In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
Potsie sets Richie up with a girl known to have a reputation. Richie doesn't get far with her but leads Fonzie and others to believe he did.
Richie and Potsie talk Mr. C into letting them buy a car so Richie won't always have to borrow the family car. However, with the amount of money that the boys have pooled together, they can only afford a lemon.
When Potsie is invited to his cousin who just came home from his service in the Marine's bachelor party, he invites Richie to go with him. While there, the boys get into trouble after participating in several drinking games.
With Potsie's parents out of town for the weekend, he's staying with the Cunningham's, much to Howard's displeasure. The first night he's there, the boys learn that a classmate challenged Fonzie to a drag race in Ralph's newly suped car. When Howard discovers what the boys are up to, he goes down to where the race is taking place, and is soon picked up with the kids by the cops.
Richie buys tickets to a rock and roll show from Fonzie but has to work at the hardware store when Howard needs to have his tonsils removed. Because he'll be working until 9:00 PM, he won't be able to go to the show, so he asks Fonzie for a refund. Later, Howard tells Richie that he can close the store at 5:00 PM leaving him free to go to the show. He, now, has to ask Fonzie for the tickets back.
Richie and Potsie, in their never-ending effort to get girls, decide that they want to join a gang called the Demons. However, in order to be accepted, they have to perform several dares.
After taking a look at a B+ Potsie got on an exam, Fonzie decides to drop back into school. He asks Richie to do his homework and cheat for him.
Richie and Potsie obtain fake identification cards in order to attend a burlesque show where Ralph says Bubbles McCall takes it all off.
Richie and his girlfriend, Arlene, break up after two weeks of dating. Neither of them have dates for the prom, so they end up going together as friends.
To make some money, Richie, Potsie, Ralph, and Bag form a band. They secure a gig, but Richie and Potsie lose the money (including that of Ralph and Bag) playing poker.
Richie is put in an awkward situation when he is set up with a girl much taller than he is. Meanwhile, Howard is frustrated by Marion's ineptness at playing bridge.
Cindy, a new girl in school, asks Richie to tutor her. Richie is interested in more than just studying and makes several attempts to win her over.
Richie meets a beatnik named Diedre at the movies and gets caught up in her type of lifestyle.
Howard's old army buddy, a black man, asks Howard to be the best man at his wedding. Howard and Marion consider holding the wedding at their home when the man can't find anyone else willing to do it.
Richie gets on the good side of a local gang, the Dukes, when he protects the leader's sister from being picked on. However, things change when the Dukes steal Potsie's bike, and Richie tries to get it back.
Howard wants to buy a bomb shelter to protect his family. Problems quickly arise when several of Richie's friends ask if they can use it.
Richie feels that he doesn't have enough privacy, so he decides to move in with Chuck. He quickly discovers, though, that bachelor life isn't quite what he expected it to be.
Howard Cunningham agrees to buy one of Fonzie's overhauled dragsters as a second family car but Richie soon discovers that its red color may not be the only reason that the hotrod's hot.
Regretfully remembering his dismal date with Arlene Nestrock before her family moved to New York, Richie does a successful do-over when she comes back three years later and winds up going steady before he's ready.
Shyness with a new girl, a bad James Dean impersonation and a book on abnormal psychology combine to make Richie think he should see a psychiatrist.
When the commanding officer of his high school ROTC group makes him squad leader, Richie finds that there's more to leadership than just shouting orders.
After experiencing a few strange happenings, Richie begins to buy into the legend that the place where their Halloween party is to be held, the old Simpson house, is haunted.
Richie wins a date with a movie star, Cindy Shea, to a school dance, and Gloria breaks up with him because of circumstances surrounding it. Cindy, however, will only be able to meet up with Richie after the dance has started.
Spike, Fonzie's little cousin, takes Joanie out on her first date. Richie and his date act as Joanie and Spike's chaperones and discover them missing at the movie theater.
As a game-show contestant, Richie wins $3200 before time runs out for that week's show. After the show, he is given an envelope by the show's host that contains the answer to the $5000 question.
Richie, Potsie, and Ralph need new uniforms for their baseball team and want to get a big celebrity to play the title role in their upcomming fundraiser production of Hamlet. When they can't get a big name to play the part, Fonzie agrees to do it.
The Cunningham family Christmas is all set but Richie finds out Fonzie (despite being popular) is alone this holiday. So, Richie decides to ask his folks to let him join them ...but will his folks or Fonzie accept?
Richie and Potsie plan to host a poker night at the Cunningham house as Howard and Marion will be out of town. However, their plans change when three young women stop by after their car breaks down, and Potsie invites them to stay the night.
Howard Cunningham suspects that Fonzie's fiancée, Maureen, is really "The Lone Stripper", an exotic, masked dancer with a distinctive laugh.
With his parents out for the evening, home-alone Richie recovers from the Asiatic flu, waits for his friends to sneak him pizza and a movie, and surprises a burglar in the living room.
Much to his dad's dismay, Richie defies Cunningham Republican tradition and campaigns for the Democrats during the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson presidential race.
Having to drive the Cunningham family car and a run-in with a gang stack the odds against Richie and his buddies after Bag Zombrowski challenges them to come up with dates by midnight or walk through popular Arnold's parking lot in their underwear.
Richie gets an in for an interview with famous children's entertainers Bob Smith and Howdy Doody when little sister Joanie appears on the television show to present the popular puppet with the Chipmunk of the Year Award. But Richie is later confronted with an ethical dilemma after Life magazine offers to buy his one-of-a-kind photo of clown Clarabelle caught without his makeup.
