Created by veteran television writer and producer Susan Harris, the show balanced controversial social themes with raucous, often ribald, humor. The series focused on four single women living together in Miami as they faced the issues of aging in America. The situation comedy The Golden Girls, which aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992, was one of television's first successful representations of the lives of older women and an unlikely hit in a television landscape populated by young, sexy performers in shows designed to appeal to a youthful audience.
