My 30 Most Favorite Episodes of "Laverne & Shirley".
by ripfan-48368 | created - 8 months ago | updated - 8 months ago | PublicIf the title didn't give it away - these are my 30 most favorite episodes of the TV Show, "Laverne & Shirley". Watch one per day for a full month of hilarity and smiles!
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1.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
The Bardwell Caper: Part 1
(1981)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Passed over for a raise, Shirley pens a note to the boss. Laverne signs, adding an insult, and it gets sent. Later, he informs them they did get the raise. Now the girls must execute "Mission: Impossible" to retrieve the nasty note. Make no mistake.
Director: Tom Trbovich | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 92
2.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
The Bardwell Caper: Part 2
(1981)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
With help from Carmine and the boys, the girls put their 'perfect' plan into action. Things quickly unfold into clock-like confusion. Will they nab the note and save their jobs before Mr. Bardwell's arrival?
Director: Tom Trbovich | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean
Votes: 92
3.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Supermarket Sweep
(1979)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
As Shirley goes back for a grocery item, Laverne's at the check out line, winning a shopping spree. Shirley feels jealous of her but soon Laverne sees she's forgotten her friend. The two ... See full summary »
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 110
4.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Dinner for Four
(1978)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The girls think they've hit the dating jackpot when they get asked to cook dinner for two good looking men. However, they're in for two big surprises at the men's apartment.
Director: Ray DeVally Jr. | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 98
5.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Lenny's Crush
(1979)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laverne shows Lenny a kindness and then gives him a kiss. Lenny now feels he loves her, and she's now his. No one can get through to him that this isn't the case, but Laverne hopes to let him down easy without completely breaking his heart.
Director: Carl Gottlieb | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, Michael McKean
Votes: 92
6.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Call Me a Taxi
(1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A temporary layoff at work forces the girls to take jobs as taxi dancers. They earn money by dancing with men for ten cents a dance.
Director: Alan Myerson | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 113
7.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Laverne & Shirley Go to Night School
(1978)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Shirley takes a night school Medical Assistance class. Laverne joins her too. One Professor Wilner makes learning tough for Laverne so she walks out, as he says she's unteachable. Will Shirley help Laverne bone up and pass the class?
Director: Lowell Ganz | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, Phil Foster
Votes: 100
8.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Haunted House
(1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laverne and Shirley want to buy a new couch and find out about a furniture sale in a house Shirley says is haunted. When they and Lenny and Squiggy go to buy the couch, they find out she may be right.
Director: Alan Myerson | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean
Votes: 113
9.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Why Did the Fireman...
(1980)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laverne is in deep denial when she learns that her boyfriend, a firefighter with the Milwaukee Fire Department, is killed fighting an apartment blaze.
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 119
10.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Steppin' Out
(1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
As the girls rush to get ready for a big date, they face wardrobe and hair problems, as well as complications from a house fire raging across the street.
Director: Dennis Klein | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 111
11.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Murder on the Moose Jaw Express: Part 1
(1980)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
While on a train heading to Canada, the girls end up in the middle of espionage and murder. After an injured man comes to them warning, "Beware of the bald man", he dies. Who is the bald man and will the girls escape certain danger?
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 109
12.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Murder on the Moose Jaw Express: Part 2
(1980)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laverne sees Shirley is missing, Lenny and Squiggy attempt a rescue, and no bald man on the train is above suspicion. Laverne realizes she needs to 'out' the villain and confront him. Will Laverne, Shirley, Lenny, and Squiggy survive?
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 99
13.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
You Oughta Be in Pictures
(1980)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
With a movie about to be filmed in Milwaukee, the excited girls try out for parts and land the leading roles. Of course, they are not so thrilled when they get the real scoop on the film and their parts.
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean
Votes: 88
14.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Not Quite South of the Border
(1980)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A too good to be true, inexpensive vacation to "Near" Mexico, proves to be just so when the girls get a room with a wall missing. Plus many other deceptive practices foisted on them and other guests by the hotel's deceitful owner.
