Reception
David Boreanaz won the Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television, while show was nominated for Best Network Television Series, and Charisma Carpenter was nominated for Best Supporting Actress on Television. The show also received its only Emmy Award nomination, for Outstanding Makeup for a Series for the episode "The Ring".
The Futon Critic named "Five by Five" the 10th best episode of 2000.
The first season averaged 4.8 million viewers, slightly higher than the fourth season of Buffy.
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