The BEST episodes directed by Jerry Paris

The Other Richie Cunningham
star
8.73
60 votes

#1 - The Other Richie Cunningham

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 5

Needing to make a good impression for a prospective business deal, Howard asks Richie to take the "Prince of Porcelain's" daughter out on a date. Richie, however, already has big plans and asks Potsie to take his place and pretend to be him.

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Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
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8.63
63 votes

#2 - Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 26

In a hurry to go to the theatre, Rob, Buddy and Sally forget to cross out all the insults about Alan they wrote in this week's script.

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The Ghost of A. Chantz
star
8.58
66 votes

#3 - The Ghost of A. Chantz

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4 - Episode 2

Rob, Buddy, Laura, and Sally spend the night in a creepy cabin.

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Howard's 45th Fiasco
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8.26
84 votes

#4 - Howard's 45th Fiasco

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 8

At his 45th birthday, Howard realizes that his life has been very dull up to this point, and he attempts to run away to Tahiti.

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4 1/2
star
8.23
63 votes

#5 - 4 1/2

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4 - Episode 7

Rob tells Buddy and Sally the story of how they became friends with a convict.

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My Mother Can Beat Up My Father
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8.23
64 votes

#6 - My Mother Can Beat Up My Father

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4 - Episode 1

When a drunk gets too rowdy at a bar, Laura's talent for judo surfaces.

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Football Frolics
star
8.18
79 votes

#7 - Football Frolics

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 17

Needing money to get tickets to a big football game, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph decide to babysit 15 children on the night of Mardi Gras.

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A Date with Fonzie
star
8.16
114 votes

#8 - A Date with Fonzie

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 10

With Richie in a dating slump, Fonzie sets Richie and himself up on a double date with two of his girls, Laverne and Shirley.

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The Third One from the Left
star
8.09
63 votes

#9 - The Third One from the Left

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 3 - Episode 14

Rob tries to stop a guest star from falling in love with him.

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Great Expectations
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8.09
109 votes

#10 - Great Expectations

Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 13

Richie meets a beatnik named Diedre at the movies and gets caught up in her type of lifestyle.

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Cruisin'
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8.08
86 votes

#11 - Cruisin'

Happy Days - Season 2 - Episode 16

Richie, Postie, and Ralph are forced to go cruising for girls in Howard's DeSoto after Marion dents Richie's car at the supermarket. They find three girls but, later, find their boyfriends who are members of a gang called the Dragons.

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I Was a Teenage Head Writer
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8.08
64 votes

#12 - I Was a Teenage Head Writer

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 2 - Episode 19

Thinking his own friends betrayed him in an argument with Mel over a sketch, Rob remembers his first day as the head writer of The Alan Brady Show.

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Beauty Contest
star
8.08
80 votes

#13 - Beauty Contest

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 20

Richie, Potsie, and Ralph stage a beauty contest at Arnold's in order to meet girls. They plan to enter a plant into the contest who won't accept the prizes when chosen as the winner. Richie is uneasy about this but reconsiders when a cheerleader he's interested in enters.

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Get a Job
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8.06
87 votes

#14 - Get a Job

Happy Days - Season 2 - Episode 18

Looking for work, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph agree to fix the fence of an attractive divorcee. When the woman leaves for awhile, Potsie and Ralph decide to take off, as well, leaving Richie to finish the job by himself.

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Fonzie's Getting Married
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8.04
88 votes

#15 - Fonzie's Getting Married

Happy Days - Season 2 - Episode 13

Fonzie announces that he's getting married and brings his bride-to-be to the Cunningham house for dinner. There, Howard recognizes her as stripper he saw at a hardware convention in Chicago.

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The Gunslinger
star
8.03
63 votes

#16 - The Gunslinger

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 31

As Jerry is extracting a tooth, Rob dreams that he lives in the old west and is a sheriff who has to save the town from Big Bad Brady.

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He's No Heavy... He's My Brother
star
8.02
40 votes

#17 - He's No Heavy... He's My Brother

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Episode 3

Mary and Rhoda take an unplanned vacation to Mexico but have to do a strange favor for a Mexican restaurant owner for reservations.

