The Golden Girls - Season 6

The Golden Girls - Season 6

Season 6

The sixth season of The Golden Girls premiered on NBC on September 22, 1990, and concluded on May 4, 1991. The season consisted of 26 episodes.
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Episodes26
DatesSep 22, 1990 - May 4, 1991
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Episodes

Blanche Delivers
Season 6Episode 130 min

Blanche Delivers

Blanche's pregnant daughter, Rebecca, pales at the thought of childbirth.

Sep 22, 1990
Once, in St. Olaf
Season 6Episode 230 min

Once, in St. Olaf

Sophia gets a hernia after hanging out with some friends and has to have it surgically repaired. After she has the procedure done at the hospital where Rose volunteers at, she soon gets misplaced by hospital staff. Meanwhile, Rose has the opportunity to meet her biological father – who happens to be a monk – when he arrives at the hospital to have his knee repaired.

Sep 29, 1990
If at Last You Do Succeed
Season 6Episode 330 min

If at Last You Do Succeed

Stanley comes up with an innovated way of eating a popular food and wants to expand his business overseas. When he has an important dinner meeting with some Japanese investors, he turns to Dorothy for help wine and dine the investors. However, when he tries to convince her to give their relationship another chance, Dorothy sees Stanley in a new light when he finally starts to stand up for himself when she turns him down.

Oct 6, 1990
Snap Out of It
Season 6Episode 430 min

Snap Out of It

Sophia gets Dorothy to help her make deliveries for meals on wheels at a nearby apartment building. When Sophia is talking to one of residents, Dorothy discovers that one of the people on the route is an aging hippie scared to leave his apartment. As a result, Dorothy takes it upon herself to try to and re-introduce him to society slowly, only things don't go as planned. At home. Rose wants to throw Blanche a surprise birthday party.

Oct 13, 1990
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy
Season 6Episode 530 min

Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy

Blanche gets an unexpected visit from her childhood "mammy" (nanny) but Blanche is reluctant to even speak to her since she deserted her when she was a child. Meanwhile, Sophia hires a matchmaker for Dorothy who experiences a date with a convict.

Oct 20, 1990
Feelings
Season 6Episode 630 min

Feelings

Dorothy is working as a long-term sub at a local high school. When Sophia discovers that she is starting to be harassed into giving the football star a passing grade in English, Sophia joins a long line of football supporters in pressuring Dorothy into giving the student a passing grade. Elsewhere, Rose is hesitant into turning in her dentist after he sexually harasses her.

Oct 27, 1990
Zborn Again
Season 6Episode 730 min

Zborn Again

Dorothy resists Stan's attempts at reconciliation after he finally hits it big; Rose asks Sophia for help with dealing with an annoying co-worker.

Nov 3, 1990
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?
Season 6Episode 830 min

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?

After a good friend of Sophia's passes away, Sophia decides to follow in her footsteps -- and become a nun. Meanwhile, Blanche gets in an accident while borrowing Rose's car.

Nov 10, 1990
Mrs. George Devereaux
Season 6Episode 930 min

Mrs. George Devereaux

Strange happenings: Blanche is shocked when she finds out her late husband George has seemingly returned from the grave; meanwhile, both Lyle Waggoner and Sonny Bono vie for Dorothy's affections.

Nov 17, 1990
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die
Season 6Episode 1030 min

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die

Both Sophia and Rose take advice from Blanche that lands each of them in hot water. Due to a drought in St. Olaf, Rose swears to be celibate and Blanche advises her not to tell Miles the truth. While Sophia takes Blanche's tips to lure a man to bed but when she tells him she loves him, he doesn't respond with what she hoped.

Nov 24, 1990
Stand by Your Man
Season 6Episode 1130 min

Stand by Your Man

Blanche meets a man at the library and only after they make a date does she realizes he's in a wheelchair. Meanwhile, Rose wants to keep one of the puppies from Dreyfuss' litter despite Blanche's feelings.

