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Normal Episodes: 26
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

	5x01 Sick and Tired (1) Dorothy is completely out of energy and is feeling more tired than she generally feels in a day. This leads her to visit random doctors all of which tell her she has no signs of being ...	Sep. 23, 1989
	5x02 Sick and Tired (2) Dorothy is still in search of finding out what is making her feel so down during the day and is having a hard time getting answers from people. During this time, Blanche is continuing ...	Sep. 30, 1989
	5x03 The Accurate Conception Rebecca, Blanche's daughter, announces to her mother that she is going to be pregnant but the twist is she will do it by artificial insemination. This leads Blanche to try everything ...	Oct. 14, 1989
	5x04 Rose Fights Back Rose gets some distressing news that she will not be drawing a pension check from her late husband anymore. Rose immediately goes in search of a higher paying job but runs into lots ...	Oct. 21, 1989
	5x05 Love Under the Big Top Dorothy embarks on a new relationship with a well established lawyer. Dorothy comes to the conclusion that is he going to propose marriage upon her when he wants to tell her something ...	Oct. 28, 1989
	5x06 Dancing in the Dark While Blanche is having no dates, Rose is dating an intellectual college professor. This turns out to be very hard for Rose since he is much smarter than she is especially when she ...	Nov. 04, 1989
	5x07 Not Another Monday Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy are taking care of a neighbor's sick baby for the weekend, and it proves to be challenge for all of them. Meanwhile, Sophia has been told by a friend that ...	Nov. 11, 1989
	5x08 That Old Feeling Blanche's brother-in-law comes to town to visit Blanche after a long time. He resembles her late husband so much that Blanche becomes fond of him. She becomes so fond of him that she ...	Nov. 18, 1989
	5x09 Comedy of Errors Dorothy has been reevaluating her life and is distressed that she feels she has not accomplished much in her life. She has a list of things she wanted to accomplish and one sticking ...	Nov. 25, 1989
	5x10 All That Jazz Michael, Dorothy's son, comes to Miami to tell his mother that he is separated from his wife. He has no place to live so decides to live with her for a while. This turns to the worse ...	Dec. 02, 1989
	5x11 Ebb Tide Blanche receives some terrible news that her father Big Daddy has recently passed away. Blanche and Dorothy take a trip to Atlanta to her home and Blanche has words with Virginia, her ...	Dec. 09, 1989
	5x12 Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas There's a big heat wave shooting across Miami and this wears the girls out of consistently buying so many presents. So they decide each will buy a present for the other one instead ...	Dec. 16, 1989
	5x13 Mary Has a Little Lamb Dorothy takes in a 16 year old girl who is scared for her life since she is recently pregnant and her own father put her out of the house because of this. Meanwhile, Blanche gets more ...	Jan. 06, 1990
	5x14 Great Expectations Rose becomes part of a more positive thinking club and insists Dorothy, who is pessimistic, come along as well. Dorothy takes the chance and goes to the club. While this is going on, ...	Jan. 13, 1990
	5x15 Triple Play A lot of interesting situations are going on in Miami. Sophia is stealing money from the government by their mistaken over charge of money. Blanche tries to sell a car in the newspaper ...	Jan. 27, 1990
	5x16 Clinton Avenue Memoirs Worries ensue Dorothy when Sophia forgets her own wedding anniversary. Dorothy worries about this and takes her to the doctor for observation. The conclusion is she is loosing memory ...	Feb. 03, 1990
	5x17 Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom Blanche has a regular checkup at the doctor but they tell her she needs a heart pacemaker to keep the beating regulated. This scares Blanche to the point she decides to avoid any form ...	Feb. 10, 1990
	5x18 An Illegitimate Concern Blanche is being stalked by a younger man but it turns out to be far different than she thinks when he tells her that her husband is his father. Blanche is confused on how to take this ...	Feb. 12, 1990
	5x19 72 Hours Rose gets a shock from the hospital when she learns she may have Aids from a previous operation in her gallbladder. This scares her for her life and this puts the girls in a hard s ...	Feb. 17, 1990
	5x20 Twice in a Lifetime Sophia and Dorothy gain tension, which leads to Sophia moving out of the house. Rose has a visitor from St. Olaf who was a previous boyfriend. He wants her to come to Europe with him ...	Feb. 24, 1990
	5x21 Sisters and Other Strangers Charmaine, Blanche's sister, comes to town to show Blanche her newly published love novel. After allowing Blanche to read it, she learns that the novel seems to embody Blanche's love ...	Mar. 03, 1990
	5x22 Cheaters Dorothy gets a visit from an old flame from her past, who is now married. He tells her that he is now divorced and is trying to pave a way to make amends with Dorothy so they can re ...	Mar. 24, 1990
	5x23 The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present Dorothy's goddaughter is getting married and ironically the groom's granddad was once engaged to Sophia for a short period of time. When this happened she put a curse on him and she ...	Mar. 31, 1990
	5x24 All Bets Are Off An old addiction Dorothy once had is back. Dorothy goes to the race track and her past addition to gambling returns in her life. This gambling addiction takes a lot of her money and ...	Apr. 28, 1990
	5x25 The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (1) The girls are told the President of the United States may pay them a visit after learning about their lives. This is a shocker and the girls flashback times they have had in the house ...	May. 05, 1990
	5x26 The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (2) The official announcement is made that President Bush Sr. will visit the girls soon. Dorothy is not fond of how the President has handled many issues and prepares things to discuss ...	May. 05, 1990

