7.5/10215 votes#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
7.9/10197 votes#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
7.8/10172 votes#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
7.3/10174 votes#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
6.7/10165 votes#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
8.1/10237 votes#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
7.9/10187 votes#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
7.8/10183 votes#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
7.7/10164 votes#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
7.5/10166 votes#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
8.7/10388 votes#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
7.8/10182 votes#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
7.7/10178 votes#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
8.0/10194 votes#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
7.5/10170 votes#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
7.5/10183 votes#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
7.8/10164 votes#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
8.0/10177 votes#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
7.5/10160 votes#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
8.0/10179 votes#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
7.1/10161 votes#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
7.8/10172 votes#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
7.3/10160 votes#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
The Best Episodes of Happy Days Season 2
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In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Richie Moves Out" is the best rated episode of "Happy Days" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 215 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".