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The second season of The Golden Girls premiered on NBC-TV on September 27th, 1986, and concluded on May 16th, 1987. The season consisted of twenty-six episodes.


Cast

Main Cast

Recurring Cast

Episodes

Picture Title Original Airdate Episode # No. in Series Prod. code Directed by Written by
26 End of the Curse September 27th, 1986 1 26 2.1 Terry Hughes Susan Harris
Blanche is depressed when she thinks she is pregnant, but is devastated when she finds out she is beginning menopause. Rose and Dorothy try their hands at mink-breeding with no success.
Guest Stars: Philip Sterling as Dr. Barensfeld; Vince Cannon as Dr. Parks.
Note: Rue McClanahan won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy for this episode. Philip Sterling appears in Season 3 as Dr. Ashley.
27 Ladies of the Evening October 4th, 1986 2 27 2.2 Terry Hughes Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan
Blanche wins three tickets to a premiere of Burt Reynolds's new movie and passes to the after-party, leaving Sophia angry about being left out. The girls decide to make a weekend out of attending the premiere and get arrested when their hotel is raided for prostitution. Sophia then gets revenge by claiming the tickets and passes and going to the premiere alone, leaving the others in jail. However, the story has a happy ending when Burt stops by the house to take Sophia up on a dinner offer and the roommates get to meet him after all.
Guest Stars: Peter Jason as The Policeman; Rhonda Aldrich as Meg; Ron Michaelson as Carl
28 Take Him, He's Mine October 11th, 1986 3 28 2.3 Terry Hughes Kathy Speer & Terry Grossman
Blanche takes Dorothy's ex-husband Stan out as a favor to Dorothy, but when Blanche says they hit it off, Dorothy becomes jealous. Rose and Sophia team up to sell sandwiches and end up threatened by the mob.
Guest Stars: Herb Edelman as Stan; Lana Schwab as The Girl; Tom La Grua as Vinnie.
29 It's a Miserable Life November 1st, 1986 4 29 2.4 Terry Hughes Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan
The girls work on saving a 200-year-old oak tree in their neighborhood and become frustrated when the grouchy neighbor on whose property the tree is located does not object to it being removed and actually encourages it. At a local council meeting, Rose reaches her limit and yells at the woman, who then dies of a heart attack, leaving Rose feeling guilty.
Guest Stars: Nan Martin as Frieda Claxton; Thom Sharp as Mr. Pfeiffer
Note: Nan Martin would later appear in Season 4.
30 Isn't It Romantic November 8th, 1986 5 30 2.5 Terry Hughes Jeffrey Duteil
Dorothy's lesbian friend Jean visits and develops feelings for Rose.
Guest Star: Lois Nettleton as Jean
Notes: This episode tied with "Ladies of the Evening" as the highest-rated episode of the series. For this episode, Terry Hughes won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. The episode was also the subject of three more Primetime Emmy nominations: Jeffrey Duteil was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Betty White was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and Lois Nettleton was nominated for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series.
31 Big Daddy's Little Lady November 15th, 1986 6 31 2.5 David Steinberg Russell Marcus
Blanche is thrilled when her father, Big Daddy, announces he is getting married, but quickly changes her attitude when she finds out how young the bride-to-be is. Dorothy and Rose enter a song-writing contest and creative differences almost come between them.
Guest Stars: David Wayne as Curtis "Big Daddy" Hollingsworth, Sondra Currie as Margaret Spencer
Notes: David Wayne was cast as Big Daddy after the passing of Murray Hamilton.
032 - The Golden Girls - Family Affair Family Affair November 22nd, 1986 7 32 2.7 Terry Hughes Winifred Hervey
When Rose's daughter, Bridget Nylund, and Dorothy's musician son, Michael Zbornak, both visit and sleep together, it prompts a vicious fight between their mothers.
Guest Stars: Scott Jacoby as Michael Zbornak; Marilyn Jones as Bridget Nylund
033 -The Golden Girls - Vacation Vacation November 29th, 1986 8 33 2.8 Terry Hughes Winifred Hervey
Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche vacation in the Caribbean, but find the accommodations seriously not to their liking. Back in Miami, Sophia woos the girls' Japanese gardener.
Guest Stars: Keye Luke as Toshiro Mitsumo, Tom Villard as Rick, Stephen Lee as Dwayne, Brett Porter as Winston Hardwick III, Stuart Pankin as Jacques DeCourville
Notes: Tom Villard would reappear as Randy in Season 7.
034 -The Golden Girls - Joust Between Friends Joust Between Friends December 6th, 1986 9 34 2.9 Terry Hughes Scott Spencer Gordon
Dorothy takes a job working with Blanche at the museum and things go well until Dorothy starts keeping secrets from Blanche.

