Magnum Mania!

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:05 am**

Remember when I said I remembered The Golden Girls' couch was the same as TM's, and my aunt had the same couch? I just happened to be channel surfing, and stumbled across an episode where the "girls" were sitting on the couch. The fabric is identical to TM's, but the couch and chair themselves are completely different.

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:56 pm**

Maybe the studio got a deal on the fabric. Did their couch have a plastic slip cover over it?

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:07 pm**

IKnowWhatYoureThinking wrote:Maybe the studio got a deal on the fabric. Did their couch have a plastic slip cover over it?

No plastic cover that I saw, although I didn't watch the show, only once in a while when nothing else was on. There may have been at some point. They were on two different networks. I concluded that since MPI was based in Hawaii and TGG was based in Miami, The tropical print was chosen to reflect theit respective locations. Rick Romer would be the one to ask about that, except that the MPI couch was already in place when he took over as set decorator.

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:41 pm**

The Golden Girls... now that was a good show!

Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:25 pm**

lutherhgillis wrote:The Golden Girls... now that was a good show!

Agreed. I don't know how a kid like me born in the '70s could enjoy a show about a bunch of old ladies, but there you have it... It was really a great show.