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The Jeffersons Season 5 |
| Episode 1 - [Louise's Painting] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sara Seegar | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Sep. 20, 1978 |
| Episode 2 - [Homecoming Part 1] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Hammer | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Sep. 27, 1978 |
| Episode 3 - [Homecoming Part 2] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gordon Connell | Jay Hammer | T. K. Carter | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Oct. 04, 1978 |
| Episode 4 - [How Slowly They Forget] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Hammer | Danny Wells as Charley | Ted Ross | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Oct. 11, 1978 |
| Episode 5 - [George's Dream] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : James A. Watson Jr | Vernon Washington | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Oct. 18, 1978 |
| Episode 6 - [George's New Stockbroker] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Willie Tyler | Jack Knight | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Nov. 01, 1978 |
| Episode 7 - [Me And Billy Dee] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Billy Dee Williams | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Nov. 04, 1978 |
| Episode 8 - [Half A Brother] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Nov. 08, 1978 |
| Episode 9 - [What Are Friends For] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Nov. 22, 1978 |
| Episode 10 - [George Who] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vernon Washington | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Nov. 29, 1978 |
| Episode 11 - [Harry's House Guest] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Danny Wells as Charley | Writer : Seaman Jacobs | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Dec. 13, 1978 |
| Episode 12 - [George Finds A Father] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Raymond Allen | Arnold Johnson | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Dec. 20, 1978 |
| Episode 13 - [Louise's Sister] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Justin Lord | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Jan. 03, 1979 |
| Episode 14 - [Louise's Reunion] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ernie Wheelwright | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Jan. 10, 1979 |
| Episode 15 - [A Bedtime Story] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Jan. 24, 1979 |
| Episode 16 - [Florence Meets Mr Right] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Larry McCormick | Director : Jack Shea | Writer : Peter Casey | Writer : David Lee | |
| Air Date : Jan. 31, 1979 |
| Episode 17 - [Louise's Award] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Hammer | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Feb. 07, 1979 |
| Episode 18 - [The Other Woman] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Darlene Conley | Judy Landers | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Feb. 21, 1979 |
| Episode 19 - [The Hold Out] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Phalen | Vernon Washington | Dick Whittington | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Feb. 28, 1979 |
| Episode 20 - [The Ones You Love] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Mar. 07, 1979 |
| Episode 21 - [Every Night Fever] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Mar. 28, 1979 |
| Episode 22 - [Three Faces Of Florence] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Adam Wade | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Apr. 04, 1979 |
| Episode 23 - [Louise's Convention] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Hammer | Sam McMurray | Sheryl Lee Ralph | Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Apr. 11, 1979 |
| Episode 24 - [The Freeze-In] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jack Shea | |
| Air Date : Apr. 18, 1979 |