Main content of the episodes in Sanford and Son season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Earthquake II

Fri, Sep 12, 1975
An earthquake shakes up the Sanfords, and the threat of an even bigger quake sparks Fred to sell the house and seek shelter in Las Vegas.

S5.E2 ∙ Divorce, Sanford Style

Fri, Sep 19, 1975
Following a fight with Woodrow, Aunt Esther moves in with Fred and Lamont. Fred works overtime engineering a reconciliation so she’ll return home.

S5.E3 ∙ Bank on This

Fri, Sep 26, 1975
Fred and Lamont are applying for a loan to finance their purchase of Julio’s former property when a pair of robbers burst into the bank.

S5.E4 ∙ The Sanford Arms

Fri, Oct 3, 1975
With the bank ready to foreclose, Fred and Lamont desperately seek to find tenants for the Sanford Arms.

S5.E5 ∙ Steinberg and Son

Fri, Oct 10, 1975
The series spoofs itself when the characters in the new television show “Steinberg and Son” turn out to be Borscht Belt parallels to those in the life of Fred G. Sanford.

S5.E6 ∙ Brother, Can You Spare an Act?

Fri, Oct 17, 1975
When Fred’s white brother-in-law Rodney lands a job emceeing a local vaudeville revival, Fred, Lamont and Smiley Rogers help out by providing the song and dance.

S5.E7 ∙ Della, Della, Della

Fri, Oct 31, 1975
When two competing politicians each seek to use Fred’s junkyard for a campaign headquarters, Della Reese appeals to Fred to stand by her man.

S5.E8 ∙ Donna Pops the Question

Fri, Nov 7, 1975
After receiving a proposal from another man, Donna gives Fred one final chance to marry her.

S5.E9 ∙ My Fair Esther

Fri, Nov 14, 1975
Fred becomes a latter-day Henry Higgins when he undertakes the task of transforming ugly duckling Esther into a swan so she can win the Mrs. Watts Businessman’s Contest and net Fred half the prize money.

S5.E10 ∙ Sanford and Rising Son

Fri, Nov 21, 1975
Fred and Ah Chew team up and turn the Sanford home into a Japanese restaurant.

S5.E11 ∙ The Olympics

Fri, Dec 5, 1975
Jealous of Donna’s athletic new boyfriend, Fred begins training so he can challenge him in the Senior Olympics.

S5.E12 ∙ Ebenezer Sanford

Fri, Dec 12, 1975
Tightfisted Fred gets a ghostly wake-up call in this spoof of “A Christmas Carol.”

S5.E13 ∙ The Oddfather

Fri, Jan 2, 1976
Fred is wounded while witnessing a mob hit and is hospitalized under police protection until he can identify Mr. Big.

S5.E14 ∙ Can You Chop This?

Fri, Jan 9, 1976
Fred plans to get rich quick by selling Whopper Chopper food processors, using Lamont’s acting school tuition money to make his initial investment.

S5.E15 ∙ Greatest Show in Watts

Fri, Jan 16, 1976
While babysitting an elephant, Fred holds a circus in the junkyard, allowing the cast to display their talents, especially Aunt Esther as the Bronze Goddess.

S5.E16 ∙ Fred Sanford Has a Baby

Fri, Jan 23, 1976
A very pregnant woman rents Lamont’s room for the week he’s away on a fishing trip.

S5.E17 ∙ The TV Addict

Fri, Jan 30, 1976
Fred’s lifestyle of too much TV and too little exercise has Lamont concerned for his father’s health, so Fred undergoes hypnotism to break his addiction to television.

S5.E18 ∙ Lamont in Love

Fri, Feb 6, 1976
When Lamont falls in love with a mysterious woman, Fred and Esther play amateur sleuths to learn more about her.

S5.E19 ∙ The Escorts

Fri, Feb 13, 1976
When Fred’s friend Elroy can’t find a date, Fred’s inspired to launch his latest get rich quick scheme: an escort service for seniors.

S5.E20 ∙ The Engagement Man Always Rings Twice

Fri, Feb 20, 1976
Lamont musters the courage to pop the question to Janet.

S5.E21 ∙ The Director

Fri, Feb 27, 1976
Starstruck Fred assumes the director’s chair when the champ George Foreman comes to star in a play for Lamont’s theater workshop.

S5.E22 ∙ A Pain in the Neck

Fri, Mar 5, 1976
Fred’s friends have got his back, as he discovers when he suffers from a backache on the day he is to receive the Watts Businessman’s award and his friends rush to his aid with all kinds of quack cures.

S5.E23 ∙ Sergeant Gork

Fri, Mar 12, 1976
Fred regales young Roger with tall tales of his World war II exploits that draw more from the late movie than the history books.

S5.E24 ∙ The Camping Trip

Fri, Mar 19, 1976
Lamont brings Fred along on a camping trip to have some solitude and quality time together. Fred is no friend of nature and does nothing but complain…when the truck won’t start they are stranded and begin to reminisce about old times.