Guest Stars: Reid Shelton as Mr. Allen and Inky as the Stray Dog

035 -The Golden Girls - Love Rose Love, Rose December 13th, 1986 10 35 2.10 Terry Hughes Kathy Speer & Terry Grossman
With Rose feeling lonely, she takes Blanche's advice and places an ad in the local newspaper's personals column. When she gets no response and feels even more depressed, Blanche sends her a response under the name Isaac Q. Newton. Their deception works until Rose invites Isaac to be her date at a formal banquet, and Issac turns out to be a real person who contradicts the imaginary one in every way. Blanche and Dorothy are forced to confess when Rose starts accusing Issac of lying. Meanwhile, Sophia is stalked by an elderly gentleman and ends up going to the banquet with him, only to discover his actions are because he mistakenly believes she's rich.
Guest Stars: Paul Dooley as Isaac Q. Newton and Colin Drake as Wilfred Witley Cheswick
Notes: Paul Dooley appears in a later episode as George Corliss.
037 -The Golden Girls - Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas "'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas" December 20th, 1986 11 36 2.11 Terry Hughes Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan
A series of mishaps almost ruins the girls' Christmas. They plan to fly home to visit their families, but are taken hostage at Rose's office by a lonely man dressed as Santa Claus. Sophia defuses the situation, but their flights are subsequently cancelled due to the weather, and they have to spend Christmas Eve in a roadside diner.
Guest Stars: Terry Kiser as Santa Claus, Craig Richard Nelson as Thurber, Teddy Willson as Albert, Sam Anderson as Meyer, Buddy Daniels as Airport Mendicant
037-The Golden Girls-The Sisters The Sisters January 3rd, 1987 12 37 2.12 Terry Hughes Christopher Lloyd
Dorothy arranges for Sophia's sister, Angela, to fly from Sicily to Miami as a surprise gift for Sophia's birthday, not realizing that Sophia and Angela have been feuding for decades, over what turns out to be a big misunderstanding.
Guest Stars: Nancy Walker as Angela
038 -The Golden Girls- The Stan Who Came to Dinner The Stan Who Came to Dinner January 10th, 1987 13 38 2.13 Terry Hughes Kathy Speer & Terry Grossman
After a major heart surgery, Stan temporarily moves in with the ladies, and quickly overstays his welcome.
Guest Stars: Herb Edelman as Stanley Zbornak; Rod Sabbe as Rob; Odil Sabbe as Bob; Steve Kramer as Dr. Stephen Deutsch; Mario Machado as voice of Sportscaster
0239 -The Golden Girls - The Actor = Blanche and Patrick Vaughn The Actor January 17th, 1987 14 39 2.14 Terry Hughes Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan
When a handsome actor comes to Miami to star in a play at the local community theater, he dates Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy simultaneously, leading each of them to believe he will marry them.
Guest Stars: Lloyd Bochner as Patrick Vaughn, Janet Carroll as Phyllis Hammerow, Frank Birney as the Stage Manager
040 -The Golden Girls - Before and After Before and After January 24th, 1987 15 40 2.15 Terry Hughes Bob Rosenfarb
After suffering an esophageal spasm, Rose decides to "live for the day", upsetting the other girls and eventually moving out.
Guest Stars: Deborah May as Liz, Rosanna Huffman as Stephanie, Nat Bernstein as Dr. Wallerstein
Notes: Nat Bernstein appears in the following episode as Emily's father
041 - The Golden Girls - And Then There Was One And Then There Was One January 31st, 1987 16 41 2.16 Terry Hughes Russell Marcus
The girls volunteer to babysit the children of participants in a local marathon, in which Sophia participates, and become concerned when a baby girl's parents don't come to pick her up after the race. It turns out the girl's mother went into labor and Sophia forgot to give the girls the message.
Guest Stars: Christopher Burton as Norman; Nat Bernstein as Emily's father; Ray Combs as Bob Henderson; Ariana Richards as Lisa
042 - The Golden Girls - Bedtime Story Bedtime Story February 7th, 1987 17 42 2.17 Terry Hughes Kathy Speer & Terry Grossman
Mort Nathan & Barry Fanaro
Trying to decide on sleeping arrangements for visiting relatives, the ladies reminisce about places where they have previously slept, from a train station to Sophia's bed.
Guest Stars: Randy Bennett as Stationmaster
043 - The Golden Girls - Forgive Me Father Forgive Me, Father February 14th, 1987 18 43 2.18 Terry Hughes Kathy Speer & Terry Grossman
Dorothy has her eye on a handsome teacher colleague at the school where she has been working, but doesn't realize he is a priest. He further confuses her when he tells her he is thinking of "leaving the church."
Guest Stars: John McMartin as Father Frank Leahy, and Barney McGeary as Father Callahan.
044 Long Day's Journey into Marinara February 21st, 1987 19 44 2.19 Terry Hughes Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan
