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  • Actress Rue McClanahan poses at a book signing for her new book ‘My First Five Husbands’ near Book Soup May 2, 2007 in West Hollywood, California.
  • Beatrice Arthur (as Maude Findlay) (left) comforts a distraught Rue McClanahan (as Vivian Cavender Harmon) in a scene from the television show ‘Maude,’ Los Angeles, California, mid 1970s
  • Betty White, Bea Arthur, and Rue McClanahan accept the Pop Culture Award onstage during the 6th annual ‘TV Land Awards’ held at Barker Hangar on June 8, 2008 in Santa Monica, California
  • ‘Golden Girls’ stars Betty White, Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan reunite in New York in 2005

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    Actress Rue McClanahan poses at a book signing for her new book ‘My First Five Husbands’ near Book Soup May 2, 2007 in West Hollywood, California.
  • Getty Images

    Beatrice Arthur (as Maude Findlay) (left) comforts a distraught Rue McClanahan (as Vivian Cavender Harmon) in a scene from the television show ‘Maude,’ Los Angeles, California, mid 1970s
  • Getty Images

    Betty White, Bea Arthur, and Rue McClanahan accept the Pop Culture Award onstage during the 6th annual ‘TV Land Awards’ held at Barker Hangar on June 8, 2008 in Santa Monica, California
  • Getty Images

    ‘Golden Girls’ stars Betty White, Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan reunite in New York in 2005
 

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September 15, 2010

More In Demand Than Ever, Betty White Looks Back On 25 Years Of ‘The Golden Girls’

It was Sept. 14, 1985, when NBC introduced Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty as “The Golden Girls.”

A quarter century later, the show is still No. 1 among women who watch the Hallmark Channel, which begins and ends its broadcast day with an episode.

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