5x1 - I've Got the Hammer, If You've Got the Thumb

September 14, 1973

5x2 - Of Smoke-Filled Rooms

September 21, 1973

One of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.

5x4 - No Island is an Island

October 5, 1973

Liz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.

5x5 - Twenty-Five Words or Less

October 26, 1973

Herbie likes to enter contests.

5x6 - Pete's Protege

November 2, 1973

5x7 - Love is a Many Splintered Thing

November 9, 1973

Alice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.

5x8 - Pi in the Sky

November 16, 1973

A math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.

5x9 - Mismatch Maker

November 30, 1973

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.

5x10 - Here's to the Boy Most Likely

December 7, 1973

A student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.

5x11 - El Greco to Jason

December 21, 1973

Jason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.

5x12 - MPG

December 28, 1973

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.

5x13 - I Didn't Raise My Girl to Be a Soldier

January 4, 1974

Problems arise when a girl decides to join the Army ROTC in order to become a doctor against the wishes of her father.

5x14 - Cry, Uncle

January 11, 1974

5x15 - Jason and Big Mo