Friends season 5 explained

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Prev Season:	Season 4
Next Season:	Season 6
Episode List:	List of Friends episodes
Season Number:	5

The fifth season of the American television sitcom Friends aired on NBC from September 24, 1998 to May 20, 1999.

The website Collider ranked the season #2 on their ranking of the ten Friends seasons.^[1] They wrote that the best episode of the season was "The One Where Everybody Finds Out".

Cast and characters

See main article: article and List of Friends characters.

Main cast

• Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green
• Courteney Cox as Monica Geller
• Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay
  • Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing
• David Schwimmer as Ross Geller

Recurring cast

• James Michael Tyler as Gunther
• Helen Baxendale as Emily Waltham
• George Newbern as Danny
• Michael Ensign as Dr. Donald Ledbetter
• Michael Rapaport as Gary

Guest stars

• Maggie Wheeler as Janice Litman
• Elliott Gould as Jack Geller
• Christina Pickles as Judy Geller
• Jane Sibbett as Carol Willick
• Jessica Hecht as Susan Bunch
• Giovanni Ribisi as Frank Buffay, Jr.
• Debra Jo Rupp as Alice Knight Buffay
• Morgan Fairchild as Nora Bing
• June Gable as Estelle Leonard
• Bob Balaban as Frank Buffay, Sr.
• Tom Conti as Steven Waltham
• Jennifer Saunders as Andrea Waltham
• Zen Gesner as Dave
• Sam Anderson as Dr. Harad
• Patrick Fabian as Dan
• T.J. Thyne as Dr. Oberman
• Gregory Sporleder as Larry

• Iqbal Theba as Joey's doctor
• Gary Collins as himself
• Sam McMurray as Doug
• Soleil Moon Frye as Katie
• Willie Garson as Steve
• Joanna Gleason as Kim Clozzi
• Kristin Dattilo as Caitlin
• Lilyan Chauvin as Grandma Tribbiani
• Megan Ward as Nancy
• Thomas Lennon as Randall
• Jeanette Miller as the elderly woman
• Samantha Smith as Jen

Episodes

See also: List of Friends episodes.

Home Media release

The Complete Fifth Season
Set details^[2]			Special features
23 episodes (1 double-length episode) 4-disc set (DVD) 2 discs (Blu-ray) 1.33:1 aspect ratio Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.0, with subtitles) Spanish (Dolby Digital) French (Dolby Digital) 561 minutes (DVD) 532 minutes (Blu-ray)			Over 30 minutes of Never-Before-Seen footage included on every episode. (DVD Only) Producers commentary on three episodes: "The One Hundredth", "The One with All the Thanksgivings", and "The One Where Everybody Finds Out" Hour-long Discovery Channel documentary, "The One That Goes Behind the Scenes" "Friends: On Location in London" behind the scenes featurette "Gunther Spills the Beans" promotional for next season Easter eggs
Release dates
Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
November 4, 2003	May 29, 2000	October 4, 2006

Notes and References

1. Web site: 'Friends' Seasons Ranked from Worst to Best. Adam. Chitwood. . December 26, 2019.
2. Web site: Friends – The Complete 5th Season. April 14, 2012. TV Shows on DVD.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120120204847/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Friends-Complete-5th-Season/3072. January 20, 2012. mdy-all.