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Laverne & Shirley : Season 5
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Air date: 13 Sep '79 - 26 episodesLaverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milwaukee brewery called "Shotz Brewery." The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as acquaintances of Fonzie. Set in roughly the same time period, the timeline started in approximately 1958, when the series began, through 1967, when the series ended. As with Happy Days, it was made by Paramount Television, created by Garry Marshall, and executive produced by Garry Marshall, Edward K. Milkis, and Thomas L. Miller.
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List of Episodes (26)
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1. Shotgun Wedding Part 2
13 Sep '79The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding.
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2. One Heckuva Note
20 Sep '79Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.
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3. Fat City Holiday
27 Sep '79The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.
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4. Upstairs, Downstairs
04 Oct '79A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.
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5. What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
18 Oct '79Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.
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6. You've Pushed Me Too Far
25 Oct '79Lenny refuses to have anything to do with Squiggy after he pushes him into a garbage can from their second floor apartment window. Laverne and Shirley get the two friends to make up in Squiggy's uncle's wax works museum.
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7. The Wedding
01 Nov '79Edna accepts a marriage proposal from Frank, who waited to the last minute to ask her. Laverne and Shirley end up singing at their wedding in an all-black gospel choir.
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8. Bad Girls
08 Nov '79
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9. You're in the Army, Now (1)
15 Nov '79Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.
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10. You're in the Army, Now (2)
15 Nov '79Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.
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11. Take Two, They're Small
22 Nov '79Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.
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12. The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show
06 Dec '79Laverne and Shirley are in charge of selecting the acts for the 4th annual Shotz talent show. It starts off with Frank auditioning in Laverne and Shirley's apartment showing them his ventriloquist act. He produces a Laverne doll which cracks Shirley up but Laverne is none too impressed until Frank produces a Shirley doll which Laverne starts laughing at, but now Shirley doesn't find it so funny. They convince Frank that his act is just too good for the show and that he should MC it as usual. He
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13. Testing, Testing
13 Dec '79Shotz hires a psychiatrist to evaluate job aptitudes. The gang are all terrified that some deep dark secret, or that all their inadequacies are going to be revealed when they visit the company shrink.
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14. Not Quite South of the Border
07 Jan '80The girls can't wait to go on a vacation to Mexico. Unfortunately when they get there, they find half of their hotel room missing and that they have to share the room with another woman.
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15. You Oughta Be in Pictures
14 Jan '80The girls jump at the chance to be the stars in a movie, unaware that the film they will be starring in is an Army hygiene film. Shirley begs Laverne to come and tryout for an acting part in a movie. Laverne agrees and they get to the studio. They subsequently get cast as the two stars of the feature. They have to go and get fitted for wardrobe and when they come out they're wearing cheap, gaudy costumes that Laverne immediately asks if they can keep. They're introduced to their leading men, upo
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16. The Beatnik Show
21 Jan '80Shirley is turned on to Beatnik culture, while visiting a local coffee house one evening. She soon begins wearing black, and moping around the apartment, complaining that nothing in her life is ""cool"" anymore. Laverne then tries to snap her friend out of this Beatnik mindset, so she can go back to being her old self again.
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17. The Right to Light
28 Jan '80To protest a false bill, the girls chain themselves insde the gas company building, little knowing that another disgruntled customer has planted a bomb in the building. Because the girls are chained to the wall, they can't get out.
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18. Why Did the Fireman . . .
04 Feb '80Laverne falls for a fireman who is always being called to duty. Before he gets a chance to propose to Laverne, he dies in the line of duty saving many lives.
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19. The Collector
11 Feb '80The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.
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20. Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
26 Feb '80The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.
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21. Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
04 Mar '80Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.
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22. Survival Test
11 Mar '80Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.
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23. The Duke of Squiggmann
25 Mar '80Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke.
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24. Antonio, the Amazing
01 Apr '80Laverne and Shirley are returning from a friend's wedding to find a strange man lying asleep on their sofa. Laverne arms herself with a baseball bat and is about to hit the guy when he turns over and she can't bring herself to hit him as she thinks he's gorgeous. She's just about to kiss him to wake him up when Frank and Edna informs the girls that this is Laverne's cousin from Italy called Antonio. Laverne is miserable that she can't date her cousin, but Shirley exclaims ""He's not my cousin""
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25. The Diner
06 May '80Lenny inherits a greasy spoon diner called 'Laslo's Place', they immediately rename it ""Dead Laslo's Place"". Because Laverne and Shirley are desperate for work, they get hired to cook and waitress the diner. The girls get run off their feet and Shirley ends up running out of the diner screaming in frustration. Frank offers to buy the restaurant from Lenny, which he does, so now Frank has 2 restaurants.
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