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 102
15.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Guinea Pigs
(1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
In order to raise the money to go to a cocktail party, the girls sign up to be paid volunteers for scientific experiments.
Director: James Burrows | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 130
16.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
The Right to Light
(1980)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A power company clerk is mean when the girls complain of bogus charges on their bill. So they stage a protest and chain themselves to the company's new computer. However, a far angrier customer has an even more explosive protest in mind.
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean
Votes: 84
17.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Look Before You Leap
(1976)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laverne tries to remember the events of a wild night when she wakes up with morning sickness and fears she may be pregnant.
Director: James Burrows | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 111
18.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
2001: A Comedy Odyssey
(1978)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A dream episode about the girls as 80-year-old women in the year 2017. They are so desperate to be married at any cost, finally agree to marry Lenny and Squiggy - or will they?
Director: Ray DeVally Jr. | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 95
19.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Fat City Holiday
(1979)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
To get a free vacation, the girls apply to be counselors at a 'fat farm.' A nasty female trainer named Bambi wants the jobs for her sisters and takes revenge by giving the two harsh tests of will power against eating. It's do or diet.
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 89
20.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
The Dentist
(1978)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laverne busts a tooth but wont see a dentist. Shirley suggests her student dentist cousin Mikey. Laverne's hates the idea. Mikey has flunked before. Shirley gets her okay but once in the chair will Laverne truly feel safe in Mikey's hands?
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 101
21.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
There's a Spy in My Beer
(1979)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A new male employee at Shotz arouses Laverne's suspicion as she catches him committing corporate espionage. No one, even Shirley, believes her story. Can she get her friend back on her side and foil the plans of "the man in green?"
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 91
22.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
The Bridal Shower
(1976)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The girls have trouble fitting in at a bridal shower.
Director: Alan Myerson | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 125
23.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Lonely at the Middle
(1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Shirley gets promoted to head of the bottle-labelers division at the brewery.
Director: James Burrows | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean
Votes: 96
24.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Airport '59
(1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The girls are happy to head out on their first plane trip ever, but their smiles are turned upside down when their pilot passes out. Leaving it up to one of them to take over the controls.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 116
25.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Laverne & Shirley Meet Fabian
(1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Rosie Greenbaum bets Laverne and Shirley they can't get into the hotel where singer Fabian is staying - as well as getting their picture taken with him. What plan of action will the girls "turn loose" to meet him and put Rosie in her place?
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 124
26.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
The Quiz Show
(1978)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
TV game show "Be Silly for Dollars" comes to Milaukee. Len, Squig, and the girls are chosen as contestants. The boys are happy, winning a salami, but the girls perform zany stunts to win the grand prize from "The World of Luxury".
Director: Howard Storm | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 103
27.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Playing Hooky
(1977)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laverne and Shirley call in sick to take a day off of work and have fun; they go on a bike ride, go to the park and meet two men who they have a great time with, until they're arrested for solicitation.
Director: John Thomas Lenox | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean
Votes: 114
28.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
The Second Almost Annual Shotz Talent Show
(1978)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The girls must book acts for the annual talent show for the brewery - but must also find 'something' for the seemingly untalented and clumsy son of Mr. Shotz to do. Will he make the Shotz spotlight or make a monkey out of himself?
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 101
29.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
Testing, Testing
(1979)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laverne, Shirley, Lenny, and Squiggy become justifiably paranoid when Mr. Shotz orders employees to a mandatory visit with a psychiatrist. Is the good doctor there to help Mr. Shotz terminate, or simply to evaluate?
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean
Votes: 86
30.
Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode:
The Diner
(1980)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Lenny and Squiggy inherit a run-down diner from Lenny's deceased Uncle Lazlo. Their ideas about food service bring no business, so they hand it over to the girls. The ladies spark success but could get burned by their own ambitions.
Director: Linda McMurray | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander
Votes: 131
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