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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.
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Hollywood (1)" is the best rated episode of "Happy Days" season 5. It scored 6.7/10 based on 132 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by N/A, it aired on 9/13/1977. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Hollywood (2)".

  • Hollywood  (1)
    6.7/10132 votes

    #1 - Hollywood (1)

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1977

    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: N/A

  • Hollywood  (2)
    6.6/10127 votes

    #2 - Hollywood (2)

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1977

    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: N/A

  • Hollywood  (3)
    6.5/10155 votes

    #3 - Hollywood (3)

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1977

    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: N/A

  • Hard Cover
    7.9/10123 votes

    #4 - Hard Cover

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1977

    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: N/A

  • My Cousin, the Cheat
    6.6/10105 votes

    #5 - My Cousin, the Cheat

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1977

    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: N/A

  • Fonsillectomy
    7.4/10117 votes

    #6 - Fonsillectomy

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1977

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

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • The Apartment
    7.0/10106 votes

    #7 - The Apartment

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1977

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

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero  (1)
    7.1/10118 votes

    #8 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (1)

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1977

    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: N/A

  • Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero  (2)
    7.1/10105 votes

    #9 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (2)

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1977

    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: N/A

  • My Fair Fonzie
    7.5/10108 votes

    #10 - My Fair Fonzie

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1977

    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: N/A

  • Bye Bye Blackball
    6.9/10100 votes

    #11 - Bye Bye Blackball

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1977

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

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Requiem for a Malph
    7.0/10106 votes

    #12 - Requiem for a Malph

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1977

    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: N/A

  • Nose for News
    7.0/1097 votes

    #13 - Nose for News

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1977

    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: N/A

  • Grandpa's Visit
    6.7/10100 votes

    #14 - Grandpa's Visit

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1978

    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: N/A

  • Potsie Gets Pinned
    7.1/10102 votes

    #15 - Potsie Gets Pinned

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1978

    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: N/A

  • Joanie's First Kiss
    7.2/10111 votes

    #16 - Joanie's First Kiss

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1978

    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: N/A

  • Marion's Misgivings
    7.0/10101 votes

    #17 - Marion's Misgivings

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1978

    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: N/A

  • Richie Almost Dies
    8.0/10154 votes

    #18 - Richie Almost Dies

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1978

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

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Spunkless Spunky
    6.2/10100 votes

    #19 - Spunkless Spunky

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1978

    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: N/A

  • Be My Valentine
    5.5/10110 votes

    #20 - Be My Valentine

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1978

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

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Our Gang
    7.1/10100 votes

    #21 - Our Gang

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1978

    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: N/A

  • My Favorite Orkan
    8.5/10240 votes

    #22 - My Favorite Orkan

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1978

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

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

  • Do You Want to Dance?
    6.3/1099 votes

    #23 - Do You Want to Dance?

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/1978

    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: N/A

  • Second Wind
    6.3/10110 votes

    #24 - Second Wind

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/16/1978

    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: N/A

  • Rules to Date By
    6.6/1098 votes

    #25 - Rules to Date By

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/23/1978

    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: N/A