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The Best Episodes of Happy Days Season 5

Every episode of Happy Days Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Happy Days Season 5!

In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Happy Days Season 5 Episode 1 - Hollywood (1)
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    #1 - Hollywood (1)

    S5:E1

    A Hollywood talent scout, needing a mechanic for his limousine, sees Fonzie at Arnold's and thinks he could be the next James Dean. The Cunninghams, Potsie, and Ralph go to Hollywood with Fonzie for his screen test.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 2 - Hollywood (2)
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    #2 - Hollywood (2)

    S5:E2

    Fonzie takes his screen test with Richie as his reading partner. The director loves Fonzie, but the studio is more impressed with Richie and offers him a contract.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 3 - Hollywood (3)
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    #3 - Hollywood (3)

    S5:E3

    Fonzie faces jumping a caged shark on water skis, and Richie decides whether or not he wants to sign the Paramount Pictures contract he was offered.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 4 - Hard Cover
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    #4 - Hard Cover

    S5:E4

    Facing a dating slump, Fonzie suggests that Richie go to the library to meet girls. Richie meets Lori Beth Allen at the library who invites him to her dorm room.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 5 - My Cousin, the Cheat
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    #5 - My Cousin, the Cheat

    S5:E5

    After Chachi is caught by a truant officer, Fonzie and Richie arrange for Joanie to tutor him. He gets caught cheating on a test and, as a result, gets suspended from school and gets in hot water with Fonzie.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 6 - Fonsillectomy
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    #6 - Fonsillectomy

    S5:E6

    Fonzie has to have his tonsils removed and will miss a big Halloween party.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 7 - The Apartment
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    #7 - The Apartment

    S5:E7

    Richie, Potsie, and Ralph get an apartment of their own.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 8 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (1)
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    #8 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (1)

    S5:E8

    Pinky Tuscadero's younger sister, Leather, comes to Milwaukee looking for a gig. Al gives her and her group a job at Arnold's after a successful audtion, but Officer Kirk threatens to shut the place down after learning of Leather's troubled past.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 9 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (2)
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    #9 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (2)

    S5:E9

    After Howard refuses to let Joanie go on tour with Leather, she follows through with her threat to run away from home.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 10 - My Fair Fonzie
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    #10 - My Fair Fonzie

    S5:E10

    Fonzie is invited to a socialite dinner party, but the people who invite him do so thinking Fonzie will make a fool of himself.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 11 - Bye Bye Blackball
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    #11 - Bye Bye Blackball

    S5:E11

    Richie, Potsie, and Ralph want to join the best fraternity on campus, but they have to survive ""Hell Week"" first.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 12 - Requiem for a Malph
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    #12 - Requiem for a Malph

    S5:E12

    Ralph is caught with the girl of the football team's star fullback, Rebel E. Lee. Instead of a fight, Fonzie arranges a boxing match between Rebel and Ralph to settle their dispute.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 13 - Nose for News
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    #13 - Nose for News

    S5:E13

    After getting a ""D"" on a paper for his investigative reporting class, Richie decides to do a story about the corrupt sanitation department that is forcing Howard to pay a weekly surcharge.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 14 - Grandpa's Visit
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    #14 - Grandpa's Visit

    S5:E14

    Howard's father comes for a visit after being forceably retired as a captain of detectives due to his age. Not wanting to sit around, he gets a job at Fonzie's garage. After one day, Fonzie, not having the heart to do it himself, asks Howard to fire his father.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 15 - Potsie Gets Pinned
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    #15 - Potsie Gets Pinned

    S5:E15

    After one date with Jennifer Jerome, Potsie wants to ask her to marry him. Howard suggests that they get pinned instead, but, after asking her, Potsie suddenly backs out.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 16 - Joanie's First Kiss
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    #16 - Joanie's First Kiss

    S5:E16

    Joanie is set to go on her first car date, so Fonzie and Richie show her how to counter any advances her date may make toward her. Joanie says she may not want to counter his advances and would like to experience her first kiss.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 17 - Marion's Misgivings
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    #17 - Marion's Misgivings

    S5:E17

    When Marion's friend is dumped by her husband for a younger woman, Marion begins to think that Howard may do the same to her.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 18 - Richie Almost Dies
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    #18 - Richie Almost Dies

    S5:E18

    Lori Beth reports that Richie isn't moving after they crash his new motorcycle.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 19 - Spunkless Spunky
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    #19 - Spunkless Spunky

    S5:E19

    Fonzie's dog, Spunky, appears depressed and distant. After a visit to the veterinarian, it is determined that Spunky's problem is mental.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 20 - Be My Valentine
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    #20 - Be My Valentine

    S5:E20

    Joanie daydreams about the gang singing romantic Valentine's Day songs.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 21 - Our Gang
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    #21 - Our Gang

    S5:E21

    Richie tells Chachi the story of how he met Fonzie in order to convince him that joining a gang is a mistake.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 22 - My Favorite Orkan
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    #22 - My Favorite Orkan

    S5:E22

    An alien, Mork from Ork, comes to earth looking for someone average, or humdrum, to study and picks Richie.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 23 - Do You Want to Dance?
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    #23 - Do You Want to Dance?

    S5:E23

    Fonzie's girlfriend is a moderately successful ballet teacher, but Fonzie has trouble accepting that she may be happier as a professional performer in New York.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 24 - Second Wind
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    #24 - Second Wind

    S5:E24

    Al is to receive a man-of-the-year award from the Sons of Italy, but he doesn't have a date. Fonzie sets him up with a meter maid, and she agrees to go with him to the banquet.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Happy Days Season 5 Episode 25 - Rules to Date By
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    #25 - Rules to Date By

    S5:E25

    Richie and Lori Beth have a fight and break up before going on a weekend trip where the band is backing up Leather and the Suedes. Meanwhile, Howard and Marion argue about women's rights.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Hollywood (1)" is the best rated episode of "Happy Days" season 5. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/13/1977. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Hollywood (2)".