For seven truly golden years, “The Golden Girls” was essential viewing on Saturday nights.
How to account for its amazing success?
The talent of the cast was certainly a big part of it.
The show was also ahead of its time, destigmatizing such issues asdivorceand AIDS.
Here were three women in their 60s playing women in their 50s who were anything but past their prime.
Two of them came from the British royal family.
The fab foursome performed two of their most famous “kitchen table” scenes.
A princess and a “Queen” were also big supporters of the show.
