The Golden Girls (season 5)
| The Golden Girls (season 5) | |
|---|---|
 Season 5 DVD Cover | |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Original run | September 23, 1989 – May 5, 1990 |
| Home video release | |
|
DVD release | |
| Region 1 | May 9, 2006 |
| Region 2 | March 17, 2008 |
| Region 4 | April 2, 2008 |
The fifth season of The Golden Girls premiered on NBC on September 23, 1989, and concluded on May 5, 1990. The season consisted of 26 episodes.
Broadcast history
The season originally aired Saturdays at 9:00-9:30 pm (EST) on NBC from September 23, 1989 to May 5, 1990.[1][2]
DVD release
The Region 1 DVD was released on May 9, 2006. The Region 2 and 4 DVDs were respectively released on March 17 and April 2, 2008.
Episodes
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 103 | 1 | "Sick and Tired: Part 1" | Terry Hughes | Susan Harris | September 23, 1989 |
|
Doctors dismiss Dorothy's lingering illness as all in her head. Meanwhile, Blanche is inspired to write a novel about her life. Guest star: Jeffrey Tambor as Dr. Stevens. | |||||
| 104 | 2 | "Sick and Tired: Part 2" | Terry Hughes | Susan Harris | September 30, 1989 |
|
Dorothy finally has a diagnosis: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Blanche is delirious after she stays up for three days writing her manuscript, but Rose does not think it's any good. Guest stars: Richard Mulligan as Dr. Harry Weston, Park Overall as Laverne, Keone Young as Dr. Michael Chang, Bibi Besch as Helen Budd. | |||||
| 105 | 3 | "The Accurate Conception" | Terry Hughes | Gail Parent | October 14, 1989 |
| Blanche's daughter intends to become a mother, through artificial insemination, despite Blanche's opposition. Meanwhile, Dorothy has to pull teeth in order to get Sophia to go in for a checkup. | |||||
| 106 | 4 | "Rose Fights Back" | Terry Hughes | Marc Sotkin | October 21, 1989 |
|
When the company that Rose's husband worked for cuts off his pension, Rose must find a better-paying job. When she goes to a TV station to complain to their investigative reporter, Enrique Mas, of the age discrimination she's facing, she finds he needs an assistant — and gets the job. Meanwhile, Sophia goes wild buying things in quantity at a warehouse store. Guest star: Chick Vennera in his first appearance as Enrique Mas. | |||||
| 107 | 5 | "Love Under the Big Top" | Terry Hughes | Richard Vaczy & Tracy Gamble | October 28, 1989 |
|
Dorothy is in a serious relationship with a lawyer and believes he's on the verge of proposing. However, his announcement is that he's leaving law to become a circus clown. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche put together a protest to save some dolphins. Guest stars: Dick Van Dyke as Ken Whittingham, Mel Stewart as judge | |||||
| 108 | 6 | "Dancing in the Dark" | Terry Hughes | Phillip Jayson Lasker | November 4, 1989 |
|
Rose fears that she is not smart enough for her dance partner, a college professor. First appearance by Harold Gould as Miles. Guest star: John Ingle as Harv | |||||
| 109 | 7 | "Not Another Monday" | Terry Hughes | Gail Parent | November 11, 1989 |
|
Sophia's friend wants to commit suicide and she wants Sophia there to hold her hand; Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy become singing nursemaids to a sick baby that they are taking care of for the weekend. Guest stars: Richard Mulligan as Dr. Harry Weston, Geraldine Fitzgerald as Martha Lamont | |||||
| 110 | 8 | "That Old Feeling" | Terry Hughes | Tom Whedon | November 18, 1989 |
|
Blanche is visited by her brother-in-law and is taken aback by his resemblance to her deceased husband; Sophia secretly has been driving. Guest star: George Grizzard as Jamie Devereaux. | |||||
