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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D..C. 20549


                                    FORM 8-K


                                 CURRENT REPORT
                     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


        Date Of Report (Date Of Earliest Event Reported): April 18, 2001

                    ENSTAR INCOME GROWTH PROGRAM FIVE-A L.P.
             (Exact Name Of Registrant As Specified In Its Charter)

                                     Georgia
                 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

         0-16779                                         58-1712898
(Commission File Number)                    (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

                      c/o Enstar Communications Corporation
          12444 Powerscourt Drive, Suite 100, St. Louis, Missouri 63131
               (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)



       Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (314) 965-0555




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Item 5.       Other Events.

              As previously reported, Enstar Cable of Cumberland Valley, a
general partnership (the "Joint Venture") in which Enstar Income Growth Program
Five-A, L.P. (the "Partnership") owns a 50% interest, together with certain
affiliates (collectively, the "Selling Partnerships"), entered into a purchase
and sale agreement, dated as of August 8, 2000, as amended as of September 29,
2000 (the "Agreement"), with Multimedia Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Gans
Multimedia Partnership ("Gans"). The Agreement provided for Gans to acquire the
Joint Venture's Monticello, Kentucky cable system, as well as certain assets of
the other Selling Partnerships.

              Following a series of discussion and meetings, the Partnership and
Gans have determined that they will not be able to agree on certain further
amendments to the Agreement that are required in order to satisfy conditions
precedent to close the transaction. In light of this, present economic and
financial market conditions, and their impact on Gans' inability to arrange
financing in order to close the acquisition, on April 18, 2001 the parties
agreed to terminate the Agreement.

              The Partnership's general partner will continue to operate the
Partnership's cable television systems and will continue to investigate
potential divestiture transactions for the benefit of its Unitholders.

              On December 7, 2000, the Partnership filed a Preliminary Consent
Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, pursuant to which the
Partnership's general partner would solicit consents from the limited partners
to approve the Agreement. In light of the foregoing events, the Partnership has
decided at this time to withdraw the Preliminary Consent Statement.



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                                    SIGNATURE

              Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                 Enstar Income GROWTH Program FIVE-A, L.P.

                                 By:    Enstar Communications Corporation,
                                        its General Partner

                                        By: /s/ RALPH KELLY
                                             Ralph Kelly,
                                             Senior Vice President and Treasurer


Dated: April 30, 2001