Episode 1 - [The Most Important Day Ever] |
Details : Laverne and Shirley appear on television as part of a Latvian acrobatic act in an effort to help Lenny and Squiggy's new talent agency. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Gene Braunstein | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Oct. 13, 1981 |
Episode 2 - [It Only Hurts When I Breathe] |
Details : Laverne and Shirley recall their high school days only to find themselves embroiled in a slugfest that leaves Laverne with a broken jaw. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Oct. 27, 1981 |
Episode 3 - [I Wonder What Became Of Sal] |
Details : Laverne's old boyfriend Sal comes to California looking for her. Now Sal is a succesful millionaire businessman and he once again proposes to Laverne. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Mark Rothman | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Nov. 03, 1981 |
Episode 4 - [Teenage Lust] |
Details : The girls attend a wild fraternity party and find out they're not as young as they used to be. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Kathleen Marshall | Tracy Reiner | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Nov. 10, 1981 |
Episode 5 - [The Defiant One] |
Details : Shirley finds herself mistakenly handcuffed to a bankrobber who is forced to take her with him when he escapes from the police. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jed Mills | Richard Moll | Archie Hahn | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Nov. 17, 1981 |
Episode 6 - [Night At The Awards] |
Details : When Lenny and Squiggy invade the backstage of a televised awards show they suddenly find themselves in the middle of the stage with Joey Heatherton. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey Heatherton | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Nov. 24, 1981 |
Episode 7 - [Some Enchanted Earring] |
Details : Laverne accidentally loses one of her mother's diamond earrings. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Dec. 01, 1981 |
Episode 8 - [Moving In] |
Details : Laverne moves in with her new boyfriends but after having a talk with Lenny she begins to have second thoughts. Laverne's new boyfriends asks Laverne to move in with him. Laverne tells Shirley she's moving out and this prompts a speech from Shirley seeing as Laverne isn't marrying the guy just living with him. Laverne convinces Shirley she really want to go but asks Shirley to cover for her with her father. Needless to say not long after Laverne leaves Frank turns up looking for Laverne. Shirley has to lie to him to keep him from suspecting the truth. Lenny turns up at Laverne's new apartment just in time to convince Laverne to re-think what she's doing. The boyfriend doesn't want to get married so Laverne realizes her mistake and moves back with Shirley. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Paul Sand | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Dec. 08, 1981 |
Episode 9 - [Friendly Persuasion] |
Details : While wrapping in Bardwell's one day Charles Grodin comes in and chats to the girls. Laverne mistakingly thinks he's asking her out and she invites him over for dinner. That night at dinner all the gang are there and Charles arrives. Shirley thinks he's after their gift wrapping jobs at Bardwell's so she is mean to him and Lenny and Squiggy are there arguing with Laverne and Shirley becuase there was no water to rinse Squiggy's hair. Shirley and Carmine are arguing because she's tired of Carmine taking her out to eat on coupon dinners. Everybody is arguing and Charles tries to turn it around but ends up hurting Laverne's feelings when it's declared that he didn't ask her out. This prompts the guys to ask him to leave after that they all start being nice to each other and feel guilty as this was what Charles was preaching earlier. Charles comes back in to try to clear the air and is forgiven by Laverne and the gang and they all head out to eat. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Charles Grodin | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Dec. 15, 1981 |
Episode 10 - [I Do I Don't] |
Details : Shirley tries to get Carmine to marry her after she is provided with a free wedding reception. Shirley talks Laverne into going to a promotional evening for brides to be. When she gets there she discovers that a woman who has paid for an all frills wedding has to cancel and she tells the organiser to give her wedding package to the next needy soul. Shirley promptly tells the woman that she is the needy soul she's looking for. Now that Shirley has a free wedding coming she needs to talk Carmine into proposing to her. She tricks Carmine into asking her back at her flat and then rushes him out the door and says she'll meet him later at the hotel where the wedding ceremony will take place. Later when Laverne and Shirley and her two best men (Lenny and Squiggy) arrive at the hotel the vicar is waiting along with all the guests and there's no Carmine. This prompts Laverne and Lenny and Squiggy to break into a few choruses of Lullaby of Broadway to entertain the crowd. Eventually Carmin |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Jan. 05, 1982 |
Episode 11 - [Love Is The Tar Pits] |
Details : Squiggy is jealous of Lenny's new girlfriend. While out at the local tarpits Lenny sees a nice girl reading on the lawn. A guy starts to hassle her so he tells him to leave her alone. Lenny then asks her out on a date and this starts to make Squiggy feel that he's being left out. Three weeks later Lenny and Karen are still together and Squiggy is sure that Karen is out to break Lenny and Squiggy up. Lenny and Squiggy have an argument over Karen and Lenny leaves in a huff. Later at Cowboy Bills Lenny learns that Karen has been accepted for a university in New York and she leaves in 2 days. Lenny thinks she's breaking up with him because he's too dumb and tells Frank he's going back to the tarpits for a last farewell. Squiggy hears this from Frank and thinks Lenny is going to kill himself. He rushes to the tarpits to find Lenny waste deep in the tar jumps in to save his life and after a heartfelt chat Squiggy apologizes and they leave best friends again. It was discovered that Lenny |
