- 10.0/101 votes
#1 - Passages (2)
Season 11 Episode 17 - Aired 5/8/1984
Fonzie's adoption request is reconsidered after a stern talk by Howard to the adoptions administrator. Meanwhile, Joanie and Chachi continue to prepare for their wedding.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
- 10.0/101 votes
#2 - Never Bathe on Saturday
Season 4 Episode 27 - Aired 3/31/1965
Laura and Rob plan to see a play but she gets locked in a bathroom at their hotel.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
- 10.0/101 votes
#3 - Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1965
A talk show host gets Laura to tell a TV audience that Alan Brady is bald!
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
- 9.5/102 votes
#4 - It May Look Like a Walnut!
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1963
In this classic, Rob has a dream - inspired by a late-night horror movie on TV - involving walnuts, missing thumbs, and a creature named Kolac.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
- 9.0/101 votes
#5 - I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All
Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 4/29/1964
Rob goes to Buddy’s barber for a dubious treatment to prevent baldness.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bill Persky
- 9.0/101 votes
#6 - You're Under Arrest
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1965
After fighting with Laura, Rob is arrested for hurting an old Lady. Rob has trouble telling police he didn't hurt the Lady (whom he saw in a barroom).
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#7 - Herman the Rookie
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/8/1965
Leo Durocher, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, needs a power hitter for his team. When he gets conked on the head by one of Herman’s line drives from seven blocks away, he believes he has his man. He tracks Herman down and asks him to try out for the team. After Herman demonstrates his powerful force as a batter, Durocher comments: “I don’t know whether to sign him with the Dodgers or send him to Vietnam.”
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bob Mosher
- 8.0/101 votes
#8 - The Third One from the Left
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1964
Rob tries to stop a guest star from falling in love with him.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: John Whedon
- 8.0/101 votes
#9 - My Husband is the Best One
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1964
Rob is interviewed by a reporter, but the resulting story gives him a little too much credit for comfort at the office, thanks to Laura’s input.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Martin Ragaway
- 8.0/101 votes
#10 - The Curse of the Petrie People
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1966
Laura gets a brooch that (in the shape of the United States) tells the history of the Petrie family. Laura later puts the brooch in the garbage! We learn that Rob's mom hates the brooch!
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt
- 8.0/101 votes
#11 - Remember the Alimony
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1966
Rob and Laura leave Anchor Texas to go to Mexico only to find that marriage is hard to do. They soon find out that getting a divorce is easier than they thought (it costs $10 in Mexico!)
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt
- 7.5/102 votes
#12 - Honeymoons Are for the Lucky
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1964
Rob recalls a time when he left Camp Crowder to spend his honneymoon with Laura.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
- 7.5/102 votes
#13 - The Plots Thicken
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1964
The Petrie's parents fight over where Laura and Rob should be buried. They have to decide which burial plot to choose without upsetting their in-laws.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
- 7.0/102 votes
#14 - Too Many Stars
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1963
Rob is recruited to direct another talent show, but this time Laura faces competition as the star.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Sheldon Keller
- 7.0/102 votes
#15 - Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1963
While working on a joke, Rob should be going to Alan's house to talk about the joke. After hitting himself on the head with a violin (a real one) Rob goes to a party. The party is in Red Hook, New Jersey!
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
- 7.0/101 votes
#16 - The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1964
Laura tries to setup Arthur with a wife she invites Sally & Donna on two different days. Laura really wants Donna date Arthur, when Donna & Arthur hit it Rob does everything to stop the date by locking Donna in the bathroom! Rob feels Sally won't have a chance with Arthur, Rob and Laura wonder who Arthur picked for his date, he picks his former wife who he married twice!
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall
- 7.0/101 votes
#17 - The Life and Love of Joe Coogan
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1964
Rob meets Laura's old flame Joe Coogan at the country club, Rob tells Laura he met Joe and Laura thinks he looked in her shoebox where her pomes are kept. (The pomes are kept in the basement) What Laura doesn't know is the Sonnets give a clue as to what Joe does for a living. Laura & Millie play Golf with Father Joe Coogan. Laura invites Joe to dinner along with Buddy & Sally only to get a big shock.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
- 7.0/101 votes
#18 - Happy Birthday and Too Many More
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1964
Laura & Rob are deciding when to have his party day should it be 3 weeks after or before Ritchie actual date of birth? Laura says she will have the party at Dizzy Land (not Disney Land). Rob & Laura forget the Gardner has come and have the party inside (with 63 kids!) because the garden needed to be fertilized!
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bill Persky
- 7.0/101 votes
#19 - How to Spank a Star
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1964
Rob's favorite star Paula Marshall is due to guest on the Alan Brady show but her demands cause problems for everybody.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Nathaniel Curtis
- 7.0/101 votes
#20 - October Eve
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1964
Laura's past comes back to haunt her in form of painting that is at an art gallery.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bill Persky
- 7.0/101 votes
#21 - My Mother Can Beat Up My Father
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1964
Laura has a talent for judo when she defends Rob at a bar.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bill Persky
- 7.0/102 votes
#22 - The Ghost of A. Chantz
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1964
Rob, Buddy, Laura, and Sally spend the night in a cabin that is haunted. They later learn that Mel is playing a joke!
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bill Persky
- 7.0/101 votes
#23 - Romance, Roses and Rye Bread
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1964
Sally finds a secret admirer turns out to be an unwanted suitor in the shape of DelI proprietor, Bert Monker. With middle-age loneliness the only thing they have in common, can she let him down gently?
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall
- 7.0/101 votes
#24 - I Do Not Choose to Run
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/1966
Rob gives a speech at council meeting that will land him a nomination for city councilman of New Rochelle.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt
- 7.0/101 votes
#25 - Bad Reception in Albany
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/9/1966
Rob and Laura are attending a wedding in Albany, Rob is asked by Alan to watch a fashion show. He promises to tell Alan what he thought of it. Rob has to hurry to the church to usher a wedding.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall