The following scene’s from the episode of The Golden Girls titled A Little Romance. The episode first aired on December 14, 1985. Wow, has it really been that long?!?!
In this episode, Rose is dating a Psychiatrist, Dr. Jonathan Newman. She has kept him a secret from Dorothy, Blanche, and Sophia because the good doctor (played to hilarious perfection by Brent Collins) is a “little person” and she doesn’t know how they’ll react. The great Billy Barty (My Three Sons, Get Smart, The Waltons, 1978 The Lord of the Rings…) makes a memorable cameo in the episode.
In the scene below, Dorothy and Blanche are in the living room grilling Rose about her date when Sophia comes in… as Sophia usually does, at just the right time.
Dorothy: So, um, where are you going? Rose: Out with a friend from work. Blanche: Is it the same friend you’ve been out with 5 times in the last 3 weeks: Rose: Yes. Blanche: Alright, spill it. Who is he? Rose: His name is Dr. Jonathan Newman. He’s a psychiatrist at the Grief Center. Blanche: Soooo, you’re seing a psychiatrist?!?! Sophia: (entering the room) It’s about time.
For the first time in 33 years, Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White will appear onscreen together. As a longtime fan of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, I’m over the moon.
TV Land has announced that beloved and acclaimed Emmy® award-winning actress and Oscar nominee Mary Tyler Moore (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show”) will guest star on the second season premiere of TV Land’s hit sitcom “Hot in Cleveland” on Wednesday, January 19th at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Moore will join the sensational veteran cast of Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White. “Hot In Cleveland” is written by Emmy® Award-winning Suzanne Martin (“Frasier,” “Ellen”) and produced by Emmy® Award-winner Sean Hayes (“Will & Grace”) and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions. The premiere episode will be taped at CBS Radford, the same studio where “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was taped over three decades ago.
Moore’s guest appearance will be the first time in 33 years that she and Betty White have acted on screen together since the groundbreaking hit “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” went off the air. Moore’s role in the sitcom will involve White’s character Elka, who in the season one cliffhanger, was arrested.
About Mary Tyler Moore:
Seven-time Emmy® Award winner Mary Tyler Moore holds a special place in people’s hearts as a symbol of female independence and strength, both in her work and personal life.
Her first taste of success came as Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” from 1961-66. During the 1970s, she starred in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which garnered twenty-nine Emmys® during its seven-year run, including four for its star.
Moore then transferred her talents to films including Ordinary People for which she earned an Academy Award® nomination, and Six Weeks, for which she had the joy of co-starring with Dudley Moore. The highly acclaimed comedy Flirting With Disaster won positive reviews for the film and its stars.
She made her dramatic debut on Broadway in Whose Life Is It Anyway? in which she portrayed a hospitalized quadriplegic fighting for control of her own destiny and was honored with a Tony Award. In 1988, she played Mary Todd Lincoln in the NBC mini-series Gore Vidal’s “Lincoln,” again earning critical praise and an Emmy® nomination. Many television movies followed including Stolen Babies for which she won a seventh Emmy® Award.
In portraying the murderous Sante Kimes in the CBS movie “Like Mother, Like Son,”she once again reminded the audience of her vast range. The movie aired in the spring of 2001 and ranked number seven of all primetime programs the week of its broadcast.
In 2004, she starred with Dick Van Dyke in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “The Gin Game,” on PBS, and for CBS television, an adaptation of the Anna Quindlen book “Blessings” in which she played the 82-year-old matriarch. In 2006, Moore starred in the CBS made for television movie, “Snow Wonder,” and also appeared in a guest-starring role on FOX’s “That 70s Show.”
Moore was seen as a guest-star on NBC’s “Lipstick Jungle” in 2008. In a multi-episode arc on the series, Moore played Joyce, a retired high-powered exec who forces Wendy, her studio-head daughter (played by Brooke Shields), to re-evaluate the work vs. family dilemma. Having blazed a trail for working women back in the 70′s and 80′s, Joyce challenges Wendy’s idealistic notion of “having it all,” leaving her overachieving daughter in a tailspin.
She was last seen in Peter Calahan’s dark comedy Against The Current opposite Joseph Fiennes and Justin Kirk. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
In 2009, Moore’s book “Growing Up Again” was published by St. Martin’s Press. The book is an in-depth look into Mary’s life with diabetes. The book includes conversations with remarkable people who live with the disease and those who work on the frontiers of medical research. All of Miss Moore’s profits for the book were donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Moore is the International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). She was honored in 2007 with the JDRF Humanitarian of the Year Award. She is also active in numerous animal welfare organizations and funds scholarship programs in the arts and academics.