Ralph and Potsie let their imaginations run wild while they help Richie Cunningham fix a fence for a beautiful divorcée, especially after she asks Richie to have dinner with her when the job is done.
Fonzie promises to provide the tuxedos Richie and the guys need for their formal gig at the stuffy local Leopard Lodge dance, but only if they let him join the band and play a bongo solo.
Richie is called upon for a favor by an old friend from summer camp (possibly older than he),who is now the member of a successful rock and roll band called "Fish and The Fins". While they're in town he wants to use Richie's home for the band because they can't rehearse with groupies surrounding their hotel. He has to keep it quiet though. Before this,Richie already told people he knows leader, Rocky Rhodes, and has guaranteed his friends free concert tickets. Which end up being in the "rafters" so Richie's rep. is on the line! Will Rocky be able to redeem Richard's ...
Richie lets fame go to his head when he takes a turn as a disc jockey at the local radio station.
Richie Cunningham's case of mononucleosis endangers more than just his health after the Fonz finds out who gave Richie the "kissing disease".
While in Chicago with their high school choir, Richie, Ralph and Potsie sneak by their chaperons, wind up on the wrong side of an unsympathetic downtown nightclub owner, and win the sympathy of a kind-hearted cocktail waitress.
Due to slow business at the hardware store, Howard Cunningham decides to rent out the adjoining upstairs attic/apartment as a way to make more money. Fonzie brings his grandmother over to rent it, but she hates it. While his dad helps her down the outside steps, Richie talks Fonzie into moving in instead, much to the horror of Howard who still considers Fonzie a "hood" and nothing but trouble. (He nearly chokes Richie!) Will these two very different backgrounds be able to co-exist?
The Cunninghams try to keep Fonzie too tied up to take revenge when he finds out who demolished his beloved bike.
Trying to revive his slumping "cool", Fonzie plans a televised motorcycle jump over a record fourteen garbage cans in the parking lot of Arnold's Drive-In.
Surgery fixes the Fonz's injured knee but the Cunningham's coddling and his fear that pain will make him appear "uncool" keeps him lying on the couch, until Richie resorts to extreme measures to get Fearless Fonzarelli walking again.
To help secure a lucrative business deal for Cunningham Hardware, Howard asks Richie to take his client's daughter out on a date. Problem is, Richie already has a date ... but then he learns that Potsie doesn't.
Richie is continually harassed by local hoodlums Frankie and Rocko. When they humiliate him in front of his girlfriend at Arnold's, he turns to Fonzie for advice in turning the tables on his foes and he ends up enrolling in a jujitsu class.
An act of vandalism at the high school causes a curfew to be set for Milwaukee teenagers. Richie & friends get jailed by officer Kirk and Richie's dad Howard Cunnigham as well.
The Cunningham family unintentionally make things worse when they stage a "This Is Your Life" birthday evening to try to lift 45-year-old Howard out of a mid-life crisis.
Officer Kirk promises to forgive Howard Cunningham's parking tickets and allow a loading zone space in front of his hardware store, if Howard can convince the Fonz (who is given a temporary Special Police appointment) to stop his old gang, the Falcons, from rumbling with their rivals, the Dragons.
The Fonz picks two of his favorite chicks out of his not-so-little black book to help Richie out of a dating dry spell.
High-schoolers Richie, Potsie and Ralph hope to score during spring break by masquerading as foreign businessmen at a lake resort frequented by college girls.
1950's racial prejudice and stereotyping are explored when most of their friends refuse to attend the Cunningham's Hawaiian luau after finding out that Richie's band's new drummer and his date are black.
Fourteen-year-young Joanie Cunningham falls hard for seventeen-year-old Potsie Weber when he looks deep into her eyes while rehearsing a romantic song with his band.
Unable to dial back his infamous slapstick humor that caused his girlfriend, Olivia, to break up with him, a rejected Ralph Malph follows Fonzie's advice to forget all about her and join the Marines.
Marion wants to join a dance contest but Howard and the kids think it's ridiculous. But she decides to enter with Fonzie and they spend their free time practicing. When she acts strangely because she's keeping it a secret from everybody, Howard wonders what's going on. And when Arnold who knows about it let's it slip that Marion is seeing someone else, Howard follows her. And when he sees her with Fonzie he loses it.
Fonzie's friends reminisce about the impact he's made on their lives when the Cunninghams throw him a surprise birthday party at Arnold's Drive-In.
The Fonz looks for a new job after the eccentric new owner of Herb's garage orders the super-cool mechanic to put on a vinyl uniform and get a crew-cut.
Richie, Potsie and Ralph try mass baby-sitting to raise money for tickets to a big football game.
Fonzie suffers a case of stage fright when he makes his singing debut at the big dance.
Fonzie's rooftop pigeon coop crashes down into his apartment, causing Howard & him to end up in small claims court.
In a sneaky scheme to widen their dating pool, Richie, Potsie and Ralph stage a bogus beauty contest, planning to rig the vote to insure that a ringer provided by the Fonz will win but won't accept the promised fabulous prizes the boys can't afford and never intend to award.
When nephew Spike comes for a visit and gets into trouble, frustrated Uncle Fonzie goes to Howard Cunningham for some expert fatherly advice.
Fonzie fears that his famous cool will be compromised if he wears the reading glasses prescribed to cure his headaches.
