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Amen

Season 5 1990 - 1991
TV-G

  • 1990-11-17T05:00:00Z on NBC
  • 30m
  • 11h (22 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Family
Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts. Others included The Cosby Show, A Different World, and 227.

22 episodes

Season Premiere

1990-11-17T05:00:00Z

5x01 Love, Deacon Style

Season Premiere

5x01 Love, Deacon Style

  • 1990-11-17T05:00:00Z30m

On her six-month anniversary, Thelma feels neglected because Reuben is teaching night school.

After a woman is car-jacked, with her baby still in the car with the theif, the thief drops the baby off on the doorsteps of the First Community Church. And since Thelma has no children of her own, whe makes plans to become the child's foster mother, against objections from the deacon and the Rev. Soon the child even begins to soften the deacon's stand. But in the end, Thelma is determined to hold onto the baby. . . until the child's mother shows up. Meanwhile, Deacon Frye is tax audited and owes Uncle Sam a large sum of money.

1990-12-08T05:00:00Z

5x03 Child's Play

5x03 Child's Play

  • 1990-12-08T05:00:00Z30m

Frye establishes a day care center called ""Deaconland.""

1990-12-15T05:00:00Z

5x04 Yo, Deak

5x04 Yo, Deak

  • 1990-12-15T05:00:00Z30m

Frye takes in a trouble-prone teen, a would-be rapper dubbed ""Clarence So Fine.""

5x05 Miracle on 134th Street (1)

  • 1990-12-22T05:00:00Z30m

Frye backs a man claiming to be Santa Claus. (Part 1 of 2)

5x06 Miracle on 134th Street (2)

  • 1990-12-22T05:00:00Z30m

1990-12-29T05:00:00Z

5x07 Judge Deacon Frye

5x07 Judge Deacon Frye

  • 1990-12-29T05:00:00Z30m

Newly appointed to the bench, power-drunk Judge Frye aims to throw the book at all who come before him.

1991-01-05T05:00:00Z

5x08 The Gospel Truth

5x08 The Gospel Truth

  • 1991-01-05T05:00:00Z30m

Reuben's visiting niece reveals she's leaving seminary school to become a singer, and Frye enters her in a gospelfest.

1991-01-12T05:00:00Z

5x09 Lights, Camera, Deacon

5x09 Lights, Camera, Deacon

  • 1991-01-12T05:00:00Z30m

Frye sees publicity in a televised trial involving writer-comedian Steve Allen in a suit against a fried-chicken mogul.

1991-01-19T05:00:00Z

5x10 Unforgettable

5x10 Unforgettable

  • 1991-01-19T05:00:00Z30m

Frye dates a beautiful and much younger environmentalist.

1991-02-02T05:00:00Z

5x11 Ernie and the Sublimes

5x11 Ernie and the Sublimes

  • 1991-02-02T05:00:00Z30m

The deacon reassembles his '50s doo-wop group for a benefit.

1991-02-09T05:00:00Z

5x12 The Deacon's Slam Dunk

5x12 The Deacon's Slam Dunk

  • 1991-02-09T05:00:00Z30m

Frye and Ruben both try to intervene when the Deacon's pro basketball player client, wants to marry Amelia and move to Italy. Will Love intervene instead and short-circuit the deacon's plans?

1991-02-23T05:00:00Z

5x13 Three Men and a Hammer

5x13 Three Men and a Hammer

  • 1991-02-23T05:00:00Z30m

Rapper MC Hammer has a dual role as a flamboyant minister and as himself, busting a move to keep Clarence in school. Guard: Jacques Apollo Bolton. Clarence: Bumper Robinson. Rev. Gregory: Clifton Davis.

1991-03-02T05:00:00Z

5x14 Nothin' Says Lovin' ...

5x14 Nothin' Says Lovin' ...

  • 1991-03-02T05:00:00Z30m

1991-03-09T05:00:00Z

5x15 My Fair Homeboy

5x15 My Fair Homeboy

  • 1991-03-09T05:00:00Z30m

1991-03-23T05:00:00Z

5x16 A Star is Burned

5x16 A Star is Burned

  • 1991-03-23T05:00:00Z30m

Thelma gets her own TV cooking show.

1991-03-30T05:00:00Z

5x17 Deak-Scam

5x17 Deak-Scam

  • 1991-03-30T05:00:00Z30m

Judge Frye visits an old nemesis who tries to set him up in a sting operation. The judge is offered a large sum of money to alter the outcome of a certain case he presides over. And while everyone watches him on film, Judge Frye must make one of the toughest decisions of his life: whether to be honest and turn the money down, or enjoy the spice of life, with all that cash!

1991-04-06T05:00:00Z

5x18 The Wild Deak

5x18 The Wild Deak

  • 1991-04-06T05:00:00Z30m

1991-04-13T04:00:00Z

5x19 Three's a Crowd

5x19 Three's a Crowd

  • 1991-04-13T04:00:00Z30m

Deacon Frye dates a teacher Clarence likes, and the 2 begin to bump heads.

1991-04-27T04:00:00Z

5x20 Date with an Angel

5x20 Date with an Angel

  • 1991-04-27T04:00:00Z30m

At an auction, an insufferable woman wins a date with Frye.

1991-05-04T04:00:00Z

5x21 Deliverance (1)

5x21 Deliverance (1)

  • 1991-05-04T04:00:00Z30m

Frye and Clarence try raising church funds by dating wealthy Darla and her equally unattractive granddaughter Darletta.

Season Finale

1991-05-11T04:00:00Z

5x22 Deliverance (2)

Season Finale

5x22 Deliverance (2)

  • 1991-05-11T04:00:00Z30m

Appearances by James Brown and Lloyd Price aren't the only surprises during a telethon to save the church: Thelma delivers a baby boy. (Part 2 of 2) Her delivery overdue, Thelma attends a telethon.

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