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Good Times Season 5 |
| Episode 1 - [The Evans Get Involved Part 1] |
| Details : When a young girl Penny Gordon follows J.J. home she quickly insinuates herself into the Evans household and makes up stories about her life including forgetting to mention she has an abusive mother. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Sep. 21, 1977 |
| Episode 2 - [The Evans Get Involved Part 2] |
| Details : Willona and the Evans children are convinced that Penny is being abused but when Willona takes Penny to see a doctor about a broken arm he refuses to believe she's being abused. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kathleen Doyle | Director : Gerren Keith | Writer : Sid Dorfman | |
| Air Date : Sep. 21, 1977 |
| Episode 3 - [The Evans Get Involved Part 3] |
| Details : Willona and the Evans kids are stunned to discover that Penny and her mother have moved. They are equally stunned when they discover Penny hiding the Evans apartment. Later Penny's abusive mother abandons her leaving Willona to ponder adopting the battered youth. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kathleen Doyle | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Sep. 28, 1977 |
| Episode 4 - [The Evans Get Involved (4)] |
| Details : Willona worries over whether or not she will be able to adopt Penny. Meanwhile a well meaning Bookman tries to help out by telling the social worker that he's married to Willona this only makes things worse when the social worker learns the truth. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alice Ghostley | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Oct. 05, 1977 |
| Episode 5 - [Thelma Moves Out] |
| Details : Fed up with having no privacy and being burdened by two brothers Thelma decides to move out and into an apartment that is shared by three other roommates. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hilly Hicks | Director : Gerren Keith | Writer : Kim Weiskopf | |
| Air Date : Oct. 12, 1977 |
| Episode 6 - [Willona The Fuzz] |
| Details : Willona is offered a new job but her morals force her to refuse it. However when Penny has her heart set on figure skating lessons Willona decides to set her morals and values aside and take the job for the extra money. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Conchata Ferrell | Gordon Jump | Director : Gerren Keith | Writer : Sid Dorfman | |
| Air Date : Oct. 19, 1977 |
| Episode 7 - [Wheels] |
| Details : J.J. and his friends become partners in the ownership of car a car that they foolishly bought from Bookman. However the quality of the car is minor compared to the constant fighting over who gets to use it. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Earl Billings | T. K. Carter | Writer : Al Schwartz | Director : Gerren Keith | Writer : Kim Weiskopf | |
| Air Date : Nov. 02, 1977 |
| Episode 8 - [Breaker Breaker] |
| Details : Michael passes himself off as J.J. while using a CB radio and quickly discovers he's not the only one who's putting on an act. A girl he contacts who calls herself Fun Girl really turns out to be a paraplegic. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Taurean Blacque | Sharon Brown | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Nov. 09, 1977 |
| Episode 9 - [Bye Bye Bookman] |
| Details : The conditions in the building become to much for Willona Penny and the Evans kids to bare so they decide to circulate a petition that would terminate Bookman as the superintendet. However Bookman and his wife hatch a plan to save his job. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Nov. 16, 1977 |
| Episode 10 - [Thelma's Brief Encounter] |
| Details : Thelma begins dating a man named Lloyd Williams however suspicions run rampant between J.J. Willona and Michael who become convinced he's married. However J.J. makes a discovery that surprises everyone. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Susan Batson | James A. Watson Jr | Writer : Bruce Kalish | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Dec. 07, 1977 |
| Episode 11 - [Requiem For A Wino] |
| Details : Fishbone a wino complains that he has no friends and quickly discovers he has many when a vagrant steals his wallet and is later killed in a car accident. Everyone assumes Fishbone is the one that was killed and they hold a wake. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bill Henderson | Robert Guillaume | Helen Martin | Cal Gibson | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Dec. 14, 1977 |
| Episode 12 - [Penny's Christmas] |
| Details : After getting her wallet stolen Penny steals a necklace from a department store in a desperate attempt to try to get Willona a Christmas gift. However Penny's attempts may lead to Willona losing custody of her. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alice Ghostley | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Dec. 21, 1977 |
