--- title: "Family Guy season 5 episode guide | familyguy.co.uk" canonical: "https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-5/" updatedDate: 2026-09-06 author: Alex Moss description: "All 18 episodes of Family Guy season 5, first broadcast 10 September 2006 to 20 May 2007, with air dates, writers and directors." --- # Family Guy season 5 18 episodes, first broadcast 10 September 2006 to 20 May 2007. Titles, air dates, writers and directors for each, in broadcast order. ## Episodes | No. | Code | Title | First aired | Written by | Directed by | Story | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | S05E01 | [Stewie Loves Lois](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e01-stewie-loves-lois/) | 10 Sept 2006 | Mark Hentemann | Mike Kim | A flu outbreak hits Quahog and Peter talks Dr Hartman into giving him a scarce vaccine. | | 2 | S05E02 | [Mother Tucker](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e02-mother-tucker/) | 17 Sept 2006 | Tom Devanney | James Purdum | Peter's mother Thelma arrives and announces she has left his father Francis. | | 3 | S05E03 | [Hell Comes to Quahog](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e03-hell-comes-to-quahog/) | 24 Sept 2006 | Kirker Butler | Dan Povenmire | Peter and his friends forget to collect Meg from the roller rink, and after skating home in the rain she asks for her own car. | | 4 | S05E04 | [Saving Private Brian](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e04-saving-private-brian/) | 5 Nov 2006 | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong | Cyndi Tang | An Army recruiter's presentation at the high school leaves Chris wanting to enlist, and Lois objects. | | 5 | S05E05 | [Whistle While Your Wife Works](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e05-whistle-while-your-wife-works/) | 12 Nov 2006 | Steve Callaghan | Greg Colton | Quagmire comes back from Florida with fireworks he smuggled inside his body. | | 6 | S05E06 | [Prick Up Your Ears](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e06-prick-up-your-ears/) | 19 Nov 2006 | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong | James Purdum | Mayor West smashes the window of an adult video shop while chasing a pizza delivery driver. | | 7 | S05E07 | [Chick Cancer](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e07-chick-cancer/) | 26 Nov 2006 | Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild | Pete Michels | Stewie learns that his old friend Olivia Fuller, a toddler actress, has lost her advertising work and is due to open a shop at the Quahog mall. | | 8 | S05E08 | [Barely Legal](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e08-barely-legal/) | 17 Dec 2006 | Kirker Butler | Zac Moncrief | Mayor Adam West sends almost the whole Quahog police department to Cartagena to look for a character from Romancing the Stone, leaving Joe behind because the city is... | | 9 | S05E09 | [Road to Rupert](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e09-road-to-rupert/) | 28 Jan 2007 | Patrick Meighan | Dan Povenmire | At a family yard sale Brian accidentally sells Stewie's teddy bear, Rupert. | | 10 | S05E10 | [Peter's Two Dads](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e10-peters-two-dads/) | 11 Feb 2007 | Danny Smith | Cyndi Tang | At Meg's seventeenth birthday party Peter, dressed as a clown, gets drunk, rides a unicycle down the stairs and lands on his father Francis, who dies in hospital... | | 11 | S05E11 | [The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e11-the-tan-aquatic-with-steve-zissou/) | 18 Feb 2007 | Mark Hentemann | Julius Wu | Peter takes Stewie along to a full day of golf and Stewie comes home with a tan. | | 12 | S05E12 | [Airport '07](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e12-airport-07/) | 4 Mar 2007 | Tom Devanney | John Holmquist | After a redneck comedy show Peter buys a pickup truck and adopts the lifestyle that goes with it. | | 13 | S05E13 | [Bill & Peter's Bogus Journey](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e13-bill-and-peters-bogus-journey/) | 11 Mar 2007 | Steve Callaghan | Dominic Polcino | An octopus attacks Peter at the aquarium and he takes up exercise. | | 14 | S05E14 | [No Meals on Wheels](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e14-no-meals-on-wheels/) | 25 Mar 2007 | Mike Henry | Greg Colton | Peter builds an effigy of Adolf Hitler out of his best suit to stop Mort Goldman borrowing his things. | | 15 | S05E15 | [Boys Do Cry](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e15-boys-do-cry/) | 29 Apr 2007 | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong | Brian Iles | Lois takes a job as organist at the local church and has the family attend with her. | | 16 | S05E16 | [No Chris Left Behind](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e16-no-chris-left-behind/) | 6 May 2007 | Patrick Meighan | Pete Michels | Brian notices that Chris's history textbook is decades out of date, and Lois raises it at a parent teacher meeting. | | 17 | S05E17 | [It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e17-it-takes-a-village-idiot-and-i-married-one/) | 13 May 2007 | Alex Borstein | Zac Moncrief | The Griffins take a holiday at Quagmire's cabin and swim in Lake Quahog, where waste from an oil refinery makes their hair fall out. | | 18 | S05E18 | [Meet the Quagmires](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s05e18-meet-the-quagmires/) | 20 May 2007 | Mark Hentemann | Dan Povenmire and Chris Robertson | Envious of what Quagmire says about single life, Peter is sent back to 1984 for one night by Death. | ## Navigation - 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