Best man Fonzie's fears that Arnold's wedding plans will be ruined by the Fonzarelli Curse appear to come true after the groom's newly arrived Japanese bride-to-be calls the whole thing off
Fonzie's former girlfriend and fellow motorcyclist, Pinky Tuscadero comes back into his life, making him realize he still loves her. She wants to be in a demolition derby with him but Fonzie states that it's no place for a woman.
After being injured in the head at the derby from "The Millachi Crunch". Pinky is hospitalized. Fonzie gets revenge with the brothers and wins the derby, he also realizes that he wants to be more than just Pinky's boyfriend.
Fonzie & Pinky have both decided to get married but a series of events may prevent them from becoming Mr. & Mrs. Fonzerelli.
A psychologist's unusual recommendation to help the Fonz control his compulsion to street-fight turns out to be strictly for the birds.
Richie's plans to party while his parents are out of town are ruined when Fonzie invites the very pregnant wife of one of his oldest friends to stay in Joanie's room and orders Richie to keep an eye on her until her husband returns from a road trip.
Fonzie is grateful when Potsie Weber pulls him to safety from a burning garage but soon regrets giving the Good Samaritan his choice of reward.
Richie's secret scheme to convince sophisticated Cindy Kendall that he has his own apartment by exchanging bedrooms with Fonzie is foiled when her furious father comes looking for her in the middle of the night.
A motorcycle mishap forces the Fonz to push his broken bike for twelve miles just before he partners with Joanie Cunningham for a grueling dance marathon.
Ace reporter Richie 'Scoop' Cunningham's determination to print the truth, no matter what, uncovers a high school cafeteria meatloaf scandal but later jeopardizes his friendship with Fonzie.
Officer Kirk - the new acting sheriff - begins a harassment campaign against Fonzie, and won't relent until he leaves Milwaukee.
Richie pretends to be a hardware magnate looking for an advertising icon to try to meet the woman of his dreams, the beautiful poster-girl for Wisconsin Cola.
The Fonz accepts a sophisticated, older woman's invitation to play tennis at her country club, but later discovers that the game his pretty new lady is playing may not be confined to just the tennis court.
Only the Fonz stays calm when Richie and the gang get locked in the hardware store's basement vault where they have gathered to store their school's time capsule.
Fonzie enters his shy, visiting cousin, Angie, into an Al's Drive-In sponsored publicity event for the "Magilla Book of Records" to help the timid teenager uncover his famous Fonzarelli self-confidence.
Richie Cunningham basks in glory after winning his high school basketball game with a lucky shot in the final seconds of a nail-biter until a rival team and their femme fatale kidnap him to keep him off the court.
Tired of being treated like a servant in her own home and searching for self-worth, frustrated housewife, Marion Cunningham, gets a job at Al's Drive-In. But Al's teen customers start leaving when Marion's waitressing takes a back seat to motherly meddling, and an emergency meeting is called in the Fonz's office to decide her fate.
The Cunninghams and their friends reminisce through special moments and enjoy a few surprises on the night of Howard and Marion's surprise 20th wedding anniversary celebration.
Marion Cunningham is forced to reveal Fonzie's secret plan to graduate with Richie's senior class just before Principal Conners' startling announcement at the high school prom that puts the graduation ceremony itself in jeopardy.
Fonzie's friends convince their principal to let the night school graduate participate in Jefferson High School's commencement ceremony, but then must find a way to help the Fonz make his valedictory speech.
A short-tempered sergeant loses his tenuous grasp on discipline when the Fonz reports to the army recruitment center soon after draftees Richie, Ralph and Potsie check in for physicals.
Big brother Richie rides to the rescue when little sister Joanie is asked for more than she's ready to give to become a gang-leader's girlfriend.
Howard Cunningham finds that it takes more than just a good idea to make a fortune from an invention when he joins forces with the Fonz to try to develop a prototype trash compactor.
After Ralph and Potsie accidentally let Fonzie's new dog, Spunky, escape out of an open gate, the little boy who finds the pup gets blamed for stealing her.
Novice bookmaker Ralph Malph loses his shirt on a football game and must face his father to avoid the fists of a street tough named Bruiser.
A too-close shave while driving in a stock car race causes a shaken Fonzie to question his mortality, and soon leads him to Al Delvecchio's twin brother, Father Anthony, for some answers.
The Cunninghams pack their bags to accompany the Fonz to California after a famous talent scout thinks he's found the next James Dean and invites "his coolness" to Hollywood for a screen test.
Soon after getting the bad news that the studio deemed his James Dean impression obsolete, and gave Richie's wholesome good looks a contract instead, the Fonz finds a bigger fish to fry.
Richie must choose either a 5-year Hollywood contract or college in Milwaukee while the Fonz accepts the California Kid's challenge to perform a dangerous water ski jump...over a shark!
Richie and Fonzie must think fast to outwit a tough housemother after they're caught past curfew in the college girls' dormitory.
Fonzie is furious with his rebellious cousin, Chachi Arcola, after Chachi cheats on a school test using answers stolen from a tutoring session with Joanie Cunningham.
Forced to spend the night in the hospital's children's ward, Fonzie worries more about who will be making time with his girl at the Halloween party than the tonsillectomy he's scheduled for the next morning.
Personality quirks begin to fray nerves after best friends Richie, Ralph and Potsie rent an apartment together.
Richie Cunningham asks Al to give fresh-from-reform school, Leather Tuscadero, and her do-wop back-up girls, the Suedes, an audition at Arnold's Drive-In, but the Fonz isn't sure that the girl who stole his wallet when last they met can be trusted.
Joanie Cunningham decides to run away from home after her parents refuse to allow her to become one of Leather Tuscadero's singing Suedes.
