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Happy Days Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
Fonzie Moves In
Tue, Sep 9, 197526 mins
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?
Episode 2
The Motorcycle
Tue, Sep 16, 197525 mins
The Cunninghams try to keep Fonzie too tied up to take revenge when he finds out who demolished his beloved bike.
Episode 3
Fearless Fonzarelli: Part 1
Tue, Sep 23, 197526 mins
Trying to revive his slumping "cool," Fonzie plans a televised motorcycle jump over a record 14 garbage cans in the parking lot of Arnold's Drive-In.
Episode 4
Fearless Fonzarelli: Part 2
Tue, Sep 30, 197526 mins
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.
Episode 5
The Other Richie Cunningham
Tue, Oct 7, 197526 mins
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.
Episode 6
Richie Fights Back
Tue, Oct 14, 197530 mins
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.
Episode 7
Jailhouse Rock
Tue, Oct 21, 197526 mins
A recent act of vandalism at the high school prompts local officials to impose a 9PM curfew for Milwaukee teens. Richie, Potsie, Ralph, and other decide to protest by getting arrested on purpose. While discussing this in the restroom of Arnold's Drive-in, Arnold locks up without checking. Officer Kirk enters sometime later and promptly arrests them, thinking that they broke in. Richie's dad Howard is called, but after being unable to reason with Kirk, Howard is jailed along with the boys. Worst of all, they must put up with Potsie's depressing singing and a drunken man.
Episode 8
Howard's 45th Fiasco
Tue, Oct 28, 197526 mins
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.
Episode 9
Fonzie the Flatfoot
Tue, Nov 4, 197526 mins
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.
Episode 10
A Date with Fonzie
Tue, Nov 11, 197524 mins
When Richie breaks up with his long time girlfriend, he finds it difficult to ask a girl out. So he asks Fonzie for help. He decides to take Richie to the supermarket where he says he can meet and pick up girls. But it doesn't turn out so well, so Fonzie decides to try another approach--he will call two women in his black book and they will have a double date. And the women he chooses are Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney. They're not exactly wholesome. But eventually they go back to Richie's where he's all alone because the family went to visit a relative. When Fonzie takes Laverne to his place he leaves Richie with Shirley and things heat up when his family comes back.
Episode 11
Three on a Porch
Tue, Nov 18, 197526 mins
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.
Episode 12
Fonzie's New Friend
Tue, Nov 25, 197522 mins
1950s racial prejudice and stereotyping are explored when most of their friends refuse to attend the Cunninghams' Hawaiian luau after finding out that Richie's band's new drummer and his date are Black.
Episode 13
They Call It Potsie Love
Tue, Dec 2, 197526 mins
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.
Episode 14
Tell It to the Marines
Tue, Dec 16, 197526 mins
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.
Episode 15
Dance Contest
Tue, Jan 6, 197626 mins
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.
Episode 16
The Second Anniversary Show
Mon, Jan 12, 197622 mins
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.
Episode 17
Fonzie the Salesman
Tue, Jan 13, 197626 mins
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.
Episode 18
Football Frolics
Tue, Jan 20, 197625 mins
In order to earn money for a football game, Richie, Ralph, and Potsie decide to babysit 15 kids at the same time, including a streetwise boy named Booker Brown provided by Laverne and Shirley. Fonz has a stand-off with a bratty kid named Myron and then the kids lose control, leading Fonzie to call in a "professional": Spike.
Episode 19
Fonzie the Superstar
Tue, Jan 27, 197625 mins
Richie talks Fonzie into being their lead singer,when Potsie can't make the senior High Dance at Arnold's. Basically comparing Fonzie's draw to that of Elvis. Fonzie for the first time in his life,though,feels nervous about possibly making a fool of himself and that he may "chicken" out of helping them.
Episode 20
Two Angry Men
Tue, Feb 3, 197625 mins
Fonzie is keeping a coop of pigeons on Howard's roof for pets, when it suddenly crashes through into Fonzie's apartment. The two men end up taking each other to court. Howard thinks the weight of the coop caused the incident, while Fonzie counters with the claim that it was the heavy snow from the blizzard. Who will win the case?
Episode 21
Beauty Contest
Tue, Feb 10, 197626 mins
In a sneaky scheme to widen their dating pool, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph stage a bogus beauty contest, planning to rig the vote to ensure 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.
Episode 22
Bringing Up Spike
Tue, Feb 17, 197625 mins
When nephew Spike comes for a visit and gets into trouble, frustrated Uncle Fonzie goes to Howard Cunningham for some expert fatherly advice.
Episode 23
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Tue, Feb 24, 197625 mins
Fonzie fears that his famous cool will be compromised if he wears the reading glasses prescribed to cure his headaches.
Episode 24
Arnold's Wedding
Tue, Mar 2, 197625 mins
Best man Fonzie's fears that Arnold's wedding plans will be ruined by the Fonzarelli Curse appear to come true after the newly-arrived Japanese bride-to-be calls the whole thing off.