Happy Days — Season 5

Aired 13 September 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.

Aired 13 September 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.

Aired 20 September 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.

Aired 27 September 1977 • 30 min

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.

Aired 4 October 1977 • 30 min

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.

Aired 25 October 1977 • 30 min

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

Aired 1 November 1977 • 30 min

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

Aired 8 November 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 audition, but Officer Kirk threatens to shut the place down after learning of Leather's troubled past.

Aired 15 November 1977

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

Aired 22 November 1977 • 30 min

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

Aired 29 November 1977 • 30 min

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

Aired 6 December 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.

Aired 13 December 1977 • 30 min

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.

Aired 3 January 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.

Aired 10 January 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.

Aired 17 January 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.

Aired 24 January 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.

Aired 31 January 1978

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

Aired 7 February 1978

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

Aired 14 February 1978

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

Aired 21 February 1978

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

Aired 28 February 1978 • 30 min

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

Aired 9 May 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.

Aired 16 May 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.

Aired 23 May 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.

Aired 30 May 1978 • 30 min

Fonzie and Howard are picked for jury duty. The case appears cut and dry, but Fonzie isn't so sure. Meanwhile, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph practice for a fraternity festival, and Marion is to hold a paint sale at the hardware store in Howard's absence.