Snobby Cynthia Holmes schemes with her obnoxious cousin, Skippy, to make the Fonz look foolish at a country club soirée.
Richie, Ralph and Potsie endure the harassment of "hell week" to prove themselves worthy to enter their college fraternity, Phi Kappa Nu.
Ralph Malph takes his life in his hands when he tries to steal pretty college cheerleader, Kitty, from her musclebound boyfriend, the football team's star fullback, Rebel E. Lee.
To prove to his college journalism professor that he has what it takes be a good investigative reporter, Richie gets down and dirty to expose who's behind an illegal garbage collection scheme.
Refusing to go quietly into forced retirement from the police force, Howard's visiting dad, former Detective Captain Sean Cunningham, causes upheaval in the household while struggling to define the next phase of his life.
Jealous Richie Cunningham bridles at Lori Beth's too-enthusiastic participation in a charity kissing booth, while unable-to-swim Potsie Weber fears that the traditional dunk in the lake following his fraternity pinning ceremony will embarrass him in front of his intended sorority pin-ee, lovely Jennifer Jerome.
Sophomore Joanie Cunningham gets basic back-seat defense tips from Richie and Fonzie before her first "car date" with a senior boy, and then cramps her older brother's style when she and her date show up at his college "make-out" party.
When she hears that one of hubby Howard's friends divorced his middle-aged wife and married a much younger woman, Marion Cunningham fears that if she can't spice up her marriage, her fate may be the same.
What begins as a humorous escapade with a motorcycle turns into a tragic vigil for the Cunninghams and their friends. Richie purchases a motorcycle from Fonzie, but Howard angrily refuses to let him keep it, leading to a deliberately petulant tantrum from Richie to embarrass his father. But Fonzie convinces Howard that the bike is safe and Richie wears proper safety gear, so Howard reluctantly relents. Richie takes Lori Beth along one day while Fonzie is out and Chachi is repairing a truck rented by Al Potsie, and Ralph.
Fonzie and friends try to dig up what's depressing his faithful canine companion, Spunky, while Howard saddles Marion with a hundred pounds of potatoes to peel for his Leopard Lodge picnic's potato salad.
Romance and nostalgia humorously combine as the Cunninghams and their friends celebrate a merrily musical Valentine's Day.
Trying to convince Chachi that joining a gang isn't "cool", Richie recalls the time he was challenged to a street fight by the Falcon's tough gang-leader, The Fonz.
No one believes Richie's claims that he not only saw a flying saucer but personally interviewed its pilot, an alien named Mork, who tried to take him back to planet Ork as an example of an average, humdrum human.
Richie's girlfriend, Lori Beth, finds that the Cunninghams and their friends re-define the word "typical" when she interviews them for her college term-paper on what it means to be typical, middle-class Americans.
Fonzie's latest romantic interest, a ballet teacher, is secretly yearning to turn professional and dance with the greats in New York. Fonzie, however, has trouble accepting that she may forgo their relationship to pursue her dreams of fame.
Richie interrupts his summer job search to help choose a cute little meter maid from Fonzie's big black book to accompany dateless Al DelVecchio to the Sons of Italy banquet honoring him as Man of the Year.
Richie and Lori Beth fight over her casual friendships with other guys on the eve of a much anticipated trip with his band to play back up for girl-group, Leather and the Suedes, at remote Blue Ox Inn.
Howard Cunningham and Fonzie find themselves the only members of the jury who are not ready to convict the defendant just because he rides a motorcycle.
The Cunninghams and their friends go west to help run Marion's injured Uncle Ben's Colorado dude ranch, soon finding that they only have five days to pay the balance on a loan owed to nasty neighbor, H.R. Buchanan, to save it from foreclosure.
Pretty wrangler, Thunder McCoy, helps the Milwaukee city slickers stage the dude ranch's annual rodeo, planning to use the proceeds from the event to pay off the loan, while H.R. Buchanan lurks on the sidelines, hoping they'll fail.
With a thousand dollars still needed to save Uncle Ben's dude ranch, Joanie Cunningham has a close call in a runaway wagon and the Fonz eyes the prize for riding the rodeo's killer bull, Diablo.
Richie tries tough love to snap the Fonz out of his self-pity after the leather-jacketed legend is blinded by a blow to the head and unexpectedly adds a new four-letter word to his vocabulary...fear.
Richie and his fellow fraternity members are required to take visiting baton twirlers to a special dance, leading Richie to have to fib to his girlfriend Lori Beth for the first time ever.
Fonzie's new best friend is six-year-old Bobby, son of his girlfriend Peggy, whose husband abandoned them years earlier. Wrestling demons from his own past, Fonz faces an ethical dilemma when the father returns.
A two-timing star quarterback may leave Joanie dateless for her own sweet sixteen birthday party.
Hypnotic suggestion during research for science editor Richie's college newspaper article leaves phobic Ralph Malph fearless.
Richie and his pals perform a Halloween exorcism after Al Delvecchio's right arm is cursed to do the bidding of an old witch with the evil eye.
The Fonz takes on The Claw after a small-time gangster tries to take over Al's Restaurant and turn it into a bookie joint.
Richie tries to find the reason Fonzie seems to be allergic to girls before the celebrated chick magnet ditches dating forever.
Marion Cunningham tells a tale of the first Thanksgiving to remind her family that the Pilgrims gathered around the table for fellowship, not around the television for football.
Richie's reputation goes from respectable to racy after he's identified in a police line-up as the notorious Kissing Bandit.
