Home Improvement: Season 5

1995 · 26 episodes · ★ 8.0

What Season 5 of Home Improvement

Brad enters adolescence, and the Taylors face the typical growing-up challenges. Tim, the Tool Man, faces changes at work when Bud Harper arrives as the new boss of Tool Time and wants to replace Al. At home, Tim keeps getting into projects that spiral out of control, while Jill explores new hobbies and classes. Brad also causes problems at high school and racks up punishments from the first day of the school year. Wilson, as always, watches every botched project from the other side of the fence.

26episodes

Sep 19, 1995premiered

May 21, 1996latest episode

9.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 A Taylor Runs Through It
Sep 19, 1995 · 22 min
At Jill's cousin's wedding, Tim tries to squeeze in sports for him in the boys. After Jill gets tired of writing her speech for the wedding, she decides to go water skiing with the boys and gets injured.
Written by: Lloyd Garver · Starring: Bonnie Hellman, Robert Gould
5x02 The First Temptation of Tim
Sep 26, 1995 · 22 min
Bud Harper, Tim's new boss, wants to replace Al because younger viewers don't like him. Meanwhile, Brad gets detention on the first day of school and additional detention for misbehaving during detention.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Royce D. Applegate, Charles Robinson, Shirley Prestia
5x03 Her Cheatin' Mind
Oct 3, 1995 · 22 min
After Tim becomes threatened by one of Jill's classmates, he joins her book club.
Starring: Gretchen German, Joe Urla, Stephanie Dunnam, Ja'net DuBois
5x04 Jill's Surprise Party
Oct 17, 1995 · 22 min
Tim invites everyone over to the house for Jill's surprise birthday party, but Jill is off looking for her childhood piano.
Directed by: Andy Cadiff · Written by: Elliot Shoenman · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Tudi Roche, Tracy Letts, Jensen Daggett
5x05 Advise and Repent
Oct 24, 1995 · 22 min
Jill gets an A on her psychology paper and starts dispensing psychiatric advice. Unfortunately, this leads to marital problems for Randy's girlfriend's parents.
Directed by: Andy Cadiff · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Nancy Youngblut, Kimberly Cullum, Mark L. Taylor
5x06 Let Them Eat Cake
Oct 31, 1995 · 22 min
Brad throws a Halloween party for his new friends at school while Tim, Jill, Al, and Ilene attend a cable awards show. The Tool Time cast hopes to win an award, but it appears that Cooking with Irma will sweep the event as it has every other year.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Lea Moreno Young, Jarrad Paul, Marla Sokoloff
5x07 The Look
Nov 7, 1995 · 22 min
Tim gets "the look" from Jill after spending $4,000 on season tickets for the Detroit Pistons.
Written by: Elliot Shoenman · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Vincent Guastaferro, Charles Robinson, Jim Labriola
5x08 Room Without a View
Nov 14, 1995 · 22 min
Tim turns the basement into Randy's new room so that Randy doesn't have to share a room with Mark.
Starring: Debbe Dunning
5x09 Chicago Hope
Nov 21, 1995 · 22 min
Jill plans on having a romantic evening with Tim when they go to Chicago, but Tim's business meeting takes all day.
Starring: Troy Evans, Michael Yama, Wesley Leong, Rodney Kageyama
5x10 Doctor in the House
Nov 28, 1995 · 22 min
Jill, Wilson, and Al are angry when Tim gets an honorary Ph.D.
Written by: Lloyd Garver · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Jim Beaver, Marcia Rodd, Janet MacLachlan
5x11 That's My Momma
Dec 5, 1995 · 22 min
When Tim's mother returns, she begins dating Mr. Leonard, Tim's old shop teacher, and doesn't want to spend time with Tim.
Starring: Dick O'Neill, Bonnie Bartlett, William O'Leary
5x12 'Twas the Flight Before Christmas Mid-Season Finale
Dec 12, 1995 · 22 min
On Christmas Eve, Tim and Al get stuck at the airport on the way to Binford's winter festival. Ilene makes Al choose between her and his mother. Tim and the boys beat Doc Johnson in the Christmas lighting contest.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Tom Poston, Connie Sawyer, Sydney Anderson
