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.

Last Updated: 8/10/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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The Longest Day
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7.57
327 votes

#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.

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High School Confidential
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7.57
383 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Games, Flames and Automobiles
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7.57
433 votes

#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.

Directors: Peter Filsinger
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Room without a View
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7.53
387 votes

#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.

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'Twas the Flight Before Christmas
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7.52
366 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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The First Temptation of Tim
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7.51
401 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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The Look
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7.50
436 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Let Them Eat Cake
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7.50
399 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Advise and Repent
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7.47
409 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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When Harry Kept Delores
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7.45
368 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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The Vasectomy One
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7.45
372 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Fear of Flying
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7.43
403 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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A Taylor Runs Through It
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7.42
460 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Doctor in the House
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7.40
433 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Shopping Around
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7.39
402 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Engine and a Haircut, Two Fights
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7.38
353 votes

#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.

Directors: Andrew Tsao
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Alarmed by Burglars
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7.38
430 votes

#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.

Directors: Geoffrey Nelson
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That's My Momma
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7.37
427 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Oh, Brother
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7.37
410 votes

#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.

Writer: Ruth Bennett
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Eye on Tim
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7.36
351 votes

#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.

Directors: Peter Bonerz
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Her Cheatin' Mind
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7.36
449 votes

#21 - 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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Writer: Ruth Bennett
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The Bud Bowl
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7.35
409 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Writer: Ruth Bennett
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Jill's Surprise Party
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7.35
422 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Chicago Hope
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7.32
440 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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Tanks for the Memories
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7.30
379 votes

#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.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
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