Episode 1 - [Not Quite New York] |
Details : After being fired from the brewery the girls decide to pack up and move out to California. The only way they can afford to get out there is to have Lenny and Squiggy drive them there in an old ice cream truck. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Fred Dryer | Director : John Tracy | |
Air Date : Nov. 18, 1980 |
Episode 2 - [Welcome To Burbank] |
Details : The girls are ready to return to Milwaukee after experiencing an earthquake on their first night in California. |
Air Date : Nov. 25, 1980 |
Episode 3 - [Studio City] |
Details : The girls are hired to play stunt women in a Troy Donohue movie. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Troy Donahue | Director : John Tracy | |
Air Date : Dec. 02, 1980 |
Episode 4 - [Grand Opening] |
Details : In order to pay Shirley back some of the money she owes her Laverne agrees to be the target in Sonny's knife throwing act at Cowboy Bill's grand opening. When Sonny breaks his arm and is unable to do the act Shirley takes over throwing the knives at Laverne which makes Laverne extremely nervous since she knows that Shirley is already upset with her. |
Air Date : Dec. 09, 1980 |
Episode 5 - [Candy Is Dandy] |
Details : The girls finally get a job in California in the gift wrapping department at Bardwell's Department Store. On their first day on the job Laverne gets tipsy after eating candy laced with alcohol. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Norman Bartold | Director : John Tracy | |
Air Date : Dec. 16, 1980 |
Episode 6 - [The Dating Game] |
Details : Lenny and Squiggy appear in on the television show The Dating Game. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ilene Graff | Jim Lange | Frank Ashmore | Director : Penny Marshall | |
Air Date : Dec. 30, 1980 |
Episode 7 - [The Other Woman] |
Details : Shirley finally gets to date a Doctor. The trouble is she looks exactly like his old wife. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Keith Coogan | |
Air Date : Jan. 06, 1981 |
Episode 8 - [The Road To Burbank] |
Details : There is a dispute over who should pay the bill when Lenny and Squiggy trash a hotel room on their way to California and try to blame it on Laverne and Shirley. This leads to the telling of two different versions of what happened that night: one where Lenny and Squiggy are chasing the girls all night and the other where the girls are feeling feisty and chase the boys around the room. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Larry Gelman | |
Air Date : Jan. 13, 1981 |
Episode 9 - [Born Too Late] |
Details : Lenny and Squiggy imagine that they are the stars in a whole series of flashback black and white silent movies. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Alan Myerson | |
Air Date : Jan. 27, 1981 |
Episode 10 - [Love Out The Window] |
Details : After learning that Laverne fears for his safety Sonny quits his job as a stuntman and takes a job selling insurance. |
Air Date : Feb. 03, 1981 |
Episode 11 - [Malibu Mansion] |
Details : The girls are hired to house sit at the Malibu beachfront mansion of the owner of the Cowboy Bill's chain of restaurants. While he is away for the weekend the girls throw a beach party which gets gate crashed by a gang of bikers. The girls manage to clean the place up just in time but the owner's talking pet parrot threatens to spill the beans. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Stubby Kaye | Richard Moll | Writer : David Ketchum | |
Air Date : Feb. 10, 1981 |
Episode 12 - [To Tell The Truth] |
Details : Stuck at home on a rainy night with nothing to do the gang decides to play a game of truth or dare. Within minutes everybody ends up arguing with each other. |
Air Date : Feb. 17, 1981 |
Episode 13 - [I Do I Do] |
Details : The girls almost marry tow rock stars from Britain after eating some brownies laced with marijuana. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Peter Noone | Eric Idle | Stephen Bishop | |
Air Date : Feb. 24, 1981 |
Episode 14 - [But Seriously Folks] |
Details : Carmine's new stand up comedy act is not such a big hit with his friends when he starts to make fun of them in turn. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Penny Marshall | |
Air Date : Mar. 03, 1981 |
Episode 15 - [The Bardwell Caper Part 1] |
Details : Disappointed after not receiving the customary tri-monthly $5.00 raise Laverne and Shirley write a nasty letter to their boss. At the end of the day it is revealed that they DID get a raise after all but also that the nasty letter is sitting unopened on the boss's desk - waiting to be read the next morning. Desperate to save their jobs Laverne and Shirley go home and try to hatch a plan to get that letter back before morning. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Norman Bartold | Writer : David Ketchum | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Mar. 10, 1981 |
Episode 16 - [The Bardwell Caper Part 2] |
Details : The girls recruit Lenny Squiggy and Carmine to help them pull off this mission. Lenny and Squiggy will drive the getaway car and act as lookouts while Carmine Laverne and Shirley will sneak through the air vents and make their way into the boss's office. They will carefully maneuver around the alarm system retrieve the letter and be on their way. No one shall be the wiser. Of course when they try to put the plan into action our heroes run into some obstacles along the way and quickly realize that this isn't going to be as easy as they thought. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Norman Bartold | Writer : David Ketchum | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Mar. 17, 1981 |
Episode 17 - [High Priced Dates] |
Details : The girls turn to Edna for advice when their dates expect rewards. |
Guest Cast and Crew : André Landzaat | |
Air Date : Apr. 07, 1981 |
Episode 18 - [Fifth Anniversary] |
Details : The girls throw Frank and Edna a fifth wedding anniversary party at their trailor which has a broken trailor jack. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Winifred Hervey | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Apr. 14, 1981 |
Episode 19 - [Out Out Damned Plout] |
Details : Sgt. Plout goes AWOL and decides to hide out at the girl's apartment. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Vicki Lawrence | |
Air Date : May. 05, 1981 |
Episode 20 - [Laverne's Broken Leg] |
Details : After she has to miss a party because of her broken leg Laverne sits at home alone and falls asleep while watching It's A Wonderful Life on TV. She then dreams what life would be like for her friends and her family if she had never been born. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jeffrey Kramer | Writer : David Ketchum | |
Air Date : May. 12, 1981 |
Episode 21 - [Sing Sing Sing] |
Details : Laverne asks Carmine to give her singing lessons so that she can sing for Hoot Night at Cowboy Bill's. |
Air Date : May. 19, 1981 |
Episode 22 - [Child's Play] |
Details : Because of Squiggy's forgetfulness Laverne and Shirley must play all the parts in Shirley's play Murder In Mother Goose Land which a Broadway producer attends. |
Air Date : May. 26, 1981 |