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metroweekly.comTHE GOLDEN PALACE ON HULUEvery queer person of a certain age has at least one friend obsessed with The Golden Girls, to the point they can recite dialogue from any number of episodes verbatim.
Bet they can’t do the same when it comes to The Golden Palace. Thirty years ago, after Bea Arthur left the Girls, CBS greenlit a sequel to the hit NBC sitcom from creator Susan Harris, and proceeded to give the lackluster show a full season run of 24 episodes before putting it out to pasture.
In fact, only the most golden of the Golden fanatics have managed to see any episodes from the short-lived sequel since it originally aired — principally, those who caught the Golden Girls marathons that Lifetime would periodically air, with the cable channel occasionally throwing in The Golden Palace as a de-facto eighth season of the original.In 2017, The Golden Girls was added to Hulu.
And this week, the popular streaming platform added The Golden Palace as a tribute to Betty White, who passed away a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday.
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