8.0/10507 votes#1 - Sick & Tired (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1989
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
8.3/10569 votes#2 - Sick & Tired (2)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1989
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
7.8/10464 votes#3 - The Accurate Conception
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1989
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
7.4/10414 votes#4 - Rose Fights Back
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1989
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: N/A
7.4/10460 votes#5 - Love Under The Big Top
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1989
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
Writer: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble
7.5/10419 votes#6 - Dancing In The Dark
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1989
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: N/A
8.3/10510 votes#7 - Not Another Monday
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1989
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
7.5/10398 votes#8 - That Old Feeling
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1989
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
7.5/10393 votes#9 - Comedy Of Errors
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1989
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
7.0/10408 votes#10 - All That Jazz
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1989
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
7.7/10417 votes#11 - Ebb Tide
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1989
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: N/A
7.5/10438 votes#12 - Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1989
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
7.2/10449 votes#13 - Mary Has A Little Lamb
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1990
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: N/A
7.5/10390 votes#14 - Great Expectations
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1990
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
7.9/10429 votes#15 - Triple Play
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1990
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
7.8/10418 votes#16 - Clinton Avenue Memoirs
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1990
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
Writer: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble
7.9/10412 votes#17 - Like The Beep Beep Beep Of The Tom Tom
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1990
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: N/A
8.3/10452 votes#18 - An Illegitimate Concern
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/12/1990
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
8.1/10447 votes#19 - 72 Hours
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1990
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
Writer: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble
7.3/10388 votes#20 - Twice In A Lifetime
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1990
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
7.8/10442 votes#21 - Sisters & Other Strangers
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1990
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
7.2/10393 votes#22 - Cheaters
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/24/1990
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
7.5/10398 votes#23 - The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes A Lousy Wedding Present
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/31/1990
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: N/A
7.4/10372 votes#24 - All Bets Are Off
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 4/28/1990
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: N/A
6.2/10393 votes#25 - The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (1)
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/5/1990
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: N/A
Writer: Robert Bruce, Gail Parent
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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 507 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)".