When Sophia's sister Angela moves to Miami, Sophia quickly begins to think she wants to take everything she has, including her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Rose, who has been babysitting a friend's piano-playing chicken, is horrified when it appears that Angela has killed the chicken and fried it up for dinner.
Guest Stars: Nancy Walker as Angela Vecchio; Joe Alfasa as Tony; Esther Larner as Woman.
045 - The Golden Girls - Whose Face Is This Anyway Whose Face is This, Anyway? February 28th, 1987 20 45 2.20 Terry Hughes Winifred Hervey
After attending her college sorority reunion and seeing that her sorority sisters have had plastic surgery and seeing how old she looks in a video Rose made for community college class, Blanche decides to have an aggressive amount of plastic surgery herself.
Guest Stars: Joseph Whipp as Dr. Taylor
046 - The Golden Girls - Dorothy's Prized Pupil Dorothy's Prized Pupil March 14th, 1987 21 46 2.21 Terry Hughes Christopher Lloyd
Dorothy tutors a young Hispanic boy and enters an essay of his in a local contest where it not only wins first prize, but results in the discovery that he is in the country illegally. Dorothy feels at fault and convinces Mario to fight to stay in America. Mario shows up after the hearing to tell Dorothy he is being deported, but will be able to undergo the procedures to legally return, much to Dorothy's relief. Meanwhile, Rose decides that she must become Blanche's personal servant for a week to atone for losing a pair of Blanche's earrings, which it turns out Blanche herself lost.
Guest Stars: Mario Lopez as Mario; John Braden as Sam Burns; Danny Goldman as man in theatre; Chip Olcott as Burt Nesbitt.
047 - The Golden Girls - Diamond in the Rough - Jake and Blanche Diamond in the Rough March 21st, 1987 22 47 2.22 Terry Hughes Jan Fischer & William Weidner
Blanche dates a handsome caterer and shocks the other girls when she refuses to commit to a serious relationship with him.
Guest Stars: Donnelly Rhodes as Jake Smollens, Howard Witt as Hunter McCoy
048 - The Golden Girls - Son-in-Law Dearest - Dorothy and Kate Son-in-Law Dearest April 11th, 1987 23 48 2.23 Terry Hughes Patt Shea & Harriet Weiss
Dorothy's daughter Kate visits (as well as Stan) and reveals that she has left her husband, Dennis, after he cheated on her. Dorothy is even more furious when Kate reconciles with him. Meanwhile, Blanche and Rose watch an I Love Lucy marathon on television.
Guest Stars: Herb Edelman as Stanley Zbornak; Deena Freeman as Kate Zbornak-Griffiths; Jonathan Perpich as Dennis Griffiths.
049 - The Golden Girls - To Catch a Neighbor To Catch a Neighbor May 2nd, 1987 24 49 2.24 Terry Hughes Russell Marcus
The girls allow two undercover cops to use their house as a base for spying on their new neighbors, who are suspected of being jewel thieves. Dorothy develops a crush on the senior detective and Sophia takes advantage of this. In the middle of the night, the neighbors' house is raided as they try to sell the diamonds and they are arrested, but the junior cop is shot in the process, discouraging Dorothy's notions of a relationship.
Guest Stars: Joseph Campanella as Al Mullins; George Clooney as Bobby Hopkins; Barbara Tarbuck as Martha McDowell.
PieceOfCake A Piece of Cake May 9th, 1987 25 50 2.25 Terry Hughes Kathy Speer & Terry Grossman
Mort Nathan & Barry Fanaro
The ladies recall other birthday celebrations while preparing a surprise birthday party for a friend. Dorothy recalls Rose taking her to a children's restaurant, Rose recalls her first birthday following her husband's death, Sophia recalls her 50th birthday in 1955, when she fought with her husband as he pointed out an error on her birth certificate that made her think she was 48, forcing Dorothy to defuse the situation, and Blanche recalls her first birthday after the girls started living together, when she used to hate celebrating her birthday until the others throw her a surprise party with all the men from her address book. It turns out the party in the present is for Blanche as well, and the women celebrate by joining a conga line made up of the men from Blanche's past party.
Guest Stars: Alan Blumenfeld as Mr. Ha Ha; Lynnie Greene as Young Dorothy, Sid Melton as the voice of Salvatore Petrillo.
EmptyNests Empty Nests May 16th, 1987 26 51 2.26 Jay Sandrich Susan Harris
The girls' neighbor Renee feels lonely because her doctor husband, George, works constantly and their children have moved out.
Guest Stars: Paul Dooley as Dr. George Corliss; Rita Moreno as Renee Corliss; David Leisure as Oliver; Jane Harnick as Jenny Corliss; Geoffrey Lewis as Chuck.
Notes: This episode was a backdoor pilot that was intended to become the spin-off series Empty Nest, but the cast and concept were changed significantly before the latter launched as a series.

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Release

Broadcast

The season originally aired Saturdays at 9:00-9:30 pm (EST) on NBC-TV from September 27, 1986 to May 16, 1987.[1][2]

DVD Release

The Regions 1, 2 and 4 DVDs were respectively released on May 15th, August 1st and September 21st, 2005.

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