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| Episode 1 - [Festival Part 1] |
| Details : The girls go to New York to visit all of Laverne's relatives and to attend the Italian festival. Laverne's Grandmother Frank's mother takes a liking to Squiggy and treats him like a son. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rick Podell | John Lansing | Director : Alan Myerson | |
| Air Date : Sep. 05, 1978 |
| Laverne And Shirley Season 4 Episode 2 |
| Episode 2 - [Festival Part 2] |
| Details : Frank tries to win the climbing the greased pole contest so he can win a trip to Italy for his mother. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rick Podell | John Lansing | Director : Alan Myerson | |
| Air Date : Sep. 12, 1978 |
| Episode 3 - [Playing The Roxy] |
| Details : Laverne comes out the bedroom wearing only her slip and reading a magazine about a stripper named Roxy's adentures. It turns out that Shirley has read the article and when Laverne is about to go outside to collect the mail Shirley gives Laverne a telling off for wearing only her slip outside. So she goes to collect the mail. Lenny and Squiggy appear wearing their new lodge hats The Order Of The Bass and then tell Laverne that Shirley is taking a nap outstide at the bottom of the stairs. Shirley has fallen and hit her head and now thinks she is Roxy from the magazine. She then shows a complete change in her persoanlity as she practices bumps and grinds. Carmine thinks he'll have more luck with Roxy and chats her up just as Laverne tells him to leave. Later when Shirley Roxy is all alone Lenny and Squiggy arrive and try to get Roxy to strip. She says she will if it's at a mens club and she gets paid so they arrange for her to strip at their lodge's big party. Laverne comes home late |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Timothy Jerome | Writer : Stephen Nathan | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : Sep. 19, 1978 |
| Episode 4 - [The Robbery] |
| Details : Out for kicks Laverne teams up with a tough guy who commits a crime. Laverne's date with Jake of the Purple Fiends goes sour when he robs a grocery store. |
| Air Date : Sep. 26, 1978 |
| Episode 5 - [The Quiz Show] |
| Details : The gang attend Be Silly For Dollars. Carmine got the tickets And wanted to be a contestant. Shecky the host comes to the audience to select contestants. He first picks Lenny And Squiggy who aren't too interested. Then as he's about to select Carmine Laverne And Shirley start jumping up And down And he selects them instead. On the game show Lenny And Squiggy appear first. They answer a hard stumper correctly And model Irma comes out displaying a salami they won. Shecky tempts them with living room furniture but they decide to take the salami! Laverne And Shirley appear next. They miss the question And have to do a silly stunt. They had two minutes to dress each other blindfoldedly which they succussfully do. Irma tells them they won a trip to Appliance Street! Shecky tells them they could either take the oven or appliance potpourri. After squabbling And arguing the lucky buzzer sounds! Shecky invites them back next week. At home Laverne's father wants them to wear some silly clothing pr |
| Air Date : Oct. 10, 1978 |
| Episode 6 - [Laverne And Shirley Go To Night School] |
| Details : Shirley wants to become a medical assistant and wants reluctant Laverne to go to night school with her. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hans Conried | Director : Lowell Ganz | |
| Air Date : Oct. 17, 1978 |
| Episode 7 - [Date With Eraserhead] |
| Details : Shirley has a blind date with Eraserhead and it isn't quite what she had in mind. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Paul Willson | |
| Air Date : Oct. 24, 1978 |
| Episode 8 - [The Bully Show] |
| Details : Lenny and Squiggy are forced to make a date between Laverne and their foreman. After fighting feelings of guilt since they know that the guy is a real jerk they come to Laverne's rescue just in time. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Larry Hankin | Director : Dennis Klein | |
| Air Date : Oct. 31, 1978 |
| Episode 9 - [A Visit To The Cemetery] |
| Details : Laverne comes to accept the death of her mother and visits her grave for the first time. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : David W. Duclon | Director : Dennis Klein | |
| Air Date : Nov. 14, 1978 |
| Episode 10 - [Chorus Line] |
| Details : Laverne dreams of going to Broadway when she auditions for West Side Story in Chicago. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Toni Basil | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : Nov. 21, 1978 |
| Episode 11 - [Laverne And Shirley Move In] |
| Details : Shirley recalls how she and Laverne first moved in together. |
| Air Date : Nov. 28, 1978 |
| Episode 12 - [Dinner For Four] |
| Details : The girls meet two guys in Frank's Pizzabowl. When they get chatting the girls think that the guys are inviting them for dinner at their posh flat but in reality all the guys want is to hire them to be maids for the evening to them and their posh girlfriends. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeffrey Kramer | |
| Air Date : Dec. 05, 1978 |
| Episode 13 - [It's A Dog's Life] |
| Details : Shirley handcuffs herself to a homeless dog at the pound to protest the scheduled death of the dog. Carmine comes to the rescue in the end by finding homes for all the abandoned dogs as he gives a free dance lesson to anyone who'll adopt a dog. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Somack | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : Dec. 12, 1978 |
