Happy Days: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Happy Days Season 6.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Shotgun Wedding (I)
Sep 11, 1979 · 25 min
The Cunninghams and Fonzie go on vacation to Lake Pinewood. Richie and Fonzie get together with two lonely milkmaids, and, when their father catches them in his barn with his daug
Chachi Sells His Soul
Sep 18, 1979 · 25 min
Wanting to be treated more like an adult, Chachi sells his soul to the devil. In order to get him out of it, Fonzie has to go 24 hours without receiving a kiss from a girl.
Fonz Meets Kat
Sep 25, 1979 · 25 min
The merchant seamen are in town, and with them is Rico, a sworn enemy of Fonzie. Fonzie is primed to fight, but Father Delvecchio makes him promise not to.
Marion Goes to Jail
Oct 2, 1979 · 25 min
Marion forgets to set the parking brake in her car, and it rolls down a hill and through the wall at Arnold's. To show Howard that she is a responsible person, she goes to court to
Richie's Job
Oct 9, 1979 · 25 min
Wanting to have some money of his own, Richie gets a job loading papers for The Milwaukee Journal. A man named Frank, who works in the same department, doesn't like Richie right f
Richie Falls in Love
Oct 23, 1979 · 25 min
Angry with Lori Beth about her wanting him to wear a Humpty Dumpty costume for a Homecoming parade, Richie goes to a bar to be alone. He meets a young woman there and finds they wo
Fonzie's a Thespian
Oct 30, 1979 · 25 min
Marion is a star in a community theatre play, and her director/co-star begins to make unwelcome advances toward her.
Burlesque
Nov 6, 1979 · 25 min
Howard puts on a burlesque show for his Leopard Lodge with the hope that it will earn him the honor of being the Grand Poobah. The show is in jeopardy of being halted when the girl
Joanie Busts Out
Nov 13, 1979 · 25 min
In a somewhat rebellious move after Howard and Marion won't let her go to Chicago for a concert, Joanie decides to become a model. However, she is unaware that the studio shoots nu
King Richard's Big Night
Nov 20, 1979 · 25 min
Richie is chosen the 1961 Delta Gamma King and acts like a jerk after receiving the honor. However, nobody knows that the reason he acts the way he does is a result of someone slip
Fonzie Versus the She Devils
Nov 27, 1979 · 25 min
Unknowingly, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are invited to a party hosted by the She Devils gang in which the Devil who brings in the biggest nerd wins a $100 prize. After Richie discov
The Mechanic
Dec 4, 1979 · 25 min
A wheelchair-bound man, injured by a drunk driver, answers Fonzie's wanted advertisement for Bronko's Auto Repairing and is hired. He drives Fonzie crazy and is rude to everyone he
They're Closing Inspiration Point
Dec 11, 1979 · 25 min
Milwaukee's East Boulevard Business Association, led by Howard, wants to build an expressway off-ramp through Inspiration Point. Everyone does their best to stop the construction a
Here Comes the Bride Again
Dec 18, 1979 · 25 min
After initially being reluctant to go through with it, Howard agrees to have a second wedding where he and Marion will renew their vows.
Ah, Wilderness
Jan 8, 1980 · 25 min
The guys and their girls go on a camping trip for their Spring vacation. Under Richie's leadership, everything seems to go wrong and nobody has a good time.
Joanie's Dilemma
Jan 15, 1980 · 25 min
Joanie is unsure about whether or not she wants to go with her boyfriend to The Alamo, a special section of Inspiration Point.
Hot Stuff
Jan 22, 1980 · 25 min
Chachi accidentally sets Arnold's on fire, and Fonzie, Potsie, and Ralph are trapped inside.
The New Arnold's
Jan 29, 1980 · 25 min
As 50/50 partners, Fonzie and Al are at odds about various aspects of the new Arnold's and threaten to not build it at all.
The Hucksters
Feb 5, 1980 · 25 min
After hearing from a former employee about the wonders of television advertising, Howard thinks it will help his hardware store. He hires someone to handle the advertisement who gu
Allison
Feb 12, 1980 · 25 min
Fonzie meets a deaf woman at the electric company office where he is attempting to straighten out a billing error for Howard. He gives Richie the indication that this girl may be t
Fools Rush In
Feb 26, 1980 · 25 min
Joanie thinks Chachi is losing interest in her, and Chachi thinks Joanie isn't taking him seriously. On the advice of Lori Beth, Joanie invites Chachi over for dinner on a night wh
Father & Son
Mar 4, 1980 · 25 min
Richie goes to a Leopard Lodge convention with Howard in Chicago despite wanting to go to a Bears game with Potsie and Ralph.
A Potsie Is Born
Mar 11, 1980 · 25 min
Potsie secures an audition as a singer for a local club. The potential success goes to his head, and he treats those around him as inferiors.
The Roaring Twenties
Mar 25, 1980 · 25 min
Howard's Uncle Joe, after reading Richie's report on the 1920s, tells him a story about what really happened during Prohibition.
Ralph's Family Problem
May 6, 1980 · 25 min
Ralph's parents are getting a divorce, and Ralph becomes depressed. Meanwhile, Marion practices for her upcoming role as the witch in a Hansel & Gretel play.