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Hart to Hart: Season 5

22 episodes Premiered Sep 27, 1983 Updated Oct 22, 2026
Previously on Hart to Hart

Season 5 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Hart to Hart Season 4.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S5·E1 Mytharc

Two Harts Are Better Than One

Sep 27, 1983 · 60 min

Jonathan and Jennifer remember how they first met and fell in love in the midst of murder and international intrigue in the picturesque locale of London.

S5·E2 Core

Straight Through the Hart

Oct 4, 1983 · 60 min

Jonathan thunders into the glamour and excitement of polo, unaware that he and Jennifer have become targets for murder in a smuggling scheme using a prized polo mallet to transport

S5·E3 Core

Hostage Harts

Oct 18, 1983 · 60 min

Jennifer fears for Jonathan's life when ruthless jewel thieves take him hostage during a robbery while he's on a business trip in Paris.

S5·E4 Core

Pandora Has Wings

Oct 25, 1983 · 60 min

Jennifer races to save Jonathan, who is serving as radar operator aboard a fighter jet rigged by a saboteur to explode during its top secret test mission.

S5·E5 Core

Harts and Hounds

Nov 1, 1983 · 60 min

A traditional fox hunt is marred by murder during the Harts visit to England -- and sends them off on the trail of a killer.

S5·E6 Core

Love Game

Nov 8, 1983 · 60 min

Jonathan teams with tennis great Martina Navratilove in a game of doubles aimed at exposing a deceitful tennis pro and the stockbroker who is blackmailing him.

S5·E7 Core

Passing Chance

Nov 15, 1983 · 60 min

While in Greece, Jonathan and Jennifer race to save their lives and the future of Hart Industries when a European business magnate seeks to destroy them during a cross-country car

S5·E8 Core

Long Lost Love

Nov 22, 1983 · 60 min

A woman claims to be Jennifer's half-sister and her father believes she could be the daughter of his nurse during the war. Jonathan, however, is suspicious and sets out to find the

S5·E9 Core

Highland Fling

Nov 29, 1983 · 60 min

Jonathan and Jennifer's delightful excursion to the Scottish Highland games is laced with danger when Jennifer becomes the target of a man who is her rival for leadership of a worl

S5·E10 Core

Year of the Dog

Dec 13, 1983 · 60 min

The Harts lives are at stake when a valuable ancient jade carving leads them into the heart of mysterious Macao, where they encounter a Chinese arms dealer who has become a threat

S5·E11 Core

Trust Your Hart

Dec 20, 1983 · 60 min

In keeping with the season's spirit, Jonathan and Jennifer take in a girl who learns that her parents died in a car crash that left her comatose for 7 years.

S5·E12 Core

Harts on the Run

Jan 3, 1984 · 60 min

Jennifer takes refuge in a convent after witnessing a gangland slaying. Jonathan must race to save her when the killer discovers her hiding place.

S5·E13 Core

Whispers in the Wings

Jan 10, 1984 · 60 min

Jennifer is stalked by a psychotic stage manager who lurks in the wings as the Harts don top hats and tails to perform in a charity benefit in the Big Apple.

S5·E14 Core

Max's Waltz

Jan 17, 1984 · 60 min

Jennifer and Jonathan help Max seach for his lady love, who has fallen victim to a pair of money-hungry crooks.

S5·E15 Core

The Dog Who Knew Too Much

Jan 24, 1984 · 60 min

Jennifer and Jennifer are stalked by dangerous industrial spies after they are entrusted with a dog that happens to be carrying a valuable biogenetic formula.

S5·E16 Core

Silent Dance

Jan 31, 1984 · 60 min

A young figure skater's dreams of Olympic gold will be shattered unless Hart Industries can mix modern technology with the astounding talent of skater Tai Babilonia.

S5·E17 Core

Death Dig

Feb 21, 1984 · 60 min

While vacationing on the exotic island of Rhodes, Jennifer and Jonathan become ensnared in a scheme for the smuggling of ancient Greek artifacts and are nearly entombed in the proc

S5·E18 Core

The Shooting

Feb 28, 1984 · 60 min

Jennifer takes on a glamorous modeling assignment, not knowing that the camera is rigged with an explosive device, as Jonathan races to stop the deadly scheme concocted by a vengef

S5·E19 Core

Slam Dunk

Mar 6, 1984 · 60 min

Jonathan and Jennifer pose as a professor and a student in a dangerous scheme to expose the person responsible for the drug framing of Max's nephew, a college basketball star.

S5·E20 Core

Larsen's Last Jump

Mar 13, 1984 · 60 min

The Harts and Max are held at gunpoint when a murderer realizes that Jonathan has incriminating evidence linking him to the death of a champion skier.

S5·E21 Mytharc

Always, Elizabeth

May 15, 1984 · 60 min

The Harts and Max fear for their lives when the debt-ridden brother of Max's penpal believes Max is rich and comes to steal some of his fortune.

S5·E22 Mytharc

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

May 22, 1984 · 60 min

Max is taken hostage. The Harts scramble to save him by participating in a scheme aimed at robbing an international jewel salesman of $20 million in gems.

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