The Golden Girls (season 5)
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.
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| Season 5 | |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 23, 1989 – May 5, 1990 |
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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]
Episodes
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| 103 | 1 | "Sick and Tired: Part 1" | Terry Hughes | Susan Harris | September 23, 1989 | |
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After five months of worsening fatigue and pain, Dorothy believes she is seriously ill. Two doctors tell her there's nothing wrong with her, as does a specialist whom Sophia then rebukes. Traveling with Rose, Dorothy sees New York City, New York neurologist Dr. Budd, who tells her she's just aging and any other problem is in her head, despite two psychiatrists' assessments that she's mentally healthy. Dorothy breaks down, believing that she is crazy, but Rose reassures her that she is sick. Sophia fears losing Dorothy to an unknown disease. Blanche decides to become a novelist, but immediately suffers writer's block. Guest star: Jeffrey Tambor as Dr. Stevens. | ||||||
| 104 | 2 | "Sick and Tired: Part 2" | Terry Hughes | Susan Harris | September 30, 1989 | |
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Harry refers Dorothy to Dr. Chang, who diagnoses her with chronic fatigue syndrome. Although there is no cure, Dorothy is relieved to put a name to her condition. She treats Sophia, Blanche, and Rose to dinner and sees Dr. Budd in the restaurant. She confronts him, and his wife insists he hear her out. Dorothy laments his lost humanity and hopes he'll have a better doctor than himself when he needs one someday. Blanche stays awake for three days and delioursly writes a manuscript, but is rejected by publishers. She believes there will be nothing special about her if she fails to achieve fame, but Rose explains that her Minnesota upbringing taught her that friends and family are special. 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 | "Accurate Conception" | Terry Hughes | Gail Parent | October 14, 1989 | |
| Blanche's visiting daughter Becky intends to become a single mother through artificial insemination. Blanche objects; her friends share unusual details about their children's conceptions, but Blanche still considers it unnatural. A visit to a local sperm bank with her roommates and Becky also fails to convince Blanche, but Dorothy finally persuades Blanche to accept that Becky is an adult who must make her own decisions; Blanche apologizes and will be part of her daughter's and grandchild's lives--although the older women all agree the idea of the procedure is off-putting. Dorothy succeeds in getting a reluctant Sophia to have a checkup. | ||||||
| 106 | 4 | "Rose Fights Back" | Terry Hughes | Marc Sotkin | October 21, 1989 | |
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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 that she is facing, she finds that 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 and Tracy Gamble | October 28, 1989 | |
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Dorothy is in a serious relationship with a lawyer and believes that he is on the verge of proposing. However, his announcement is that he is leaving law to become a circus clown. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche put together a protest to save dolphins from tuna fishermen. 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 | |
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Rose fears that she is not smart enough for her dance partner, a college professor. First appearance by Harold Gould as Miles (who had previously appeared in Season 1 as Arnie Peterson). Guest star: John Ingle as Harv. | ||||||
| 109 | 7 | "Not Another Monday" | Terry Hughes | Gail Parent | November 11, 1989 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 and Martin Weiss | December 2, 1989 | |
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Dorothy's son, Michael, shows up on her doorstep with news that he has 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 | |
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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 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 115 | 13 | "Mary Has a Little Lamb" | Terry Hughes | Harold Apter | January 6, 1990 | |
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The girls take in a 16-year-old pregnant girl who has 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 and Martin Weiss | January 13, 1990 | |
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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 | |
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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-black as delivery boy. | ||||||
| 118 | 16 | "Clinton Avenue Memoirs" | Terry Hughes | Richard Vaczy & Tracy Gamble | February 3, 1990 | |
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Sophia decides to try to regain some of the memories she has lost by taking a trip to Brooklyn, New York, 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 | |
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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 and Jamie Wooten | February 12, 1990 | |
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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 and Tracy Gamble | February 17, 1990 | |
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Rose is afraid that a blood transfusion that 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 stars: Tony Carreiro as the Doctor; Peggy Walton-Walker as receptionist. | ||||||
| 122 | 20 | "Twice in a Lifetime" | Terry Hughes | Robert Bruce and Martin Weiss | February 24, 1990 | |
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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 and Jamie Wooten | March 3, 1990 | |
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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 | |
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The married man whom Dorothy once dated re-enters her life with news that he is 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 | |
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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. Dorothy asks to grab one of Blanche's former dates for her ceremony accompaniment, but gets mad at Blanche for her advances to him. 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 Are Off" | Terry Hughes | Eugene B. Stein | April 28, 1990 | |
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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 | Marc Sotkin, Gail Parent, Martin Weiss, Robert Bruce, Philip Jayson Lasker, Tom Whedon, Marc Cherry, and Jamie Wooten | May 5, 1990 | |
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The girls learn that President George H. W. Bush is coming to Miami, Florida 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. | ||||||
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