September 3, 2025 • 8 mins
“It’s not just because it’s a masterclass in comedy or because it has one of the greatest television theme songs of all time, I think it’s because it’s about friendship.”
Get ready for a brand new season of 80s TV Ladies! In this special sneak peek, hosts Sharon Johnson and Susan Lambert Hatem dish out all the details on what’s coming up in Season Four.
What's next for 8TL: Golden Girls, Kate & Allie, and One Day at a Time!
From the iconic laughs of The Golden Girls, to the heartfelt journeys of One Day at a Time, and the long-awaited fan favorite Kate & Allie, we’re diving deep into the shows that defined a generation of women living life on their own terms. We’ll share behind-the-scenes stories, spotlight unforgettable characters, and welcome some very special guests and sidebar episodes—including a showdown between Xena and Buffy to kick things off!
Plus, we’ve got tips on where to stream or find these classic series, and ways you can help support the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Weirdy, weird media, easy and so pretty. Ei to the
city god Man World.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to Eighties TV Ladies.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And this special sneak peek at season four and what
delicious delights it will bring us all. Here are your
fabulous hosts, Sharon Johnson and Susan Lambert had them.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Hello, I'm Susan and I'm Sharon. Hope everybody had a
wonderful Labor Day.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And an excellent summer of joy and resistance. We're officially
back next week, but we thought we'd bring a quick
look back at our upcoming season.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We have to thank you, dear listeners. We've received so
many wonderful suggestions from you all about what shows to cover,
so many that we're going to have to do this
show many many more seasons, many many apparently. So thank
you for your thoughts and suggestions, and please keep them coming.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We're going to keep this episode short and quick, so
bullet time. We're covering three shows this season, right, Sharon,
are you ready?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I am ready, Susan. We are so excited to finally
tackle the incredible brass ring of eighties TV ladies show
and an evergreen comedy, The Golden Girls.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The Golden Girls is arguably one of the most quintessential
eighties TV ladies show. It premiered on September fourteenth, nineteen
eighty five, forty years ago this month, Sharon. It was
created by Susan Harris. It starred Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
B Arthur as Dorothy Petrillo, Zabornak, Betty White as Rose Nyland,
and Estelle Geddy as Sophia Petrillo, playing four previously married
women who now live together both to save money and
navigate their post marriage years.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
This All Females sit com ran on NBC for one
hundred and eighty episodes over seven seasons, and ended on
May ninth, nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The show is beloved, and we're going to examine why.
It's not just because it's a masterclass in comedy or
because it's one of the greatest television theme songs of
all time. But I think it's because it's about friendship.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think so too, And we're going to have some
exciting Golden Girls guests coming on. We can't wait to
share them all with y' all, and then after that
we'll move on to one day at a time. The
CBS Monday Night staple. It ran nine seasons from December sixteenth,
nineteen seventy five to May twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It starred Bonnie Franklin as Indianapolis divorced mom Anne Ramana,
raising her two daughters, Julie and Barbara, played by Mackenzie
Phillips and Valerie Burtonelli.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Pat Harrington Junior played the outrageous super Dwayne Schneider. It
was created by Whitney Blake and Alan Mannings.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
It was remade with a Latina cast in twenty seventeen
by Gloria Calderone Kellett and Mike Royce, starring Justina Machado
and Rita Moreno.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And the third show We'll Be Looking At in season
four of eighties TV Ladies is the charming and long
requested ATL fan favorite Kate and Allie. Kate and Allie,
also on CBS, ran for six seasons one hundred and
twenty episodes, from March nineteenth, nineteen eighty four to May
(03:34):
twenty second, nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It was about two divorced women who lived together raising
their kids.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It was created by Sherry Coben and starred Susan Saint
James and Jane Curtain as the kids.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
It starred Ari Myers as Kate's daughter Emma, and Frederick
Kohler and Alison Smith as Ali's children Chip and Jenny
hy Sharon.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I realized we might have a theme here.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I know, right, we have women living without men. That
was not intentional, that was really.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Just something as I were describing these shows that I'm like,
Oh my gosh, that's what it is. So we can't
wait for you to join us for this season. For
three seasons, we have transported you back to the nineteen
eighties and explored the many female driven shows that have
made us into the people we are today, and we
cannot wait to do it for these three shows.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
We also have some exciting special guests both for our
shows and some special sidebars. It's going to be so
much fun.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So Eighties TV Ladies friends, if you have an idea
of someone, or better yet, you know someone or you
know someone who knows someone that we should get on
the season for these TV shows Golden Girls, Kate, Nelly,
and One Day at a Time, let us know.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You can go to the website Eightiestvladies dot com or
you can email us at eight zero s t V
L A D I E. S at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You did that very well. It's so hard to spell
out the email, Sharon. Have you noticed that?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh gosh, you have so for today's audioography, The Golden
Girls is pretty findable. It is streaming on Hulu and
Disney Plus. It is available for purchase on Apple TV
and YouTube and I assume other places. Plus, you can
(05:31):
find the DVDs at Walmart and eBay and possibly at
your local library. It's always a good idea to check
there when you're looking for DVDs of older shows.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I love that it is a good place. Thank you
for always reminding us of that. And if you want
to start watching one day at a time, it is
available for free on to B to BB.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I love that. I'd love that. It's also someone has
also posted it on YouTube all ees full episodes.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, so search YouTube for that. It is available for
purchase on the two places that start with an A.
