Happy Days: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Happy Days Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Hollywood (1)
Sep 13, 1977
A Hollywood talent scout, needing a mechanic for his limousine, sees Fonzie at Arnold's and thinks he could be the next James Dean. The Cunninghams, Potsie, and Ralph go to Hollywo
Hollywood (2)
Sep 13, 1977
Fonzie takes his screen test with Richie as his reading partner. The director loves Fonzie, but the studio is more impressed with Richie and offers him a contract.
Hollywood (3)
Sep 20, 1977
Fonzie faces jumping a caged shark on water skis, and Richie decides whether or not he wants to sign the Paramount Pictures contract he was offered.
Hard Cover
Sep 27, 1977
Facing a dating slump, Fonzie suggests that Richie go to the library to meet girls. Richie meets Lori Beth Allen at the library who invites him to her dorm room.
My Cousin, the Cheat
Oct 4, 1977
After Chachi is caught by a truant officer, Fonzie and Richie arrange for Joanie to tutor him. He gets caught cheating on a test and, as a result, gets suspended from school and g
Fonsillectomy
Oct 25, 1977
Fonzie has to have his tonsils removed and will miss a big Halloween party.
Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (1)
Nov 8, 1977
Pinky Tuscadero's younger sister, Leather, comes to Milwaukee looking for a gig. Al gives her and her group a job at Arnold's after a successful audition, but Officer Kirk threate
Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (2)
Nov 15, 1977
After Howard refuses to let Joanie go on tour with Leather, she follows through with her threat to run away from home.
My Fair Fonzie
Nov 22, 1977
Fonzie is invited to a socialite dinner party, but the people who invite him do so thinking Fonzie will make a fool of himself.
Bye Bye Blackball
Nov 29, 1977
Richie, Potsie, and Ralph want to join the best fraternity on campus, but they have to survive Hell Week first.
Requiem for a Malph
Dec 6, 1977
Ralph is caught with the girl of the football team's star fullback, Rebel E. Lee. Instead of a fight, Fonzie arranges a boxing match between Rebel and Ralph to settle their disput
Nose for News
Dec 13, 1977
After getting a D on a paper for his investigative reporting class, Richie decides to do a story about the corrupt sanitation department that is forcing Howard to pay a weekly surc
Grandpa's Visit
Jan 3, 1978
Howard's father comes for a visit after being forceably retired as a captain of detectives due to his age. Not wanting to sit around, he gets a job at Fonzie's garage. After one d
Potsie Gets Pinned
Jan 10, 1978
After one date with Jennifer Jerome, Potsie wants to ask her to marry him. Howard suggests that they get pinned instead, but, after asking her, Potsie suddenly backs out.
Joanie's First Kiss
Jan 17, 1978
Joanie is set to go on her first car date, so Fonzie and Richie show her how to counter any advances her date may make toward her. Joanie says she may not want to counter his advan
Marion's Misgivings
Jan 24, 1978
When Marion's friend is dumped by her husband for a younger woman, Marion begins to think that Howard may do the same to her.
Richie Almost Dies
Jan 31, 1978
Lori Beth reports that Richie isn't moving after they crash his new motorcycle.
Spunkless Spunky
Feb 7, 1978
Fonzie's dog, Spunky, appears depressed and distant. After a visit to the veterinarian, it is determined that Spunky's problem is mental.
Be My Valentine
Feb 14, 1978
Joanie daydreams about the gang singing romantic Valentine's Day songs.
Our Gang
Feb 21, 1978
Richie tells Chachi the story of how he met Fonzie in order to convince him that joining a gang is a mistake.
My Favorite Orkan
Feb 28, 1978
An alien, Mork from Ork, comes to earth looking for someone average, or humdrum, to study and picks Richie.
Do You Want to Dance?
May 9, 1978
Fonzie's girlfriend is a moderately successful ballet teacher, but Fonzie has trouble accepting that she may be happier as a professional performer in New York.
Second Wind
May 16, 1978
Al is to receive a man-of-the-year award from the Sons of Italy, but he doesn't have a date. Fonzie sets him up with a meter maid, and she agrees to go with him to the banquet.
Rules to Date By
May 23, 1978
Richie and Lori Beth have a fight and break up before going on a weekend trip where the band is backing up Leather and the Suedes. Meanwhile, Howard and Marion argue about women's
Fonzie for the Defense
May 30, 1978
Fonzie and Howard are picked for jury duty. The case appears cut and dry, but Fonzie isn't so sure. Meanwhile, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph practice for a fraternity festival, and Mar