Filmed in front of a live studio audience, “Hot in Cleveland” is executive produced by Emmy Award-winner Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions and is helmed by Emmy® Award-winning Suzanne Martin (“Frasier,” “Ellen”) serving as executive producer, show runner and writer.
“Hot in Cleveland” revolves around three fabulous best friends from LA – novelist Melanie Moretti (Valerie Bertinelli), eye-brow archer to the stars Joy Scroggs (Jane Leeves) and former soap star Victoria Chase (Wendie Malick) – who find their lives changed forever when their plane, headed for Paris, makes an unexpected landing. When the friends discover that life is better for them and that they are hot in Cleveland, they decide to stay. Starting over together, they rent a house that happens to come with a very opinionated caretaker (Betty White).
Mark your calendar, buy the popcorn, put the Diet Dr. Pepper on ice, and kiss your troubles good-bye!
I would ask, “Do you love Betty White?” but that seems like a pretty lame question. It’d be like asking a 5 year old, “Do you love Santa Claus?” Everyone (me included) adores Betty White. If you think about it, she’s one of the rare celebrities that seems to resonate with everyone. The fact that she doesn’t have enemies or “haters” is a testament to the comedic legend.
It’s just further proof that she’s a very special person and quite the American jewel.
Her late husband, Allen Ludden, once remarked that White had been one of the pioneers in silent television. That is just barely an exaggeration, because she got her start in Hollywood on Television in 1949 and has not been off the tube for any length of time for the past 46 years. Best known for her roles as Sue Ann on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as the terminally naive Rose on The Golden Girls, she has had four Betty White Shows, starting in 1950, as well as a show close to her animal-lover’s heart, The Pet Set. She also played minor, recurring characters on The Carol Burnett Show and its spin-off, Mama’s Family, and announced the Rose Bowl parade for 20 years. Additionally, she was a frequent guest of Jack Paar and Johnny Carson and appeared on innumerable game shows. She knows everyone in the business, although her affection for them one and all, while perhaps real, cloys after a time. This behind-the-scenes look at television since the late 1940s, with its dozens of photos, should delight fans.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
White’s portrayals have always seemed good-natured, whether she was playing Sue-Ann Nivins on The Mary Tyler Moore Show or Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. In her entertaining and insightful autobiography, she comes off as upbeat and good-natured in real life. White started out in early television on a five-hour-a-day live show called Hollywood on Television and has had “steady” work ever since. Here she chronicles her experiences on many hit series and several short-lived series, plus her two marriages. She writes with particular care and poignancy about her second marriage to Allen Ludden, which lasted a blissful 18 years until Ludden’s tragic and untimely death. White’s love of friends, family, work, and animals comes shining through these pages, as does her high-energy pleasant personality. This Hollywood autobiography can be highly recommended for all public libraries. -?Judy Hauser, Oakland Schs., Lib. Svces., Waterford, Mich.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Click HERE to read more about the book (as well as get a sneak peek at some gorgeous pictures of Betty White) and order a copy today. You might want to grab several – they’d make wonderful gifts.
I ordered Season 1 of an all-time favorite sitcom recently – The Golden Girls. A day without TGG is just barely worth suiting up for.
In the video below, Blanche and Dorothy have agreed, as a favor to Rose, to be guests on a show for the station she works for. Rose, being Rose, completely missed the concept for the show, leaving Dorothy uncomfortable, Blanche panicking, and Sophia amused… temporarily.
If anyone knows TV, it’s me. Not only do I happen to, unapologetically, love the medium, I can’t imagine what a day without TV Land, televised sports, or the Food Network would be like. Don’t want to know! Anyway, I am sitting on tremendous TV knowledge and that knowledge leads me to announce that the fact that Betty White is returning to television is the best “television-related” news in two forevers. This beautiful and hilarious comedienne is one in a gazillion and how any network has let her go unutilized this long is beyond me. For that matter, come on, shouldn’t the entire Golden Girls cast be gainfully employed on television and the movies?