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How to Spank a Star
star
8.02
63 votes

#18 - How to Spank a Star

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 3 - Episode 24

Rob's favorite star guests on the Alan Brady show but starts causing problems right away.

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My Husband is the Best One
star
8.02
63 votes

#19 - My Husband is the Best One

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 3 - Episode 15

A reporter interviews Rob for a cover story she's doing about Alan Brady. Laura also comes to the restaurant, and chimes in just a little too much.

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A Cowboy in Paradise
star
8.00
2 votes

#20 - A Cowboy in Paradise

McCloud - Season 4 - Episode 3

Just before presenting a rackets case, Chief Clifford goes to Hawaii for a police conference. Taos sends McCloud, too, and the Marshal is obliged to dragoon a vacationing N.Y. policewoman when the Chief is set up on a murder charge.

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Break a Leg
star
8.00
8 votes

#21 - Break a Leg

That Girl - Season 1 - Episode 10

Ann's friend Sandy, an actress who has just won a lead role in a Broadway play, visits Ann. Suddenly, Sandy gets sick, leaving Ann to play her role. Everyone thinks that Ann stole teh job from her, but Ann pays them no never mind as she enjoys her chance. Unfortunately the play closes after one performance.

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It May Look Like a Walnut!
star
7.90
97 votes

#22 - It May Look Like a Walnut!

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 2 - Episode 20

In this classic, Rob has a dream - inspired by a late-night horror movie on TV - involving walnuts, missing thumbs, and a space alien who looks like Danny Thomas.

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The Murray Who Came to Dinner
star
7.82
38 votes

#23 - The Murray Who Came to Dinner

The Odd Couple - Season 3 - Episode 23

Felix and Oscar try to get rid of a depressed houseguest.

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Fearless Malph
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7.76
45 votes

#24 - Fearless Malph

Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 8

Richie is writing a story about fears and phobias, and he finds out that Ralph is afraid of nearly everything. While Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are visiting a professor whose specialty is fear, lab mice become agitated. The professor concludes that it is a sign that a tornado is coming.

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Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
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7.73
66 votes

#25 - Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 1

A TV show host gets Laura to reveal some information she wishes she hadn't.

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Fonzie Versus the She Devils
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7.72
17 votes

#26 - Fonzie Versus the She Devils

Happy Days - Season 7 - Episode 11

Unknowingly, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are invited to a party hosted by the She Devils gang in which the Devil who brings in the biggest nerd wins a $100 prize. After Richie discovers the purpose of the party, he and the guys head for the door. However, several Devils come in carrying a sack containing a guy who jilted the sister of the gang's leader. The guy is Chachi.

The Howdy Doody Show
star
7.71
92 votes

#27 - The Howdy Doody Show

Happy Days - Season 2 - Episode 17

Facing a deadline for the school paper, Richie tries to get a photo of Clarabell the clown, from The Howdy Doody Show, without makeup. To get on the set, Richie plans to get Ralph to enter a Howdy Doody look-alike contest the show is conducting.

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I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All
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7.70
63 votes

#28 - I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 3 - Episode 31

Another classic; in this episode, Rob finds a hair or two in his brush; of course he assumes he's going bald. His barber (Ned Glass) tells him to use a concoction on his head, right before bed. The fact that it smells alot like salad dressing has an interesting effect on Rob's dreams that night.

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Richie Fights Back
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7.70
128 votes

#29 - Richie Fights Back

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 6

After being embarrassed at Arnold's by a couple of hoods, Richie wants to take a jujitsu class to learn how to defend and stand up for himself.

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Fonzie's New Friend
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7.70
111 votes

#30 - Fonzie's New Friend

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 12

Fonzie provides a drummer, who is black, to play with the band at Richie's party.

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The Magic Show
star
7.69
41 votes

#31 - The Magic Show

Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 14

Howard and Al are co-chairmen of a Leopard Lodge fund-raiser. When the magician/escape-artist they hired injures himself while attempting the milk-can escape, Fonzie suggests another magician, the Amazing Randi.

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Three on a Porch
star
7.69
110 votes

#32 - Three on a Porch

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 11

With nothing to do for the Easter holiday, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph decide to rent a cabin at Lake Whitefish. They pretend to be adult businessmen in order to secure the cabin and get girls.

