Room 222: 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 Room 222 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
Of Smoke-Filled Rooms
Sep 21, 1973 · 30 min
One of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.
Can Nun Be One Too Many?
Sep 28, 1973 · 30 min
Mr. Kaufman falls for a teacher who was once a nun.
No Island is an Island
Oct 5, 1973 · 30 min
Liz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.
Love is a Many Splintered Thing
Nov 9, 1973 · 30 min
Alice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.
Pi in the Sky
Nov 16, 1973 · 30 min
A math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.
Mismatch Maker
Nov 30, 1973 · 30 min
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.
Here's to the Boy Most Likely
Dec 7, 1973 · 30 min
A student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.
El Greco to Jason
Dec 21, 1973 · 30 min
Jason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.
MPG
Dec 28, 1973 · 30 min
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 t
I Didn't Raise My Girl to Be a Soldier
Jan 4, 1974 · 30 min
Problems arise when a girl decides to join the Army ROTC in order to become a doctor against the wishes of her father.