Laverne & Shirley (1976)
Laverne & 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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Episode 1 - Shotgun Wedding (II)
Release Date: 1979-09-13The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I).
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Episode 2 - One Heckuva Note
Release Date: 1979-09-20Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.
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Episode 3 - Fat City Holiday
Release Date: 1979-09-27The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.
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Episode 4 - Upstairs, Downstairs
Release Date: 1979-10-04A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.
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Episode 5 - What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
Release Date: 1979-10-18Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.
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Episode 6 - You've Pushed Me Too Far
Release Date: 1979-10-25Lenny 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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Episode 7 - The Wedding
Release Date: 1979-11-01Edna 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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Episode 8 - Bad Girls
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Episode 9 - You're in the Army, Now (1)
Release Date: 1979-11-15Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.
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Episode 10 - You're in the Army, Now (2)
Release Date: 1979-11-15Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.
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Episode 11 - Take Two, They're Small
Release Date: 1979-11-22Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.
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Episode 12 - The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show
Release Date: 1979-12-06Laverne 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 agrees as he doesn't want to show up all the other acts. We then see Laverne and Shirley auditioning acts at Shotz. Upon the end of each act when Laverne and Shirley ask the never seen Mr.Shotz what he thought he of the last act, all we hear is a raspberry. Lenny and Squiggy sings a number called ""I Knew I Should Have Listened To Momma"" which also gets a raspberry. Carmine and Edna come in singing ""Yankee Doodle"" and tap dancing. Mr.Shotz loves this and tells the girls that he wants this year's
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Episode 13 - Testing, Testing
Release Date: 1979-12-13Shotz 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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Episode 14 - Not Quite South of the Border
Release Date: 1980-01-07The 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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Episode 15 - You Oughta Be in Pictures
Release Date: 1980-01-14The 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, upon which Shirley finds out that her leading man is gay. The director starts filming the movie and only then the girls find out they're playing hookers in an army hygiene film. When it's all over, we find Laverne and Shirley miserable at home. Then Lenny and Squiggy enter telling them they've just been to see the premiere of the film. Laverne and Shirley asks if anyone recognized them as the hookers. Lenny tells them not to worry, as no one recognized them, but he had to tell everybody it was the
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Episode 16 - The Beatnik Show
Release Date: 1980-01-21Shirley 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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Episode 17 - The Right to Light
Release Date: 1980-01-28To 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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Episode 18 - Why Did the Fireman . . .
Release Date: 1980-02-04Laverne 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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Episode 19 - The Collector
Release Date: 1980-02-11The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.
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Episode 20 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
Release Date: 1980-02-26The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.
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Episode 21 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
Release Date: 1980-03-04Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.
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Episode 22 - Survival Test
Release Date: 1980-03-11Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.
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Episode 23 - The Duke of Squiggmann
Release Date: 1980-03-25Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke.
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Episode 24 - Antonio, the Amazing
Release Date: 1980-04-01Laverne 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"" and goes for it, only to be reminded by Edna that she's got Carmine. Anotnio greets everybody and announces he's come to America to make his fortune. Antonio is exercising with Lenny and Squiggy, who are teaching him some bad habits, like biting your palm if you like something. The boys leave to go collect hair from the local barber shop and Carmine comes in. Carmine is letting Antonio stay with him while he's in Milwaukee and gives Antonio a t-shirt to wear advertising his dance studio on the bac
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Episode 25 - The Diner
Release Date: 1980-05-06Lenny 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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Episode 26 - Seperate Tables
Release Date: 1980-05-13Shirley is building a lollipop stick model of her dream house. Laverne walks in wanting to go to the movies, but Shirley just wants to build her house in peace. Laverne starts to muscle in on Shirley's model and Shirley tells Laverne to go to see the movie on her own. Laverne doesn't want to and this prompts Shirley to ask Laverne is she's afraid to go on her own. Laverne says she's not afraid of nothing, and storms out. later she comes back and tells Shirley how good the movie was. Shirley thinking she went on her own, congratulates Laverne, Mrs. Kolchek walks in and it turns out that Laverne dragged the old woman from her bed to go to the movie with her rather than go on her own. Shirley tells Laverne she has a problem, and that she's probably very insecure. Laverne realizes Shirley is right, so Shirley books them both a table at a new Chinese restaurant where they'll both be eating at separate tables to try to cure Laverne of her monophobia. The next day we see Shirley being seated