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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!

Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.

Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC

Season 5 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Golden Girls" season 5 is "Sick & Tired (1)", rated 8/10 from 497 user votes. It was directed by Terry Hughes and written by Susan Harris. "Sick & Tired (1)" aired on 9/23/1989 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Sick & Tired (2)".

  • Sick & Tired (1)
    8.0/10 497 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

  • Sick & Tired (2)
    8.2/10 557 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

  • The Accurate Conception
    7.8/10 456 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

  • Rose Fights Back
    7.4/10 406 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

  • Love Under The Big Top
    7.4/10 449 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

  • Dancing In The Dark
    7.5/10 408 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

  • Not Another Monday
    8.3/10 500 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

  • That Old Feeling
    7.5/10 391 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

  • Comedy Of Errors
    7.5/10 385 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

  • All That Jazz
    7.0/10 398 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

  • Ebb Tide
    7.7/10 407 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

  • Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas
    7.5/10 423 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

  • Mary Has A Little Lamb
    7.3/10 437 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

  • Great Expectations
    7.5/10 382 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

  • Triple Play
    7.9/10 422 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

  • Clinton Avenue Memoirs
    7.8/10 411 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

  • Like The Beep Beep Beep Of The Tom Tom
    7.9/10 403 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

  • An Illegitimate Concern
    8.3/10 442 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

  • 72 Hours
    8.1/10 437 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

  • Twice In A Lifetime
    7.3/10 381 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

  • Sisters & Other Strangers
    7.8/10 433 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

  • Cheaters
    7.2/10 385 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

  • The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes A Lousy Wedding Present
    7.6/10 390 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

  • All Bets Are Off
    7.4/10 366 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

  • The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (1)
    6.2/10 386 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: Gail Parent, Robert Bruce