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The Golden Girls key episodes by ratings

September 14, 1985: The Engagement (series premiere), rating 25.0, #1

Season highs

February 22, 1986: Adult Education, rating 25.2

October 4, 1986: Ladies of the Evening, rating 27.3

November 8, 1986: Isn't it Romantic, rating 27.3

February 6, 1988: My Brother, My Father; rating 24.6

November 26, 1988: Sophia's Wedding (Part 2), rating 24.3, #1

September 23, 1989: Sick and Tired (Part 1) (season 5 premiere), rating 23.5

January 12, 1991: Sisters of the Bride, rating 19.3

May 9, 1992: One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (series finale), rating 18.9

Season lows

October 19, 1985: The Triangle, rating 18.6

May 16, 1987: Empty Nests (season 2 finale), rating 17.8

February 20, 1988: And Ma Makes Three, rating 18.0

April 29, 1989: Rites of Spring, rating 18.7

April 28, 1990: All Bets are Off, rating 15.8

February 16, 1991: Older and Wiser, rating 11.6

October 26, 1991: Mother Load, rating 10.9

Ten highest-rated episodes

October 4, 1986: Ladies of the Evening, rating 27.3

November 8, 1986: Isn't it Romantic, rating 27.3

January 3, 1987: The Sisters, rating 27.0

November 22, 1986: Family Affair, rating 26.8

January 10, 1987: The Stan Who Came to Dinner, rating 26.6

January 24, 1987: Before and After, rating 26.4

February 28, 1987: Whose Face is This, Anyway?; rating 25.8

September 27, 1986: End of the Curse (season 2 premiere), rating 25.6

November 15, 1986: Big Daddy's Little Lady, rating 25.3

February 22, 1986: Adult Education, rating 25.2

Ten lowest-rated episodes

October 26, 1991: Mother Load, rating 10.9

September 28, 1991: The Case of the Libertine Belle, rating 10.9

October 19, 1991: Where's Charlie?, rating 11.0

February 15, 1992: Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan, rating 11.3

February 16, 1991: Older and Wiser, rating 11.6

December 14, 1991: The Pope's Ring, rating 11.7

April 25, 1992: Home Again, Rose (Part 1); rating 12.3

October 5, 1991: Beauty and the Beast, rating 12.7

November 2, 1991: Dateline: Miami, rating 12.7

December 7, 1991: From Here to the Pharmacy, rating 12.8

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The Saturday 8pm slot usually had the lowest rating of the NBC 4 sitcom lineup for some reason.

NBC let Saturday night fizzle, They used 9.30 pm to launch 227 and Amen, both of which moved to earlier in the evening but they  kept Empty Nest following GG for several seasons. 

Empty Nest should have moved to 8pm with their strongest new sitcom at 9.30, anticipating that GG would eventually falter.

Instead they left them there and stretching the sitcom pool too thinly on other nights. When Grand talk over at 9.30 Thurs maybe Night Court and Wings could have been used on Saturday.

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