| Episode 14 - [Oh Come All Ye Burns] |
| Details : Laverne and Shirley are decorating their Christmas tree when a bum called Rags knocks at the door and tells Laverne and Shirley that he's bringing 36 of his bum friends with him to Frank's annual Hobo Christmas Dinner at the Pizzabowl. Next we see Lenny and Squiggy dressed as an elf and a fairy working in a department store as Santa's helpers. They're being pestered by an obnoxious little boy. Frank DeFazio whose taken the job of Santa Claus comes in to help raise money to pay for the Hobo's dinner. The Pizzabowl has been doing bad business and he can't afford to pay for the dinner this year hence the Santa job. Laverne and Shirley comes in after having fought a large crowd over Christmas bargains. When they see Lenny and Squiggy they burst out laughing and they pull the brat away from Squiggy who has him in a choke hold. The rumpus causes the department stores manager to come out and when he sees the commotion he fires Frank as Santa. Laverne recognizes her father's loud voice and |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hamilton Camp | Scott Marshall | Writer : Stephen Nathan | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : Dec. 19, 1978 |
| Episode 15 - [Who's Papa] |
| Details : Shirley finds it odd that she is small and brunette when everybody else in her family is tall and blonde so she takes it on herself to find out if she's adopted or not. In the end she get a speech from Laverne about does it really matter if you're adopted or not when you're current family loves you. Needless to say when Shirley opens the hospital medical records she finds out that she's not adopted after all. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rance Howard | Ed Begley Jr. | |
| Air Date : Jan. 16, 1979 |
| Episode 16 - [The Third Annual Shotz Talent Show] |
| Details : In the third annual Shotz talent show Laverne and Shirley perform as human puppets. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Stephen Nathan | |
| Air Date : Jan. 30, 1979 |
| Episode 17 - [Supermarket Sweep] |
| Details : Laverne wins three minutes of free shopping and everyne want something. Everybody wants something all right: Lenny and Squiggy are constantly telling them to get Bosco Carmine is out taking orders from the neighborhood. When the day comes due to the girls' greed all they end up with is one measly item each. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Lukes | Writer : Ron Leavitt | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : Feb. 06, 1979 |
| Episode 18 - [Lenny's Crush] |
| Details : Lenny falls in love with Laverne after misunderstanding what she told him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Carl Gottlieb | |
| Air Date : Feb. 13, 1979 |
| Episode 19 - [Fire Show] |
| Details : One of the firemen who comes to put out the fire in their apartment falls for Laverne. Unfortunately Shirley falls for him too which leads to the girls' friendship being tested to the limits. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Anne Ramsey | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : Feb. 20, 1979 |
| Episode 20 - [Squiggy In Love] |
| Details : Laverne and Shirley try to help Squiggy by pointing out to him that his latest great looking girlfriend is just using him to help move into and decorate her flat. When they finally confront Squiggy with the news he tells them he knows he's being used but what chance does a guy like him have with a beautiful girl like that. Of course he does the right thing thanks to his friends and tells the golddigger to get lost. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Cynthia Harrison | Director : Penny Marshall | |
| Air Date : Feb. 27, 1979 |
| Episode 21 - [The Feminine Mistake] |
| Details : Laverne asks Shirley if she can make her more feminine to impress Joey. This leads to Laverne acting 'froo-froo' and doing impressions of a southern belle. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Leno | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : Mar. 06, 1979 |
| Episode 22 - [The Tenants Are Revolting] |
| Details : The girls believe they are doing a good deed by calling in a building inspector to make repairs until Mrs. Babish is given a deadline to fix it or pay a fine. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Libertini | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : Mar. 13, 1979 |
| Episode 23 - [Spy In My Beer] |
| Details : No one believes Laverne saw an industrial spy in the brewery. So she takes it upon herself to prove everyone wrong. She drags Shirley back to the brewery late that evening and they lie in wait for the spy. Both girls after arguing with each other end up soaking wet in a huge vat of beer. When the spy appears the girls confront him. Moments later the security guard comes in and the girls try to convince the guard about the spy. The spy spins a tale to the guard who is now unconvinced so Laverne pulls of his trousers revealling the stolen microfilm in his sock suspenders. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : G. W. Bailey | Dick Yarmy | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : May. 08, 1979 |
| Episode 24 - [Shirley And The Older Man] |
| Details : Shirley's friendship with a rich older man is resented by Carmine who is jealous and the man's daughter is suspicious of Shirley's intentions. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Alda | Director : Joel Zwick | |
| Air Date : May. 15, 1979 |