The Jeffersons - Season 5

The Jeffersons - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes24
DatesSep 20, 1978 - Apr 18, 1979
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Episodes

Louise's Painting
Season 5Episode 130 min

Louise's Painting

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.
Sep 20, 1978
Homecoming (1)
Season 5Episode 230 min

Homecoming (1)

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.
Sep 27, 1978
Homecoming (2)
Season 5Episode 330 min

Homecoming (2)

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.
Oct 4, 1978
How Slowly They Forget
Season 5Episode 430 min

How Slowly They Forget

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.
Oct 11, 1978
George's Dream
Season 5Episode 530 min

George's Dream

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.
Oct 18, 1978
George's New Stockbroker
Season 5Episode 630 min

George's New Stockbroker

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.
Nov 1, 1978
Me and Billy Dee
Season 5Episode 730 min

Me and Billy Dee

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.
Nov 4, 1978
Half a Brother
Season 5Episode 830 min

Half a Brother

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.
Nov 8, 1978
What Are Friends For?
Season 5Episode 930 min

What Are Friends For?

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.
Nov 22, 1978
George, Who?
Season 5Episode 1030 min

George, Who?

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.
Nov 29, 1978
Harry's House Guest
Season 5Episode 1130 min

Harry's House Guest

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.
Dec 13, 1978
George Finds a Father
Season 5Episode 1230 min

George Finds a Father

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.
Dec 20, 1978
Louise's Sister
Season 5Episode 1330 min

Louise's Sister

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.
Jan 3, 1979
Louise's Reunion
Season 5Episode 1430 min

Louise's Reunion

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.
Jan 10, 1979
A Bedtime Story
Season 5Episode 1530 min

A Bedtime Story

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.
Jan 24, 1979
Florence Meets Mr. Right
Season 5Episode 1630 min

Florence Meets Mr. Right

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.
Jan 31, 1979
Louise's Award
Season 5Episode 1730 min

Louise's Award

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.
Feb 7, 1979
The Other Woman
Season 5Episode 1830 min

The Other Woman

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.
Feb 21, 1979
The Hold Out
Season 5Episode 1930 min

The Hold Out

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.
Feb 28, 1979
The Ones You Love
Season 5Episode 2030 min

The Ones You Love

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.
Mar 7, 1979
Every Night Fever
Season 5Episode 2130 min

Every Night Fever

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.
Mar 28, 1979
Three Faces of Florence
Season 5Episode 2230 min

Three Faces of Florence

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.
Apr 4, 1979
Louise's Convention
Season 5Episode 2330 min

Louise's Convention

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.
Apr 11, 1979
The Freeze-in
Season 5Episode 2430 min

The Freeze-in

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.
Apr 18, 1979

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