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 - Not Quite New York
Release Date: 1980-11-18After being fired from the brewery, the girls decide to pack up and move out to California. The only way they can afford to get out there is to have Lenny and Squiggy drive them there in an old ice cream truck.
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Episode 2 - Welcome to Burbank
Release Date: 1980-11-25The girls are ready to return to Milwaukee after experiencing an earthquake on their first night in California.
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Episode 3 - Studio City
Release Date: 1980-12-02The girls are hired to play stunt women in a Troy Donohue movie.
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Episode 4 - Grand Opening
Release Date: 1980-12-09In order to pay Shirley back some of the money she owes her, Laverne agrees to be the target in Sonny's knife throwing act at Cowboy Bill's grand opening. When Sonny breaks his arm and is unable to do the act, Shirley takes over throwing the knives at Laverne, which makes Laverne extremely nervous since she knows that Shirley is already upset with her.
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Episode 5 - Candy is Dandy
Release Date: 1980-12-16The girls finally get a job in California in the gift wrapping department at Bardwell's Department Store. On their first day on the job, Laverne gets tipsy after eating candy laced with alcohol.
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Episode 6 - The Dating Game
Release Date: 1980-12-30Lenny and Squiggy appear in on the television show, The Dating Game.
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Episode 7 - The Other Woman
Release Date: 1981-01-06Shirley finally gets to date a Doctor. The trouble is she looks exactly like his old wife.
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Episode 8 - The Road to Burbank
Release Date: 1981-01-13There is a dispute over who should pay the bill when Lenny and Squiggy trash a hotel room on their way to California and try to blame it on Laverne and Shirley. This leads to the telling of two different versions of what happened that night: one where Lenny and Squiggy are chasing the girls all night, and the other where the girls are feeling feisty and chase the boys around the room.
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Episode 9 - Born Too Late
Release Date: 1981-01-27Lenny and Squiggy imagine that they are the stars in a whole series of flashback black and white silent movies.
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Episode 10 - Love Out the Window
Release Date: 1981-02-03After learning that Laverne fears for his safety, Sonny quits his job as a stuntman and takes a job selling insurance.
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Episode 11 - Malibu Mansion
Release Date: 1981-02-10The girls are hired to house sit at the Malibu beachfront mansion of the owner of the Cowboy Bill's chain of restaurants. While he is away for the weekend, the girls throw a beach party which gets gate crashed by a gang of bikers. The girls manage to clean the place up just in time, but the owner's talking pet parrot threatens to spill the beans.
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Episode 12 - To Tell the Truth
Release Date: 1981-02-17Stuck at home on a rainy night with nothing to do, the gang decides to play a game of truth or dare. Within minutes, everybody ends up arguing with each other.
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Episode 13 - I Do, I Do
Release Date: 1981-02-24The girls almost marry tow rock stars from Britain after eating some brownies laced with marijuana.
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Episode 14 - But Seriously, Folks . . .
Release Date: 1981-03-03Carmine's new stand up comedy act is not such a big hit with his friends when he starts to make fun of them in turn.
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Episode 15 - The Bardwell Caper (1)
Release Date: 1981-03-10Disappointed after not receiving the customary tri-monthly $5.00 raise, Laverne and Shirley write a nasty letter to their boss. At the end of the day, it is revealed that they DID get a raise, after all, but also that the nasty letter is sitting, unopened, on the boss's desk - waiting to be read the next morning. Desperate to save their jobs, Laverne and Shirley go home and try to hatch a plan to get that letter back, before morning.
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Episode 16 - The Bardwell Caper (2)
Release Date: 1981-03-17The girls recruit Lenny, Squiggy, and Carmine to help them pull off this mission. Lenny and Squiggy will drive the getaway car, and act as lookouts, while Carmine, Laverne, and Shirley will sneak through the air vents, and make their way into the boss's office. They will carefully maneuver around the alarm system, retrieve the letter, and be on their way. No one shall be the wiser. Of course, when they try to put the plan into action, our heroes run into some obstacles along the way, and quickly realize that this isn't going to be as easy as they thought.
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Episode 17 - High Priced Dates
Release Date: 1981-04-07The girls turn to Edna for advice when their dates expect ""rewards"".
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Episode 18 - Fifth Anniversary
Release Date: 1981-04-14The girls throw Frank and Edna a fifth wedding anniversary party at their trailor, which has a broken trailor jack.
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Episode 19 - Out, Out Damned Plout
Release Date: 1981-05-05Sgt. Plout goes AWOL and decides to hide out at the girl's apartment.
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Episode 20 - Laverne's Broken Leg
Release Date: 1981-05-12After she has to miss a party because of her broken leg, Laverne sits at home alone and falls asleep while watching It's A Wonderful Life on TV. She then dreams what life would be like for her friends and her family if she had never been born.
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Episode 21 - Sing, Sing, Sing
Release Date: 1981-05-19Laverne asks Carmine to give her singing lessons so that she can sing for Hoot Night at Cowboy Bill's.
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Episode 22 - Child's Play
Release Date: 1981-05-26Because of Squiggy's forgetfulness, Laverne and Shirley must play all the parts in Shirley's play ""Murder In Mother Goose Land"", which a Broadway producer attends.