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The Jeffersons: Season 5

The Jeffersons: Season 5

(1978)
Comedy
USA / English / Color / 593 min
7.5

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Sherman Hemsley
Marla Gibbs
Mike Evans
Isabel Sanford
Franklin Cover
Paul Benedict
Berlinda Tolbert
Zara Cully
Damon Evans
Roxie Roker
Jay Hammer
Plot
A sitcom about a black couple "movin' on up" from a modest Queens neighborhood to deluxe apartment in Manhattan's ritzy East Side. The show was spun-off from "All in the Family" in 1975 and for the next 11 seasons, The Jeffersons lived among a kaleidoscope of characters, including their sassy maid Florence, a bizarre British neighbor named Bentley, and the Willises -- TV's first married couple in which one character was black and one was white. Like All in the Family, The Jeffersons had a bigoted, opinionated loud-mouth at its center: George Jefferson, who was constantly putting his foot in his mouth. The show tackled many serious issues, although comedy was the key element of its success.
Episodes
1
Louise's Painting
30 min 1978-09-20
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: Nancy Vince, Ted Dale
Guest starring: Sara Seegar, Robert Dolittle, Ingrid Greer
2
Homecoming (1)
30 min 1978-09-27
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.
Writer: Mike Milligan, Jay Moriarty
3
Homecoming (2)
30 min 1978-10-04
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, Mike Milligan, Jay Moriarty
Writer: Robert Wolterstorff, Mike Milligan, Jay Moriarty, Paul M. Belous
Guest starring: T.K. Carter, Gordon Connell, Margaret Wheeler
4
How Slowly They Forget
30 min 1978-10-11
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, Erwin Washington
Writer: Nancy Vince, Ted Dale
Guest starring: Ted Ross
5
George's Dream
30 min 1978-10-18
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: Bob Baublitz
Guest starring: James A. Watson, Jr., Candy Mobley
6
George's New Stockbroker
30 min 1978-11-01
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, Jim Rogers
Writer: Jim Rogers, Mike Milligan, Jay Moriarty, Bryan Joseph
Guest starring: Willie Tyler, Jack Knight
7
Me and Billy Dee
30 min 1978-11-04
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, Mike Milligan, Jay Moriarty
Writer: Bryan Joseph
Guest starring: Billy Dee Williams
8
Half a Brother
30 min 1978-11-08
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: Bob Baublitz
Guest starring: Edward Grover, Sally Hightower
9
What are Friends For?
30 min 1978-11-22
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: Jack Shea, Skip Usen
Writer: Mike Milligan, Jay Moriarty
Guest starring: Lloyd Hollar
10
George, Who?
30 min 1978-11-29
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: Christine Houston
Guest starring: Herb Davis, Karen Anders, Joe Petrullo
11
Harry's House Guest
30 min 1978-12-13
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, Fred S. Fox
Guest starring: Carol Swarbrick
12
George Finds a Father
30 min 1978-12-20
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, John Donley, Kurt Taylor
Writer: Robert Wolterstorff, John Donley, Kurt Taylor, Paul M. Belous
Guest starring: Arnold Johnson, Raymond Allen
13
Louise's Sister
30 min 1979-01-03
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: Bob Baublitz
Guest starring: Josephine Premice, Justin Lord
14
Louise's Reunion
30 min 1979-01-10
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: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein
Guest starring: Ernie Wheelwright, Edye Byrde
15
A Bedtime Story
30 min 1979-01-24
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: Stephen Neigher
Guest starring: Barrie Youngfellow
16
Florence Meets Mr. Right
30 min 1979-01-31
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: David Lee, Peter Casey
Guest starring: Larry McCormick, Tamu Blackwell
17
Louise's Award
30 min 1979-02-07
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: M. Martinez Thomas
Guest starring: John Bottoms, Edmund Stroiber, Sip Culler, Thomas Brown
18
The Other Woman
30 min 1979-02-21
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, Jack Shea
Writer: Jerry Perzigian, Don Seigel
Guest starring: Judy Landers, Jack Manning, Darlene Conley
19
The Hold Out
30 min 1979-02-28
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, Bernard Burnell Mack
Writer: Bryan Joseph
Guest starring: James Ray, Sweet Dick Whittington, Peter Turgeon, Robert Phalen, Gerald Oastillo, E.M. Margolese, Davis Roberts, Maxine Elliott, Alma Beltran
20
The Ones You Love
30 min 1979-03-07
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: Stephen Neigher
Guest starring: David Downing
21
Every Night Fever
30 min 1979-03-28
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: Bryan Joseph
Guest starring: Emory Bass
22
Three Faces of Florence
30 min 1979-04-04
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, Bernard Burnell Mack
Writer: Robert Wolterstorff, Paul M. Belous
Guest starring: Adam Wade, Jane Brody
23
Louise's Convention
30 min 1979-04-11
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: Robert Wolterstorff, Paul M. Belous
Guest starring: Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sam McMurray
24
The Freeze-in
30 min 1979-04-18
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.
Writer: Jerry Perzigian, Don Seigel, Mike Milligan, Jay Moriarty
Editions
Barcode Format Region Release Edition
043396151574 1 2006-08-15