Dec 1, 1990
Ebbtide's Revenge
Season 6Episode 1230 min

Ebbtide's Revenge

Dorothy must give the eulogy at her brother (a cross dresser), Phil's funeral. Meanwhile, a feud between Sophia and Phil's widow reaches a peak leading Sophia to reveal her hidden feelings about her son's alternative lifestyle.

Dec 15, 1990
The Bloom is Off the Rose
Season 6Episode 1330 min

The Bloom is Off the Rose

Miles feels he is competing with Rose's late husband; Blanche is mistreated by an old flame.

Jan 5, 1991
Sisters of the Bride
Season 6Episode 1430 min

Sisters of the Bride

Blanche has some soul-searching to do when her brother announces he is to be a bride.

Jan 12, 1991
Miles to Go
Season 6Episode 1530 min

Miles to Go

After hearing that a mobster has died, Miles reveals that he has been in a witness protection program. However, when it is revealed that the mobster faked his death, Miles must leave Miami and go into hiding.

Jan 19, 1991
There Goes the Bride (1)
Season 6Episode 1630 min

There Goes the Bride (1)

Dorothy has been sneaking around so that Sophia doesn't discover that she's been dating Stan. However, when Stan proposes, Dorothy must reveal the truth to Sophia.

Feb 2, 1991
There Goes the Bride (2)
Season 6Episode 1730 min

There Goes the Bride (2)

Totally against Dorothy and Stan's impending nuptials, Sophia vows to not let the ceremony go off. Meanwhile, Blanche begins interviewing for a new roommate since Dorothy is planning to move out.

Feb 9, 1991
Older and Wiser
Season 6Episode 1830 min

Older and Wiser

Wanting someone to watch after Sophia during the day, Dorothy gets Sophia a job under false pretenses. Meanwhile, Blanche and Rose are all excited about being hired as models for a Penny Saver.

Feb 16, 1991
Melodrama
Season 6Episode 1930 min

Melodrama

Blanche wants to intensify her relationship with her infamous one night stand man, Mel Bushman. Meanwhile, Rose tries her hand at TV reporting, her assignment, a dog show.

Feb 16, 1991
Even Grandmas Get the Blues
Season 6Episode 2030 min

Even Grandmas Get the Blues

While babysitting for her granddaughter, a man mistakes Blanche as being the baby's mother and Blanche does nothing to set him straight. Meanwhile, Sophia gets ready for the Festival of the Dancing Virgins, a celebration of mothers and daughters but Dorothy wants no part of it.

Mar 2, 1991
Witness
Season 6Episode 2130 min

Witness

Rose has a new man, Carl, in her life but suddenly out of the blue Miles returns, still undercover in the Witness Protection Program. However, things get hairy when Carl reveals himself to be the mobster that is after Miles. Meanwhile, Sophia loses her glasses.

Mar 9, 1991
What a Difference a Date Makes
Season 6Episode 2230 min

What a Difference a Date Makes

The man who stood Dorothy up for her senior prom contacts her and they make a date. After learning why he stood her up, Dorothy unleashes her wrath on the person at fault, Sophia.

Mar 23, 1991
Love for Sale
Season 6Episode 2330 min

Love for Sale

The girls prepare for the Children's Hospital Bachelorette Auction and a reluctant Dorothy decides to participate. She is in for a quick surprise when Stan walks in and begins bidding. Meanwhile, Sophia's brother, Angelo, comes to Miami, broke and with no place to live.

Apr 6, 1991
Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (1)
Season 6Episode 2430 min

Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (1)

Sophia becomes the prime suspect in the investigation surrounding a fire at Shady Pines retirement home.

Apr 27, 1991
Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (2)
Season 6Episode 2530 min

Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (2)

Sophia cannot recall the events that lead to the Shady Pines fire.

Apr 27, 1991
Henny Penny -- Straight, No Chaser
Season 6Episode 2630 min

Henny Penny -- Straight, No Chaser

Dorothy is in charge of directing a school play, Henny Penny, but when the cast is quarantined, she gets Rose, Blanche and herself to perform as the leads. But when Rose reads the ending, she wants no part in the play.

May 4, 1991

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