[Golden Girls spin-off] Empty Nest launched its own spin-off in 1991, Nurses, set in the same hospital where Dr. Weston worked. As one of the few times in television history that three shows from the same producer, set in the same city, aired back-to-back-to-back on a single network in the same night, the three shows occasionally took advantage of their unique circumstances to create storylines that carried through all three series, such as “Hurricane Saturday”. This was one of the major factors in the popularity of fictional crossovers as a television plot device in the 1990s.