Committee co-chairmen Howard Cunningham and Al DelVecchio must somehow replace accidentally drunk magician, the Amazing Randi, star of the Leopard Lodge's annual Sunnyside Orphanage fund-raising dinner show.
Trying to save his reputation and his candidacy, Richie and his pals plan to steal the film that will soon be used to incriminate him after his sophomore class president opponent photographs him in a massage parlor.
A cold, snowy Wisconson Christmas finds Howard Cunningham trying to convince his family to put up a new-fangled, artificial tree, and a mysterious sailor delivers a gift from Fonzie's father, forcing the Fonz to deal with his long-suppressed feelings of abandonment.
New member Joanie Cunningham worries that the Magnets, the coolest girl's club in school, will dump her if she doesn't smoke cigarettes like the rest of them.
Richie Cunningham anonymously takes over for absent advice columnist, Aunt Fanny, and innocently sews the seeds of disaster when he answers a letter from feuding roommates, Ralph and Potsie.
The Fonz makes an appearance on popular dance show "National Sock Hop" to accuse host Skip Oliver of stealing Leather Tuscadero's new song," Moonlight Love", from her audition tape and giving it to not-so-hot rockers, Freddie and the Red Hots, to jump-start the band's stalled career.
The Cunningham kids send squabbling Marion and Howard off to celebrate their 23rd anniversary at the lakeside hotel where they honeymooned, hoping happy memories will rekindle their parents' romance.
Tough-girl rocker, Leather Tuscadero, and corny Ralph Malph both try on new personalities along with their formal attire when they go to his college's military ball together.
Richie gets a call from Fonzie to see him at his garage. When Richie arrives he finds Fonzie finishing up repairs on a hearse - in whose casket is contained thousands of dollars in counterfeit money. Fonzie recognizes the funeral home that owns the hearse is a front for illegal movement of counterfeit money, and Richie tells him to call the police.
Fonzie survives the explosion at his garage and now it's up to him and Richie and the Cunninghams to save Ralph and Potsie and foil the Candyman...by letting him think the Fonz died.
Mischievous Mork from Ork takes a break from earth year 1979, where he has been assigned to observe humanity, to visit 1950's Richie Cunningham, get a dose of humdrum and learn about relationships.
Hot-headed Richie challenges an arrogant French fencing champion to a duel after the visiting swordsman insults sister and country.
Richie's band hunts for a piano player, Howard and Marion practice their bridge signals, and Fonzi plans a sting on the shyster who duped Chachi into selling a miracle wax that soon destroys what it shines.
When his bike's brakes fail, Fonzie stops with his feet and ruins his boots; Potsie drops out of college after an anatomy professor intimidates him in front of the whole class.
Richie and Fonzie take a break from a Cunningham camp-out at Lake Pinewood to visit two pretty maids on a nearby dairy farm, taking care to avoid their over-protective father... and his shotgun!
Chachi gets more than he bargained for when he sells his soul to the devil's nephew and the Fonz must make a drastic deal of his own to save his cursed cousin.
Fonzie promises the good Father Delvecchio (Al's twin brother) that he'll go one day without fighting. This, when a former rival, Rico, shows up in town with his merchant seamen crew and a mystery woman named Kat Mandu.
After Howard loses his temper and blasts her for forgetting to set the emergency brake and wrecking the car, Marion Cunningham opts for jail-time instead of a traffic fine to prove to her husband that she can be responsible for her actions.
Fonzie's coaching helps Richie ace his interview at the Milwaukee Journal but doesn't prepare him for the reality of starting at the bottom of the job ladder.
Embarrassed when girlfriend Lori Beth makes him wear a silly Humpty Dumpty costume for the Homecoming Parade, unhappy Richie Cunningham storms off to a bar for a root beer and is swept off his feet by a sophisticated freelance photographer he meets there, beautiful Barbara Thomas.
Richie worries about how to write an unbiased review of his mother's co-starring role in a local play while the Fonz defends her honor after the director makes a pass at her.
Howard Cunningham's chance to become the next Grand Poobah hangs in the balance after the burlesque troop he hired for a big event at his Milwaukee Leopard Lodge gets snowbound in Buffalo.
Fed up with her parents' restrictions, seventeen-year-old Joanie decides to assert her independence and secretly auditions for a modeling job with a photographer who specializes in nudes.
Newly crowned Delta Gamma King, Richie Cunningham, loses his inhibitions and offends his friends after college bully, Bullfrog, spikes his ginger-ale just before his acceptance speech.
Fonzie must find a way to rescue cousin Chachi from girl-gang, the She Devils, before they shave his head as punishment for dumping the gang-leader's little sister.
Fonzie's new mechanic arrives in a wheelchair, carrying a chip on his shoulder the size of Milwaukee.
The gang is stunned to find out that Howard knew about the planning commission's decision to route one of the new expressway's off-ramps right through make-out mecca, Inspiration Point.
When Joanie and Richie find out their parents' first wedding was less than romantic, they decide to plan a whole new wedding for them but nothing goes as planned.
Richie's reluctant friends agree with his plan to go camping in the woods over spring break under two conditions: that Richie, not Fonzie, will be the leader of the expedition ... and if nobody has a good time, it will be all Richie's fault!
After Joanie's boyfriend gives her a ring, big brother Richie worries that they will take their relationship to the point of no return at the Alamo, the special make-out spot at Inspiration Point that couples always remember...or try to forget!
Chachi is entrusted to close Arnold's, but he forgets to turn off the grill and carelessly tosses his apron on the hot surface. The result is a fire that destroys the drive-in restaurant, traps Fonzie, Ralph and Potsie, and lands Al in trouble with his insurance agent.
