Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai by Jim Colucci [Hardback Book]

Every season, episode by episode, with first-hand commentary from the people who made it.

Exclusive interviews with Betty White, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and series creator Susan Harris, plus Harvey Fierstein on his close friend Estelle Getty.

Over 200 photographs, including never-before-published and newly rediscovered stills.

Full sections on the sets and scenic design, the theme song, the fashion, the fandom, and the show's legacy in everything that came after it.

Profiles of the guest stars, and a "Why I Love the Girls" chapter from Laverne Cox, Zachary Quinto, Chris Colfer, Lance Bass, Rachel Bloom and others.

Answers to the things that have quietly bothered you for decades 

The one who's seen every episode more times than she'd admit. Who puts it on to cook, to fold laundry, to fall asleep. Who can finish the lines before they're said and still laughs anyway.

If that's you, this is the only Golden Girls thing left that you probably don't own.

If you're buying for her: she almost certainly has the DVDs, the mug and the socks. She almost certainly doesn't have this — and even fans who can quote whole episodes come out of it having learned things.

If you've only caught the odd rerun, be honest with yourself. This is written for die-hards.

You've seen every episode. You've never seen the show.

In 2006, Jim Colucci realised the window was closing. He started calling — and kept calling until Bea Arthur, who was famously private, finally said yes. He got Rue McClanahan. He got Betty White. He got Susan Harris, who created the whole thing. Bea died three years later. Rue the year after that.

What came out of it, a decade on, is the first complete retrospective the show ever got: seven seasons, episode by episode, told by the cast, the writers, the producers and the guest stars who were actually in the room. The set that never quite made sense. The continuity slips that have bugged you for thirty years. What the four of them were really like together.

It's the commentary track a 1985 sitcom never got to have. And nobody can make it again — every one of them is gone now.

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