A Golden Palace Dream
From IMDb Trivia:
The production team were desperate for Bea Arthur to return for the second and third seasons that they offered to cut down the episode number and work around her schedule. Arthur declined the offer a number of times. Had Arthur returned the second season would have seen the girls return to their Miami home and The Golden Girls would have resumed.
It's interesting that The Golden Palace would've wrapped up and been reformatted back into The Golden Girls again if Bea had decided to return. It just makes me wonder how the transition would've been made? I'm thinking they would've followed the Dallas/Newhart season finales and had the entire Golden Palace series turn out to be just a dream one of the girls had during the night.
Another idea is that they lost ownership of the hotel due to creditors or, that maybe it just simply burned down and they used the insurance to buy back the Miami house. At the same time, Dorothy would develop problems in her marriage and divorce her husband. That would open the gate for her return.
Anything is possible in a show. Reminds me of The Jeffersons spin off, Checking In, where Florence the maid gets an Exec. Housekeeper position at a swanky hotel, but after it lasted only a disastrous 4 episodes, Florence returned to The Jeffersons with the story that the hotel burned down and she needed her old job back.
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