Laverne & Shirley (season 5)
| Laverne & Shirley (season 5) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 13, 1979 – May 13, 1980 |
This is a list of episodes from the fifth season of Laverne & Shirley.
Broadcast history
The season aired Thursdays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST),[1][2] Mondays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST)[3][4] and Tuesdays at 8:30-9:00 pm (EST).[5][6]
Episodes
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 | 1 | "Shotgun Wedding: Part 2" | Joel Zwick | Judy Pioli | September 13, 1979 |
| In the second part of a two-part crossover with Happy Days, the girls become engaged to Richie and Fonzie to rescue them from a shotgun wedding. | |||||
| 88 | 2 | "One Heckuva Note" | Joel Zwick | Jeff Franklin | September 20, 1979 |
| Shirley discovers a love letter written by Carmine and addressed to Laverne. | |||||
| 89 | 3 | "Fat City Holiday" | Joel Zwick | Roger Garrett | September 27, 1979 |
| The girls get jobs at a fat farm where they're trained by a woman with a most unique technique for losing weight. | |||||
| 90 | 4 | "Upstairs, Downstairs" | Joel Zwick | Al Aidekman | October 4, 1979 |
| The girls have nightmares manufactured from their arguments over a wrongly issued check. | |||||
| 91 | 5 | "What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?" | Joel Zwick | Chris Thompson & Gary H. Miller | October 18, 1979 |
| Shirley is visited by her alcoholic brother, who has trouble dealing with drinking problem. | |||||
| 92 | 6 | "You've Pushed Me Too Far" | Joel Zwick | Jeff Franklin | October 25, 1979 |
| Squiggy accidentally pushes Lenny out a window and into a trash can. | |||||
| 93 | 7 | "The Wedding" | Joel Zwick | Paula A. Roth | November 1, 1979 |
| Edna accepts Frank's marriage proposal. | |||||
| 94 | 8 | "Bad Girls" | Joel Zwick | Barry Rubinowitz | November 8, 1979 |
| The girls' old club goes from revelry to robbery. | |||||
| 95/96 | 9/10 | "We're in the Army, Now" | Joel Zwick | Judy Pioli & Jeff Franklin | November 15, 1979 |
| The girls enlist in the Army. | |||||
| 97 | 11 | "Take Two, They're Small" | Ray DeVally, Jr. | Paula A. Roth & Judy Pioli | November 22, 1979 |
| Lenny and Squiggy start a dating service. | |||||
| 98 | 12 | "The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show" | Joel Zwick | Chris Thompson | December 6, 1979 |
| Mr. Shotz persists on a patriotic theme for the talent show. | |||||
| 99 | 13 | "Testing, Testing" | Joel Zwick | Teleplay: Chris Thompson Story: Kenny Rich | December 13, 1979 |
| Shotz hires a psychologist to analyze work aptitudes. | |||||
| 100 | 14 | "Not Quite South of the Border" | Joel Zwick | Deborah Leschin & Susan Seeger | January 7, 1980 |
| The girls take a vacation at Raoul's house by the Bay "near Mexico". | |||||
| 101 | 15 | "You Oughta Be in Pictures" | Joel Zwick | Jeff Franklin | January 14, 1980 |
| The girls are recruited to appear in a film for the Army, the topic of which is prostitution. | |||||
| 102 | 16 | "The Beatnik Show" | Joel Zwick | Barry Rubinowitz & Al Aidekman | January 21, 1980 |
| The girls impress beatniks at a coffeehouse with their exotic dance. | |||||
| 103 | 17 | "The Right to Light" | Joel Zwick | Kenny Rich | January 28, 1980 |
| The girls chain themselves inside the gas company to protest a gas bill - before realizing there's a bomb about to go off. | |||||
| 104 | 18 | "Why Did the Fireman...?" | Joel Zwick | Roger Garrett | February 4, 1980 |
| Laverne dates a fireman. | |||||
| 105 | 19 | "The Collector" | Joel Zwick | Teleplay: Jeff Young & Frank Alesia Story: Linda Segall & John Byers | February 11, 1980 |
| Carmine gets a job working for a loan shark. | |||||
| 106 | 20 | "Murder on the Moosejaw Express: Part 1" | Joel Zwick | Richard Rosenstock & Jack Lukes | February 26, 1980 |
| The girls are on a train when a murder victim stumbles into their compartment, his last words being: "Beware the bald man." | |||||
| 107 | 21 | "Murder on the Moosejaw Express: Part 2" | Joel Zwick | Charlotte M. Dobbs & Jeff Franklin | March 4, 1980 |
| Poisoning and kidnapping lead to a final confrontation with the bald man who committed a murder on the Moosejaw Express. | |||||
| 108 | 22 | "Survival Test" | Joel Zwick | Teleplay: Roger Garrett & Al Aidekman Story: Richard Gurman | March 11, 1980 |
| Sergeant Plout orders the girls to partake in a survival test pitting men against women in the "frozen wilderness". | |||||
| 109 | 23 | "The Duke of Squiggman" | Penny Marshall | Jeff Franklin | March 25, 1980 |
| Squiggy becomes an English duke when he sleepwalks. | |||||
| 110 | 24 | "Antonio, the Amazing" | Maurice Bar-David | Cindy Begel & Lesa Kite | April 1, 1980 |
| Laverne's Italian cousin Antonio comes to America to make his fortune, but he can't seem to find a job. | |||||
| 111 | 25 | "The Diner" | Linda McMurray | Bob Perlow | May 6, 1980 |
| Lenny's uncle leaves him a diner called "Dead Lazlo's". | |||||
| 112 | 26 | "Separate Tables" | Frank Alesia | Deborah Raznick & Ria Nepus | May 13, 1980 |
| To help Laverne conquer her fear of being alone, Shirley makes her eat on her own at a Chinese restaurant. | |||||
References
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