The Golden Girls: Season 5
1989 · 26 episodes · ★ 7.6
What Season 5 of The Golden Girls
Season 5 of The Golden Girls Has 26 episodes and premiered on September 23, 1989. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.
Season 5 Episodes
5x01 Sick & Tired (1)
Dorothy is feeling rundown, tired all the time and has a lack of energy. She is sure she is ill, but all of the doctors she visits tell her she's fine. Meanwhile, Blanche decides to write a romance novel.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Susan Harris · Starring: Jeffrey Tambor, Michael McGuire
5x02 Sick & Tired (2)
Dorothy continues to seek medical advice and turns to Harry Weston for help. Meanwhile, Blanche goes on a writing binge resulting in a novel that is less than enthralling.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Written by: Susan Harris · Starring: Richard Mulligan, Bibi Besch, Park Overall, Keone Young
5x03 The Accurate Conception
Blanche's daughter, Rebecca has some wonderful news. She's going to become a mother, through artificial insemination. However, Blanche is less than thrilled, she's totally against the entire thing.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Written by: Gail Parent · Starring: Debra Engle, James Staley, Kelly Ann Conn
5x04 Rose Fights Back
When the company that Rose's husband worked for, cuts off their pension plan, Rose must face the fact that she's going to get a new job, one that pays more. However, she quickly finds herself dealing with something she never expected, age discrimination. Meanwhile, Sophia goes wild buying things in quantity at a Shopper's Warehouse.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Starring: Beth Grant, Chick Vennera
5x05 Love Under the Big Top
Dorothy is in a serious relationship with a lawyer and jumps to the conclusion that he's on the verge of proposing. However, his announcement is a shocker, he's leaving law to become a circus clown. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche put together a protest to save some dolphins.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Written by: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble · Starring: Mel Stewart, Dick Van Dyke, John DiSanti
5x06 Dancing in the Dark
Rose has been dating Miles Webber, a college professor, but the only thing they seem to have in common is the dance floor. When Miles invites her to a party, Rose feels like a fish out of water being surrounded by all his intelligent friends. Meanwhile, Blanche battles a dating slump.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Starring: G.F. Smith, Mimi Cozzens, John Ingle, Channing Chase
5x07 Not Another Monday
Sophia's friend has come up with an idea that will change her life. She wants to commit suicide and she wants Sophia there to hold her hand. Meanwhile, Blanche, Rose and Dorothy become singing nursemaids to a sick baby that they are taking care of for the weekend.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Gail Parent · Starring: Richard Mulligan, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jayson Kane, Doug Cox
5x08 That Old Feeling
Blanche is visited by her brother in-law and is taken back by his resemblence to her deceased husband. She quickly finds herself falling in love with hopes of marriage.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Tom Whedon · Starring: George Grizzard
5x09 Comedy of Errors
Dorothy finds a list of things that she wanted to accomplish before a certain age and finds that she hasn't accomplished many of them. So she decides to go after one of them, entertaining people. This leads her to sign up to do a stand up routine at a nightclub. Meanwhile, Blanche finds herself battling the IRS.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Written by: Don Reo · Starring: Oliver Clark, Linda Rand, David Jay Willis, Tom La Grua
5x10 All That Jazz
Dorothy's son, Michael, shows up on her doorstep with news that he's separated with his wife and needs a place to stay. However, Dorothy quickly gets tired of his freeloading and dumps him on Stan. Meanwhile, Rose's stress is getting terrible and is reluctant to talk to her boss about cutting back on her "things-to-do" list.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Robert Bruce · Starring: Scott Jacoby, Stan Roth, Chick Vennera, Herb Edelman
5x11 Ebb Tide
Blanche is shattered after her father, Big Daddy, passes away. However, when she goes back to her childhood home, she gets into a big argument with her sister, Virginia and decides not to attend the funeral.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Starring: Paul Eiding, Sheree North, Steven Gilborn, Brandis Kemp
5x12 Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas Mid-Season Finale
It's the Christmas season and the girls are fed up with Christmas shopping in a heat wave. So they decide to buy gifts for the one person they pick from a hat. Later, the girls decide to serve Christmas dinner for the homeless, including a recently homeless Stan.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Tom Whedon · Starring: Matt McCoy, Herb Edelman
5x13 Mary Has a Little Lamb
The girls take in a 15 year old girl who has just found out she's pregnant and scared to tell her father. Meanwhile, Blanche's prison pen pal has just been released and is looking for her.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Starring: Julie McCullough, John Dennis Johnston, Lorry Goldman
5x14 Great Expectations
Rose joins a positive thinking group and tries to get a pessimistic Dorothy to join. Meanwhile, Blanche is scared to get serious with her latest boyfriend especially after he has a heart attack.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Written by: Robert Bruce · Starring: Robert Mandan, Michele Pawk, Kat Sawyer-Young, Kathy Bendett
5x15 Triple Play
Blanche tries to lure men by placing a fake ad in the paper trying to sell a Mercedes. Meanwhile, Rose has to deal with meeting Miles's daughter who makes it clear she wants their relationship to be no more and Dorothy discovers Sophia is hoarding Social Security money, thanks to a computer error.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Written by: Gail Parent · Starring: Molly Hagan, Ronnie Schell, Lance Wilson-White, William Cort
5x16 Clinton Avenue Memoirs
Dorothy becomes alarmed when Sophia forgets the date of her wedding anniversary. This leads Dorothy to face the fact that Sophia is becoming more and more forgetful with age. After visiting a doctor, Sophia decides to regain some of the memories she has lost and decides to take a trip to Brooklyn and their old apartment.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Written by: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble · Starring: Kyle T. Heffner, Sid Melton, David Correia, Flo Di Re
5x17 Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom Tom
After visiting the doctor, Blanche learns that he wants to put a pacemaker in her. However, after the operation, Blanche is so scared of intimacy that she decides to give up sex.
