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TRIBUTE: Bea Arthur bounty

After Beatrice Arthur died over the weekend, TV channels went into overdrive scheduling episodes of her classic '80s sitcom The Golden Girls.

WE wound up first, with its "WE Remember Bea" marathon lineup running this Monday 5 p.m.-midnight ET and Thursday 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. ET, spotlighting episodes that focus on her acerbic Dorothy character. The Golden Girls regularly runs on WE weekdays 5-7 p.m. ET.

Hallmark Channel also airs The Golden Girls, scattered all over the schedule. Get your DVR ready for action at these times, all ET -- Monday-Thursday 8-10 a.m., 7-9 p.m., midnight-2 a.m.; Friday night midnight-2 a.m.; Saturday 6-10 a.m.; Sunday 8:30-10 a.m.

And mark your calendar for Hallmark Channel's Memorial Day marathon of The Golden Girls on May 25, 6:30 a.m.-2:30 a.m. ET.

Don't forget -- all six seasons of The Golden Girls series are available on DVD, too.

2 Comments

Toby O'B said:

That seems a bit of overkill for 'Golden Girls'. I would rather see one of those cable channels offer up a marathon of 'Maude' to salute her, including at least the first 'All In The Family' in which she appeared.

April 28, 2009 1:41 AM

Maria said:

Oh yes - Golden Girls was '80s, wasn't it? And whilst far more people across the world knew Bea as Dorothy rather than Maude, we can't have '80s TV, can we? The decade of Reagan must be denounced on all fronts (yawn).

April 18, 2010 5:40 PM

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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