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The Best Episodes of The Golden Girls Season 5

Every episode of The Golden Girls Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Golden Girls Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 1 - Sick & Tired (1)
    8.0/10(566 votes)

    #1 - Sick & Tired (1)

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Susan Harris

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  2. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 2 - Sick & Tired (2)
    8.3/10(635 votes)

    #2 - Sick & Tired (2)

    S5:E2

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Susan Harris

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  3. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 3 - The Accurate Conception
    7.8/10(521 votes)

    #3 - The Accurate Conception

    S5:E3

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Gail Parent

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  4. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 4 - Rose Fights Back
    7.4/10(469 votes)

    #4 - Rose Fights Back

    S5:E4

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 5 - Love Under The Big Top
    7.3/10(519 votes)

    #5 - Love Under The Big Top

    S5:E5

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  6. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 6 - Dancing In The Dark
    7.5/10(468 votes)

    #6 - Dancing In The Dark

    S5:E6

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 7 - Not Another Monday
    8.3/10(569 votes)

    #7 - Not Another Monday

    S5:E7

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Gail Parent

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  8. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 8 - That Old Feeling
    7.5/10(455 votes)

    #8 - That Old Feeling

    S5:E8

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Tom Whedon

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  9. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 9 - Comedy Of Errors
    7.5/10(447 votes)

    #9 - Comedy Of Errors

    S5:E9

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Don Reo

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  10. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 10 - All That Jazz
    7.0/10(458 votes)

    #10 - All That Jazz

    S5:E10

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Robert Bruce

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  11. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 11 - Ebb Tide
    7.8/10(467 votes)

    #11 - Ebb Tide

    S5:E11

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 12 - Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas
    7.5/10(496 votes)

    #12 - Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas

    S5:E12

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Tom Whedon

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  13. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 13 - Mary Has A Little Lamb
    7.2/10(503 votes)

    #13 - Mary Has A Little Lamb

    S5:E13

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 14 - Great Expectations
    7.5/10(443 votes)

    #14 - Great Expectations

    S5:E14

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Robert Bruce

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  15. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 15 - Triple Play
    7.9/10(486 votes)

    #15 - Triple Play

    S5:E15

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Gail Parent

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  16. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 16 - Clinton Avenue Memoirs
    7.8/10(470 votes)

    #16 - Clinton Avenue Memoirs

    S5:E16

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  17. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 17 - Like The Beep Beep Beep Of The Tom Tom
    7.9/10(467 votes)

    #17 - Like The Beep Beep Beep Of The Tom Tom

    S5:E17

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 18 - An Illegitimate Concern
    8.3/10(514 votes)

    #18 - An Illegitimate Concern

    S5:E18

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Marc Cherry

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  19. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 19 - 72 Hours
    8.2/10(507 votes)

    #19 - 72 Hours

    S5:E19

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  20. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 20 - Twice In A Lifetime
    7.3/10(444 votes)

    #20 - Twice In A Lifetime

    S5:E20

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Robert Bruce

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  21. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 21 - Sisters & Other Strangers
    7.8/10(495 votes)

    #21 - Sisters & Other Strangers

    S5:E21

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Marc Cherry

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  22. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 22 - Cheaters
    7.2/10(445 votes)

    #22 - Cheaters

    S5:E22

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Tom Whedon

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  23. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 23 - The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes A Lousy Wedding Present
    7.5/10(449 votes)

    #23 - The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes A Lousy Wedding Present

    S5:E23

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 24 - All Bets Are Off
    7.4/10(423 votes)

    #24 - All Bets Are Off

    S5:E24

    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.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Golden Girls Season 5 Episode 25 - The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (1)
    6.1/10(440 votes)

    #25 - The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (1)

    S5:E25

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Gail Parent, Robert Bruce

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Sick & Tired (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Golden Girls" season 5. It scored 8/10 based on 566 votes. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Susan Harris, it aired on 9/23/1989. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Sick & Tired (2)".