As of July 2026, Laverne & Shirley Season 5 aired in 1979 with 26 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Laverne & Shirley Season 5

1979 26 Episodes Comedy · Family ⭐ 7/10

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Laverne & Shirley Season 5 is available on streaming right now. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. With 71 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Penny Marshall's performance alone is worth the time investment. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Laverne & Shirley Season 5 is worth clearing space for. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. Season 5 of Laverne & Shirley includes 26 episodes. It aired from September 1979 to May 1980. This season stars Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams and Betty Garrett. Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1979. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 earns its laughs from character rather than situation, which is why it does not wear thin the way pure farce tends to. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Laverne & Shirley Season 5 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Penny Marshall is funny in a way that holds up on rewatch. Put it on when you need something guaranteed to land.

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🎬 Laverne & Shirley Season 5 — Episode Guide

Shotgun Wedding (II)

The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I).

One Heckuva Note

Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.

Fat City Holiday

The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.

Upstairs, Downstairs

A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.

What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?

Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.

You've Pushed Me Too Far

Lenny refuses to have anything to do with Squiggy after he pushes him into a garbage can from their second floor apartment window. Laverne and Shirley get the two friends to make up in Squiggy's uncle's wax works museum.

Edna accepts a marriage proposal from Frank, who waited to the last minute to ask her. Laverne and Shirley end up singing at their wedding in an all-black gospel choir.

The girls realize things have changed in their old club "The Angora Debs," when they let Edna's niece Vicki join. Finding that it's become a gang of trouble making teenage girls. Can the girls save Vicki and the old Deb spirit as well?

You're in the Army, Now (1)

Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.

You're in the Army, Now (2)

Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.

Take Two, They're Small

Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.

The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show

Laverne and Shirley are in charge of selecting the acts for the 4th annual Shotz talent show. It starts off with Frank auditioning in Laverne and Shirley's apartment showing them his ventriloquist act. He produces a Laverne doll which cracks Shirley up but Laverne is none too impressed until Frank ...

Testing, Testing

Shotz hires a psychiatrist to evaluate job aptitudes. The gang are all terrified that some deep dark secret, or that all their inadequacies are going to be revealed when they visit the company shrink.

Not Quite South of the Border

The girls can't wait to go on a vacation to Mexico. Unfortunately when they get there, they find half of their hotel room missing and that they have to share the room with another woman.

You Oughta Be in Pictures

The girls jump at the chance to be the stars in a movie, unaware that the film they will be starring in is an Army hygiene film. Shirley begs Laverne to come and tryout for an acting part in a movie. Laverne agrees and they get to the studio. They subsequently get cast as the two stars of the featur...

The Beatnik Show

Shirley is turned on to Beatnik culture, while visiting a local coffee house one evening. She soon begins wearing black, and moping around the apartment, complaining that nothing in her life is ""cool"" anymore. Laverne then tries to snap her friend out of this Beatnik mindset, so she can go back to...

The Right to Light

To protest a false bill, the girls chain themselves insde the gas company building, little knowing that another disgruntled customer has planted a bomb in the building. Because the girls are chained to the wall, they can't get out.

Why Did the Fireman . . .

Laverne falls for a fireman who is always being called to duty. Before he gets a chance to propose to Laverne, he dies in the line of duty saving many lives.

The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.

Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)

The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.

🎭 Cast of Laverne & Shirley Season 5

Penny Marshall

Laverne DeFazio

Cindy Williams

Betty Garrett

David L. Lander

David L. Lander

Michael McKean

Phil Foster

Eddie Mekka

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