Directed by: Terry Hughes · Starring: Peter Michael Goetz, Robert Culp, David Jay Willis
5x18 An Illegitimate Concern
Blanche is stunned when a man comes to the front door and claims to be the illegitimate son of her late husband. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Sophia enter a mother-daughter pageant at Shady Pines.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Marc Cherry · Starring: Mark Moses
5x19 72 Hours
Rose discovers that she may be carrying the HIV virus after learning the blood they used in her gallbladder operation may have contained HIV antibodies. What really gets to her though is the 72 hours she must wait before hearing the test results. Meanwhile, Dorothy organizes a Save the Swamplands charity.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble · Starring: Tony Carreiro, Peggy Walton-Walker
5x20 Twice in a Lifetime
Rose must decide between her boyfriend, Miles or an old boyfriend who has just come to town and asks her to go to Europe with him. Meanwhile, fed up with Dorothy's rules, Sophia decides to move out.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Robert Bruce · Starring: Eddie Bracken, Douglas Seale, April Ortiz, Harold Gould
5x21 Sisters & Other Strangers
Blanche and her sister, Charmaine, reconcile after a life-long rivalry. However, the reconciliation does not last long after Blanche reads her recently published book and realizes the heroine is based on her. Meanwhile, Dorothy becomes fed up with Stan's visiting cousin.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Marc Cherry · Starring: Barbara Babcock, Marian Mercer
5x22 Cheaters
The married man whom Dorothy once dated re-enters her life and has news that he's now divorced and would like to reconcile with Dorothy. Meanwhile, Blanche and Sophia become the victims of a con game.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Writing: Tom Whedon · Starring: Sam McMurray, Nancy Lenehan, Jerry Orbach
5x23 The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present
The girls attend the wedding of Dorothy's niece who's father was once engaged to Sophia. Sophia thinks that the wedding reception is the perfect spot for revenge after supposedly putting a curse on him years ago.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Starring: Paul Collins, Stuart Nisbet, Howard Duff, Tanya Louise
5x24 All Bets Are Off
Dorothy's gambling problem re-surfaces after a visit to the race track and quickly begins falling in to debt and gaining an apathy to her job. Meanwhile, Rose takes up painting and Blanche is insulted after a man she works with rejects her advances.
Directing: Terry Hughes · Starring: Michael Ensign
5x25 The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (1)
An FBI agent investigates the girls' life's for a possible visit from President Bush. This leads the girls to reminisce about times they have spent together.
Writing: Robert Bruce, Gail Parent · Starring: Timothy Stack, Herb Edelman, Harry Shearer
5x26 The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (2) Season Finale
When the FBI agent announces that George Bush will make a visit to their home, the girls continue to reminisce and Dorothy quickly readies a list of points she wants to make to the president.
Writing: Tom Whedon, Marc Cherry · Starring: Timothy Stack, Herb Edelman, Harry Shearer
Season 5 Cast
Bea ArthurDorothy Zbornak26 episodes
Betty WhiteRose Nylund26 episodes
Rue McClanahanBlanche Devereaux26 episodes
Estelle GettySophia Petrillo26 episodes
Herb EdelmanStanley Zbornak4 episodes
Harold GouldMiles3 episodes
Richard MulliganHarry Weston2 episodes
Timothy StackAgent Bell2 episodes
Michael McGuireDr. Budd2 episodes
Chick VenneraEnrique Mas2 episodes
Harry ShearerGeorge Bush (voice)2 episodes
Peter Michael GoetzDr. SteinEpisode 1
Mel StewartJudgeEpisode 1
Julie McCulloughMaryEpisode 1
Robert MandanStevenEpisode 1
Sam McMurrayMr. KaneEpisode 1
Paul CollinsManEpisode 1
Jeffrey TamborDr. StevensEpisode 1
Kyle T. HeffnerYoung SalvaldoreEpisode 1
George GrizzardJamieEpisode 1All Seasons
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Frequently Asked Questions
How Many Episodes Does The Golden Girls Season 5 Have?
Season 5 of The Golden Girls has 26 episodes.
When Did Season 5 of The Golden Girls Premiere?
Premiered on September 23, 1989.
Where to Watch The Golden Girls Season 5?
Por suscripción, en Disney Plus y Tivify (la oferta puede variar según el país).