I'm just not going to promote it right now. You
can buy the complete season on DVD at shout Factory.
It's still available from like a real brand new version,
or you can find them on eBay and I'm recommending
(06:23):
DVDs now because streaming has become very unreliable.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Absolutely, as for Kate Nally, you can currently find all
seasons streaming for free on the Roku channel and look
at Walmart, Best Buy, an eBay and your local library
for the DVDs.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I love that, guys. Your support means the world to us.
You help us pay for this show by Patreon. If
the rest of you want to jump in there, we
have some pretty you know, small places to start. But
I know it's weird and tough time, so you can
also support the show by hitting that follow like subscribe
and rating wherever you listen, or just talking us up
(07:02):
to your friends. Thank you so much for listening. We
cannot wait to bring you season four, so next time
be sure to catch our episode. The first of season
four will be kicking off with a showdown, a ninety
superhero showdown. Who's the boss's show of the nineties Xena
the Vampire Slayer or Buffy the Warrior Princess. Wait a minute,
(07:23):
scratch that reverse it. No, seriously, we will be comparing
the Warrior Princess with the Vampire Slayer. That's right, folks,
it's Zena versus.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Buffy you know we love a fun debate. This is
all in preparation for our first super cool guest of
this season, mister RJ. Stewart. He's the co creator and
showrunner of Zena Warrior Princess, and.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
He's so cool I cannot wait.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
As always, we hope eighty CV Ladies brings you joy
and laughter and lots of fabulous new and old shows
to watch, all of which will lead us forward toward
being amazing ladies of the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Season four.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Eighties des An So prettys depa into the city's dependam
and getting We're going hard pull the money in the
man world.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Eighties Dead
Weirdy, weird media, easy and so pretty. Ei to the
city god Man World.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to Eighties TV Ladies.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And this special sneak peek at season four and what
delicious delights it will bring us all. Here are your
fabulous hosts, Sharon Johnson and Susan Lambert had them.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Hello, I'm Susan and I'm Sharon. Hope everybody had a
wonderful Labor Day.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And an excellent summer of joy and resistance. We're officially
back next week, but we thought we'd bring a quick
look back at our upcoming season.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We have to thank you, dear listeners. We've received so
many wonderful suggestions from you all about what shows to cover,
so many that we're going to have to do this
show many many more seasons, many many apparently. So thank
you for your thoughts and suggestions, and please keep them coming.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We're going to keep this episode short and quick, so
bullet time. We're covering three shows this season, right, Sharon,
are you ready?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I am ready, Susan. We are so excited to finally
tackle the incredible brass ring of eighties TV ladies show
and an evergreen comedy, The Golden Girls.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The Golden Girls is arguably one of the most quintessential
eighties TV ladies show. It premiered on September fourteenth, nineteen
eighty five, forty years ago this month, Sharon. It was
created by Susan Harris. It starred Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
B Arthur as Dorothy Petrillo, Zabornak, Betty White as Rose Nyland,
and Estelle Geddy as Sophia Petrillo, playing four previously married
women who now live together both to save money and
navigate their post marriage years.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
This All Females sit com ran on NBC for one
hundred and eighty episodes over seven seasons, and ended on
May ninth, nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The show is beloved, and we're going to examine why.
