This little tidbit from The GPs Wikipedia page tells a story:ĬBS used The Golden Palace as one of four comedies assembled on Friday night in an effort to combat ABC's TGIF comedy block The Golden Palace was grouped with Major Dad, Designing Women, and Bob, all of which were either successful comedies prior to the move, or in the case of Bob, featured a previously successful sitcom star (Bob Newhart). The Golden Palace, NBC offered 13 episodes but they took it to CBS for the full 24. while the show was still 'on top' or that she had been in TV since 1972 and called herself the 'sitcom queen', after Golden Girls had ended she returned to broadway and made a handful of appearances on TV. Her last award nomination was for her guest episode on Malcom in the Middle ) but by season 7 the show ranked for the first time in 7 years out of the top 10 it ranked 30, and according to the cast and crew documentary they had already planned their continuation series.
It was missing a leg.'- Betty White.ĭuring Season 7 of the Golden Girls, the show clearly ending, as Bea Arthur had finally called time on her time on the show after 7 years she decided to leave the show (as she called it in interviews 'it was the right time to leave.