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| show_name = Golden Years
| image = Golden Years (TV series).jpg
| caption = Title card
| show_name_2 = Stephen King's Golden Years
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* [[Science fiction|Sci-fi]]
| creator = ▼
* [[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]]
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* Stephen King
* Josef Anderson
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* [[Kenneth Fink]] (1)
* [[Allen Coulter]] (2, 4, 6)
* Michael Gornick (3, 7)
* [[Stephen Tolkin]] (5)
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* [[Keith Szarabajka]]
* [[Felicity Huffman]]
* [[Frances Sternhagen]]
* [[Ed Lauter]]
* [[R. D. Call]]
* [[Bill Raymond]]
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| theme_music_composer = [[David Bowie]]
| opentheme = "[[Golden Years (song)|Golden Years]]"
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| num_episodes = 7
| list_episodes =
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
* Stephen King
* [[Richard P. Rubinstein]]
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* [[Mitchell Galin]]
* Peter R. McIntosh
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* Michael Kewley
* Stephen Mark
* Richard Harkness
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| location =
| cinematography = [[Alex Nepomniaschy]]
| camera = Joe D'Alessandro
| runtime = {{Plainlist|
* 232 minutes * 236 minutes {{small|(Home video)}}
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| company = [[Laurel Productions]]
| distributor =
| channel = [[CBS]]
| picture_format = 16:9
| audio_format = Mono
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'''''Golden Years''''' (also referred to as '''''Stephen King's Golden Years''''') is an American television [[
==Production==▼
King called ''Golden Years'' a "novel for television"; it originated as an idea for a novel that sat in his notebook for years.<ref name="nyt91"/> He "wrote the first five episodes and outlined the last two."<ref name="nyt91"/> King credited ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' for making it possible for ''Golden Years'' to be produced:<ref name="nyt91">{{cite web| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/14/arts/television-tv-gets-a-new-poltergeist-stephen-king.html | title= TV Gets a New Poltergeist: Stephen King | date= July 14, 1991 | first= Peter | last= Applebome | authorlink= Peter Applebome| publisher= The New York Times| accessdate=2013-05-23}}</ref>▼
<blockquote>"Up until ''Twin Peaks'' came on, the only sort of continuing drama that TV understood was [[soap opera]], ''[[Dallas (1978 TV series)|Dallas]]'', ''[[Knots Landing]]'', that sort of thing. To some degree David Lynch gave them that. But he turned the whole idea of that continuing soap opera inside out like a sock. If you think of ''Twin Peaks'' as a man, it's a man in delirium, a man spouting [[stream of consciousness (narrative mode)|stream-of-consciousness]] stuff. ''Golden Years'' is like ''Twin Peaks'' without the delirium."</blockquote>▼
The miniseries was to lead into a regular series, and therefore ended on a [[cliffhanger]]. CBS, however, decided not to pick up the option on the full series, and it was never realized. King asked for four hours of airtime in the following spring to finish the story, but CBS denied him this.<ref name="SK Bio">{{cite book |author=Albert Rolls |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IeA7ghrMfw4C&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100#v=onepage&q=Stephen%20King%27s%20Golden%20Years%20ratings%20CBS |title=Stephen King: A Biography |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |page=100 |accessdate=26 October 2014}}</ref> The home video version changes the last few minutes of the final aired episode to give the story an optimistic ending.▼
==Plot==
==Cast==
;All episodes
* [[Keith Szarabajka]] as Harlan Williams
* [[Felicity Huffman]] as Terry Spann
* [[Frances Sternhagen]] as Gina Williams
* [[Ed Lauter]] as Gen. Louis Crewes
* [[R. D. Call]] as Jude Andrews
* [[Bill Raymond]] as Dr. Richard X. Toddhunter
;Six or less appearances
* [[Stephen Root]] as Maj. Moreland
* Philip Lenkowsky as Billy Delois
* [[Tim Guinee]] as Fredericks
* Graham Paul as Rick Haverford
* [[Erik King]] as Burton
* [[John Rothman]] as Dr. Ackerman
* [[Harriet Sansom Harris]] as Francie Will
* [[Matt Malloy]] as Redding
* [[Margo Martindale]] as Thelma
▲==Production==
▲King called ''Golden Years'' a "novel for television"; it originated as an idea for a novel that sat in his notebook for years.<ref name="nyt91"/> He "wrote the first five episodes and outlined the last two."<ref name="nyt91"/> King credited ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' for making it possible for ''Golden Years'' to be produced:<ref name="nyt91">{{cite web| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/14/arts/television-tv-gets-a-new-poltergeist-stephen-king.html | title= TV Gets a New Poltergeist: Stephen King | date= July 14, 1991 | first= Peter | last= Applebome | authorlink= Peter Applebome| publisher= The New York Times| accessdate=2013-05-23}}</ref>
▲<blockquote>"Up until ''Twin Peaks'' came on, the only sort of continuing drama that TV understood was [[soap opera]], ''[[Dallas (1978 TV series)|Dallas]]'', ''[[Knots Landing]]'', that sort of thing. To some degree David Lynch gave them that. But he turned the whole idea of that continuing soap opera inside out like a sock. If you think of ''Twin Peaks'' as a man, it's a man in delirium, a man spouting [[stream of consciousness (narrative mode)|stream-of-consciousness]] stuff. ''Golden Years'' is like ''Twin Peaks'' without the delirium."</blockquote>
▲The miniseries was intended to lead into a regular series, and therefore ended on a [[cliffhanger]].
▲In the fifth episode, [[Stephen King]] has an extended cameo as a bus driver.<ref name="nyt91"/>
==References==
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