The Golden Girls
That's for Me to Know
TV Flash files “That's for Me to Know” as hour 158 of 180 in the TV Flash guide — The Golden Girls (1985–1992) on NBC, season 7, episode 4, aired 1991-10-12, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E04: listed hour 158 of 180 in the The Golden Girls guide, hour 4 of 26 in season 7. It aired 1991-10-12 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Beauty and the Beast” (S07E03). Next is “Where's Charlie?” (S07E05).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Blanche learns from a city inspector that she either has to lose a renter or make modifications to her home which would cost $10,000. Meanwhile, Dorothy demands to know who the groom is in a hidden wedding picture of Sophia's.
Viewer FAQ
Where does That's for Me to Know sit in the The Golden Girls guide?
S07E04 is listed hour 158 of 180 — hour 4 of 26 in season 7, season 7 episode 4.
When did The Golden Girls S07E04 air?
That's for Me to Know aired 1991-10-12 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
The Engagement, then stay in season one until the kitchen table feels like a workplace. You do not need a watch-order spreadsheet. You need the four-way rhythm.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it for the kitchen-table contact sport: four older leads, punchlines that still cut, and chemistry so loud the biographies became a second series. Miami satin on top; mortality, sex, and friendship underneath the cheesecake. Syndication never closed the kitchen.
The cheesecake comes out and someone in the living room is already taking a side. September 1985, NBC, four older women in a Miami house, and a laugh track that sounds like a packed after-party. Publicists would have called it warm. Warm is the alibi. The Golden Girls is heat in muumuus: dating after divorce, death as a punchline, and four performers who could detonate a room without leaving the kitchen table. If you only watched the syndication stills — the column, the wicker, the satin — you missed the show,…
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- Betty White as Rose Nylund
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- Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux
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- Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo
Estelle Getty played Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls — the leak that never got deleted, purse as plot device, a Miami kitchen table that was never only cheesecake. TV Flash files her as the lanai's shortest fuse and longest memory.