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The Best Episodes of Happy Days Season 2

Every episode of Happy Days Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Happy Days Season 2!

In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Episodes
23
Avg. Rating
7.7
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.5
7.9
7.8

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Richie Moves Out" is the best rated episode of "Happy Days" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 219 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by N/A, it aired on 9/10/1974. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Richie's Car".

  • Richie Moves Out
    7.5/10(219)

    #1 - Richie Moves Out

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 9/10/1974

    Richie feels that he doesn't have enough privacy, so he decides to move in with Chuck. He quickly discovers, though, that bachelor life isn't quite what he expected it to be.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Richie's Car
    7.9/10(201)

    #2 - Richie's Car

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 9/17/1974

    Richie buys a car from Fonzie and finds out that it is stolen.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Who's Sorry Now?
    7.8/10(173)

    #3 - Who's Sorry Now?

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 9/24/1974

    Richie's old girlfriend comes back to Milwaukee and wants to go steady with him.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • You Go to My Head
    7.3/10(176)

    #4 - You Go to My Head

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 10/1/1974

    Richie reads a book about abnormal psychology and begins to think that there's something wrong with him.

    Director: Jerry London

    Writer: N/A

  • R.O.T.C.
    6.7/10(166)

    #5 - R.O.T.C.

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 10/8/1974

    Richie is named R.O.T.C. squad leader but has trouble controlling his squad. After several warnings to obey his commands, he puts them all on report.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Haunted
    8.1/10(239)

    #6 - Haunted

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 10/29/1974

    After experiencing a few strange happenings, Richie begins to buy into the legend that the place where their Halloween party is to be held, the old Simpson house, is haunted.

    Director: Garry Marshall

    Writer: David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly

  • Wish Upon a Star
    7.8/10(188)

    #7 - Wish Upon a Star

    Season 2 Episode 7

    Aired 11/12/1974

    Richie wins a date with a movie star, Cindy Shea, to a school dance, and Gloria breaks up with him because of circumstances surrounding it. Cindy, however, will only be able to meet up with Richie after the dance has started.

    Director: Herb Wallerstein

    Writer: N/A

  • Not with My Sister, You Don't
    7.8/10(184)

    #8 - Not with My Sister, You Don't

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 11/19/1974

    Spike, Fonzie's little cousin, takes Joanie out on her first date. Richie and his date act as Joanie and Spike's chaperones and discover them missing at the movie theater.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Big Money
    7.7/10(165)

    #9 - Big Money

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 11/26/1974

    As a game-show contestant, Richie wins $3200 before time runs out for that week's show. After the show, he is given an envelope by the show's host that contains the answer to the $5000 question.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • A Star Is Bored
    7.5/10(166)

    #10 - A Star Is Bored

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 12/3/1974

    Richie, Potsie, and Ralph need new uniforms for their baseball team and want to get a big celebrity to play the title role in their upcomming fundraiser production of Hamlet. When they can't get a big name to play the part, Fonzie agrees to do it.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Guess Who's Coming to Christmas
    8.7/10(413)

    #11 - Guess Who's Coming to Christmas

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 12/17/1974

    Howard wants Christmas Eve to only include the family, but Richie discovers that Fonzie will be all alone.

    Director: Frank Buxton

    Writer: N/A

  • Open House
    7.8/10(184)

    #12 - Open House

    Season 2 Episode 12

    Aired 1/7/1975

    Richie and Potsie plan to host a poker night at the Cunningham house as Howard and Marion will be out of town. However, their plans change when three young women stop by after their car breaks down, and Potsie invites them to stay the night.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Fonzie's Getting Married
    7.7/10(178)

    #13 - Fonzie's Getting Married

    Season 2 Episode 13

    Aired 1/14/1975

    Fonzie announces that he's getting married and brings his bride-to-be to the Cunningham house for dinner. There, Howard recognizes her as stripper he saw at a hardware convention in Chicago.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz

  • The Cunningham Caper
    8.0/10(195)

    #14 - The Cunningham Caper

    Season 2 Episode 14

    Aired 1/21/1975

    An ill Richie is home alone after the rest of the family go to see Cinerama. When he goes to see what is causing noises downstairs, he finds a burglar.

    Director: George Tyne

    Writer: Michael Weinberger

  • The Not Making of the President
    7.5/10(169)

    #15 - The Not Making of the President

    Season 2 Episode 15

    Aired 1/28/1975

    Richie goes against Howard and, to get a girl, campaigns for Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 Presidential race.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: Lloyd Garver

  • Cruisin'
    7.5/10(183)

    #16 - Cruisin'

    Season 2 Episode 16

    Aired 2/11/1975

    Richie, Postie, and Ralph are forced to go cruising for girls in Howard's DeSoto after Marion dents Richie's car at the supermarket. They find three girls but, later, find their boyfriends who are members of a gang called the Dragons.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • The Howdy Doody Show
    7.8/10(164)

    #17 - The Howdy Doody Show

    Season 2 Episode 17

    Aired 2/18/1975

    Facing a deadline for the school paper, Richie tries to get a photo of Clarabell the clown, from The Howdy Doody Show, without makeup. To get on the set, Richie plans to get Ralph to enter a Howdy Doody look-alike contest the show is conducting.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Get a Job
    8.0/10(178)

    #18 - Get a Job

    Season 2 Episode 18

    Aired 2/25/1975

    Looking for work, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph agree to fix the fence of an attractive divorcee. When the woman leaves for awhile, Potsie and Ralph decide to take off, as well, leaving Richie to finish the job by himself.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Fonzie Joins the Band
    7.5/10(160)

    #19 - Fonzie Joins the Band

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 3/4/1975

    Howard secures a gig for Richie, Potsie, Ralph, and Bag to play at the Leopard Lodge dance. Fonzie is able to get the guys tuxedos, but, in return, he joins them as a member of the band. When Fonzie plays a loud bongo solo during a slow dance, Richie is chosen to give him the news that he's out of the band.

    Director: Frank Buxton

    Writer: N/A

  • Fish and the Fins
    8.0/10(178)

    #20 - Fish and the Fins

    Season 2 Episode 20

    Aired 3/11/1975

    To hide from overzealous fans, a popular rock group (one of the members was Richie's childhood friend) is staying at the Cunningham house, but Richie can't tell anyone that they're there. This poses a problem for Richie because nobody believes he actually knows them.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Richie's Flip Side
    7.0/10(160)

    #21 - Richie's Flip Side

    Season 2 Episode 21

    Aired 3/18/1975

    Richie is forced into being a disc jockey at a local radio station when one there suddenly quits. His boss informs him that he has the potential to become the next Wolfman Jack, and Richie begins to develop an inflated ego and neglect his friends.

    Director: Herb Wallerstein

    Writer: N/A

  • Kiss Me Sickly
    7.8/10(172)

    #22 - Kiss Me Sickly

    Season 2 Episode 22

    Aired 4/29/1975

    Fonzie asks Richie to watch after his girl, Denise, while he's out of town at a demolition derby. Denise, upon hearing what Fonzie's asked Richie to do, decides to test Richie's trustworthiness. Richie succumbs to temptation and makes out with Denise at Inspiriation Point, but he later finds out that she has mononucleosis.

    Director: George Tyne

    Writer: Michael Weinberger

  • Goin' to Chicago
    7.3/10(159)

    #23 - Goin' to Chicago

    Season 2 Episode 23

    Aired 5/6/1975

    Richie, Potsie, and Ralph go on a trip to Chicago with the school choir. Not wanting to stay in their hotel room all night, they decide to sneak out and see a show.

    Director: George Tyne

    Writer: Frank Buxton