Episode guide
Laverne & Shirley: Season 5
26 episodes · premiered Sep 13, 1979
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- Episode 1: Shotgun Wedding (II) Sep 13, 1979 The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I).
- Episode 2: One Heckuva Note Sep 20, 1979 Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.
- Episode 3: Fat City Holiday Sep 27, 1979 The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.
- Episode 4: Upstairs, Downstairs Oct 4, 1979 A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.
- Episode 5: What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? Oct 18, 1979 Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.
- Episode 6: You've Pushed Me Too Far Oct 25, 1979 Lenny 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…
- Episode 7: The Wedding Nov 1, 1979 Edna 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.
- Episode 8: Bad Girls Nov 8, 1979 The girls realize things have changed in their old club "The Angora Debs," when they let Edna's niece Vicki join. Finding that it's become a gang of trouble making teenage girls. Can the…
- Episode 9: You're in the Army, Now (1) Nov 15, 1979 Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.
- Episode 10: You're in the Army, Now (2) Nov 15, 1979 Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.
- Episode 11: Take Two, They're Small Nov 22, 1979 Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.
- Episode 12: The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show Dec 6, 1979 Laverne 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…
- Episode 13: Testing, Testing Dec 13, 1979 Shotz 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…
- Episode 14: Not Quite South of the Border Jan 7, 1980 The 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.
- Episode 15: You Oughta Be in Pictures Jan 14, 1980 The 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…
- Episode 16: The Beatnik Show Jan 21, 1980 Shirley 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…
- Episode 17: The Right to Light Jan 28, 1980 To 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…
- Episode 18: Why Did the Fireman . . . Feb 4, 1980 Laverne 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.
- Episode 19: The Collector Feb 11, 1980 The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.
- Episode 20: Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1) Feb 26, 1980 The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.
- Episode 21: Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2) Mar 4, 1980 Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.
- Episode 22: Survival Test Mar 11, 1980 Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.
- Episode 23: The Duke of Squiggmann Mar 25, 1980 Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke.
- Episode 24: Antonio, the Amazing Apr 1, 1980 Laverne 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…
- Episode 25: The Diner May 6, 1980 Lenny 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…
- Episode 26: Seperate Tables May 13, 1980 Shirley 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…