The BEST episodes of Good Times season 5
Every episode of Good Times season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Good Times season 5!
The Evans family scratches and survives in their tough South Side Chicago ghetto. Esther Rolle and John Amos star as parents Florida and James, with "dyn-o-mite" breakout comedy star Jimmie Walker as J.J., the oldest of the three Evans children.
#1 - The Evans Get Involved (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1977
When young Penny Gordon follows J.J. home, she tells the Evanses tall tales about her life without mentioning her abusive mother (Chip Fields). But when Penny changes into a dress, a stunned Willona and Thelma discover the girl's badly bruised back.
#2 - The Evans Get Involved (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1977
Willona and the Evans children are convinced that Penny is being abused and discover that she has an injured arm, caused by her abusive mother, but the doctor who treats Penny refuses to believe that she is a victim of child abuse.
#3 - The Evans Get Involved (3)
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1977
Willona and the Evanses are stunned to discover that Penny and her mother have moved, but soon find the girl hiding in the Evans apartment. Later, Penny's abusive mother abandons her, leaving Willona to ponder adopting the battered youth.
#4 - Penny's Christmas
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1977
When Penny steals a necklace from a department store, Willona faces the possibility of losing custody of the girl.
#5 - Something Old, Something New
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/13/1978
James' father visits and proposes marriage to his neglected girlfriend.
#6 - Thelma's Brief Encounter
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1977
J.J., Willona and Michael suspect that Thelma's new boyfriend is married, but find that he is a former bigamist doing time in a halfway house.
#7 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1978
J.J. assumes the role of father figure when Michael starts to slack off, prohibiting his brother from attending an awards dinner.
#8 - Breaker, Breaker
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1977
While using a CB radio, Michael makes a connection with a teenage paraplegic girl.
#9 - Requiem for a Wino
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1977
When local wino Fishbone is mistakenly believed to have been killed, he attends his own wake dressed in drag as a mourner.
#10 - Willona's New Job
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/20/1978
Willona reconsiders her marriage plans when she hears her boyfriend's old-fashioned views on marriage and women in the workplace.
#11 - Wheels
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1977
J.J. and his friends buy Bookman's beat-up old car and argue over who gets to drive it.
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#12 - Bye-Bye Bookman
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1977
Fed up with Bookman's incompetence, Willona, Penny and the Evans kids start a petition that gets him fired.
#13 - The Evans Get Involved (4)
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1977
While Willona worries about the adoption, Bookman tries to help by telling the social worker that he is Willona's husband.
#14 - J.J.'s Condition
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1978
J.J.'s relationship with a married woman gives him an ulcer.
#15 - Where There's Smoke
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1978
With a hole burned into a couch cushion, the Evans kids each flash back to their versions of how it happened.
#16 - Willona's Mr. Right
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1978
When Willona rejects an old boyfriend's proposal, Penny thinks she's holding Willona back and tries to run away.
#17 - Willona, the Fuzz
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1977
Willona's new job in department-store security requires that she spy on changing rooms through a one-way mirror.
#18 - That's Entertainment, Evans Style
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/3/1978
With J.J. out of town, the cast puts on a talent show to save a local daycare center.
#19 - J.J. and the Boss' Daughter
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1978
J.J. dates his sexy new assistant, who is also the boss's daughter.
#20 - Thelma Moves Out
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1977
Fed up with her brothers and her lack of privacy, Thelma moves in with three roommates.
#21 - Write On, Thelma
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/27/1978
Thelma's play is selected as the community theater's latest production, but not without a flurry of changes demanded by the theater's director.
#22 - Willona, the Other Woman
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/27/1978
Already suspected of infidelity by his wife, Bookman is caught with Willona in a compromising situation.
#23 - I Had a Dream
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1978
Afraid he will be passed over for a promotion in favor of a white man, J.J. has a crazy dream in which he experiences being white.
#24 - The Boarder
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1978
The Evanses fear that their new boarder may become the target of a hitman.