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Season 5 · 26 episodes

• E1 A Taylor Runs Through It
  Sep 19, 1995 25 min

  At Jill's cousin's wedding, Tim tries to squeeze in sports for him and the boys. After Jill gets tired of writing her speech for the wedding, she decides to go water skiing with the boys and gets injured.

• E2 The First Temptation of Tim
  Sep 26, 1995 25 min

  Bud Harper, Tim's new boss, wants to replace Al because younger viewers don't like him. Meanwhile, Brad gets detention on the first day of school and additional detention for misbehaving during detention.

• E3 Her Cheatin' Mind
  Oct 3, 1995 25 min

  After Tim becomes threatened by one of Jill's classmates, he joins her book club.

• E4 Jill's Surprise Party
  Oct 17, 1995 25 min

  Tim invites everyone over to the house for Jill's surprise birthday party, but Jill is off looking for her childhood piano.

• E5 Advise and Repent
  Oct 24, 1995 25 min

  Jill gets an A on her psychology paper and starts dispensing psychiatric advice. Unfortunately, this leads to marital problems for Randy's girlfriend's parents.

• E6 Let Them Eat Cake
  Oct 31, 1995 25 min

  Brad throws a Halloween party for his new friends at school while Tim, Jill, Al, and Ilene attend a cable awards show. The Tool Time cast hopes to win an award, but it appears that Cooking with Irma will sweep the event as it has every other year.

• E7 The Look
  Nov 7, 1995 25 min

  Tim gets "the look" from Jill after spending $4,000 on season tickets for the Detroit Pistons.

• E8 Room without a View
  Nov 14, 1995 25 min

  Tim turns the basement into Randy's new room so that Randy doesn't have to share a room with Mark.

• E9 Chicago Hope
  Nov 21, 1995 25 min

  Jill plans on having a romantic evening with Tim when they go to Chicago, but Tim's business meeting takes all day.

• E10 Doctor in the House
  Nov 28, 1995 25 min

  Jill, Wilson, and Al are angry when Tim gets an honorary Ph.D.

• E11 That's My Momma
  Dec 5, 1995 25 min

  When Tim's mother returns she begins dating Mr. Leonard, Tim's old shop teacher, and doesn't want to spend time with Tim.

• E12 'Twas the Flight Before Christmas
  Dec 12, 1995 25 min

  On Christmas Eve Tim and Al get stuck at the airport on the way to Binford's winter festival. Ilene makes Al choose between her and his mother. Tim and the boys beat Doc Johnson in the Christmas lighting contest.

• E13 Oh, Brother
  Jan 9, 1996 25 min

  When Tim hires Marty to rebuild the Tool Time set it puts their friendship on the line.

• E14 High School Confidential
  Jan 16, 1996 25 min

  Brad feels jealous when Randy starts taking advanced classes at his school. Tim designs the man's bedroom.

• E15 Tanks for the Memories
  Jan 30, 1996 25 min

  Tim and Jill play each other in a tank driving competition and Jill wins. However, Tim doesn't congratulate her because he thinks she humiliated him.

• E16 The Vasectomy One
  Feb 6, 1996 25 min

  Jill wants Tim to get a vasectomy when they agree their family is complete. Meanwhile, Randy is voted "best butt" by the girls at school.

• E17 Fear of Flying
  Feb 13, 1996 25 min

  Mark wants to take flying lessons, but Jill doesn't let him. Jill takes piano lessons. Meanwhile, Tim and Al ruin Bud's car.

• E18 When Harry Kept Delores
  Feb 20, 1996 25 min

  Dolores, Harry's wife, comes to Harry's Hardware and Tim's marital advice causes them to split up.

• E19 Eye on Tim
  Feb 27, 1996 25 min

  When a TV report is done on Tool Time, Jill gets angry when the reporter makes advances on Tim.

• E20 The Bud Bowl
  Mar 5, 1996 25 min

  When Tim and Jill go bowling with Bud and his wife, Tim tells Jill to lose because he's afraid his career will be ruined if they beat Bud and his wife. Meanwhile, Angela, Brad's girlfriend, sets her sister up with Randy.

• E21 Engine and a Haircut, Two Fights
  Mar 12, 1996 25 min

  Tim and Brad get into a fight over Brad's new haircut and the hot rod engine. Meanwhile, Randy doesn't want Jill to help him rehearse for an audition to play Romeo in a school play of Romeo & Juliet.

• E22 The Longest Day
  Apr 2, 1996 25 min

  After a routine medical checkup, the family discovers that Randy may have cancer.

• E23 Mr. Wilson's Opus
  Apr 30, 1996 25 min

  Wilson becomes the director of Randy's school play, but takes the role a little too seriously. Tim and Wilson clash when Wilson attempts to make him rebuild the play's aluminum set.

• E24 Shopping Around
  May 7, 1996 25 min

  Tim and Jill see Art, Tim's old shop teacher who's dating his mother, at a restaurant with another woman.

• E25 Alarmed by Burglars
  May 14, 1996 25 min

  When Wilson is burglarized, Jill orders Tim to put in a high security system. But instead of them having peace and quite in their house, things get worse when the alarms begin going off by themselves.

• E26 Games, Flames and Automobiles
  May 21, 1996 25 min

  Al creates a Tool Time board game, hoping to earn enough money to propose to Ilene, but the game has problems and sometimes catches fire.