SEASON 1 – ABC
Theme song: “Making Our Dreams Come True” performed by Cyndi Grecco, composed by Charles Fox, lyrics by Norman Gimbel
NOTE: This series is a spin-off of the series “Happy Days”
- 001. The Society Party – 1/27/1976
- In late 1950’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin, friends and roommates Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams) work at the Shotz Brewery. Ted Schotz (Lyman Ward), the nephew of the company’s owner Max, invites Laverne and Shirley to a society party so that he can prove to his Nana (Mary Treen) that he can relate to his workers. Laverne is skeptical but Shirley subscribes to the optimism of the Sinatra song High Hopes. They visit there friends and upstairs neighbors Leonard “Lenny” Cosnowski (Michael McKean) and Andrew “Squiqqy” Squiggman (David Lander) to see if they can ask around about getting them some cheap dresses to wear. Lenny and Squiqqy come through and bring dresses they say they borrowed from Squiggy’s uncle’s wax museum. They – and Laverne’s date Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli (Henry Winkler) – are like fish out of water at the society dinner, and matters are made even worse when one haughty couple Mr. and Mrs. Marshall and Vivien Stewart (Richard Stahl, Kathryn Ish aka Mrs. Richard Stahl) recognizes their dresses as being ones that were stolen from their daughters. Fonzie calms them down until they allow Laverne and Shirley to continue wearing their dresses until the party is over, but when the Stewarts continue to insult them, they strip to their slips and return the dresses right there. Later that night Laverne criticizes Shirley for having such ‘high hopes’, and Shirley criticizes Laverne for never letting her dream. They reach a happy medium and sing High Hopes together. Robert Ball is the butler. Bob Brunner is the foreman. 11/17/15
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