S5E1 - I've Got the Hammer, If You've Got the Thumb
None
Sept. 14, 1973, midnight
S5E2 - Of Smoke-Filled Rooms
One of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.
Sept. 21, 1973, midnight
S5E3 - Can Nun Be One Too Many?
Mr. Kaufman falls for a teacher who was once a nun.
Sept. 28, 1973, midnight
S5E4 - No Island is an Island
Liz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.
Oct. 5, 1973, midnight
S5E5 - Twenty-Five Words or Less
Herbie likes to enter contests.
Oct. 26, 1973, midnight
S5E6 - Pete's Protege
None
Nov. 2, 1973, midnight
S5E7 - Love is a Many Splintered Thing
Alice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.
Nov. 9, 1973, midnight
S5E8 - Pi in the Sky
A math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.
Nov. 16, 1973, midnight
S5E9 - Mismatch Maker
Alice finds herself in the middle when she encourages a student to become a poet despite his father's wish that he enter his real estate business.
Nov. 30, 1973, midnight
S5E10 - Here's to the Boy Most Likely
A student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.
Dec. 7, 1973, midnight
S5E11 - El Greco to Jason
Jason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.
Dec. 21, 1973, midnight
S5E12 - MPG
The Walt Whitman auto shop enters a car in a contest to see which vehicle gets the most miles per gallon. The actual race is unbearably slow, with each car conserving energy, and the scenes of Mr. Kaufman, Mr. Dixon, et al, trying to stay awake in the bleachers are hilarious.
Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.
Dec. 28, 1973, midnight
S5E13 - I Didn't Raise My Girl to Be a Soldier
Problems arise when a girl decides to join the Army ROTC in order to become a doctor against the wishes of her father.
Jan. 4, 1974, midnight
S5E14 - Cry, Uncle
None
Jan. 11, 1974, midnight
S5E15 - Jason and Big Mo
None