The Golden Girls: The Complete 5th Season

Dorothy says that she is seriously ill, but none of the doctors she sees believe her.

Dorothy learns that she has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Blanche's daughter Rebecca shocks her with her plans to conceive a baby by means of artificial insemination.

When Rose loses her pension fund, she must get a second job to support herself. A local TV station hires her as an assistant to Enrique Mas, an egotistical consumer reporter.

Ken Whittingham, Dorothy's lawyer boyfriend, wants to give up his law practice and become a circus clown.

Rose feels inferior to her boyfriend Miles, a college professor.

Martha Lamont, one of Sophia's close friends, is tired of the physical pain and suffering in her life and wants to kill herself.

Blanche falls in love with her late husband's brother Jamie.

After a high school classmate dies unexpectedly, Dorothy decides to fulfill a long-forgotten dream of being a stand-up comedian.

Dorothy's son Michael moves in with her after his wife kicks him out.

Blanche and her sister Virginia clash at Big Daddy's funeral, which Dorothy also attends. Meanwhile, Sophia takes advantage of their absences to rent their rooms out to boarders.

The girls volunteer at a homeless shelter on Christmas day and learn that Stan has been thrown out on the streets by his current wife.

The girls try to reconcile a pregnant teenage girl and her father. Meanwhile, Blanche starts to regret having written sympathetic "love" letters to a man in jail.

Blanche is afraid to get too close to her boyfriend, even after he suffers a heart attack.

Miles' daughter tells Rose to stop seeing him, Sophia has received over $100,000 in Social Security checks, and Blanche rents a car and pretends to sell it so that she can meet men.

Sophia is suffering from memory problems so she decides to make a trip back to her old Brooklyn home in the hope of rekindling her fading past.

Blanche feels insecure about her body after having a pacemaker installed.

A young man shocks Blanche when he shows up unannounced from Dallas, Texas and tells her that her late husband George was his father. Meanwhile, Sophia convinces Dorothy to participate with her in the Shady Pines Mother/Daughter pageant.

Rose is afraid that a blood transfusion she had several years ago may have contained HIV-infected blood.

Rose's old boyfriend Buzz, a musician with Spike Jones' band, shows up and wants to get back together with her.

Blanche thinks the risqué novel her sister Charmaigne has written is about her. Meanwhile, Dorothy argues with Stan's Czechoslovakian cousin Magda over Communism.

Dorothy rekindles her romance with Glenn O'Brien, the married (now divorced) man she had an affair with several years ago.

Sophia must confront a man that she put a curse on after he jilted her at the altar decades ago.

Dorothy falls back into patterns of habitual gambling that she thought she had kicked several years ago.

All the girls except Dorothy are excited when President George H.W. Bush plans to visit their house on his tour of Miami.

A Secret Service agent comes to the house to make sure none of the girls pose a threat to the President's security.