Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode release dates & where to watch
Premiered
Thursday, September 13, 1979
Ended: Tuesday, May 13, 1980
When does Laverne & Shirley Season 5 come out?
Laverne & Shirley Season 5 premiered Thursday, September 13, 1979 on ABC and ended Tuesday, May 13, 1980. The season has 26 episodes.
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Laverne & Shirley Season 5 release schedule
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1. Shotgun Wedding (II) The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I). |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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2. One Heckuva Note Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship. |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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3. Fat City Holiday The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp. |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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4. Upstairs, Downstairs A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell. |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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5. What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic. |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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6. You've Pushed Me Too Far 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 Squiggy's uncle's wax works museum. |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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7. The Wedding 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. |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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8. Bad Girls 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 girls save Vicki and the old Deb spirit as well? |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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9. You're in the Army, Now (1) Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion. |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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10. You're in the Army, Now (2) Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army. |
Thursday · 47 years ago |
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11. Take Two, They're Small Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets. |
Thursday · 46 years ago |
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12. The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show 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 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 |
Thursday · 46 years ago |
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13. Testing, Testing 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 company shrink. |
Thursday · 46 years ago |
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14. Not Quite South of the Border 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. |
Monday · 46 years ago |
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15. You Oughta Be in Pictures 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 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 |
Monday · 46 years ago |
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16. The Beatnik Show 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 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. |
Monday · 46 years ago |
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17. The Right to Light 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 are chained to the wall, they can't get out. |
Monday · 46 years ago |
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18. Why Did the Fireman . . . 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. |
Monday · 46 years ago |
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19. The Collector The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark. |
Monday · 46 years ago |
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20. Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1) The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment. |
Tuesday · 46 years ago |
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21. Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2) Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is. |
Tuesday · 46 years ago |
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22. Survival Test Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men. |
Tuesday · 46 years ago |
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23. The Duke of Squiggmann Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke. |
Tuesday · 46 years ago |
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24. Antonio, the Amazing 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 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 |
Tuesday · 46 years ago |
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25. The Diner 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 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. |
Tuesday · 46 years ago |
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26. Seperate Tables Finale 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 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 |
Tuesday · 46 years ago |
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Laverne & Shirley Season 5 FAQ
When does Laverne & Shirley Season 5 come out?
Laverne & Shirley Season 5 premiered Thursday, September 13, 1979 on ABC.
How many episodes are in Laverne & Shirley Season 5?
Laverne & Shirley Season 5 has 26 episodes.
Are new episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 5 released weekly?
New episodes are released weekly.
When is the Laverne & Shirley Season 5 finale?
The Laverne & Shirley Season 5 finale (Episode 26) aired Tuesday, May 13, 1980.
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