Fonzie agrees to help Al fund the rebuilding of Arnold's, but their business partnership - and the restaurant's future - is threatened when the two can't resolve disagreements on crucial aspects of the project.
When Richie's amateur commercial doesn't bring more customers into his Dad's hardware store, the Cunninghams hire a smooth-talking advertising expert who promises a huge increase in business but who also has a hidden agenda that challenges Howard's business ethics.
A dispute over the Cunninghams' electric bill results in Richie and Fonzie learning sign language after the Fonz falls hard for a pretty, hearing-impaired electric company receptionist who appears to be unaffected by his usually devastating charisma.
While Marion Cunningham prepares to celebrate the 28th anniversary of her first date with husband Howard, daughter Joanie plans to have a first date of her own...with Chachi Arcola!
Wanting to be more of a buddy to his son, Grand Poobah Howard Cunningham takes a reluctant Richie to the Leopard Lodge's Chicago convention.
Potsie (aka Warren Weber) lands an audition to possibly become a performer at a local club. Making his egotism a bit difficult for his friends to deal with but,an underlying truth may alter Potsie's outlook.
Visiting Uncle Joe Cunningham puts Richie's journalism report on the right track by relating the (mostly) true, 1920's bootleg-battling exploits of his intrepid cousin, Assistant D. A. Cecil Cunningham.
Funny guy Ralph Malph loses his sense of humor when his dad tells him that, after twenty years of marriage, he and his mother are getting a divorce.
Feeling Joanie and Chachi date too much, Howard offers to install a phone in her room but she can't see Chachi for 2 weeks first. She and Chachi try to find a way to get around this that may spell trouble.
Fonzie returns from Italy, with a beard, and excited about a new job. He'll be teaching mechanics at the High School. But he starts to lose his cool when his students are not as adept as he was at their age. With his students ready to quit his class, he starts to wonder if he has what it takes to be a teacher.
Richie, in the army now, asks Lori Beth to marry him. She wants to say "I Do" in Greenland with him, but it's costly. So, Marion appears on a game show to win the money.
Howard and Marion's nephew Roger Phillips comes to Milwaukee to start a new life. He is clean-cut, straight-laced and quite naive for a college graduate. The Cunninghams give him Richie's old room, but it may take more than their advice to help him fit in to his new surroundings.
After being refused permission to have a car, Joanie goes behind her parents back and gets one. She later finds it a very difficult secret to keep from Howard and Marion.
On a very snowy Christmas eve, Marion frets over Richie's absence, Fonzie and his friends are stuck in Al's restaurant, and Joanie uses the time spent snowbound with her dad in the hardware store to try to convince him to let her spend summer in New York City with Jenny Piccalo.
Auto shop teacher Fonzie campaigns to win the "TOTY", Jefferson High School's Teacher of The Year award.
Al gets some answers and a second chance to win the heart of Rosa Coletti twenty years after she left him for a tie salesman.
When the money he was saving to buy a new motorcycle is stolen, Fonzie instinctively suspects Al's shady new cook, Frankie.
Superstitious Fonzie would rather suffer from a toothache than admit he's afraid he may lose his cool-ness if the dentist should pull the tooth, until his pain interferes with his favorite past-time...kissing pretty girls!
After a trying day of doing favors for friends and an encounter with a blood-bank doctor, an under-the-weather Fonzie falls asleep on the Cunningham's couch while watching a horror movie and feverishly dreams that a mad scientist is after what makes him the Fonz...his cool!
Jealous Chachi sees red when girlfriend Joanie spends too much time practicing her kissing with co-star Granville Clark, the handsome actor hired to play the lead in the high-school musical.
Dressed as a bride and groom at the Jefferson High masquerade party held aboard a boat cruising Lake Michigan, Jennie Piccolo and Fonzie both say "I Do" in a wedding skit performed by their drunk host, Captain Singer, unaware that a ceremony performed at sea by a bona fide ship's captain may be the real deal.
Under pressure from cousin Fonzie, Chachi invites Joanie and her parents to his house for dinner to meet his mother, but worries that his eccentric family will embarrass him in front of the Cunninghams.
During a week-end at Potsie's uncle's hunting cabin, Fonzie is accidentally shot in the vicinity of his favorite jeans' back pocket; but accounts of the incident vary when the guys tell their stories to a small-town sheriff while the Fonz is treated in the local hospital's emergency room.
Potsie pressures Lori Beth for a date with her sophisticated roommate and gets an embarrassing job to pay his rent; Fonzie joins the Big Brother program and enlists Howard's help for "little brother" Joey's best-friend dilemma.
Roger and Chachi are thrilled when a star basketball player transfers to Jefferson High and joins the team. But the excitement changes to deep concern when the talented player leaves practice on his father's orders without offering the explanation - which Roger soon finds out - that he suffers from epilepsy.
A major university offers basketball star (but academic non-standout) Chachi a scholarship to attend their school. Fonzie is excited, but Roger and Howard not only fail to show the same enthusiasm, they become suspicious at the college's academic background.
The Fonz stands in for his best friend when the Cunninghams and the rest of the gang arrange a wedding by proxy for Lori Beth and Richie after Army red tape tangles the couple's efforts to get the bride-to-be to Greenland.
While wife Marion recovers at home from a back injury, Howard Cunningham's temporary bowling partner, attractive, blonde Fern "Feel Good" Flagg, targets the staunch family man as her next good time.
Fonzie believes that a waitress named Angela may be the mother who left him when he was four.
