Fifth season opens with four part storyline

Metromedia Square - 5746 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Ralph Carter and BernNadette Stanis in Good Times (1974)

Uh, I fell, I always fall, my feet are all thumbs.

Baby, come here. Now I know you like to make up stories, but I need you to tell me the truth. Who gave you those bruises? Baby, who did those awful things to you?

I didn't tell them a thing, momma, honest I didn't.

What would you have to tell them, sweetheart?

A new neighbor girl, 10-year-old Penny Gordon, becomes friends with Willona and the Evans family. Later, they discover a horrifying secret - that Penny is viciously abused by her mother.

The Evans Get Involved: Part 1

&quot;The Evans Get Involved&quot; kicked off the fifth season in four parts (the first two in a one hour broadcast), with no James and now Florida missing as well, spending time away from family with new husband Carl Dixon out West (acknowledged only by long distance phone calls). Suddenly Ja&apos;net DuBois found herself top billed, and Johnny Brown&apos;s landlord Nathan Bookman (present for only ten previous episodes) now a prominent fixture in the opening credits. Apart from the shocking tale of child abuse, another reason this is remembered today is the casting of the youngest Jackson, 11 year old Janet, as the victimized Penny Gordon, first seen trailing behind JJ because she has a crush on him: &quot;he&apos;s tall and skinny and beautiful!&quot; Penny claims not to have a mother, and lives with her aunt and a father suffering from leprosy. Bookman reports a new tenant with a lost child, Linella Gordon (Chip Fields, previously seen in &quot;J.J.&apos;s New Career&quot;), not the girl&apos;s aunt but her unmarried mother. Once alone with her daughter, we learn how the girl&apos;s bruises came about...watching Mrs. Gordon approach the frightened child with a burning hot iron. Janet Jackson displayed a genuine talent for acting, and her impression of Mae West and other celebrities: &quot;it&apos;s not the men in my life but the life in my men!&quot;

"The Evans Get Involved" kicked off the fifth season in four parts (the first two in a one hour broadcast), with no James and now Florida missing as well, spending time away from family with new husband Carl Dixon out West (acknowledged only by long distance phone calls). Suddenly Ja'net DuBois found herself top billed, and Johnny Brown's landlord Nathan Bookman (present for only ten previous episodes) now a prominent fixture in the opening credits. Apart from the shocking tale of child abuse, another reason this is remembered today is the casting of the youngest Jackson, 11 year old Janet, as the victimized Penny Gordon, first seen trailing behind JJ because she has a crush on him: "he's tall and skinny and beautiful!" Penny claims not to have a mother, and lives with her aunt and a father suffering from leprosy. Bookman reports a new tenant with a lost child, Linella Gordon (Chip Fields, previously seen in "J.J.'s New Career"), not the girl's aunt but her unmarried mother. Once alone with her daughter, we learn how the girl's bruises came about...watching Mrs. Gordon approach the frightened child with a burning hot iron. Janet Jackson displayed a genuine talent for acting, and her impression of Mae West and other celebrities: "it's not the men in my life but the life in my men!"

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