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Season 5 Characters

Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak	played by Bea Arthur
Rose Nylund	played by Betty White
Blanche Devereaux	played by Rue McClanahan
Sophia Petrillo	played by Estelle Getty
Miles Webber	played by Harold Gould
Stan Zbornak	played by Herb Edelman
Enrique Mas	played by Chick Vennera
Dr. Budd	played by Michael McGuire
Receptionist	played by Peggy Walton-Walker
Waiter	played by Eric Poppick
Dr. Harry Weston	played by Richard Mulligan
Agent Bell	played by Timothy Stack
Martha Lamont	played by Geraldine Fitzgerald
Mangiacavallo	played by Howard Duff
Simon	played by Robert Culp
Glen O'Brien	played by Jerry Orbach
Virginia Hollingsworth	played by Sheree North
Ken	played by Dick Van Dyke
Mary	played by Julie McCullough
Salvadore Petrillo	played by Sid Melton
Dr. Stevens	played by Jeffrey Tambor
Steven	played by Robert Mandan
Rebecca Devereaux	played by Debra Engle

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	Season 5 / Episode 17: - Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom Rose Nylund: [singing] Over there, over there, send the word send the word over there, that the Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming! The drums rum-tum... Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: THAT was the lullaby your mother used to sing? Rose Nylund: Yes, it was the only song she knew.
	Season 5 / Episode 21: - Sisters and Other Strangers Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: I would kill my sister if she ever wrote about my sex life. Sophia Petrillo: You would kill your sister over a pamphlet?

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Episode 23 - Sophia was married the most out of all four girls: her first marriage was arranged to Guido Spirelli (however, she was left at the alter and never actually married), followed by her marriage to Salvador, and finally to Max Weinstock. Dorothy was married twice: to Stan and to Blanche's uncle, Lucas Hollingswort
Episode 21 - Goof (revealing mistake): Blanche's sister Charmaine is supposed to be her older sister. Yet when she finally makes an appearance, it's obvious that the actress playing Charmaine is much younger than Rue McClanahan.
Episode 18 - In one episode when Dorothy and Sophia are dressed up as Sonny & Cher, Blanche enters the room and says they could be celebrity look-alikes for the comedy duo Cheech & Chong. Cheech Marin later played a role as a chef in the spin-off [url=/shows/the_golden_palace]The Golden
Episode 13 - The title is based on the nursery rhyme of the same name about a little girl who has misplace her sheep.
Episode 23 - Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The bride is supposedly Dorothy's goddaughter, as stated by Sophia early on in the episode. Later on, when Dorothy, Blanche & the bride are all in the ladies' room, the bride refers to Dorothy as "Aunt Dorothy", a

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