The Golden Palace aired from September 1992 until August 1993 on CBS.
Looking for a good investment, Rose, Blanche and Sophia ( Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty), three of the original Golden Girls, decided to pool their money and purchase a small Art Deco hotel in the trendy South Bay section of Miami Beach. What they didn't realize was that the hotel, The Golden Palace, had almost no staff and was not generating any profits. So instead of moving in and living comfortably off the profits , they became live-in full-time staff helping to run the place. The rest of the staff was made up of Chuy ( Cheech Marin), the recently divorced Mexican chef, Roland ( Don Cheadle), the competent black manager/desk clerk; and Oliver ( Billy L. Sullivan), the street-smart young boy who did odd jobs for Roland. Roland was Oliver's unofficial foster father ( the boy's mother had deserted him, and his father was in jail). Stories revolved around the problems the three new owners had keeping The Golden Palace afloat and the assorted loony guests who drifted in and out.
A Review from The New York Times
TV Weekend; 3 of the Golden Girls in a New Home
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
Published: September 25, 1992
Spiraling health-care costs, age discrimination: the elderly may not have much to laugh about these days but, at least as far as television entertainment is concerned, oldsters remain a hoot. Absent Bea Arthur, NBC's "Golden Girls" has been resurrected on CBS as "The Golden Palace" (Fridays at 8 P.M.), and the old girls are, well, as irrepressible as ever. And then "Frannie's Turn," also on CBS (Saturdays at 8 P.M.), offers a wacky domestic menagerie that includes a dotty mother-in-law who watches a television shopping network to order items like a "Star Trek" ankle bracelet. Oh, you kids!
In "The Golden Palace," Rose Nylund (Betty White), Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan) and Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) have bought an Art Deco hotel in Miami Beach as an investment for what they envision as their quiet retirement years. But the Golden Palace turns out to be teetering on bankruptcy, and the women are forced to return to hard, full-time work. Their skeletal staff includes Chuy (Cheech Marin, formerly of Cheech and Chong), a Mexican chef with in-law problems; Roland (Don Cheadle), a black would-be entrepreneur serving as house manager, and Oliver (Billy L. Sullivan), an abandoned 12-year-old with street smarts.
Broad-based demographics in place, "The Golden Palace" is eager to let the golden girls be their familiar selves. Rose is naive, but not as dumb as people may think. Blanche goes weak at the knees at the mere thought of a man, but is not as promiscuous as she acts. And Sophia, who's supposed to be 88 years old, drips sarcasm but clearly has a heart of gold. It's all a bit too familiar, and the format is forced into some unseemly stretching. In the first episode, written by the series creator, Susan Harris, Oliver asks Roland to hide him from the new owners. "Who do you think you are?" asks Roland. "Anne Frank?" When a sitcom begins making you cringe, trouble looms.
It's also looming ominously in "Frannie's Turn." Frannie (Miriam Margolyes) is a middle-aged seamstress who has suddenly realized that "if you're not young, beautiful and rich, you don't exist." Tired of being a servant to her macho Cuban husband, Joseph (Tomas Milian), she begins rebelling in a manner that the family attributes to either feminist anger or menopause. Frannie tries to stop her daughter from marrying a man just like her father. At work, she tells off her high-fashion boss, Armando, formerly Arthur of the garment center. At home, Joseph is informed he will have to go to the refigerator himself if he wants a beer.
Meanwhile, Joseph's mother, Rosa (Alice Drummond), obviously a Sophia clone, may be mostly confined to her bed, but she's usually good for a wisecrack or two to perk up the laugh track. But beneath the jokes in "Frannie's Turn," there is real pain and far too much bitterness to be crammed into a sitcom. The most perceptive character of the lot could be spaced-out Eddie (Stivi Paskoski), the teen-age son in a Megadeth T-shirt, who casually treats the rest of the family with the wry disdain they so readily invite. 'The Making of Sgt. Pepper' Disney, Sunday at 9 P.M.
George Martin, recording producer for the Beatles, recalls with undiminished enthusiasm how the legendary "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album was put together 25 years ago.
Sitting before a studio console, Mr. Martin uses single tracks to explain how specific music and vocal effects were achieved for the psychedelic "concept" production. Influences ranging from the Beach Boys and Ravi Shankar to Lewis Carroll are cited. Photos and films from the period are supplemented by recent interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The Beatles recall having been tired of frenzied tours and more than willing to retire to a studio where they would spend some 700 hours working on "Sgt. Pepper." Being written off in parts of the media at the time, the Beatles needed a hit. With the album finished, Mr. Martin says, "I remember sitting and rubbing my hands and saying, 'You just wait.' " More than eight million copies of the album have been sold to date. The Golden Palace CBS, tonight at 8 (Channel 2 in New York)
Created and written by Susan Harris for Witt-Thomas-Harris Productions in association with Touchstone Pictures and Television; directed by Terry Hughes; music, George Aliceson Tipton; production designer, Edward Stephenson; costumes, Judy Evans; producers, Nina Feinberg and Jim Vallely; supervising producers, Mitchell Hurwitz, Jamie Wooten and Marc Cherry; executive producers, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, Susan Harris and Marc Sotkin.
Rose Nylund . . . Betty White Blanche Devereaux . . . Rue McClanahan Sophia Petrillo . . . Estelle Getty Chuy Castillo . . . Cheech Marin Roland . . . Don Cheadle Oliver . . . Billy L. Sullivan Brad . . . Stephen James Carver Man 1liLee Ryan Frannie's Turn CBS, tomorrow at 8 P.M. (Channel 2 in New York)
Created and written by Chuck Lorre for Carsey-Werner Productions; directed by Sam Weisman; music by Michael Linn; production designer, Garvin Eddy; lighting, Daniel Flannery; costumes, Betsy Jones Zwick; editor, Joe Bella; choreography, Murphy Cross; executive producers, Chuck Lorre, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach.
Frannie Escobar . . . Miriam Margolyes Joseph Escobar . . . Tomas Milian Rosa . . . Alice Drummond Olivia . . . Phoebe Augustine Eddie . . . Stivi Paskoski Vivian . . . LaTanya Richardson Armando . . . Taylor Negron
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