The BEST episodes of Amen season 5

Every episode of Amen season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Amen season 5!

One year after the demise of The Jeffersons, Sherman Hemsley returned to television to star in another hit sitcom as Ernest Frye, the lawyer and scheming deacon of First Community Church of Philadelphia, and who intended to keep it under his thumb. Unfortunately, the new minister, Rev. Reuben Gregory, had other ideas and every week he quietly deflated the strutting deacon. Both, of course, really had the church's best interests at heart. Frye's 30-year-old romantically frustrated daughter, Themla, developed a massive crush on the new pastor. Other members of the church board included chattering sisters, Amelia and Casietta Hetebrink and Rolly, the board's wise old voice of reason.

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#1 - Love, Deacon Style

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/17/1990

On her six-month anniversary, Thelma feels neglected because Reuben is teaching night school.

Directors: Jules Lichtman
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#2 - Date with an Angel

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/27/1991

At an auction, an insufferable woman wins a date with Frye.

Directors: John Sgueglia
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#3 - Miracle on 134th Street (2)

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/22/1990

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#4 - The Gospel Truth

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/5/1991

Reuben's visiting niece reveals she's leaving seminary school to become a singer, and Frye enters her in a gospelfest.

Directors: John Sgueglia
Writer: Jim Geoghan
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#5 - Unforgettable

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/19/1991

Frye dates a beautiful and much younger environmentalist.

Directors: Gary Shimokawa
Writer: Ken Hecht
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#6 - The Deacon's Slam Dunk

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/1991

Frye and Ruben both try to intervene when the Deacon's pro basketball player client, wants to marry Amelia and move to Italy. Will Love intervene instead and short-circuit the deacon's plans?

Directors: John Sgueglia
Writer: Bill Streib
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#7 - Nothin' Says Lovin' ...

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/2/1991

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#8 - My Fair Homeboy

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/9/1991

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#9 - A Star is Burned

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/23/1991

Thelma gets her own TV cooking show.

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#10 - The Wild Deak

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/6/1991

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#11 - Three's a Crowd

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/1991

Deacon Frye dates a teacher Clarence likes, and the 2 begin to bump heads.

Directors: John Sgueglia
Writer: Jim Geoghan
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#12 - Judge Deacon Frye

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/29/1990

Newly appointed to the bench, power-drunk Judge Frye aims to throw the book at all who come before him.

Directors: Robert Lally
Writer: Ken Hecht
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#13 - Deliverance (2)

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/1991

Appearances by James Brown and Lloyd Price aren't the only surprises during a telethon to save the church: Thelma delivers a baby boy. (Part 2 of 2) Her delivery overdue, Thelma attends a telethon.

Directors: John Sgueglia
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#14 - Deliverance (1)

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1991

Frye and Clarence try raising church funds by dating wealthy Darla and her equally unattractive granddaughter Darletta.

Directors: John Sgueglia
Writer: Jim Geoghan
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#15 - Deak-Scam

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/30/1991

Judge Frye visits an old nemesis who tries to set him up in a sting operation. The judge is offered a large sum of money to alter the outcome of a certain case he presides over. And while everyone watches him on film, Judge Frye must make one of the toughest decisions of his life: whether to be honest and turn the money down, or enjoy the spice of life, with all that cash!

Directors: Michael Dimish
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#16 - Three Men and a Hammer

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/23/1991

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#17 - Ernie and the Sublimes

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/2/1991

The deacon reassembles his '50s doo-wop group for a benefit.

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#18 - Lights, Camera, Deacon

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/1991

Frye sees publicity in a televised trial involving writer-comedian Steve Allen in a suit against a fried-chicken mogul.

Directors: John Sgueglia
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#19 - Miracle on 134th Street (1)

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/22/1990

Frye backs a man claiming to be Santa Claus. (Part 1 of 2)

Directors: Gary Shimokawa
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#20 - Yo, Deak

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/15/1990

Frye takes in a trouble-prone teen, a would-be rapper dubbed ""Clarence So Fine.""

Directors: John Sgueglia
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#21 - Two Men, One Woman and a Baby

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/1/1990

After a woman is car-jacked, with her baby still in the car with the theif, the thief drops the baby off on the doorsteps of the First Community Church. And since Thelma has no children of her own, whe makes plans to become the child's foster mother, against objections from the deacon and the Rev. Soon the child even begins to soften the deacon's stand. But in the end, Thelma is determined to hold onto the baby. . . until the child's mother shows up. Meanwhile, Deacon Frye is tax audited and owes Uncle Sam a large sum of money.

Directors: John Sgueglia
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#22 - Child's Play

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/8/1990

Frye establishes a day care center called ""Deaconland.""

Directors: Jules Lichtman
Writer: Bob Peete