Season of television series
| Laverne & Shirley | |
|---|---|
| Season 5 | |
 DVD cover | |
| Starring | |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 13, 1979 (1979-09-13) – May 13, 1980 (1980-05-13) |
| Season chronology | |
| ← Previous Season 4 Next → Season 6 | |
| List of episodes | |
The fifth season of Laverne & Shirley, an American television sitcom series, began airing on September 13, 1979, on ABC. The season concluded on May 13, 1980, after 26 episodes.
The season aired Thursdays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST), Mondays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST) and Tuesdays at 8:30-9:00 pm (EST). The entire season was released on DVD in North America on April 10, 2012.
Overview
The series revolves around the titular characters Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, bottle-cappers at Shotz Brewery in early 1960s Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Episode plots include their adventures with neighbors and friends, Lenny and Squiggy.
Cast
Starring
- Penny Marshall as Laverne DeFazio
- Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney
- Michael McKean as Leonard "Lenny" Kosnowski
- David Lander as Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman
- Phil Foster as Frank DeFazio
- Eddie Mekka as Carmine Ragusa
- Betty Garrett as Edna Babish
Guest Starring
- Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham
- Henry Winkler as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli
- Susan Kellermann as Bambi
- Ed Begley Jr. as Robert "Bobby" Feeney, Shirley's brother
- Michelle Greene as Vicki
- Elizabeth Daily as Rita
- Art Garfunkel as "The Mighty Oak"
- Ted Danson as Randy Carpenter
- Roger C. Carmel as The Waiter
- Scatman Crothers as Porter
- Wilfrid Hyde-White as Colonel Kalaback
- Conrad Janis as The Conductor
- Vicki Lawrence as Sergeant Alvinia T. Plout
- Ed Marinaro as Antonio DeFazio, Laverne's cousin
Episodes
See also: List of Laverne & Shirley episodes| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | ||||||
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| 87 | 1 | "Shotgun Wedding: Part 2" | Joel Zwick | Judy Pioli | September 13, 1979 (1979-09-13) | ||||||
| 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 (1979-09-20) | ||||||
| Shirley discovers a love letter written by Carmine and addressed to Laverne. | |||||||||||
| 89 | 3 | "Fat City Holiday" | Joel Zwick | Roger Garrett | September 27, 1979 (1979-09-27) | ||||||
| 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 (1979-10-04) | ||||||
| The girls dream of their eternal reward because of their arguments over a wrongly issued check from the phone company. | |||||||||||
| 91 | 5 | "What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?" | Joel Zwick | Chris Thompson & Gary H. Miller | October 18, 1979 (1979-10-18) | ||||||
| Shirley is visited by her brother, who has trouble dealing with his alcoholism. | |||||||||||
| 92 | 6 | "You've Pushed Me Too Far" | Joel Zwick | Jeff Franklin | October 25, 1979 (1979-10-25) | ||||||
| Squiggy accidentally pushes Lenny out a window and into a trash can. | |||||||||||
| 93 | 7 | "The Wedding" | Joel Zwick | Paula A. Roth | November 1, 1979 (1979-11-01) | ||||||
| Edna accepts Frank's marriage proposal. | |||||||||||
| 94 | 8 | "Bad Girls" | Joel Zwick | Barry Rubinowitz | November 8, 1979 (1979-11-08) | ||||||
| The girls' old club goes from revelry to robbery. | |||||||||||
| 95 | 9 | "We're in the Army, Now" | Joel Zwick | Judy Pioli & Jeff Franklin | November 15, 1979 (1979-11-15) | ||||||
| 96 | 10 | ||||||||||
| The girls enlist in the Army. | |||||||||||
| 97 | 11 | "Take Two, They're Small" | Ray DeVally, Jr. | Paula A. Roth & Judy Pioli | November 22, 1979 (1979-11-22) | ||||||
| Lenny and Squiggy start a dating service that pairs Laverne and Shirley with a pair of midgets. | |||||||||||
| 98 | 12 | "The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show" | Joel Zwick | Chris Thompson | December 6, 1979 (1979-12-06) | ||||||
| Mr. Shotz persists on a patriotic theme for the talent show. | |||||||||||
| 99 | 13 | "Testing, Testing" | Joel Zwick | Story by : Kenny Rich Teleplay by : Chris Thompson | December 13, 1979 (1979-12-13) | ||||||
| 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 (1980-01-07) | ||||||
| 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 (1980-01-14) | ||||||
| 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 (1980-01-21) | ||||||
| The girls impress beatniks at a coffeehouse with their exotic dance. | |||||||||||
| 103 | 17 | "The Right to Light" | Joel Zwick | Kenny Rich | January 28, 1980 (1980-01-28) | ||||||
| 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 (1980-02-04) | ||||||
| Laverne dates a fireman, but before he's about to propose to her, he's killed in the line of duty. | |||||||||||
| 105 | 19 | "The Collector" | Joel Zwick | Story by : Linda Segall & John Byers Teleplay by : Jeff Young & Frank Alesia | February 11, 1980 (1980-02-11) | ||||||
| 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 (1980-02-26) | ||||||
| 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 (1980-03-04) | ||||||
| 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 | Story by : Richard Gurman Teleplay by : Roger Garrett & Al Aidekman | March 11, 1980 (1980-03-11) | ||||||
| Sergeant Plout orders the girls to partake in a survival test pitting men against women in the "frozen wilderness". | |||||||||||
| 109 | 23 | "Antonio, the Amazing" | Maurice Bar-David | Cindy Begel & Lesa Kite | March 18, 1980 (1980-03-18) | ||||||
| Laverne's Italian cousin Antonio comes to America to make his fortune, but he can't seem to find a job. | |||||||||||
| 110 | 24 | "The Duke of Squiggman" | Penny Marshall | Jeff Franklin | March 25, 1980 (1980-03-25) | ||||||
| Squiggy becomes an English duke when he sleepwalks. | |||||||||||
| 111 | 25 | "The Diner" | Linda McMurray | Bob Perlow | May 6, 1980 (1980-05-06) | ||||||
| Lenny's uncle leaves him a diner called "Dead Lazlo's". | |||||||||||
| 112 | 26 | "Separate Tables" | Frank Alesia | Deborah Raznick & Ria Nepus | May 13, 1980 (1980-05-13) | ||||||
| To help Laverne conquer her fear of being alone, Shirley makes her eat on her own at a Chinese restaurant. | |||||||||||
References
- TV Listings for September 13, 1979
- TV Listings for December 13, 1979
- TV Listings for January 7, 1980
- TV Listings for February 11, 1980
- TV Listings for February 26, 1980
- TV Listings for May 13, 1980
- Part 1 is episode of Happy Days.