Betty White has signed on in a Recurring Role in a promising new TV Land original series, Hot in Cleveland. I’m also doing back flips over the concept of Valerie Bertinelli returning to television. I think her recent commercial campaign, her autobiography, and bikini pics (with snow and ice covering most of the country, I chose to show one of these pics at the top of the post – Valerie can thaw out as much ice now as she did 20 years ago… probably more!) reminded the public of just how much we all love her. TV Land is absolutely brilliant to bring both ladies back into our living rooms.
From TV Land:
“HOT IN CLEVELAND”
New York, NY, January 13, 2010 – TV Land announced today that it has signed comedic actresses Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick to star as best friends in the network’s sitcom pilot “Hot in Cleveland.” Additionally, the incomparable Emmy Award-winning Betty White has also been cast in the comedy pilot as a recurring guest star. The sitcom, which was previously announced in October along with comedy pilot “Retired at 35,” is TV Land’s foray into scripted comedy series and is a TV Land PRIME presentation.
“Hot in Cleveland” is written by Emmy Award-winning Suzanne Martin (“Frasier,” “Ellen”) and is produced by Emmy Award-winner Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills Productions.
The new comedy revolves around three fabulous, LA women of a certain age and best friends (Bertinelli, Leeves and Malick). Their lives are changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new “promised land.” Loving their new home, the women find themselves living under one roof and battling their sassy, property caretaker, played by Betty White, who pretends to care more about her property and income tax but is a gem underneath.
Popular actress Valerie Bertinelli is most-remembered for her role as “Barbara Jean Cooper” on the beloved Norman Lear sitcom “One Day At A Time.” She also starred in “Touched By An Angel” for the show’s final two seasons. More recently, Bertinelli became a spokesperson for the Jenny Craig weight-loss program and in 2008 she released the autobiography Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound At A Time, which discussed her struggles with weight loss. In November 2009, Bertinelli released a fitness DVD called “Losing It and Keeping Fit” and also wrote a follow-up book called Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge.
Jane Leeves starred for 11 seasons in the Emmy Award-winning NBC comedy “Frasier” and was also nominated for an Emmy as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the series as Daphne Moon. More recently, Leeves lent her voice to The Disney Channel’s “Phineas and Ferb” and guest-starred in USA Network’s “The Starter Wife.” Leeves is also known to audiences for playing the memorable character “Marla Penney” in several episodes of “Seinfield.”
Wendie Malick was nominated for two Emmy Awards and won a Golden Globe for her role as the hilarious and beautiful fashion editor Nina Van Horn in the NBC ensemble comedy “Just Shoot Me.” She appeared as Judith Tupper Stone in the early 1990s in the HBO comedy “Dream On,” for which she won four CableACE Awards as Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Malick’s work has included roles in the movies “The American President,” “Scrooged” and “Bugsy.”
One of television’s most beloved and talented actresses whose career has spanned over 50 years, Emmy Award-winning actress Betty White is best known for her role in the classic sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and the beloved series “The Golden Girls.” White won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for the first season of “The Golden Girls” and was nominated every year of the show’s run. The series ran from 1985 to 1992 on NBC. White has also guest-starred on a number of television programs including “Ally McBeal,” ‘The Ellen Show,” “That 70s Show” and won an Emmy in 1996 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, appearing as herself on a memorable episode of “The John Laroquette Show.” White had a recurring role in ABC’s “Boston Legal” from 2005 to 2008 as the calculating, blackmailing gossip-monger Catherine Piper, a role she originally portrayed as a guest star on “The Practice” in 2004. Most recently, White appeared in the 2009 motion picture, “The Proposal” with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. She will be honored with the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award on January 23, 2010.
“Hot in Cleveland” is part of TV Land’s foray into scripted comedy series and is one of two sitcom pilots for the network. The cast of the network’s other pilot, the multicamera “Retired at 35″ was announced last week with Johnathan McClain, “Saturday Night Live” alum Casey Wilson and acting veterans Jessica Walter and Christine Ebersole landing starring roles opposite previously cast George Segal. “Retired” follows David (McClain), a successful young businessman who decides to leave the New York rat race behind and move into his father Alan’s (Segal) Florida retirement home.
My name is Joi ("Joy"). I created this website for one reason: To do my part to keep the stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood shining brightly. When we keep their memories alive, we keep a part of ourselves alive.
– written by the one and only Betty White, herself.
. A day without TGG is just barely worth suiting up for.
