The Golden Girls had seven seasons. The American sitcom premiered on NBC on September 14, 1985, and its original run ended on May 9, 1992, with 180 episodes spread across those seven seasons.
The series followed four older women—Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nylund, Blanche Devereaux, and Sophia Petrillo—sharing a home in Miami. Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty played the central characters, creating one of television’s best-known ensemble casts.
The show remained a major ratings success for most of its run and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1986. Its seventh season was the final regular season, although the characters continued in the spin-off The Golden Palace after Bea Arthur left the original cast.
A common mix-up is counting The Golden Palace as an eighth season. It was a separate series, not an additional season of The Golden Girls, and ran for one season from 1992 to 1993.