Sophia Petrillo is a fictional character from the TV series "The Golden Girls", and its spin-offs "The Golden Palace" and "Empty Nest" and one episode of the series, "Blossom".
 She was portrayed by Estelle Getty for 10 years and 259 episodes.
 Bea Arthur, who played her daughter Dorothy Zbornak on the show, was in real life a year older than Getty.
The Beatrice Arthur Special is a 1980 American variety television special hosted by and starring Beatrice Arthur in her first prime time television special.
 It was originally broadcast on CBS on January 19, 1980 at 10:00 pm ET/PT.
Ladies Man is an American television sitcom series starring Alfred Molina as husband, father, son, ex-husband and son-in-law who lives with a number of women under one roof.
 The show was first broadcast on September 20, 1999, and lasted for two seasons on CBS until June 27, 2001.
 The series co-starred Betty White and is perhaps most memorable for reuniting White and her "Golden Girls" co-stars Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty in one of the later episodes.
Rue la Rue Cafe is a "Golden Girls" themed cafe eatery located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
 The restaurant was conceived and is operated by Michael LaRue, a close confidante of one of the four "Golden Girls", Rue McClanahan (1934–2010) while McClanahan's son Mark Bisch is a partner.
 La Rue, who inherited many of the star's personal belongings, in turn decorated the restaurant with them (including her 1987 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series), as well as pictures of McClanahan (one each from the decades of her entertainment career) and other memorabilia related to the hit show.
 The establishment is coincidentally located inside the Sofia storage building.
 Touchingly, there is a plaque reminiscent of a star on Hollywood Boulevard "which reads "Thank You for being a Friend" fitted into concrete at the front door outside under which are some of McClanahan’s ashes.
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning over seven seasons.
 The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, as four older women who share a home in Miami, Florida.
 It was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers.
The first season of the American television comedy series The Golden Girls originally aired on NBC in the United States between September 14, 1985 and May 10, 1986.
 Created by television writer Susan Harris, the series was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions and Touchstone Television.
 It stars Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White, and Estelle Getty as the main characters Dorothy Zbornak, Blanche Devereaux, Rose Nylund, and Sophia Petrillo.
 The series revolves around the lives of four elderly women living together in a house in Miami.
Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1980 to 1991.
 He was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with such hit series as "Hill Street Blues", "L.A. Law", "Law & Order", "ALF", "Family Ties", "The Cosby Show", "Cheers", "Seinfeld", "The Golden Girls", "Wings", "Miami Vice", "Knight Rider", "The A-Team", "St. Elsewhere", and "Night Court".
Hollywood on Television was a five-and-a-half-hour, six-day-a-week live television talk show starring newcomer Betty White and radio disc jockey Al Jarvis that ran from 1949 to 1953.
 When Jarvis left the show in 1951, film star Eddie Albert took his place and co-hosted with White for six months until thirty-three and a half hours of live ad-lib television per week, featuring just the two of them, took its toll and he also resigned.
 White was then hosting the show alone, and is believed to have been the first female television talk show host as a result.
 After a period of White talking directly into the camera lens for hours at a stretch, the show began accepting guests to interact with her as well as gradually incorporating scripts and sketches.
 Similarly to Jackie Gleason's "Honeymooners" sketches on the Dumont Network during the same era, recurring sketches involving White as a housewife named Elizabeth caught on with the viewers to the point that expanding the sketches into a half-hour sitcom appeared to be the obvious next step.
 Series pianist George Tibbles began writing the sketches.
 Studio producer Don Fedderson, Tibbles and White formed a production company called "Bandy Productions," named after Betty White's dog Bandit, and White changed over to a half hour sitcom format based on the Elizabeth sketches entitled "Life With Elizabeth", which ran in syndication for two years and sixty-five episodes.
 Across the decades, White would use the skills she had honed on "Hollywood on Television" by hosting her own talk show in 1954 and subsequent variety series as well as starring in numerous sitcoms, including "Date with the Angels", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Betty White Show", "The Golden Girls", "The Golden Palace" and "Hot in Cleveland", as well as hosting the 2012 prank show "Betty White's Off Their Rockers", which began airing 63 years after the premiere of "Hollywood on Television".
The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments is a 2003 American television special celebrating the 1985–1992 sitcom "The Golden Girls" starring Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White.
 It originally aired on Lifetime on June 2, 2003.
Rose Nylund (née Lindström) is a fictional character featured on the popular 1980s situation comedy "The Golden Girls", and its spin-off "The Golden Palace".
 She was portrayed by Betty White for 8 years, totaling 208 episodes.
 Rose was originally supposed to be played by Rue McClanahan, whereas Blanche Devereaux, one of Rose's roommates, was to be played by White.
 However, Jay Sandrich, the director of the show, suggested that Betty and Rue switch parts.
 He felt that Betty would be a better fit for Rose because she had already played Sue Ann Nivens in the television show "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", which is similar to the character of Blanche Devereaux.
 In a January 2017 interview with Katie Couric, White stated she jumped at the opportunity to take the role of Rose, noting she loved the character and describing Rose as "so innocent, not the brightest nickel in the drawer, but funny."

Question: What series was Brandon Tartikoff credited for creating starring Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty?
Answer: The Golden Girls