GOLDEN GIRLS, THE: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO MARINARA (TV)
Summary
One in this comedy series about four older women -- two widows, and a divorcée and her mother -- who share a home in Miami and help each other to cope with growing older and being single again.
In this episode, Sophia happily reveals that she and her gentleman caller Tony won a dance contest. Rose brings home a live chicken, Count Bessie, saying that she is taking care of her for a friend and displaying Bessie's talents on the piano. Sophia's sister Angela then arrives from Sicily, saying that she is on vacation; she cooks dinner for them all, though Rose contributes a strange Viking dessert. When she mentions that most of the rest of their family is dead, Dorothy suggests that she should move to Miami and live in their home, much to Sophia's annoyance. Three weeks in, Rose is still caring for Count Bessie and Sophia is frustrated with her sister's presence, claiming that she always takes her things. Angela then mocks Sophia's cooking skills and presents the women with a chicken dinner, just as Rose realizes that Count Bessie is missing.
Rose is devastated and frets about breaking the news to her friend; Blanche and Dorothy attempt to comfort her. Angela announces that she has found a new place to live, and Sophia attempts to call a truce between them. She then learns that Angela's new roommate is none other than Tony. Rose attempts to find another chicken with musical talent to replace Count Bessie, and Blanche comments on the rivalry between sisters. Meanwhile, Sophia begins to suspect that Tony and Angela are fooling around behind her back. When she goes to their home to confront them, she learns that they are not involved—but Tony does indeed have another girlfriend, prompting both sisters to gang up on him. Angela returns home with Sophia and they make up, with Sophia giving her a necklace that belonged to their mother. Rose is delighted to realize that Count Bessie simply escaped and was not made into made into dinner after all. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: February 21, 1987 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:13853
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1985-1992
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Paul Junger Witt … Executive Producer
- Tony Thomas … Executive Producer
- Kathy Spier … Producer
- Terry Grossman … Producer
- Marsha Posner Williams … Co-Producer
- Winifred Hervey … Co-Producer
- Mort Nathan … Co-Producer, Writer
- Barry Fanaro … Co-Producer, Writer
- Greg Giangregorio … Associate Producer
- Susan Harris … Created by
- Terry Hughes … Director
- George Aliceson Tipton … Music by
- Beatrice Arthur … Cast, Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak
- Betty White … Cast, Rose Nylund
- Rue McClanahan … Cast, Blanche Devereaux
- Estelle Getty … Cast, Sophia Petrillo
- Nancy Walker … Cast, Angela
- Joe Alfasa … Cast, Tony
- Esther Larner … Cast, Woman