The BEST episodes written by Tom Whedon
#1 - The Case of the Libertine Belle
The Golden Girls - Season 7 - Episode 2
The girls participate in a murder mystery weekend and Dorothy has a ball when she solves a mystery. However, when Blanche is accused committing a real murder, Dorothy will have to use all her keen detective skills to find the real murderer.
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#2 - Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas
The Golden Girls - Season 5 - Episode 12
It's the Christmas season and the girls are fed up with Christmas shopping in a heat wave. So they decide to buy gifts for the one person they pick from a hat. Later, the girls decide to serve Christmas dinner for the homeless, including a recently homeless Stan.
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#4 - That Old Feeling
The Golden Girls - Season 5 - Episode 8
Blanche is visited by her brother in-law and is taken back by his resemblence to her deceased husband. She quickly finds herself falling in love with hopes of marriage.
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Alice - Season 3 - Episode 19
Alice's long-awaited break, a chance to fill a vacancy in a traveling trio will break her heart if she has to hit the road without Tommy.
#6 - A Midwinter Night's Dream (1)
The Golden Girls - Season 7 - Episode 20
A full moon on Leap Year, prompts Blanche to throw a Moonlight Madness Party. However, her plans of being ogled by men go drastically awry when Dorothy gets all of the attention. Meanwhile, Rose contemplates marrying Miles after winning a free honeymoon to Paris.
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#7 - Henny Penny - Straight, No Chaser
The Golden Girls - Season 6 - Episode 26
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.
#8 - Cheaters
The Golden Girls - Season 5 - Episode 22
The married man whom Dorothy once dated re-enters her life and has news that he's now divorced and would like to reconcile with Dorothy. Meanwhile, Blanche and Sophia become the victims of a con game.
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#9 - Stand By Your Man
The Golden Girls - Season 6 - Episode 11
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.
#11 - Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 9
Mel unwittingly buys stolen turkeys for a Thanksgiving dinner he is having for orphans.
#12 - A Midwinter Night's Dream (2)
The Golden Girls - Season 7 - Episode 21
The full moon and festivities prompt strange happenings including Blanche's jewelry being swiped, Sophia trying to break a curse and Dorothy and Miles sharing a passionate kiss.
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#13 - Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (1)
The Golden Girls - Season 6 - Episode 24
The deathbed confession of an ex-patient at Shady Pines means bad news for Sophia, since in her confession she stated that she and Sophia started the 1985 Shady Pines fire.
#15 - The Indian Taker
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 2
A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.
#16 - Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (2)
The Golden Girls - Season 6 - Episode 25
Sophia cannot recall the events that lead to the Shady Pines fire.
#17 - Alice by Moonlight
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 4
Alice's moonlighting job as a nightclub singer is taking its toll on her waitress job.
#18 - Mel's in a Family Way
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 8
Mel mistakes Alice's intentions when she invites him for a family dinner.
#19 - The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (2)
The Golden Girls - Season 5 - Episode 26
When the FBI agent announces that George Bush will make a visit to their home, the girls continue to reminisce and Dorothy quickly readies a list of points she wants to make to the president.
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#21 - The Second Time 'Round
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 1
A suspected flasher and Flo's third ex-husband (Rod McCary) stir things up at Mel's Diner.
#22 - The Sixty Minutes Man
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 6
Alice suspects that a diner regular is really an incognito mobster.
#23 - Whatever Happened to the Class of '78?
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 6
Flo's night life interferes with her night-school studies.
#24 - Has Anyone Here Seen Telly?
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 1
Telly Savalas gives star-struck Vera a thrill when he stops by the diner while she's working there alone. When no one believes her story, she quits in a huff.
#25 - The Governor's House Call
Benson - Season 2 - Episode 20
The governor, Benson and Clayton are trapped in a bordello and must avoid being noticed.
#26 - A Semi-Merry Christmas
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 9
Alice and friends are snowbound en route to her cousin's for Christmas.
#27 - My Cousin, Art Carney
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 10
Vera asks Art Carney, a sixth cousin on her father's side, to endorse Mel's chili, so it can be marketed frozen as Chili con Carney.
#29 - Don't Lock Now
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 19
Mel wants to know who's stealing food and making long-distance phone calls from the diner.
#30 - Vera's Popcorn Romance
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 4
Vera meets a new boy friend at the movies, but refuses to bring him to the diner.
#31 - Love Me, Love My Horse
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 15
Flo fixes up Alice with her bronco-busting brother (Burton Gilliam).
#32 - Mona Lisa Alice
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 2
Alice's sour reaction to Tommy's matchmaking efforts threatens Mel's new promotional gimmick which is free meals to customers if his waitresses don't smile.
#33 - Mel's in the Kitchen With Dinah
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 8
Things get hotter than Mel's chili when Dinah Shore invites Mel to prepare his recipe on her show and bring along one, but only one waitress.
#34 - If the Shoe Fits
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 22
Alice and Vera vie for a role in a production being cast by an attractive director(Fred McCarren).
#35 - Baby Makes Five
Alice - Season 5 - Episode 20
Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.
#36 - Florence of Arabia
Alice - Season 2 - Episode 16
Flo is courted by a rich Arab (Richard Libertini) who, unknown to her, already has three wives.
#37 - Better Never Than Late
Alice - Season 3 - Episode 7
While Mel is sleeping in the storeroom, Alice is robbed at gunpoint at the counter.
#38 - Little Alice Bluenose
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 6
Vera's boyfriend objects to her sketching nude males in art class.
#39 - My Funny Valentine Tux
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 16
Tommy has his heart set on taking his girl to a formal Valentine's dance and he needs a tuxedo.