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S5.E1 ∙ The Bunkers and Inflation: Part 1

Fri, Sep 13, 1974

Archie's union calls a strike, leaving the family to begin adjusting to not having a steady income.

8.1 /10

S5.E2 ∙ The Bunkers and Inflation: Part 2

Fri, Sep 20, 1974

The strike continues to drag and Archie is left to sit home and complain. The household budget, meanwhile, begins to take a beating with the high cost of meat and gasoline. Finally, Louise Jefferson offers the family some stew. Archie doesn't want to accept charity, but Edith persuades him to take the helping hand.

8 /10

S5.E3 ∙ The Bunkers and Inflation: Part 3

Fri, Sep 27, 1974

Three weeks into the strike, there seems to be no progress between Archie's union and company representatives; in fact, negotiations on both sides seem to be getting worse. With Mike's tutoring jobs only bringing in very little money, Edith decides the Bunkers need some real income, and does so by getting a cashier's job at Jefferson Cleaners.

8.3 /10

S5.E4 ∙ The Bunkers and Inflation: Part 4

Fri, Oct 04, 1974

As Edith receives her first paycheck from Jefferson Cleaners, Archie's strike finally comes to an end. But what Archie doesn't realize is that in everyone's desperation to finally reach an agreement, Archie and all his co-workers agreed to a deal which will ultimately leave them in worse economic shape than before the strike began.

7.8 /10

S5.E5 ∙ Lionel, the Live-In

Fri, Oct 11, 1974

When Lionel Jefferson has another fight with his father over his fiance's biracial parents, Lionel spends a few days at the Bunker house.

8.2 /10

S5.E6 ∙ Archie's Helping Hand

Fri, Oct 18, 1974

Archie persuades his boss to hire Irene as a bookkeeper. While she'd undoubtedly do a good job in that job, the boss thinks she'd do even better as a forklift operator. It isn't long before Archie finds himself working alongside Irene!

7.9 /10

S5.E7 ∙ Gloria's Shock

Fri, Oct 25, 1974

Four years into the Stivic marriage, Mike and Gloria still have no children. That's just fine by Mike, and his wishes cause yet another argument between him and Gloria.

7.3 /10

S5.E8 ∙ Where's Archie?

Fri, Nov 01, 1974

Archie mysteriously disappears while traveling to a union convention in Buffalo, leaving Edith fraught with worry.

7.2 /10

S5.E9 ∙ Archie Is Missing

Fri, Nov 08, 1974

After fearing the worst when Archie fails to contact the family for 48 hours, Edith, Mike and Gloria begin speculating about his whereabouts.

7.2 /10

S5.E10 ∙ The Longest Kiss

Fri, Nov 15, 1974

The family is relieved to learn that Archie is safe and sound - he had been sidetracked at a podiatrist's convention. But Archie's reaction is priceless when he arrives home to find plenty of wackiness going on - hula hoops, ballroom dancing, and Mike trying to make good on Gloria's dare that they hold a kiss for hours and hours.

7.3 /10

S5.E11 ∙ Archie and the Miracle

Fri, Nov 22, 1974

Archie claims to have had a religious awakening and thinks he has been the "victim of a miracle", after he narrowly misses being crushed by a falling crate.

7.8 /10

S5.E12 ∙ George and Archie Make a Deal

Fri, Nov 29, 1974

Archie becomes suspicious when political office-seeker George is suddenly very nice to him.

8 /10

S5.E13 ∙ Archie's Contract

Fri, Dec 06, 1974

Archie falls for a scheme from a shady aluminum siding salesman when the man makes Archie think that he must install the siding on his brick house due to a loss of heat.

8 /10

S5.E14 ∙ Mike's Friend

Fri, Dec 13, 1974

Mike's college friend Stu comes to the house to play chess. However, Mike's intellectual conversation leaves Gloria feeling inferior.

6.9 /10

S5.E15 ∙ The Best of All in the Family

Fri, Dec 20, 1974

A special one-hour retrospective, celebrating the 100th episode of the groundbreaking sitcom. Host Henry Fonda narrates and shares clips from the series' most memorable episodes up to this point in the series.

7.7 /10

S5.E16 ∙ Prisoner in the House

Fri, Jan 03, 1975

Archie can't help but feel uncomfortable - and uneasy - when a plumber's apprentice is a convict on a work furlough from prison.

7.9 /10

S5.E17 ∙ The Jeffersons Move on Up

Fri, Jan 10, 1975

The pilot episode for The Jeffersons (1975), where George and Louise move to "a deluxe apartment in the sky."

7.8 /10

S5.E18 ∙ All's Fair

Fri, Jan 17, 1975

Mike and Gloria are dumbfounded by Edith's continual submissiveness to Archie. Gloria finally decides it's time to give her mother a long-overdue lesson in how to become more assertive in her marriage.

8 /10

S5.E19 ∙ Amelia's Divorce

Fri, Jan 24, 1975

The Bunkers are shocked when the seemingly happy marriage of Edith's favorite cousin is anything but.

7.9 /10

S5.E20 ∙ Everybody Does It

Fri, Feb 07, 1975

Archie's sense of morality is questioned when he borrows tools and equipment from work in order to complete a home repair project.

8 /10

S5.E21 ∙ Archie and the Quiz

Fri, Feb 14, 1975

Out of curiosity, Archie takes a magazine test about his health habits. When he scores the test, he learns he might die at age 57. Rather than take the test for what it is worth (or heed the advice of the accompanying article), Archie fumes about his apparent fate.

8.3 /10

S5.E22 ∙ Edith's Friend

Fri, Feb 21, 1975

Edith attends a wedding in her hometown of Scranton and runs into her childhood sweetheart, who is interested in rekindling the old romance

7.3 /10

S5.E23 ∙ No Smoking

Fri, Feb 28, 1975

A contest between Archie and Mike, to see who can abstain from his favorite indulgence (Archie's being smoking cigars, Mike's eating everything in sight) becomes a battle of wills. Who will win this 48-hour contest?

8.2 /10

S5.E24 ∙ Mike Makes His Move

Fri, Mar 07, 1975

Mike accepts a job, which pleases Archie because it means that Mike and Gloria will be moving. Finding a new home proves difficult. George Jefferson schemes to rent his old house next door to them cheap, just to annoy Archie.

8.1 /10