What was Sophias explanation for moving back into Shady Pines during season six, and were the whereabouts of the other Golden Girls characters ever mentioned?
When Sophia showed up on the Weston doorstep at the start of the ’93 season, she simply said she missed the old neighborhood and decided to move back, adding that “now that I see all of you, I can’t imagine why.” After The Golden Girls ended in 1992, Estelle Getty, Betty White, and Rue McClanahan starred in the spinoff series The Golden Palace, in which Sophia, Rose, and Blanche operated and lived in a Miami hotel. Neither the hotel nor Blanche and Rose were mentioned on Empty Nest; however, Sophia’s daughter Dorothy (Beatrice Arthur’s character) was mentioned occassionally. None of the characters made appearances on the show during Estelle’s time there.
