7.5/10101 votes#1 - Louise's Painting
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1978
Prompted by Helen, Louise begins taking an art class. However, when George discovers she's been sketching models who pose in the nude, he tries to get her to stop attending class.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.3/1084 votes#2 - Homecoming (1)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1978
George decides that he needs a cleaning factory and sets out to find a place for it. Meanwhile, Alan Willis returns to New York and learns that he has inherited a warehouse from his grandfather. Seeing that the warehouse would be perfect for his factory, George goes all out to try to get it, even allowing Alan to move in with the Jeffersons' due to squabbling between Alan and Tom.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.4/1081 votes#3 - Homecoming (2)
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1978
Alan moves in with the Jeffersons and George continues efforts to get the warehouse for himself. Meanwhile, battles with the landlord prompt Louise and Helen to try to find a better place for the Help Center.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.4/1088 votes#4 - How Slowly They Forget
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1978
Louise has been trying to get a permit for the Help Center but she hasn't been able to get anywhere with the bank. This leads George to go down to the bank and discovers that the banker is an old navy pal of his, one who still holds a grudge over some navy day trickery.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.7/1092 votes#5 - George's Dream
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1978
Workaholic George falls asleep in his office, one evening, and has a dream that takes him to the year 1996. In the dream, Louise is celebrating the 22nd anniversary of George's business, who isn't there celebrating, since he passed on a few years earlier.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.5/1095 votes#6 - George's New Stockbroker
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1978
George's new stockbroker is quite a ventriloquist, after he introduces the Jeffersons to his dummy, J.P. However, George has second thoughts about him after he learns that he has spent time in a mental institution.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
8.4/10124 votes#7 - Me and Billy Dee
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1978
At the last minute, George's speaker at a benefit cancels which leaves him scrambeling to find a celebrity to speak. He sets out to rope Billy Dee Williams into speaking even considering getting a celebrity look-alike. However, George passes himself off as Alex Haley, and Billy Dee agress to speak. Meanwhile, an excited Florence is let down when she mistakes Billy Dee, her idol, for an impersonator.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.2/1083 votes#8 - Half a Brother
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1978
George is being considered for a position on a bank's board of directors and when a banker comes over to interview him, Alan and the banker's daughter hit it off. This leads George to worry that because Alan is half black this will jeopardize his chances of getting the position.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.3/1088 votes#9 - What are Friends For?
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1978
George is thrilled to get a visit from his favorite cousin, Dusty. George's thrill turns to shock when Dusty asks George for a kidney since his are failing. This leads George to take a long hard look at the pros and cons of parting with one of his organs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1085 votes#10 - George, Who?
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1978
Louise is convinced that George and her are in a routine, something that George scoffs at. However, their routine gets shaken up after Louise is brutally mugged resulting in her getting amnesia.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
6.9/1082 votes#11 - Harry's House Guest
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1978
Harry practically moves into the Jefferson's apartment to avoid his annoying house guest, Felicia. George tries to help him out by giving him tips to throw her out but this results in Felicia thinking that Harry is proposing.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Seaman Jacobs
7.5/1098 votes#12 - George Finds a Father
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1978
The Christmas season brings old friends, Buddy and Zeke, to the Jefferson apartment. With them comes along a long buried secret, one that George can't handle. Buddy and George's mother were once lovers.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.8/1097 votes#13 - Louise's Sister
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1979
George is planning a surprise party for Louise in which her gift is a surprise visit from her sister, Maxine. When Louise has a strange reaction to her sister, George is puzzled, unknown to him, her reasons stem to her and Maxine's childhood.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.3/1080 votes#14 - Louise's Reunion
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1979
On the evening of her class reunion, Louise discovers in George's will that all of his money would go to her on the condition that she never remarries. This obviously prompts yet another argument resulting in Louise attending her reunion without George.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
6.6/1076 votes#15 - A Bedtime Story
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1979
George is trying to hide his impotence from Louise and explores many means to cure his problem, including, oysters, medications and even a sex therapist.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
8.1/10105 votes#16 - Florence Meets Mr. Right
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1979
Florence's latest boyfriend, Buzz Thatcher, proposes marriage which she accepts happily. However, his religious attitudes give Louise a bad feeling about the whole thing.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
7.0/1089 votes#17 - Louise's Award
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1979
Louise is excited that she's being considered to receive the Volunteer of the Year award due to her work down at the Help Center. However, what she doesn't know is that George is planning to make sure she wins the award by bribing one of the judges.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.1/1086 votes#18 - The Other Woman
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1979
A business trip of Tom's sparks an argument between him and Helen which gets even worse when she discovers that a beautiful blond is accompanying him.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
6.9/1075 votes#19 - The Hold Out
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1979
George becomes the holdout when he refuses to sell his first store to a company who is buying up all the buildings on the block. His strategy, holdout to up the offer despite the fact that the company plans to build an expensive apartment building which would put those living there now, out on the street.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
6.8/1079 votes#20 - The Ones You Love
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1979
Tom and Alan's fight causes a fight to erupt between George and Louise on the same evening a reporter from Black Life Magazine is to interview them on the subject of happily married life.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.7/10103 votes#21 - Every Night Fever
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/28/1979
Louise turns down an offer to be in a play being put on by the Help Center because she wants to spend her evenings with George. However, after an evening at a disco, George catches disco fever and begins spending all night every night at the local disco.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.3/1088 votes#22 - Three Faces of Florence
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1979
Florence is reading a novel in which a woman pretends to be different people this gives Florence the idea to act like different people to attract men. While down at the Help Center, she tries it out on a man, unknown to her he's a psychiatrist who becomes convinced Florence has multiple personalities.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
6.8/1076 votes#23 - Louise's Convention
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1979
Helen gives Louise the news that both of them have been invited to California to attend a convention, however, the planned trip coincides with the date of her wedding anniversary. Meanwhile, George mistakenly plans a business meeting on his anniversary and later at home happily allows Louise to go to California but his joy arouses suspicions in her.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.3/1084 votes#24 - The Freeze-in
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 4/18/1979
When the heat goes out in a few of the apartments in the building, Harry, Tom and Helen convene at the Jefferson's heated apartment, causing cramped space and sore feelings.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Jeffersons Season 5
Every episode of The Jeffersons Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Jeffersons Season 5!
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A...
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Network:CBS
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Louise's Painting" is the best rated episode of "The Jeffersons" season 5. It scored 7.5/10 based on 101 votes. Directed by Jack Shea and written by N/A, it aired on 9/20/1978. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Homecoming (1)".