- 6.3/10131 votes6.3/10(131)
#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
- 6.5/10126 votes6.5/10(126)
#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
- 6.5/10155 votes6.5/10(155)
#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
- 7.8/10122 votes7.8/10(122)
#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
- 6.6/10104 votes6.6/10(104)
#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
- 7.4/10117 votes7.4/10(117)
#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
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- 7.0/10107 votes7.0/10(107)
#7 - The Apartment
Season 5 Episode 7
Aired 11/1/1977
- 7.1/10118 votes7.1/10(118)
#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
- 7.1/10105 votes7.1/10(105)
#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
- 7.5/10108 votes7.5/10(108)
#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
- 6.9/10100 votes6.9/10(100)
#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
- 7.0/10106 votes7.0/10(106)
#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
- 7.0/1097 votes7.0/10(97)
#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
- 6.7/10100 votes6.7/10(100)
#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
- 7.1/10102 votes7.1/10(102)
#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
- 7.2/10111 votes7.2/10(111)
#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
- 7.0/10101 votes7.0/10(101)
#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
- 8.0/10155 votes8.0/10(155)
#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
- 6.2/10100 votes6.2/10(100)
#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
- 5.6/10110 votes5.6/10(110)
#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
- 7.1/10100 votes7.1/10(100)
#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
- 8.5/10241 votes8.5/10(241)
#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
- 6.3/1099 votes6.3/10(99)
#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
- 6.3/10110 votes6.3/10(110)
#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
- 6.7/1097 votes6.7/10(97)
#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
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
Episodes
26
Avg. Rating
6.9
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Hollywood (1)" is the best rated episode of "Happy Days" season 5. It scored 6.3/10 based on 131 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by N/A, it aired on 9/13/1977. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Hollywood (2)".