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27 Episodes 1978 - 1979
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 12, 1978
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.
Episode 2
Tue, Sep 12, 1978
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.
Episode 3
Tue, Sep 19, 1978
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.

Episode 4
Tue, Sep 26, 1978
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.
Episode 5
Thu, Oct 5, 197830 mins
Richie, Ralph, Potsie & fellow fraternity brothers are required to take Team Baton Twirlers to a special college dance. This means lying to their girlfriends,which is especially hard for Richie as he's always been honest with Lori Beth. He makes up a story about going "on assignment" in a police car for a school thesis but later the guilt is really getting to him. Will Richie come clean in the end or not?
Episode 6
Tue, Oct 10, 197830 mins
Fonzie befriends 6-year-old Bobby, a little boy who's father left him and his mother when he was three. But when the repentant dad returns and Bobby runs away, the Fonz must find a way to reunite the family and give Bobby a second chance to get to know his father.
Episode 7
Tue, Oct 17, 197830 mins
A two-timing star quarterback may leave Joanie dateless for her own sweet sixteen birthday party.
Episode 8
Tue, Oct 24, 1978
Hypnotic suggestion during research for science editor Richie's college newspaper article leaves phobic Ralph Malph fearless.
Episode 9
Tue, Oct 31, 1978
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.
Episode 10
Fri, Nov 3, 1978
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.
Episode 11
Tue, Nov 14, 1978
Richie tries to find the reason Fonzie seems to be allergic to girls before the celebrated chick magnet ditches dating forever.
Episode 12
Tue, Nov 21, 1978
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.
Episode 13
Tue, Nov 28, 1978
Richie's reputation goes from respectable to racy after he's identified in a police line-up as the notorious Kissing Bandit.
Episode 14
Tue, Dec 5, 1978
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.
Episode 15
Tue, Dec 12, 1978
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.
Episode 16
Tue, Dec 19, 1978
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.
Episode 17
Tue, Jan 16, 1979
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.
Episode 18
Tue, Jan 23, 1979
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.
Episode 19
Fri, Feb 2, 1979
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.
Episode 20
Tue, Feb 6, 1979
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.
Episode 21
Tue, Feb 13, 1979
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.
Episode 22
Tue, Feb 20, 1979
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, however, decides that to avoid suspicion from the funeral home he'll return the hearse as if nothing is wrong. Later that day, however, when Fonzie is not seen anywhere, Richie grows concerned, and he takes Postie and Ralph to the funeral home to look for Fonzie. Fonzie, however, returns to Howard and Marion's house unharmed, having gone to the police after returning the hearse. Unaware of this, Richie, Postie, and Ralph uncover the mastermind behind the counterfeiting ring, a flamboyant heavyset criminal known as Candy Man for his obsessive indulgence in lollipops. Richie overhears Candy Man lamenting that Fonzie has found his counterfeit loot, and vows to kill him. Richie manages to sneak out of the funeral home, but Ralph and Postie are grabbed by Candy Man's henchmen. When Richie returns home he learns that Fonzie is going to his garage. Fearing Candy Man has set a trap, Richie drives desperately to the garage just as Fonzie enters - and Richie's worst fear erupts in his face as the garage explodes, with Fonzie inside.........
Episode 23
Tue, Feb 27, 1979
Fonzie has survived the explosion by getting behind a large metal filing cabinet. He & Richie then return to the Cunningham's home. With the help of the family and local police,they devise a way to not only rescue Ralph & Potsie but to foil the Candyman & his henchmen once and for all. By having a fake ceremony for the late Fonzerelli!
Episode 24
Tue, Mar 6, 1979
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.

Episode 25
Tue, Mar 13, 197930 mins
Hot-headed Richie challenges an arrogant French fencing champion to a duel after the visiting swordsman insults sister and country.
Episode 26
Tue, May 8, 1979
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.
Episode 27
Tue, May 15, 1979
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.