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The Golden Girls Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1989 - 1990
Episode 1
Sick and Tired: Part 1
Sat, Sep 23, 198930 mins
Dorothy is not feeling good. She goes to see several doctors but none of them can find anything wrong with her. One of them recommends she go see a doctor in New York and when she sees him, he tells her that there's nothing wrong with her and that it's probably in her head.
Episode 2
Sick and Tired: Part 2
Sat, Sep 30, 198930 mins
Dorothy is still not feeling well. She turns to Harry who recommends she go to a doctor at the hospital. He tells Dorothy he thinks she might have a condition that is not exactly recognized by the medical community. She later runs into the doctor who told her that her condition might be in her mind and tells him off.
Episode 3
The Accurate Conception
Sat, Oct 14, 198930 mins
Blanche's daughter Rebecca shocks her with her plans to conceive a baby by means of artificial insemination.
Episode 4
Rose Fights Back
Sat, Oct 21, 198930 mins
When Rose loses her pension fund, she must get a second job to support herself. A local TV station hires her as an assistant to Enrique Mas, an egotistical consumer reporter.
Episode 5
Love Under the Big Top
Sat, Oct 28, 198930 mins
Ken Whittingham, Dorothy's lawyer boyfriend, wants to give up his law practice and become a circus clown.
Episode 6
Dancing in the Dark
Sat, Nov 4, 198930 mins
Rose feels inferior to her boyfriend Miles, a college professor.
Episode 7
Not Another Monday
Sat, Nov 11, 198930 mins
Martha Lamont, one of Sophia's close friends, is tired of the physical pain and suffering in her life and wants to kill herself.
Episode 8
That Old Feeling
Sat, Nov 18, 198930 mins
Blanche falls in love with her late husband's brother Jamie.
Episode 9
Comedy of Errors
Sat, Nov 25, 198930 mins
After a high school classmate dies unexpectedly, Dorothy decides to fulfill a long-forgotten dream of being a stand-up comedian.
Episode 10
All That Jazz
Sat, Dec 2, 198930 mins
Dorothy's son shows up after his wife gives him the boot. And when Dorothy waits on him hand and foot, he does nothing to get back on his feet. Blanche implores her to show some tough love and kick him out which she does, only he then goes to his father, Stan. But Stan shows up claiming that their son is crimping his style.
Episode 11
Ebb Tide
Sat, Dec 9, 198930 mins
Blanche and her sister Virginia clash at Big Daddy's funeral, which Dorothy also attends. Meanwhile, Sophia takes advantage of their absences to rent their rooms out to boarders.
Episode 12
Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas
Sat, Dec 16, 198930 mins
The girls volunteer at a homeless shelter on Christmas day and learn that Stan has been thrown out on the streets by his current wife.
Episode 13
Mary Has a Little Lamb
Sat, Jan 6, 199030 mins
The girls try to reconcile a pregnant teenage girl and her father. Meanwhile, Blanche starts to regret having written sympathetic "love" letters to a man in jail.
Episode 14
Great Expectations
Sat, Jan 13, 199030 mins
Blanche is afraid to get too close to her boyfriend, even after he suffers a heart attack.
Episode 15
Triple Play
Sat, Jan 27, 199030 mins
Rose meets Miles's overprotective daughter, Blanche hatches a plan to meet men by advertising a luxury car for sale, and Sophia is suddenly flush with money.
Episode 16
Clinton Avenue Memoirs
Sat, Feb 3, 199030 mins
Sophia is suffering from memory problems so she decides to make a trip back to her old Brooklyn home in the hope of rekindling her fading past.
Episode 17
Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom Tom
Sat, Feb 10, 199030 mins
Blanche feels insecure about her body after having a pacemaker installed.
Episode 18
An Illegitimate Concern
Mon, Feb 12, 199030 mins
A young man shocks Blanche when he shows up unannounced from Dallas, Texas and tells her that her late husband George was his father. Meanwhile, Sophia convinces Dorothy to participate with her in the Shady Pines Mother/Daughter pageant.
Episode 19
72 Hours
Sat, Feb 17, 199030 mins
Rose is afraid that a blood transfusion she had several years ago may have contained HIV-infected blood.
Episode 20
Twice in a Lifetime
Sat, Feb 24, 199030 mins
Rose's old boyfriend Buzz, a musician with Spike Jones' band, shows up and wants to get back together with her.
Episode 21
Sisters and Other Strangers
Sat, Mar 3, 199024 mins
Blanche thinks the risqué novel her sister Charmaigne has written is about her. Meanwhile, Dorothy argues with Stan's Czechoslovakian cousin Magda over Communism.
Episode 22
Cheaters
Sat, Mar 24, 199024 mins
Dorothy rekindles her romance with Glenn O'Brien, the married (now divorced) man she had an affair with several years ago.
Episode 23
The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present
Sat, Mar 31, 199030 mins
Sophia must confront a man that she put a curse on after he jilted her at the altar decades ago.
Episode 24
All Bets Are Off
Sat, Apr 28, 199030 mins
Dorothy falls back into patterns of habitual gambling that she thought she had kicked several years ago.
Episode 25
The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 1
Sat, May 5, 199030 mins
All the girls except Dorothy are excited when President George H.W. Bush plans to visit their house on his tour of Miami.
Episode 26
The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 2
Sat, May 5, 199030 mins
A Secret Service agent comes to the house to make sure none of the girls pose a threat to the President's security.
