1980s television show about four
senior citizen women who live in a house together in the
retirement mecca of
Miami,
Florida. Rose (
Betty White) is a
naive widow from the
rural town of St. Olaf,
Minnesota; Blanche (
Rue McLanahan) is a
Scarlett O'Hara-esque
belle whose major interest is
men; Dorothy (
Bea Arthur) is an
acerbic divorced woman whose jerk
ex-husband Stan showed up in a few episodes; and Dorothy's mother Sophia (
Estelle Getty) has had a mild
stroke which "destroyed the part of the
brain which
censors what she says" according to some character in the show. (She couldn't say anything that wild, as this was network TV.)
(It's really scary that I did this writeup without having to look up anything except the name of the actress who played Sophia. I watched way too much TV as a child.)