Golden Years (also referred to as Stephen King's Golden Years) is an American television science fiction thriller miniseries that aired in seven parts on CBS from July 16 to August 22, 1991 as a part of its 1991 schedule.

Harlan Williams, an elderly janitor, is caught up in an explosion at the top-secret laboratory where he works.

"[1] King credited Twin Peaks for making it possible for Golden Years to be produced:[1] "Up until Twin Peaks came on, the only sort of continuing drama that TV understood was soap opera, Dallas, Knots Landing, that sort of thing.

King asked for four hours of airtime in the following spring to finish the story, but CBS denied him this as well.

[2] The home video version changes the last few minutes of the final episode to give the story an optimistic ending.