Good Times

  • Premiered: Feb 1974
  • Episodes: 133
  • Followers: 14
  • Ended
  • CBS
  • Unknown
  • Comedy

Seasons:

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Season 5
5x1
The Evans Get Involved (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 21, 1977
When young Penny Gordon follows J.J. home, she tells the Evanses tall tales about her life without mentioning her abusive mother (Chip Fields). But when Penny changes into a dress, a stunned Willona and Thelma discover the girl's badly bruised back.
5x2
The Evans Get Involved (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 21, 1977
Willona and the Evans children are convinced that Penny is being abused and discover that she has an injured arm, caused by her abusive mother, but the doctor who treats Penny refuses to believe that she is a victim of child abuse.
5x3
The Evans Get Involved (3)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 28, 1977
Willona and the Evanses are stunned to discover that Penny and her mother have moved, but soon find the girl hiding in the Evans apartment. Later, Penny's abusive mother abandons her, leaving Willona to ponder adopting the battered youth.
5x4
The Evans Get Involved (4)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1977
While Willona worries about the adoption, Bookman tries to help by telling the social worker that he is Willona's husband.
5x5
Thelma Moves Out
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Air date
Oct 12, 1977
Fed up with her brothers and her lack of privacy, Thelma moves in with three roommates.
5x6
Willona, the Fuzz
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Air date
Oct 19, 1977
Willona's new job in department-store security requires that she spy on changing rooms through a one-way mirror.
5x7
Wheels
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Air date
Nov 02, 1977
J.J. and his friends buy Bookman's beat-up old car and argue over who gets to drive it.
5x8
Breaker, Breaker
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 09, 1977
While using a CB radio, Michael makes a connection with a teenage paraplegic girl.
5x9
Bye-Bye Bookman
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Air date
Nov 16, 1977
Fed up with Bookman's incompetence, Willona, Penny and the Evans kids start a petition that gets him fired.
5x10
Thelma's Brief Encounter
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 07, 1977
J.J., Willona and Michael suspect that Thelma's new boyfriend is married, but find that he is a former bigamist doing time in a halfway house.
5x11
Requiem for a Wino
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 14, 1977
When local wino Fishbone is mistakenly believed to have been killed, he attends his own wake dressed in drag as a mourner.
5x12
Penny's Christmas
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 21, 1977
When Penny steals a necklace from a department store, Willona faces the possibility of losing custody of the girl.
5x13
No More Mr. Nice Guy
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Air date
Jan 04, 1978
J.J. assumes the role of father figure when Michael starts to slack off, prohibiting his brother from attending an awards dinner.
5x14
Willona's Mr. Right
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 11, 1978
When Willona rejects an old boyfriend's proposal, Penny thinks she's holding Willona back and tries to run away.
5x15
J.J. and the Boss' Daughter
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 18, 1978
J.J. dates his sexy new assistant, who is also the boss's daughter.
5x16
Where There's Smoke
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Air date
Jan 25, 1978
With a hole burned into a couch cushion, the Evans kids each flash back to their versions of how it happened.
5x17
I Had a Dream
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 30, 1978
Afraid he will be passed over for a promotion in favor of a white man, J.J. has a crazy dream in which he experiences being white.
5x18
The Boarder
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Air date
Feb 06, 1978
The Evanses fear that their new boarder may become the target of a hitman.
5x19
J.J.'s Condition
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 13, 1978
J.J.'s relationship with a married woman gives him an ulcer.
5x20
Willona, the Other Woman
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Air date
Feb 27, 1978
Already suspected of infidelity by his wife, Bookman is caught with Willona in a compromising situation.
5x21
Something Old, Something New
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Air date
Mar 13, 1978
James' father visits and proposes marriage to his neglected girlfriend.
5x22
Willona's New Job
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 20, 1978
Willona reconsiders her marriage plans when she hears her boyfriend's old-fashioned views on marriage and women in the workplace.
5x23
Write On, Thelma
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 27, 1978
Thelma's play is selected as the community theater's latest production, but not without a flurry of changes demanded by the theater's director.
5x24 Season finale
That's Entertainment, Evans Style
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 03, 1978
With J.J. out of town, the cast puts on a talent show to save a local daycare center.

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