The BEST episodes of Home Improvement season 5
Every episode of Home Improvement season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Home Improvement season 5!
Home Improvement is a family sitcom about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, the host of a local cable home improvement show called "Tool Time." Home Improvement looks at Tim at work, and at home, as the husband of Jill and the father to three teenage boys. Having been married for almost 20 years, Tim and Jill have had their share of fights, but with the help of their wise, mysterious neighbor Wilson W. Wilson, Jr., things often turn out all right.
#1 - The Longest Day
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/2/1996
After a routine medical checkup, the family discovers that Randy may have cancer.
#2 - High School Confidential
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/16/1996
Brad feels jealous when Randy starts taking advanced classes at his school. Tim designs the man's bedroom.
#3 - Games, Flames and Automobiles
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/21/1996
Al creates a Tool Time board game, hoping to earn enough money to propose to Ilene, but the game has problems and sometimes catches fire.
#4 - Room without a View
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1995
Tim turns the basement into Randy's new room so that Randy doesn't have to share a room with Mark.
#5 - 'Twas the Flight Before Christmas
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1995
On Christmas Eve Tim and Al get stuck at the airport on the way to Binford's winter festival. Ilene makes Al choose between her and his mother. Tim and the boys beat Doc Johnson in the Christmas lighting contest.
#6 - The First Temptation of Tim
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1995
Bud Harper, Tim's new boss, wants to replace Al because younger viewers don't like him. Meanwhile, Brad gets detention on the first day of school and additional detention for misbehaving during detention.
#7 - The Look
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1995
Tim gets "the look" from Jill after spending $4,000 on season tickets for the Detroit Pistons.
#8 - Let Them Eat Cake
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1995
Brad throws a Halloween party for his new friends at school while Tim, Jill, Al, and Ilene attend a cable awards show. The Tool Time cast hopes to win an award, but it appears that Cooking with Irma will sweep the event as it has every other year.
#9 - Advise and Repent
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1995
Jill gets an A on her psychology paper and starts dispensing psychiatric advice. Unfortunately, this leads to marital problems for Randy's girlfriend's parents.
#10 - When Harry Kept Delores
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/20/1996
Dolores, Harry's wife, comes to Harry's Hardware and Tim's marital advice causes them to split up.
#11 - The Vasectomy One
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1996
Jill wants Tim to get a vasectomy when they agree their family is complete. Meanwhile, Randy is voted "best butt" by the girls at school.
#12 - Fear of Flying
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/13/1996
Mark wants to take flying lessons, but Jill doesn't let him. Jill takes piano lessons. Meanwhile, Tim and Al ruin Bud's car.
#13 - A Taylor Runs Through It
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1995
At Jill's cousin's wedding, Tim tries to squeeze in sports for him and the boys. After Jill gets tired of writing her speech for the wedding, she decides to go water skiing with the boys and gets injured.
#14 - Doctor in the House
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1995
Jill, Wilson, and Al are angry when Tim gets an honorary Ph.D.
#15 - Shopping Around
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1996
Tim and Jill see Art, Tim's old shop teacher who's dating his mother, at a restaurant with another woman.
#16 - Engine and a Haircut, Two Fights
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1996
Tim and Brad get into a fight over Brad's new haircut and the hot rod engine. Meanwhile, Randy doesn't want Jill to help him rehearse for an audition to play Romeo in a school play of Romeo & Juliet.
#17 - Alarmed by Burglars
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/1996
When Wilson is burglarized, Jill orders Tim to put in a high security system. But instead of them having peace and quite in their house, things get worse when the alarms begin going off by themselves.
#18 - That's My Momma
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1995
When Tim's mother returns she begins dating Mr. Leonard, Tim's old shop teacher, and doesn't want to spend time with Tim.
#19 - Oh, Brother
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/9/1996
When Tim hires Marty to rebuild the Tool Time set it puts their friendship on the line.
#20 - Eye on Tim
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/27/1996
When a TV report is done on Tool Time, Jill gets angry when the reporter makes advances on Tim.
#21 - The Bud Bowl
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/5/1996
When Tim and Jill go bowling with Bud and his wife, Tim tells Jill to lose because he's afraid his career will be ruined if they beat Bud and his wife. Meanwhile, Angela, Brad's girlfriend, sets her sister up with Randy.
#22 - Her Cheatin' Mind
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1995
After Tim becomes threatened by one of Jill's classmates, he joins her book club.
#23 - Jill's Surprise Party
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1995
Tim invites everyone over to the house for Jill's surprise birthday party, but Jill is off looking for her childhood piano.
#24 - Chicago Hope
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1995
Jill plans on having a romantic evening with Tim when they go to Chicago, but Tim's business meeting takes all day.
#25 - Tanks for the Memories
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1996
Tim and Jill play each other in a tank driving competition and Jill wins. However, Tim doesn't congratulate her because he thinks she humiliated him.