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Eight Is Enough Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 1
And Baby Makes Nine: Part 1
Wed, Oct 29, 198060 mins
Susan faces unexpected complications as she nears the end of her pregnancy; Jack asks Elizabeth to move in with him; Nicholas volunteers Tom as assistant scout master of his cub scout troop.
Episode 2
And Baby Makes Nine: Part 2
Wed, Oct 29, 198060 mins
Abby feels responsible for the complications surrounding Susan's pregnancy; Susan gives birth prematurely, and the fate of the baby hangs in the balance; Elizabeth hides her live-in arrangement with Jack from the family.
Episode 3
Jeremy
Wed, Nov 5, 1980
Abby's troubled nephew stays with the Bradfords until his estranged father can be located; Joannie is promoted to sportscaster at the television station; Nicholas turns a profit from Mary's female anatomy textbook.
Episode 4
Welcome to Memorial Dr. Bradford
Wed, Nov 12, 1980
Abby accepts a job as guidance counselor at a dangerous inner-city high school; Nicholas falls in with a classmate with a penchant for stealing; Tom becomes a constant passenger after his driver's license expires.
Episode 5
Generations
Wed, Nov 19, 1980
Susan brings her baby home from the hospital; Abby senses disapproval from Joan's parents when they arrive to meet their new granddaughter; Tommy starts work as a guitarist at a male strip club, but finds it pays more to take to the stage.
Episode 6
Holly
Wed, Nov 26, 1980
Tommy's songwriting collaboration with a single mother turns personal; Jeremy reluctantly enrolls in high school and then does all he can to be expelled; David remodels the garage as living quarters for Susan and the baby until Merle's return.
Episode 7
The Maltese Airline Bag
Wed, Dec 10, 1980
Primed from reading too many spy novels, Nicholas believes he's embroiled in a real-life espionage plot; When his staff becomes hush-hush around him, Tom becomes suspicious that he's about to be fired.
Episode 8
Strike
Wed, Dec 17, 1980
The newspaper closes its doors during a labor dispute, landing Tom on the unemployment line; All four of the family's cars are out of commission after a postal truck crashes into the Bradford driveway; Nicholas promotes a bartering system to navigate the family's financial crisis.
Episode 9
Bradfordgate
Wed, Jan 7, 1981
An exploitative reporter threatens Tom's chances when the governor appoints him to the state's Board of Education; Joannie goes undercover to do an expose on video dating services; Nicholas turns hoodlum in an effort to change his wholesome image.
Episode 10
The Darlene Dilemma
Wed, Jan 14, 1981
A manipulative student of Abby's enmeshes herself into the Bradford family; Nicholas promises to cook dinner for a girl; Nancy becomes the model-spokesperson for a local business that turns out to be disreputable.
Episode 11
Second Thoughts
Wed, Jan 21, 1981
Nancy's modeling career takes off, bringing unwanted attention; Joannie's lack of advancement at the station leads her to abandon her career and enter into a hasty engagement to Jeff; Tommy becomes Nicholas' slave in exchange for the last remaining ticket to a sold-out concert.
Episode 12
David's Rib
Wed, Jan 28, 1981
David's dream of restoring the city's opera house pits him against Janet, whose firm has been hired to demolish it for an urban renewal project; Susan and Merle take turns looking after the baby, which leaves them alternately exhausted; Nicholas inherits a retired racehorse.
Episode 13
Vows
Wed, Feb 18, 1981
Abby and Tom decide to renew their vows on their anniversary, just as David and Janet announce their legal separation; Peer pressure dampens Jeremy's romance with a girl whose individuality clashes with his need to fit in.
Episode 14
The Way We Were
Wed, Mar 4, 1981
Tommy realizes he's become stagnant by not having gone away to college; David's traditional values are out of sync with the swinging singles scene; Nicholas starts a paper route delivering for Tom's rival newspaper.
Episode 15
If the Glass Slipper Fits
Wed, Mar 11, 1981
Elizabeth sets her cap for a vain classmate who doesn't see her as girlfriend material; David hires Nicholas to help him find an affordable apartment; Nancy's shot with a big modeling agency hinges on her going topless in a print ad.
Episode 16
The Best Little Telethon in Sacramento
Sat, Mar 28, 1981
Joannie is put in charge of securing talent for a local telethon; Jeremy can't convince Tommy to let him be his band manager; David tries to unload an unwanted roommate (and her mother).
Episode 17
Yet Another Seven Days in February
Sat, Apr 4, 1981
The chairman of a local radio station will plug Tommy's music on the condition that he put the man's accident-prone daughter in his band; David is relentlessly pursued by the girl's amorous mother; and Jeremy dates the girl's cousin, a sports enthusiast whose endurance he can't begin to match.
Episode 18
The Idolbreaker: Part 1
Sat, Apr 11, 1981
Just as Tommy's music career is about to take off, an ex-girlfriend returns to tell him she's pregnant; Nicholas stands up to the class bully to impress a girl who then expects a hero every day; The Bradford sisters attempt to rehabilitate a homeless man.
Episode 19
The Idolbreaker: Part 2
Sat, Apr 18, 1981
An unexpected development upends Tommy plans to marry Ellen; Joannie envies an attractive reporter who starts work at the station; Jeremy drops hints as his first birthday with the family approaches.
Episode 20
Starting Over
Sat, May 9, 1981
David and Janet make a final attempt at reconciliation; Jeremy turns sleuth after digging up a human skull in the vegetable garden; Nicholas' chances of making the basketball team hinge on Elizabeth, who is dating the coach.
Episode 21
Goals
Sat, May 16, 1981
Mary's bedside manner creates a monster when an oddball patient falls for her; Merle struggles to reinvent himself after an injury ends his pitching career; Jeremy angles for a raise in his allowance by pedaling a line of unpalatable health food products to the family.
Episode 22
Father Knows Best?
Sat, May 23, 198160 mins
David's old high school friends come to town for their 10 year reunion and start to feel like losers. They locate a classmate that they humiliated years ago to apologize and find he is very successful. He then extracts some sweet revenge on them. Meanwhile, Jeremy's real father arrives in town to assert his rights causing stress for everyone. Will Jeremy leave with him or stay with his new family the Bradford's?
