Love, American Style: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Love, American Style Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Love and the Teller's Tale
Sep 14, 1973 · 60 min
A banker is trapped in a valut with a designing female.
Love and the Swinging Surgeon
Sep 14, 1973 · 60 min
A surgeon with roving hands is on a date with a prim miss.
Love and the Plane Fantasy
Sep 14, 1973 · 60 min
A man begins to have fantasies about a girl he met on board a flight.
Love and the Lifter
Sep 21, 1973 · 60 min
A pickpocket's heart is stolen by a young admirer.
Love and the Lie
Sep 21, 1973 · 60 min
A man uses his famous brother's reputation to impress a girl.
Love and the Suspicious Husband
Sep 21, 1973 · 60 min
Tale about a suspicious spouse who hires a detective to follow his wife.
Love and the Comedienne
Sep 21, 1973 · 60 min
An insult comedienne is afraid her act is hurting her husband's feelings.
Love and the Heavy Set
Sep 28, 1973 · 60 min
A worried mother tries to arrange a blind date for her chubby daughter.
Love and the Novel Love
Sep 28, 1973 · 60 min
A writing team gets very involved in their latest love story.
Love and the See-Through Mind
Sep 28, 1973 · 60 min
A jealous mind reader knows when other men are leering at his wife.
Love and the Seven Year Wait
Sep 28, 1973 · 60 min
About-to-be weds have been waiting seven years for her missing husband to be declared legally dead.
Love and the Golden Memory
Sep 28, 1973 · 60 min
A tourist looks for his wartime romance in a dingy London pub.
Love and the Memento
Oct 5, 1973 · 60 min
A heir is unhappy about the disposal of a hamburger king's fortune.
Love and the Games People Play
Oct 5, 1973 · 60 min
Two football players enjoy a night they would never forget.
Love and the Single Husband
Oct 5, 1973 · 60 min
A swinger is pursued by marriage-hungry women.
Love and High Spirits
Oct 5, 1973 · 60 min
A tale about a medium trying to make contact with a desirable client.
Love and the Bonded Separation
Oct 12, 1973 · 60 min
Marrieds try a separation under the same roof.
Love and the Fractured Fibula
Oct 12, 1973 · 60 min
A newly-married wife injures herself to be with her newly-married husband.
Love and the Pretty Secretary
Oct 12, 1973 · 60 min
Tale about a lawyer too much in love with his feather-brained secretary.
Love and the Secret Spouse
Oct 19, 1973 · 60 min
Two newlyweds try to hide their marriage from her father.
Love and the Cozy Comrades
Oct 19, 1973 · 60 min
Chambermaid Gladys fixes comrade Ivan's buttons.
Love and the Flunky
Oct 19, 1973 · 60 min
A basketball player has a roommate that does everything for him. When the ballplayer brings home a date, she makes an unexpected choice.
Love and the Lady Prisoner
Nov 2, 1973 · 60 min
Two female prisoners get a visit from a pair of men.
Love and the Weighty Problem
Nov 2, 1973 · 60 min
A girl comes back from a weight loss vacation several dress sizes smaller and her boyfriend becomes paranoid now that she is getting so much attention.
Love and the Fortunate Cookie
Nov 2, 1973 · 60 min
Two executives vie for a lovely secretary's attentions.
Love and the Opera Singer
Nov 2, 1973
A man tells his date the story of how his opera singer ancestor lost his voice and career for the woman he loved.
Love and the Unsteady Steady
Nov 9, 1973 · 60 min
A teenage boy and girl look for a long term relationship.
Love and the Persistent Assistant
Nov 9, 1973 · 60 min
A nightclub hypnotist's assistant is suffering from unrequited love from her boss.
Love and the Eat's Cafe
Nov 9, 1973 · 60 min
A postcard salesman stops in a backwards town and believes he has convinced a town girl not to marry an awful man.
Love and the Unwedding
Nov 16, 1973 · 60 min
Two students take a stand against the institution of marriage.
Love and the Big Top
Nov 16, 1973 · 60 min
A tale about attempted intrigue in a circus trapeze act.
Love and the Odd Couples
Nov 16, 1973 · 60 min
A double divorce is on the agenda when two men are married to the wrong girls.
Love and the Time Machine
Nov 23, 1973 · 60 min
A young scientist tries to win a girl with the aid of a time machine.
Love and the Man of the Year
Nov 23, 1973 · 60 min
A comedian neglects his family to do charity benefits.
Love and the Blue Plate Special
Nov 23, 1973 · 60 min
A waitress wins the heart of a pop artist.
Love and the Model Apartment
Nov 30, 1973 · 60 min
Honeymooners move into a model apartment.
Love and the Parent's Sake
Nov 30, 1973 · 60 min
Two oldsters try to patch up their kids' rocky marriage.
Love and the Spendthrift
Dec 7, 1973 · 60 min
A multi-millionaire finds that money cannot buy his secretary's affections.
Love and the Generation Gasp
Dec 7, 1973 · 60 min
A wealthy patriarch with heirs to spare and the possibility of begetting more.
Love and the Awkward Age
Dec 7, 1973 · 60 min
A woman has trouble admitting to her husband her actual age.
Love and Carmen Lopez
Dec 28, 1973 · 60 min
Love is in the air for a family's housemaid.
Love and the Cover
Dec 28, 1973 · 60 min
An undercover spy reveals to his wife that he has been using her as a cover for the last five years.
Love and the Cryin' Cowboy
Dec 28, 1973 · 60 min
A country western singer can only write hit songs after he has been dumped.
Love and the Flying Finletters
Jan 4, 1974 · 60 min
A stewardess' daughter gets her pilot father and airline personnel mother back together again.
Love and the Extra Job
Jan 4, 1974 · 60 min
A girl with an original way to earn money for law school.
Love and the Golden Worm
Jan 4, 1974 · 60 min
A young man's father has a bride selected for him, much to his chagrin.
Love and the Patrol Person
Jan 4, 1974 · 60 min
A policeman meets his new, female patrol partner.
Love and the Itchy Condition
Jan 4, 1974 · 60 min
Tale of a romance between two itch-ridden people.
Love and the Forever Tree
Jan 11, 1974 · 60 min
Wistful lovers are kept apart for 50 years.
Love and the Image Makers
Jan 11, 1974 · 60 min
A political candidate falls in love with his female opponent.
Love and Mr. Bunny
Jan 11, 1974 · 60 min
A man cannot sleep without his special clock.