Struggling to write a school essay on America's immigrant history, Chachi is inspired by Fonzie's colorful story told to the tune of an imagined melting pot melody.
Joanie prepares a narrated home movie to send to big brother Richie's overseas army base to bring him up to speed on the gang's summer activities, her break-up with Chachi and Fonzie's reunion with his old gang, the Falcons.
Fonzie,after being called "normal" by a woman he's dating,is re-uniting with his old gang and they're confronted by rival gang "The Warmongers" at Arnolds to settle an old score. Meanwhile, Joanie is avoiding Chachi after discovering he had spent time with a girl at the lake while she was working there that evening.
Chachi gets angry when he finds out he's the last one to know that his mother has started dating a doctor.
Joanie is furious because Chachi likes to date other girls, so she gets her revenge by dating a college man.
Fonzie happily agrees to be Lori Beth's natural childbirth coach in husband Richie's absence until he finds out that he'll also have to go into the delivery room with her.
Misunderstanding rules the day when Roger discovers why pretty Mona Hildebrand won't date him, Marion uncovers one of hubby Howard's carefully kept courting secrets and Joanie gets flowers from a mystery man.
Coach Phillips's job is jeopardized after his hygiene class students fool substitute teacher Fonzie into instructing them in sex education instead of mouth care.
Joanie regrets agreeing to join a popular girls' club with friend Jenny Piccalo when the snobby club officers try to keep Jenny from passing the initiation ritual by altering it to include stealing a park statue.
Even with his famous charm dialed to red-hot, Fonzie can't persuade pretty teacher, Gloria McInerney, to go out with him and is floored when he finds out why.
While her parents week-end in New York and sister-in-law Lori Beth flies to visit faraway husband Richie, Joanie Cunningham must prove more than her babysitting mettle when she is challenged with both a sick baby nephew and a broken furnace.
Chachi and Joanie go to the Fonz for advice on how to turn nerdy Eugene Melman into the type of guy Jenny Piccalo would want to date.
Howard Cunningham promises a new car to daughter Joanie if she'll go to the University of Wisconsin instead of UCLA; but his determination turns to dismay when she decides that she doesn't want to go to college...at all!
Angered by a television broadcast showing a black man being beaten at a lunch counter for just wanting a meal, Al convinces Fonzie to head south to march in a week-end civil rights demonstration and it's not long before they both find out, firsthand, what's at stake for the black community.
Grandma Nussbaum teaches Fonzie and Chachi a lesson in growing old gracefully when they try to convince the feisty granny to move into a retirement home.
Al Delvecchio promises to provide the guest entertainment for the local Leopard Lodge's musical, the 15th annual "Poobah Doodah"; but can he really deliver his fifth cousin, once removed...teen heart-throb Frankie Avalon?
Fonzie helps music teacher Cynthia take on the seemingly impossible task of trying to convince the Jefferson High School student body to choose classical music over rock'n'roll for their annual concert.
Howard and Chachi go above and beyond to try to win a dinner with the Lone Ranger for Fonzie's birthday while the Fonz begins to wonder if he should start thinking about settling down with just one girl.
Fonzie shows Roger a better way to attract women, Joanie and Chachi attempt songwriting, Potsie wants to join the Leopard Lodge and Marion is up for the lead in a local musical production.
When his parents send his rebellious, younger brother, Flip, for a visit, Roger needs his friends' help to find out why Flip behaves so irresponsibly and the two always seem to be at odds with each other.
Some tough questions from Howard Cunningham while they are on a fishing trip together cause eighteen-year-old Chachi to question his plans to make a living as a rock musician.
Joanie starts spending much of her time with insecure new friend Mikki, who has recently come to Milwaukee to get a fresh start. A jealous Jenny learns that rumors had abounded at Mikki's old college that she had gotten pregnant and starts spreading the word. It isn't long before it is suggested that Fonzie is the father.
After only a month of dating, Al wants to ask Chachi's mother to be his wife. Chachi's okay with it but has his doubts about Al getting a "yes".
Fonzie finally meets his dream-girl in a department store, but when she leaves before he gets her name, it looks like the only guy who can help him find her again is...Potsie Weber!
Coming home to Milwaukee after a summer playing with the band in Chicago, Joanie Cunningham tries to convince her over-protective father that she's mature enough to move away from home and continue her career in the Windy City.
Howard and Marion Cunningham struggle to define life after their children have grown and gone while Fonzie finds running the restaurant without Al causes his social life to suffer.
Howard's teen-aged niece, K.C., comes to stay with the Cunninghams after a scandal closes her Houston boarding school while Fonzie hopes a night at the circus will help him win little Heather's heart when nothing else seems to work.
Fonzie is challenged to a fight by a black belt karate expert who has nursed a grudge against him since the third grade and now wants to take his revenge.
Fonzie worries that the new popularity of folk music may signal more than just the end of his beloved rock n' roll.
Fonzie surprises Ashley...and himself!...by asking her to go steady with him after throwing a party to introduce her to his family and friends; but when jealousy raises its ugly head, neither of them are sure they're ready to commit.
Catastrophe looms when K.C. Cunningham reluctantly agrees to go to a costume party with socially inept Melvin Belvin after Marion encourages her shy niece to start dating.
When a new hardware store in the local mall takes away all his business, Howard must decide whether to fight or give in to the competition and say good-bye to Cunningham Hardware.
Howard Cunningham dreads his quarrelsome older brother's Christmas visit and little Heather Pfister asks Santa Claus to help her mother, Ashley, make-up with the parents who disinherited her for marrying against their wishes.
