"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

Directed by
Terry Hughes

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Susan Harris		creator
Winifred Hervey		writer

Produced by
Terry Grossman	....	producer
Paul Junger Witt	....	executive producer
Kathy Speer	....	producer
Tony Thomas	....	executive producer
Harry Waterson	....	producer
Marsha Posner Williams	....	co-producer

Original Music by
George Aliceson Tipton

Casting by
Allison Jones
Judith Weiner

Production Design by
Edward Stephenson

Costume Design by
Judy Evans

Makeup Department
Joyce Conroy	....	hair stylist (as Joyce Melton)
Maurice Stein	....	makeup artist

Production Management
David Amico	....	unit manager
Adria Horton	....	post-production manager
Susan Palladino	....	executive in charge of production

Art Department
Ken Dawson	....	property master
Paul Wadian	....	head carpenter

Camera and Electrical Department
Andrew Dickerman	....	videographer
Tom Faigh	....	camera operator
Andy Kassan	....	gaffer
Ritch Kenney	....	camera operator
Ron Olson	....	camera operator
Carol Wetovich	....	camera operator (as Carol A. Wetovich)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Julie Rhine	....	costume supervisor
Rhoda Yarbrough	....	costumer

Other crew
Tom Carpenter	....	stage manager
Barry Fanaro	....	executive script consultant
Jeffrey Goodman	....	production staff
Winifred Hervey	....	executive story consultant
Richard King	....	production staff
Mort Nathan	....	executive script consultant
Gary Shinokawa	....	associate director
Robert Spina	....	production associate
Jeannie Taylor	....	production staff
Anne Thomopoulos	....	production staff
Doug Tobin	....	stage manager
Kit Wilkinson	....	production staff

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Susan Harris		creator

Produced by
Marc Cherry	....	producer (1990-1992)
Nina Feinberg	....	co-producer
Nina Feinberg	....	producer
Tracy Gamble	....	co-executive producer
David A. Goodman	....	co-producer (1989-1990)
Terry Hughes	....	co-executive producer
Mitchell Hurwitz	....	producer
Phillip Jayson Lasker	....	co-executive producer
Gail Parent	....	co-executive producer
Jerry Perzigian	....	supervising producer
Don Seigel	....	supervising producer
Marc Sotkin	....	executive producer
Richard Vaczy	....	co-executive producer
Tom Whedon	....	co-executive producer
Jamie Wooten	....	producer
John Ziffren	....	co-producer

Casting by
Joanne Koehler		(1988-1989)
Donna Larson		(1990-1992)
Ellen Meyer		(1989-1992)

Art Direction by
Michael Hynes

Makeup Department
Barbara Fonte-Kunkel	....	makeup artist

Production Management
George Englund	....	post-production manager
Audrey Joy Johnson	....	unit production manager
Fred Roth	....	post-production manager

Art Department
Ed Stevenson	....	set designer

Sound Department
Greg Ampagoomian	....	utility sound
Larry Lasota	....	sound
Douglas Shamburger	....	sound utility (1985-1986)

Camera and Electrical Department
Roger Dalton	....	lighting technician
Jim Orthel	....	gaffer
Darryl Palagi	....	lighting technician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Marlene Hajdu	....	on-set costumer

Editorial Department
Brent Carpenter	....	on-line editor
George Englund	....	post-production executive
Gil Junger	....	post-production executive (pilot episode)

Other crew
David Canning	....	maintenance engineer
Rick Copp	....	story editor
Catherine Dunn	....	production staff
Alan Helfand	....	production staff
Jim Horky	....	technical director
Mitchell Hurwitz	....	story editor
Brian Kahn	....	production staff
Jerry Kosowsky	....	video technical supervisor
Laurie Parres	....	production staff
Michael Saperton	....	engineer in charge
B. Thomas Seidman	....	stage manager (as Tom Seidman)
Salli Shrewsbury	....	production assistant
James Vallely	....	story editor (as Jim Vallely)

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: After Rose and Blanche's rehearsals, a microphone can be seen on the ceiling.

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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