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The Alan Brady Show Presents
star
7.69
66 votes

#33 - The Alan Brady Show Presents

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 3 - Episode 13

The staff has to plan a Christmas show.

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Fonzie the Salesman
star
7.67
106 votes

#34 - Fonzie the Salesman

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 16

When his garage gets a new owner, Fonzie decides to quit. He is unable to find another job as a head mechanic, but, with Howard as his inspiration, vows to find his true calling.

Two Angry Men
star
7.67
109 votes

#35 - Two Angry Men

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 19

Fonzie takes Howard to court after Fonzie's pigeon cage falls through the roof of his apartment during a blizzard. Fonzie claims the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse while Howard claims it was the pigeon cage.

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Fonzie the Flatfoot
star
7.67
114 votes

#36 - Fonzie the Flatfoot

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 9

Fonzie poses as a police officer in order to stop a rumble between two rival gangs.

Tell It to the Marines
star
7.64
107 votes

#37 - Tell It to the Marines

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 14

Convinced that no girl could be attracted to him and that he's useless, Ralph threatens to enlist with the Marines.

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Fish and the Fins
star
7.64
113 votes

#38 - Fish and the Fins

Happy Days - Season 2 - Episode 20

To hide from overzealous fans, a popular rock group (one of the members was Richie's childhood friend) is staying at the Cunningham house, but Richie can't tell anyone that they're there. This poses a problem for Richie because nobody believes he actually knows them.

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It Only Hurts When I Smile
star
7.64
10 votes

#39 - It Only Hurts When I Smile

Happy Days - Season 8 - Episode 10

Fonzie comes down with a terrible toothache but refuses to see a dentist. Meanwhile, Howard is upset about Joanie's choice of attire for a wedding she's attending.

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Fonzie the Superstar
star
7.63
115 votes

#40 - Fonzie the Superstar

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 18

With Potsie away, the guys try to get Fonzie to take his place as the band's singer for the Senior Dance.

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What? And Get Out of Show Business?
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7.63
73 votes

#41 - What? And Get Out of Show Business?

The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 1

Recent widow Shirley Partridge joins up with her talented children to form a singing group.

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The Man from My Uncle
star
7.61
62 votes

#42 - The Man from My Uncle

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 27

A government agent wants to use Ritchie's room to stake out a house across the street.

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Married Strangers
star
7.60
42 votes

#43 - Married Strangers

Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 20

It's their 23rd anniversary, and Howard and Marion are angry at each other over a rate-your-mate test they took in a magazine. Richie, Fonzie, and Joanie have arranged for them to take a second honeymoon. Marion angers Howard even further when she wants everything to be exactly the same as it was on their first honeymoon.

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Never Bathe on Saturday
star
7.59
61 votes

#44 - Never Bathe on Saturday

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4 - Episode 27

Laura and Rob plan to spend a romantic weekend in the city and see a play, until Laura runs into a little problem at the hotel.

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Uhny Uftz
star
7.59
63 votes

#45 - Uhny Uftz

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 3

While working very late, Rob thinks he hears and sees a small flying saucer outside the office window.

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A Sight for Sore Eyes
star
7.58
106 votes

#46 - A Sight for Sore Eyes

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 22

Fonzie is forced to wear glasses after Ralph's father discovers he has astigmatism.

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Fonzie's Funeral (1)
star
7.58
43 votes

#47 - Fonzie's Funeral (1)

Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 22

Fonzie discovers thousands of dollars in counterfeit money hidden in a casket inside of a hearse he is working on. When he doesn't return from the funeral parlor after bringing back the hearse, the guys fear the worst.

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Fearless Fonzarelli (2)
star
7.57
117 votes

#48 - Fearless Fonzarelli (2)

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 4

Fonzie crashes after a successful attempt to jump 14 garbage cans on his motorcycle and faces surgery to remove torn cartilage in his knee.

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Long Night's Journey into Day
star
7.54
63 votes

#49 - Long Night's Journey into Day

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 30

Laura spends the night alone (terrified) while her family is on a fishing trip.

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See Rob Write, Write Rob, Write
star
7.54
63 votes

#50 - See Rob Write, Write Rob, Write

The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 12

To help sell a local artist's illustrations, Rob and Laura each write wildly different children's stories to go along with them.

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