| Episode 13 - [No More Mr Nice Guy] |
| Details : Michael's apathetic behavior towards household chores and homework leads J.J. to put his foot down and to step in as a father figure. He really comes down hard when Michael and Penny are arrested for being in a stolen vehicle. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Dan Wilcox | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Jan. 04, 1978 |
| Episode 14 - [Willona's Mr Right] |
| Details : Willona's old boyfriend arrives back in town and asks Willona her hand in marraige. However Willona turns him down since his job would have her and Penny constantly moving. Meanwhile Penny feeling like she's holding Willona back decides to run away. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Adam Wade | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Jan. 11, 1978 |
| Episode 15 - [J jAnd The Boss' Daughter] |
| Details : J.J. is given a sexy assistant one whom he makes a play for immediately. However later when he learns that she's the boss's daughter he continues to go out with her thinking that it will give him special privileges with his boss. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : T. K. Carter | Tanya Boyd | Director : Gerren Keith | Writer : Kim Weiskopf | |
| Air Date : Jan. 18, 1978 |
| Episode 16 - [Where There's Smoke] |
| Details : A hole has been burned into one of the couch cushions and J.J. Thelma and Michael each have their own versions of how it got there. However Penny is the only person who knows the truth of how it really got there. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Brenda Sykes | Writer : Bruce Kalish | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Jan. 25, 1978 |
| Episode 17 - [I Had A Dream] |
| Details : J.J. wants a promotion at work but a co-worker convinces him that the promotion will only go to a white man. This leads J.J. to have a crazy dream where he gets to experience being white. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sorrell Booke | Richard Lawson | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Jan. 30, 1978 |
| Episode 18 - [The Boarder] |
| Details : To pick up extra money for the rent J.J. decides to take in a boarder. However little does he know the man he takes in is placed their by the police department for his protection. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Taurean Blacque | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Feb. 06, 1978 |
| Episode 19 - [J j 's Condition] |
| Details : J.J.'s latest relationship with a woman Barbara who's currently married but plans on divorcing her husband results with him coming down with an ulcer. The situation is compounded when J.J. learns that her husband and her still share an apartment. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Fay Hauser | Writer : Dusty Kay | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Feb. 13, 1978 |
| Episode 20 - [Willona The Other Woman] |
| Details : Bookman's strange behavior leads his wife Violet to become convinced that he's seeing another woman. However appearances can be deceiving especially when Violet catches Willona and Bookman in a compromising situation. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hope Clarke | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Feb. 27, 1978 |
| Episode 21 - [Something Old Something New] |
| Details : Grandpa Evans visits and has plans of becoming rich thanks to his new invention. Meanwhile Lena Grandpa's fiancee gets tired of being ignored and decides to leave him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Paulene Myers | Director : Gerren Keith | Writer : Sid Dorfman | |
| Air Date : Mar. 13, 1978 |
| Episode 22 - [Willona's New Job] |
| Details : Willona's boyfriend Frank continues his efforts to try to get her to marry him. Meanwhile down at the boutique Willona gets a promotion but Frank is determined to get her to turn down the offer. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Adam Wade | Veronica Redd | Director : Gerren Keith | |
| Air Date : Mar. 20, 1978 |
| Episode 23 - [Write On Thelma] |
| Details : Thelma has written a full length play and is ecstatic when it is chosen to be produced as the local theater's latest production. Thelma quickly realizes a few changes to her manuscript may be needed but it soon feels like almost everything will need to be changed to please the theater owner. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jane Connell | Director : Gerren Keith | Writer : Judi Ann Mason | |
| Air Date : Mar. 27, 1978 |
| Episode 24 - [That's Entertainment Evans Style] |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gary Coleman | Director : Gerren Keith | Writer : Kim Weiskopf | |
| Air Date : Apr. 03, 1978 |