The Jackson 5ive - Season 1
Season 1
Network
DatesSep 11, 1971 - Jan 15, 1972
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
It All Started With...
The alleged story of how Diana Ross discovered The Jackson 5,we all know who originally discovered them. Anyway,the story begins when Ms. Ross finds a pink snake in her dressing room,which turns out to be Rosey,the brothers' pet snake.Fearing that something bad will happen to Rosey,Michael gets on his bike and heads down to the arena,Marlon,Jermaine,Tito, and Jackie follow him in Tito's old beat-up car. After getting Rosey out of harm's way,Michael and his brothers become fast friends with Ms. Ross and later on she discovers how talented they are and invites them to Detroit,MI for an audition with her record company (Motown),but the brothers have other ambitions:Jackie wants to be pro-basketball player, Tito wants to design and build cars,Jermaine wants to be a chef,Marlon wants to be a scientist,and Michael hopes to be a cowboy and run his own ranch. After sleeping on it,the Jackson 5 decides to head to Detroit to make music.
Sep 11, 1971
Season 1Episode 230 min
Pinestock U.S.A.
The Jacksons are booked to do a big, out of doors, Woodstock-type rock concert. When they arrive at the site they find that the selfish concert promoter intends to cut down part of a great forest to make room for the stadium. The boys send the promoter packing, save the forest for their woodland animal friends, and do the concert in the trees.
Sep 18, 1971
Season 1Episode 330 min
Drafted
When playing an engagement at an army base, Michael and Marlon wander into the induction center and briefly become the youngest paratroopers in the U. S. Army.
Sep 25, 1971
Season 1Episode 430 min
Mistaken Identity
On the way to Las Vegas for a nightclub date, the boys hire a cheap printer to make their publicity posters. The printer gets their pictures mixed up with those of the Dingbat Brothers, who are wild desperados. Wherever the Jacksons go they are mistaken for the feared Dingbats.
Oct 2, 1971
Season 1Episode 530 min
Bongo, Baby, Bongo
While the J5 are rehearsing for a concert in the park,a crooked clown kidnaps a bongo playing monkey and takes him to the circus for his own greedy purposes.Meanwhile,the monkey' mother is furious to find her baby's gone and takes Michael hostage and forces him to play the bongos for her.It's up to Jackie,Tito,Marlon,and Jermaine to go to the circus and get the monkey back to the zoo before they lose Michael forever.
Oct 9, 1971
Season 1Episode 630 min
The Winners' Circle
Visiting a race track, Michael is tricked by a somewhat shifty horse racer into accidentally buying a lazy, unmotivated horse. When the brothers learn that the horse can race real fast when their music is being played, the horse racer comes up with a plan to make sure they lose everything.
Oct 16, 1971
Season 1Episode 730 min
CinderJackson
Mr. Leo King,a show business entrepeneur,has plans to make a film starring Samantha Christie,the Princess of Pop and makes an announcement that he plans to throw a fabulous birthday for Samantha,where she'll get to choose the leading man for her film.It's Michael's big dream come true,but unfortunately,he's very sick and is unable to attend the party,that is until a package from Gary,IN shows up at his door step.What Michael thought was chicken soup,turned out to be his hairy godfather,who helps him get geared up for the ball.First,he gets rid Michael's cold,second,he decks him out in fresh threads and glass sneakers,transforms an anchovie pizza pie into a limosuine,and Ray,Charles,and Rosey into Michael's servants,then he's off to the ball.
Oct 23, 1971
Season 1Episode 830 min
The Wizard of Soul
Michael wanders into an oasis called the Land of Soul he sees each of his brothers play a familiar Wizard of Oz character. Together they journey to find the "Wizard of Soul," who if located can help him get back to his (real) brothers and get to the show on time.
Oct 30, 1971
Season 1Episode 930 min
The Tiny Five
The Jacksons are shrunk to miniature size and have to avoid large household perils to reverse the mishap that miniaturized them.
Nov 6, 1971
Season 1Episode 1030 min
The Groovatron
Marlon and Michael create a funky-dancing musical robot called ""The J5 Groovatron"",then they meet a salesman named Sam Sham,who offers the brothers some finishing touches for the Groovatron,but after seeing its test run,Sam Sham steals the funky robot and makes millions off of it.It's up to the Jackson 5 to get their Groovatron robot back from Sam Sham before they end up unemployed.
Nov 13, 1971
Season 1Episode 1130 min
Ray & Charles: Superstars
While taking a break from doing a commercial,Marlon and Michael visit a cartoon studio where a cartoonist is trying draw mice for an animated version of ""The Prince and the Pauper"",then he asks if he could use Ray and Charles for the movie.At first,Michael and Marlon refuses,but realizes that they were selfish and let them do the cartoon,but will success go to Ray's and Charles's heads?
Nov 20, 1971
Season 1Episode 1230 min
Farmer Jacksons
The brothers take some time off and buy some farmland from a guy named Shtook and meet an indian named Running Water and the J5 has only a few days (or weeks) to make something out of the land they bought or they'll lose everything.
Nov 27, 1971
Season 1Episode 1330 min
Jackson Island
On a flight to Hawaii, the five brothers crash onto an island. Michael hits his head on a coconut and meets the most fictional and evil pirates in history.
Dec 4, 1971
Season 1Episode 1430 min
The Michael Look
When stranded without his stage clothing in a travel mishap at Heathrow Airport in London, Michael unwisely consults two envious Pearly Kings threatened by his success who use the opportunity to plot to discredit him. The two Pearlies conspire to trick Michael into dressing in shabby patches and rags for his royal performance, but once he is seen on Carnaby Street, his look becomes a British fashion sensation.
Dec 11, 1971
Season 1Episode 1530 min
Jackson Street, U.S.A.
The J5 has been invited back to Gary,Indiana by the Mayor for that he wants to name a street after the hit-making sibling group. But,Michael gets Marlon,Jackie,Tito, and Jermaine in tons of mischief not realizing after all they've been through that they're a week early for their induction.
Dec 18, 1971
Season 1Episode 1630 min
Rasho-Jackson
The J5's producer (Berry Gordy) tries to figure out why neither of the brothers are talking to each other.Each had their own different side of the story to tell.All claim that they helped a young girl who ran out of gas,each one saying that they did it themselves and trying to top the other's side of the story.But their producer tries to smooth things over and get them back together.
Jan 8, 1972
Season 1Episode 1730 min
A Rare Pearl
After a series of unsuccessful dates,the J5 decides to swear off girls for good.On flight to Detroit,The brothers meets new flight attendent,Jacqualine Pearl and fall head over heels in love with her,so when they arrive in Detroit,she writes a letter,each of them thinking its for them only.All the guys call her one by one for dates,feeling that they're puuting her on,she asks her brother,Jumbo for help to set up a trap for all the Jackson 5.
Jan 15, 1972
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