7.4/1022 votes#1 - Creatures of Habit
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 6/4/2000
Arliss buys a rare piece of memorabilia, and sends a client to a hypnotist to help him quit chewing tobacco. When treatment appears to work, Arliss sends Kirby there to quit gambling. Meanwhile, Rita tries to keep an LPGA client from falling off the wagon.
Director: Robert Wuhl
Writer: Robert Wuhl
- 7.0/1012 votes
#2 - Making Things Happen
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 6/11/2000
Arliss learns that a good friend and client, who is about to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, is being charged with domestic abuse. Meanwhile, Rita's activist friend sides with the client's wife.
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1011 votes
#3 - I Get Involved
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/18/2000
Arliss has to walk the fence when two clients, both teammates, are dating the same girl. Rita plays Cyrano for one of the clients, and a TV reporter shows up to do a ""Where Are They Now?"" segment on Kirby.
Director: Melanie Mayron
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/109 votes
#4 - Comings and Goings
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 6/25/2000
Arliss must help a client bury his mother. Meanwhile, Stanley's having a run of bad luck that threatens his chess game, so he goes looking for a ""slumpbuster."" And Kirby comes face-to-face with his own slumpbuster from 18 years ago, and must face the consequences.
Director: Melanie Mayron
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1015 votes
#5 - It's Who You Know
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 7/9/2000
Arliss tries to talk the ""pot dealer to the NBA"" out of retiring by offering to get his kid into a fancy private school. Meanwhile, Rita plays a relationship with a physical trainer by ""The Rules.""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/109 votes
#6 - The Value of Honesty
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 7/16/2000
Arliss has an affair with a WNBA coach, but his client (also the coach's star player) wants her fired. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of a wild birthday celebration, Kirby and Rita suspect they may have ""done it.""
Director: John Murray
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/109 votes
#7 - The Sum of the Parts
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 7/23/2000
A baseball client needs a kidney, and Arliss tries to convince the player's minor-league brother to donate his. Meanwhile, a soccer client scores a goal for the opposing team, causing him to take refuge at Rita's apartment while Kirby goes into hiding.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1013 votes
#8 - Honoring Our Past
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 7/30/2000
When one of his boxing clients enlists in the Army, Arliss tries to figure out a way to get him out. Meanwhile, Stanley and a native-American tribal chief attempt to get a football team to change its ""offensive"" mascot.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sam Kass
- 5.9/1010 votes
#9 - When Opportunity Knocks
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 8/6/2000
Arliss, Rita and Stanley must deal with Kirby's absence when he leaves the agency to join a fledgling football league run by a flashy TV producer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1018 votes
#10 - Last Call
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 8/13/2000
Arliss tries to get a dotcom millionaire team owner to re-sign an aging broadcaster who may be losing his touch. Rita ghostwrites a column for Arliss, and Kirby helps discipline Stanley's unruly dog.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/109 votes
#11 - A Breed Apart
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 8/20/2000
Arliss pursues popular mascot Reggie the Rooster, using a fundraiser Stanley has organized for another mascot, who was injured in the line of duty. Rita takes up boxing after a series of obscene phone calls.
Director: Lev L. Spiro
Writer: Kevin Falls
- 5.8/1013 votes
#12 - Where There's a Will
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 8/27/2000
Arliss is named executor of a superstar jockey's will, which leaves everything to his wife - but he had two wives. Kirby discovers that his former coach is now homeless.
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/109 votes
#13 - You Can Pick Your Friends...
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 9/3/2000
Arliss' ne'er-do-well brother Archie uses his name to further a scam. Kirby and Stanley plot their own scam on a stadium concession millionaire. Stanley purposely swallows a ring that turned up in a burger.
Director: Melanie Mayron
Writer: N/A
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Creatures of Habit" is the best rated episode of "Arliss" season 5. It scored 7.4/10 based on 22 votes. Directed by Robert Wuhl and written by Robert Wuhl, it aired on 6/4/2000. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Making Things Happen".