5x13 Oh, Brother
Jan 9, 1996 · 22 min
When Tim hires Marty to rebuild the Tool Time set, it puts their friendship on the line.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Kristen Clayton, Jim Labriola, Blake Clark
5x14 High School Confidential
Jan 16, 1996 · 22 min
Brad feels jealous when Randy starts taking advanced classes at his school. Tim designs the man's bedroom.
Written by: Lloyd Garver · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Miguel Sandoval, Milton Canady
5x15 Tanks for the Memories
Jan 30, 1996 · 22 min
Tim and Jill play each other in a tank driving competition, and Jill wins. However, Tim doesn't congratulate her because he thinks she humiliated him.
Written by: Lloyd Garver · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Vaughn Armstrong, Tim Grimm
5x16 The Vasectomy One
Feb 6, 1996 · 22 min
Jill wants Tim to get a vasectomy when they agree their family is complete. Meanwhile, Randy is voted "best butt" by the girls at school.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Gretchen German, Caroline McWilliams, Kristen Clayton
5x17 Fear of Flying
Feb 13, 1996 · 22 min
Mark wants to take flying lessons, but Jill doesn't let him. Jill takes piano lessons. Meanwhile, Tim and Al ruin Bud's car.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Albert Sacco, Pat Crawford Brown, Ken Bowersox
5x18 When Harry Kept Dolores
Feb 20, 1996 · 22 min
Dolores, Harry's wife, comes to Harry's Hardware and Tim's marital advice causes them to split up.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Alan Jackson, Jim Labriola, Blake Clark
5x19 Eye on Tim
Feb 27, 1996 · 22 min
When a TV report is done on Tool Time, Jill gets angry when the reporter makes advances on Tim.
Directing: Peter Bonerz · Writer: Lloyd Garver · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Rosalind Allen, Dex Elliott Sanders
5x20 The Bud Bowl
Mar 5, 1996 · 22 min
When Tim and Jill go bowling with Bud and his wife, Tim tells Jill to lose because he's afraid his career will be ruined if they beat Bud and his wife. Meanwhile, Angela, Brad's girlfriend, sets her sister up with Randy.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Andi Eystad, Bever-Leigh Banfield, Kristen Clayton
5x21 Engine and a Haircut, Two Fights
Mar 12, 1996 · 22 min
Tim and Brad get into a fight over Brad's new haircut and the hot rod engine. Meanwhile, Randy doesn't want Jill to help him rehearse for an audition to play Romeo in a school play of Romeo & Juliet.
Directed by: Andrew Tsao · Starring: Joseph Whipp
5x22 The Longest Day
Apr 2, 1996 · 22 min
After a routine medical checkup, the family discovers that Randy may have cancer.
Writer: Elliot Shoenman · Starring: Debbe Dunning
5x23 Mr. Wilson's Opus
Apr 30, 1996 · 22 min
Wilson becomes the director of Randy's school play but takes the role a little too seriously. Tim and Wilson clash when Wilson attempts to make him rebuild the play's aluminum set.
Directing: Richard Compton · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Patrick Renna, Laura Bell Bundy, David Brisbin
5x24 Shopping Around
May 7, 1996 · 22 min
Tim and Jill see Art, Tim's old shop teacher who's dating his mother, at a restaurant with another woman.
Starring: Debbe Dunning, Dick O'Neill, Vasili Bogazianos, Bonnie Bartlett
5x25 Alarmed by Burglars
May 14, 1996 · 22 min
When Wilson is buglarized, Jill orders Tim to put in a high security system. But instead of them having peace and quite in their house, things get worse when the alarms begin going off by themselves.
Writer: Charlie Hauck · Starring: Debbe Dunning, Jarrad Paul, Michael Milhoan, Jim Labriola
5x26 Games, Flames and Automobiles Season Finale
May 21, 1996 · 22 min
Al creates a Tool Time board game, hoping to earn enough money to propose to Ilene. But the game has problems and sometimes catches fire.
Written by: Jennifer Celotta · Starring: Debbe Dunning, James Hong, Wesley Thompson, Sherry Hursey