| 111 | 9 | "Comedy of Errors" | Terry Hughes | Don Reo | November 25, 1989 |
|
Dorothy finds a list of things that she wanted to accomplish before a certain age and realizes that she has not accomplished many of them, so she signs up to do stand-up comedy at a nightclub. Meanwhile, Blanche finds herself battling the Internal Revenue Service when they discover her failure to report her rental income, and Rose tries to figure out why an employee dislikes her. Guest star: Oliver Clark as Roger Barton. | |||||
| 112 | 10 | "All That Jazz" | Terry Hughes | Robert Bruce & Martin Weiss | December 2, 1989 |
|
Dorothy's son, Michael, shows up on her doorstep with news that he's separated from his wife and needs a place to stay; Dorothy quickly gets tired of his freeloading and dumps him on Stan. Meanwhile, Rose is under much stress at work, but she is reluctant to ask her boss to cut back her duties. Guest stars: Scott Jacoby as Michael Zbornak, Herb Edelman as Stan Zbornak, Chick Vennera as Enrique Mas. | |||||
| 113 | 11 | "Ebb Tide" | Terry Hughes | Marc Sotkin | December 9, 1989 |
|
When Blanche goes back to her childhood home for Big Daddy's funeral, she argues with her sister, Virginia, and decides not to attend. Meanwhile, Sophia tries to raise cash for a TV and rents out the girls' rooms in their absence. Guest star: Sheree North as Virginia. | |||||
| 114 | 12 | "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas" | Terry Hughes | Tom Whedon | December 16, 1989 |
|
Stan visits, trying to get the ladies to invest in a research-and-development lab for novelties. The ladies volunteer at a soup kitchen on Christmas. Guest stars: Herb Edelman as Stan Zbornak, Matt McCoy as Father Avery. | |||||
| 115 | 13 | "Mary Has a Little Lamb" | Terry Hughes | Harold Apter | January 6, 1990 |
|
The girls take in a 16-year-old pregnant girl who's been thrown out of her home; Blanche's prison pen pal has just been released and is looking for her. Guest star: Julie McCullough as Mary. | |||||
| 116 | 14 | "Great Expectations" | Terry Hughes | Robert Bruce & Martin Weiss | January 13, 1990 |
|
Rose joins a positive-thinking group and tries to get a pessimistic Dorothy to join. Meanwhile, Blanche is scared to get physical with her latest boyfriend, especially after he has a heart attack. Guest star: Robert Mandan as Steven. | |||||
| 117 | 15 | "Triple Play" | Terry Hughes | Gail Parent | January 27, 1990 |
|
Blanche tries to lure men by placing an ad for a Mercedes she does not intend to sell. Meanwhile, Rose has to deal with meeting Miles's daughter; Dorothy discovers Sophia is hoarding Social Security money she's receiving, thanks to a computer error, in excess of her entitlement. Guest stars: Harold Gould as Miles, Molly Hagan as Caroline, Ronnie Schell as Thomas, William Cort as James, Lance Wilson-White as delivery boy. | |||||
| 118 | 16 | "Clinton Avenue Memoirs" | Terry Hughes | Richard Vaczy & Tracy Gamble | February 3, 1990 |
|
Sophia decides to try to regain some of the memories she has lost by taking a trip to Brooklyn to see their old apartment. Meanwhile, Blanche works for Rose. Guest stars: Sid Melton as Salvadore Petrillo, Kyle Hefner as young Salvadore, David Correia as Mr. Hernandez, Flo DiRe as young Sophia, Jandi Swanson as young Dorothy. Note: Flo DiRe previously appeared in the season 4 episode "Foreign Exchange" as Gina Bosco. | |||||
| 119 | 17 | "Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom" | Terry Hughes | Phillip Jayson Lasker | February 10, 1990 |
|
Blanche has a pacemaker implanted, and is afterward so scared of intimacy that she decides to give up sex. Guest stars: Robert Culp as Simon, Peter Michael Goetz as Dr. Stein. | |||||
