Laverne & Shirley: 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 Laverne & Shirley 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
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).
One Heckuva Note
Sep 20, 1979
Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.
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.
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
Oct 18, 1979
Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.
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 u
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.
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. C
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.
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.
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 h
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
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
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 acti
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 i
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
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.
The Collector
Feb 11, 1980
The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.
Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
Feb 26, 1980
The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.
Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
Mar 4, 1980
Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.
Survival Test
Mar 11, 1980
Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.
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 whe
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
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 m