"The Golden Girls"
The Operation (1986)

Director:

Terry Hughes

Writers:

Susan Harris (creator)
Winifred Hervey (writer)

TV Series:

"The Golden Girls" (1985)

Original Air Date:

8 February 1986 (Season 1, Episode 18)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Dorothy is afraid to have an operation for a benign growth on her foot. |

Plot Keywords:

Priest | Friends | Friendship Between Women | Roommate | Atlanta Georgia

Cast

Beatrice Arthur	...	Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak
Betty White	...	Rose Nylund
Rue McClanahan	...	Blanche Devereaux
Estelle Getty	...	Sophia Petrillo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lynne Adams	...	Nurse
Anne Haney	...	Bonnie
Belita Moreno	...	Nurse
Robert Picardo	...	Dr. Revell
Bill Quinn	...	Priest

Quotes:

Bonnie: [In hospital, Dorothy is very nervous about surgery on her foot. Bonnie, the lady in the bed next to her, is exercising] I hope my exercising doesn't bother you.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak: No not at all. What is it some kind of therapy you have to do?
Bonnie: No - I just like to stay healthy.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak: Well, I hate to break this to you, Bonnie, but you're in a hospital the exercises arn't working.
Bonnie: Surgery today, huh?
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak: Yes. And I might as well warn you I am the best patient in the whole world.
Bonnie: Oh I can put up with it for one night. And then tomorrow it is my turn in the operating room.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak: You're having surgery too?
Bonnie: Yep.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak: And you're smiling?
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