Guest Cast and Crew : Maggie Roswell | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Jan. 12, 1982 |
Episode 12 - [Watch The Fur Fly] |
Details : After Shirley yells at Rhonda for wearing a coat made of animal fur Laverne unknowingly sets Shirley up on a date with a furrier. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Goldblum | |
Air Date : Jan. 19, 1982 |
Episode 13 - [Rocky Ragu] |
Details : Carmine is in the girls apartment getting Laverne to sew his pants after a dog took a bite out of them when Rhonda comes in saying that she's just landed a lead role in a new movie musical about the life of a famous ex-boxer. Rhonda says that Carmine should try out for the lead role as he would make an excellent Rocky. Carmine agrees to meet Rhonda at Cowboy Bills to rehearse a scene. Later at Cowboy Bills Laverne walks in on Carmine and Rhonda as they're rehearsing a tender moment. Laverne thinks Carmine is two timing Shirley and slaps him in the face and storms out. Squiggy then enters and offers to represent Carmine at the audition. When Lenny Squiggy and Carmine get to the audition there are loads of guys waiting to try out for the part. Squiggy gets rid of the secretary and Lenny ducks into the main office. He comes out a minute later with a bandage on his head and tomato ketchup dripping from his bandage telling all that he had never taken such a beating and that he was onl |
Guest Cast and Crew : Julie Brown | Tony Longo | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Jan. 26, 1982 |
Episode 14 - [Star Peepers] |
Details : The girls vow to get revenge on a rude obnoxious singing star who was extremely rude to them at Bardwell's. They figure the way to get revenge is to take some incriminating pictures of him and sell them to a tabloid. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Harry Shearer | Harry Dean Stanton | Writer : Barry O'Brien | |
Air Date : Feb. 02, 1982 |
Episode 15 - [An Affair To Forget] |
Details : Laverne is dating a guy but she doesn't know that he is married. When he takes her to a restaurant for dinner his wife shows up. Not wanting his wife to know he is there on a date he throws Laverne in the big aquarium which is set up in the restaurant. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Anjelica Huston | |
Air Date : Feb. 09, 1982 |
Episode 16 - [Class Of '56] |
Details : Laverne Shirley and Carmine go back to Milwaukee to attend their high school reunion. What they don't know however is that the gang back home thinks that the girls are famous movie stars and that Carmine is a famous Las Vegas singer. Lenny and Squiggy write to the gang back in Milwaukee that Carmine Laverne and Shirley have all made it big in Hollywood. Feeling slightly insecure about how they measure up the rest of their old classmates' successes the trio agree to go along with the story. Laverne is supposedly dating Marlon Brando and Shirley Paul Newman when Rosie starts asking questions about Marlon and the girls start giving contradictory answers they soon get found out. Shirley then tells the truth and Terri Buttafuco asks them to leave for lying. The girls get out the doors and Laverne comes back in telling off all her old friends for only being nice to them because they thought they were famous. This lays a heavy guilt trip on their old friends and all is forgiven. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Paul Willson | |
Air Date : Feb. 16, 1982 |
Episode 17 - [Ski Show] |
Details : Laverne and Shirley decide that they must change their usual habits for meeting guys because they're not getting anywhere going around the single bars. Rhonda comes in and shows the girls her new ski outfit. This gives Laverne the idea that they should go to a ski resort to meet new guys. Shirley reluctantly agrees. Next we see them trying to ski and failing miserably especially Shirley. Along comes a chairlift guy who Laverne wants to impress so she lies about being a novice and pretends she knows how to get on the ski lift. Of course she doesn't and the next few scenes are pictures of the girls trying and failing to mount the ski lift. Eventualy they manage only to have the ski lift breakdown while they're half way up a mountain. The girls are up there for hours but eventually they get back to the ground. We find them sitting on a rock shivering and hugging among themselves about whose great idea it was to come skiing when along comes two mountain rescue guys Bob and Bennett who |
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Spound | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Feb. 23, 1982 |
Episode 18 - [Helmut Weekend] |
Details : Squiggy's long lost father suddenly shows up and wants to spend time with his son. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Mar. 02, 1982 |
Episode 19 - [That's Entertainment] |
Details : Frank and Carmine argue about whether today's music is better or worse than the music of yesteryear. |
Air Date : Mar. 09, 1982 |
Episode 20 - [Lightning Man] |
Details : Carmine finds fame after being struck by lightning. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Noah Hathaway | Warren Berlinger | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : Mar. 16, 1982 |
Episode 21 - [Crime Isn't Pretty] |
Details : Frank and Carmine set up booby traps in the girl's apartment to try and catch a burglar who has been breaking into the apartment and stealing things. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Bob McClurg | Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : May. 04, 1982 |
Episode 22 - [Perfidy In Blue] |
Details : When Shirley loses Laverne's favorite purse she is afraid to tell her because she didn't ask if she could borrow it. When Laverne asks Shirley if she knows where the purse is she lies and says no. Shirley then goes to sleep and dreams that Laverne is trying to kill her because she knows that Shirley lost her favorite purse and lied to her about it. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tom Trbovich | |
Air Date : May. 11, 1982 |