comedy and the timing was second to none.

These are the syndicated eps, but I do not mind at all. As I've stated many times, anything diced and sliced is still millennia better than anything on the reality-chowder-pot which has morphed into Network TV! But just so you know, the reason why these are the syndicated eps is not because they didn't have the network versions licensed, it is because the highest quality masters that Buena Vista has are for the syndicated version. (By the way, the Fifth Season will be released onto Region 2 on March 8th & on Region 4 on April 2nd!)

Don't you almost feel like the entire cast is like old friends that you've known for years? There is a very special place in my heart for all of them, especially Bea Arthur. I don't know what it is, she's just the perfect person to portray the tired and harried Dorothy. Isn't she? Years ago, a good friend and I went to see her perform on Broadway. And, being the big fans that we were (and still are) we went and waited outside the stage door for her to exit. Anyway, when Bea came out, it was so hilarious. She starts yelling at everyone, "get out of my way, I'm not signing any autographs." Anyhow, it was just so surreal because Bea was totally behaving like Dorothy; although I'm not sure if even Dorothy was that crotchety? We could not stop laughing at Bea's impromptu encore performance and it only made me love her even more! She taught me one important lesson, always Bea who you want to Bea!

Didn't Dorothy always have the funniest lines? The lines were great, but also so was Bea because she always said it so deadpan, there was never a smile or a subtle look of craziness. These are some of my favorites:
MA!!!
PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER.
Don't ask me, I can't get through to New Jersey with MCI.
I would go out back but there doesn't seem to be any SHADY PINES.
Chew it slowly like they taught you in the HOME.
You sound like Jim and Tammy Faye on NIGHTLINE!
Didn't Jack and Janet do this to Chrissy on an episode of "Three's Company?"
Mr. Belvedere is a humble servant, you are a horsesass.

It's a rare sitcom that's performers are each as likeable and as talented as the other! These are the four members of this show:

Beatrice Arthur played the somewhat frumpy and always stern and strong Dorothy Zbornak! One of my favorite lines & eps with Dorothy was during Season One when the girls all got locked up. Anyway, a tough-talking hooker tried to pick a fight with Blanche, prompting Dorothy to scare her off since she "did time in Attica." But Dorothy knew it would work, confessing to the girls, "I work in the public school system, it's really no different." Of course, before staring on the GG's, Bea was most known for the ground-breaking, perennial seventies sitcom Maude . Bea is also an accomplished Broadway performer and has appeared in many other series television programs (such as: All in the Family and "The Kraft Television Theater") and movies (such as: Mame and "The Floating Lightbulb." ) Like all of the other members of this series, Bea has been a lifelong proponent of animal rights.

Betty White portrayed sweet and extroverted Rose Nylund. Rose was a very proud St. Olafian and often told her roommates about how it was "back in St. Olaf" (much to their displeasure.) She worked as a grief counselor (and in later Seasons as a consumer reporter for a newscast) which was probably because Rose was the type of person who really enjoyed helping others. Before this series, Ms. White enjoyed a very successful career on television for over 35 years! She's probably most famous for her role as Sue Ann Nivens (on The Mary Tyler Moore Show .) She also had her own variety show in the seventies, and through the fifties and sixties she had her own television talk show and television series. Betty White is also very famous for another eighties series, Mama's Family !

Rue McClanahan played the role of sexy Blanche Devereaux. Blanche really enjoyed having a good time but could also be rather vain and catty at times; especially when another man was involved. She worked in an art museum and even though she was in her 50's, still enjoyed a very active sex life! Prior to staring on the GG's, Rue was a cast member on the long-running soap, "Another World." She also played Vivian, on Bea's series, Maude and worked with Betty as prudish Aunt Franny on Mama's Family , who was a complete and total opposite of man-crazy Blanche!

And, of course Estelle Getty played the role of fiesty Sophia Petrillo! Sophia's tongue was as sharp as her wit! It was very rare for one of the other girls to get the best of her! Sophia enjoyed doing charity work and just generally being a family matriarch for her other housemates. Prior to joining "The Golden Girls," Ms. Getty enjoyed a long career as a character actress, on the stage and in television and movies, such as Tootsie and one of my very favorites, Mask ! It's also a little-known fact that Ms. Getty was one of the first A-list television stars who supported AIDS causes!

What I ultimately learned from "The Golden Girls" is that family can really be whatever you make of it. These women loved each other like sisters and I'm certain that the bond could not have been closer if in fact they were actually related. For most of its run, "The Golden Girls" always remained a top-ten series. And, this can be attributed to the stars of the show. Season Five is certainly one of my favorite seasons. But, it's very hard to say which is my very favorite because this series always churned out high-quality entertainment. One of the reasons why I have always loved this show is because it totally transcends time and age because the main message of "The Golden Girls" was truly universal. And, isn't that really rare!The Golden Girls - The Complete Fifth Season

Appears to be edited episodes for syndication
C'mon Disney! It's not enough that you tore down the house used for the exteriors of the show to build a cheesy stunt show at your theme park, but you didn't even give us the complete original episodes that we're supposedly paying for.
One example where I noticed it is when Blanche has a pacemaker put in and therefore there is a scene in the kitchen where Sofia is complaining to Dorothy that they can't have popcorn anymore because they can't use the microwave due to Blanche's pacemaker. Right after this Blanche comes in and has a negative attitude and whines that "life has no meaning." Sofia snaps back "so who's for popcorn?" which gets a roar out of the studio audience, but falls flat with the DVD viewers because the scene between Sofia and Dorothy is edited out on the DVD version.The Golden Girls - The Complete Fifth Season

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