Amen Season 5

E1: Love, Deacon Style

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

E2: Two Men, One Woman and a Baby

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.

E3: Child's Play

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

E4: Yo, Deak

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

E5: Miracle on 134th Street (1)

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

E6: Miracle on 134th Street (2)

E7: Judge Deacon Frye

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

E8: The Gospel Truth

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

E9: Lights, Camera, Deacon

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

E10: Unforgettable

Frye dates a beautiful and much younger environmentalist.

E11: Ernie and the Sublimes

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

E12: The Deacon's Slam Dunk

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?

E13: Three Men and a Hammer

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.

E14: Nothin' Says Lovin' ...

E15: My Fair Homeboy

E16: A Star is Burned

Thelma gets her own TV cooking show.

E17: Deak-Scam

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!

E18: The Wild Deak

E19: Three's a Crowd

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

E20: Date with an Angel

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

E21: Deliverance (1)

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

E22: Deliverance (2)

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.