| 120 | 18 | "An Illegitimate Concern" | Terry Hughes | Marc Cherry & Jamie Wooten | February 12, 1990 |
|
Blanche is stunned when a man comes to the front door and claims to be the illegitimate son of her late husband; Dorothy and Sophia enter a mother-daughter pageant at Shady Pines. Guest star: Mark Moses as David. | |||||
| 121 | 19 | "72 Hours" | Terry Hughes | Richard Vaczy & Tracy Gamble | February 17, 1990 |
|
Rose is afraid that a blood transfusion she had several years ago may have contained HIV-infected blood, and has to wait three days for her test results; Sophia reacts poorly to the possibility of having an HIV-positive roommate. Meanwhile, Dorothy struggles to put together a charity function to save the local wetlands. Guest star: Tony Carreiro as the Doctor, Peggy Walton-Walker as receptionist. | |||||
| 122 | 20 | "Twice in a Lifetime" | Terry Hughes | Robert Bruce & Martin Weiss | February 24, 1990 |
|
Rose must decide between her boyfriend, Miles, and an old boyfriend who wants her to go to Europe with him. Meanwhile, fed up with Dorothy's rules, Sophia decides to move out. Guest stars: Eddie Bracken as Buzz, Harold Gould as Miles. | |||||
| 123 | 21 | "Sisters and Other Strangers" | Terry Hughes | Marc Cherry & Jamie Wooten | March 3, 1990 |
|
Blanche and her sister, Charmaine, reconcile after a life-long rivalry, until Blanche reads her sister's recently published romance novel and realizes that the heroine is based on her. Dorothy becomes fed up with Stan's visiting cousin from Czechoslovakia, who does nothing but extol the virtues of Communism. (NOTE: The name of this episode is a play on that of the film Lovers and Other Strangers, which starred Bea Arthur.) Guest stars: Barbara Babcock as Charmaine Hollingsworth, Marian Mercer as Magda. | |||||
| 124 | 22 | "Cheaters" | Terry Hughes | Tom Whedon | March 24, 1990 |
|
The married man whom Dorothy once dated re-enters her life with news that he's now divorced and would like to reconcile with her; Blanche and Sophia become the victims of a con game. Guest stars: Jerry Orbach as Glen O'Brien, Sam McMurray as Mr. Kane, Nancy Lenehan as nun. | |||||
| 125 | 23 | "The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present" | Terry Hughes | Phillip Jayson Lasker | March 31, 1990 |
|
The girls attend the wedding of Dorothy's goddaughter, who is marrying the grandson of a man who was once engaged to Sophia. Sophia thinks that the wedding reception is the perfect spot for revenge. Rose, however, is dreading the ceremony, due to her tendency to become sexually aroused at weddings. Guest stars: Howard Duff as Mangiacavallo, Stuart Nisbet as Doug, Tanya Louise as Jenny, Paul Collins as man, Miles Berkowitz as the groom. | |||||
| 126 | 24 | "All Bets Off" | Terry Hughes | Eugene B. Stein | April 28, 1990 |
|
Dorothy's gambling problem re-surfaces after a visit to the racetrack; Rose takes up painting; and Blanche is insulted when a co-worker rejects her advances. Guest star: Michael Ensign as Donald. | |||||
| 127/128 | 25/26 | "The President's Coming! The President's Coming!" | Lex Passaris | Part 1: Marc Sotkin & Gail Parent Martin Weiss & Robert Bruce Part 2: Philip Jayson Lasker Tom Whedon Marc Cherry & Jamie Wooten | May 5, 1990 |
|
The girls learn that President George H. W. Bush is coming to Miami and their house is a possible candidate for his stop along the way to a retirement home. The girls reminisce as a Secret Service agent informally interrogates them. Guest star: Timothy Stack as Agent Bell, Herb Edelman as Stan Zbornak, Harry Shearer as the voice of President Bush. Note: One-hour episode. | |||||
References
External links
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