Roger tries to play it cool when his fickle former girlfriend, Lorraine, comes to town.
Hopes of reconciliation with her estranged parents appear to be ruined when nervous Ashley Pfister makes a fool of herself by drinking too much at their 30th wedding anniversary celebration.
Roger becomes concerned that Flip is falling under the influence of a gang of hoodlums who drink heavily. Flip tells his big brother to butt out of his social life. One night, the teen-agers get very drunk and become involved in a hit-and-run accident. The victim: Heather, making Roger's reaction the least of Flip's worries. What will the police - and Fonzie - say when they have their turn with Flip?
K.C. and the Cunninghams unintentionally derail Fonzie's plan to help a work release program convict get a new start as a mechanic when they treat him with suspicion after finding out his background.
Joanie and Chachi agree to work towards a common goal with their squabbling band members after Fonzie gets them a chance at a record contract; but what will they do when the record company agent tells them that the contract is only for the two of them and not the rest of the band?
Fonzie and Ashley remember the night of their momentous first date together when the Cunninghams throw them a surprise six month anniversary party.
The Fonz keeps his cool after a clerical error lands him and his 4-F knee in an Army reserves training camp just before little Heather's birthday; but he doesn't know that his commanding officer is someone he knows...and hates...all too well, and who believes that he finally has Fonzie right where he's always wanted him.
Fonz and Roger are going to a teacher's convention in another city but miss their flight. They hire Potsie's uncle to fly them in his old crop dusting plane, which could lead to high flying disaster.
An unexpected surprise waits for him at the church when Fonzie agrees to be former Falcon's gang member Jake 'Hey Fonz' Nelson's best man at his second wedding; Howard and Marion help K.C. rehearse for her school play audition.
Babysitter Fonzie makes a grave mistake when he listens to championship boxing on the radio during little Heather's tea-party; Joanie has more on her mind than Marion's mothering when she and Chachi head to the comfort of the Cunninghams after she catches the Canadian flu while on tour with the band.
Love and respect are put to the test when Chachi refuses to consider moving the band out of Chicago after Joanie determines to go to college in Milwaukee.
Jenny Piccalo's party plans are jeopardized after she dumps mild-mannered Don the dentist's son to start dating hot Olympic swimmer Eric who confides to K.C. that he doesn't want to get serious with anyone...and especially not Jenny!
Fonzie shocks his friends when he throws his leather jacket away after finding a note taped to the bottom of the old cookie jar that held the last three cookies his mother baked for him before she deserted him...until he finally tells them why.
With too many things occupying Joanie's time, Chachi feels left out. Together, they seek a solution to the problem but they both have very different ideas about a new direction for their relationship
After tricking Fonzie into going to a single's camp to help him get over losing steady girlfriend Ashley, Potsie, Chachi and Roger get suckered into a sauna by three con-girls.
Richie, Lori Beth and Ralph come home. But things are bittersweet for Richie, whose plans are different than what everyone else wants for the Cunningham lad.
Richie struggles with his emotions as everyone - particularly his mother, Marion - rejects his dream of being a Hollywood screenwriter.
Chachi trains to fight in the city boxing tournament to prove to Fonzie that he's not a kid anymore.
It seems like a bad fit when Yale-educated Roger Phillips is hired over street-savvy Fonzie as the new principal of the George S. Patton Vocational High School, known for it's rampant juvenile delinquency.
Fonzie gets a surprise visit from a half-brother he never knew he had; but, although the two share the same name, they soon find that they don't have much in common...or do they?
Howard decides the house needs a second bathroom. Fonzie offers a way to have it installed and save Howard money as well.
Joanie encounters trouble when she accepts a student teaching job at Patton High.
His friends are baffled when Fonzie refuses to speak in his own defense after he is accused of manhandling a student and brought before the school board's disciplinary court.
Howard's fear that wife Marion's former college boyfriend will sweep her off her feet when he comes to the Cunninghams for dinner turns to shock when the man instead shows interest in...daughter Joanie!
Fonzie tries to help his cousin unleash his inborn "Fonzarelli Power" when Chachi decides to start dating again after his break-up with long-time steady, Joanie Cunningham.
Fonzie begins restoring a wrecked 1955 Chevrolet convertible, unaware it comes with more than just broken seats, a broken engine and a rusted shell. It comes with a beautiful young woman, to whom there's more than meets the eye.
A real estate agent barging into his apartment with a client in tow is a surprised Fonzie's first clue that he may soon be hunting for a new home.
Joanie says "yes" when Chachi pops the question and Fonzie finds that being single is a major snag when he decides to adopt Danny, his little brother from the Big Brother program.
Joanie primps and Chachi nervously paces as their family and friends gather on their wedding day, while Fonzie and Howard try to convince a by-the-book adoption administrator that some rules are meant to be broken.
Howard's poker game with the guys unexpectedly takes a not-so-friendly turn and Marion struggles to please her overly-critical mother when the Cunninghams spend a rare week-end apart.
Suffering from song-writer's block, broke Chachi is too embarrassed to tell his friends when he takes a job as a senior citizen dance instructor to make ends meet.
Joanie tries to help an angry fifteen year old girl kick a drug habit that threatens to get her kicked out of school.
Chachi thinks his life is over when he is diagnosed with diabetes on the eve of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour with the Beach Boys.
Fonzie, Roger and Chachi soon regret agreeing to help Howard Cunningham save his Grand Poobah position by becoming new Leopard Lodge recruits when they find out their pledge master is prankster Potsie "Sabu" Weber.