It's not just because it's a masterclass in comedy or
because it's one of the greatest television theme songs of
all time. But I think it's because it's about friendship.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think so too, And we're going to have some
exciting Golden Girls guests coming on. We can't wait to
share them all with y' all, and then after that
we'll move on to one day at a time. The
CBS Monday Night staple. It ran nine seasons from December sixteenth,
nineteen seventy five to May twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It starred Bonnie Franklin as Indianapolis divorced mom Anne Ramana,
raising her two daughters, Julie and Barbara, played by Mackenzie
Phillips and Valerie Burtonelli.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Pat Harrington Junior played the outrageous super Dwayne Schneider. It
was created by Whitney Blake and Alan Mannings.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
It was remade with a Latina cast in twenty seventeen
by Gloria Calderone Kellett and Mike Royce, starring Justina Machado
and Rita Moreno.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And the third show We'll Be Looking At in season
four of eighties TV Ladies is the charming and long
requested ATL fan favorite Kate and Allie. Kate and Allie,
also on CBS, ran for six seasons one hundred and
twenty episodes, from March nineteenth, nineteen eighty four to May
(03:34):
twenty second, nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It was about two divorced women who lived together raising
their kids.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It was created by Sherry Coben and starred Susan Saint
James and Jane Curtain as the kids.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
It starred Ari Myers as Kate's daughter Emma, and Frederick
Kohler and Alison Smith as Ali's children Chip and Jenny
hy Sharon.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I realized we might have a theme here.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I know, right, we have women living without men. That
was not intentional, that was really.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Just something as I were describing these shows that I'm like,
Oh my gosh, that's what it is. So we can't
wait for you to join us for this season. For
three seasons, we have transported you back to the nineteen
eighties and explored the many female driven shows that have
made us into the people we are today, and we
cannot wait to do it for these three shows.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
We also have some exciting special guests both for our
shows and some special sidebars. It's going to be so
much fun.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So Eighties TV Ladies friends, if you have an idea
of someone, or better yet, you know someone or you
know someone who knows someone that we should get on
the season for these TV shows Golden Girls, Kate, Nelly,
and One Day at a Time, let us know.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You can go to the website Eightiestvladies dot com or
you can email us at eight zero s t V
L A D I E. S at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You did that very well. It's so hard to spell
out the email, Sharon. Have you noticed that?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh gosh, you have so for today's audioography, The Golden
Girls is pretty findable. It is streaming on Hulu and
Disney Plus. It is available for purchase on Apple TV
and YouTube and I assume other places. Plus, you can
(05:31):
find the DVDs at Walmart and eBay and possibly at
your local library. It's always a good idea to check
there when you're looking for DVDs of older shows.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I love that it is a good place. Thank you
for always reminding us of that. And if you want
to start watching one day at a time, it is
available for free on to B to BB.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I love that. I'd love that. It's also someone has
also posted it on YouTube all ees full episodes.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, so search YouTube for that. It is available for
purchase on the two places that start with an A.
I'm just not going to promote it right now. You
can buy the complete season on DVD at shout Factory.
It's still available from like a real brand new version,
or you can find them on eBay and I'm recommending
(06:23):
DVDs now because streaming has become very unreliable.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Absolutely, as for Kate Nally, you can currently find all
seasons streaming for free on the Roku channel and look
at Walmart, Best Buy, an eBay and your local library
for the DVDs.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I love that, guys. Your support means the world to us.
You help us pay for this show by Patreon. If
the rest of you want to jump in there, we
have some pretty you know, small places to start. But
I know it's weird and tough time, so you can
also support the show by hitting that follow like subscribe
and rating wherever you listen, or just talking us up
(07:02):
to your friends. Thank you so much for listening. We
cannot wait to bring you season four, so next time
be sure to catch our episode. The first of season
four will be kicking off with a showdown, a ninety
superhero showdown. Who's the boss's show of the nineties Xena
the Vampire Slayer or Buffy the Warrior Princess. Wait a minute,
(07:23):
scratch that reverse it. No, seriously, we will be comparing
the Warrior Princess with the Vampire Slayer. That's right, folks,
it's Zena versus.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Buffy you know we love a fun debate. This is
all in preparation for our first super cool guest of
this season, mister RJ. Stewart. He's the co creator and
showrunner of Zena Warrior Princess, and.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
He's so cool I cannot wait.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
As always, we hope eighty CV Ladies brings you joy
and laughter and lots of fabulous new and old shows
to watch, all of which will lead us forward toward
being amazing ladies of the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Season four.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Eighties des An So prettys depa into the city's dependam
and getting We're going hard pull the money in the
man world.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Eighties Dead
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