The BEST episodes directed by Jerry Paris

Welcome Home (2)
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10.00
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#1 - Welcome Home (2)

Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 5

Still upset about having given up on his dream as a screenwriter and having to pretend to be happy all of the time, Richie takes out his frustrations on everyone around him - including punching Fonzie in a bar.

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Fonzie Versus the She Devils
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#2 - 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.

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Hi Yo Fonzie, Away
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#3 - Hi Yo Fonzie, Away

Happy Days - Season 9 - Episode 17

The gang tries to get the Lone Ranger, Fonzie's idol, to appear at his birthday party. Meanwhile, Fonzie thinks about becoming a one-woman man.

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The Other Richie Cunningham
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9.80
27 votes

#4 - 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

#5 - 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
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8.58
66 votes

#6 - 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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Get a Job
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8.50
54 votes

#7 - 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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Football Frolics
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8.50
54 votes

#8 - 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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Beauty Contest
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8.50
54 votes

#9 - 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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Fonzie's Getting Married
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8.49
54 votes

#10 - 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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Great Expectations
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8.45
54 votes

#11 - 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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Howard's 45th Fiasco
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8.45
54 votes

#12 - 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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Cruisin'
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8.42
54 votes

#13 - 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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A Date with Fonzie
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8.27
81 votes

#14 - 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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4 1/2
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8.23
63 votes

#15 - 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

#16 - 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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The Third One from the Left
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8.09
63 votes

#17 - 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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I Was a Teenage Head Writer
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8.06
65 votes

#18 - 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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The Gunslinger
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8.03
63 votes

#19 - 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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How to Spank a Star
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8.02
63 votes

#20 - 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
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8.02
63 votes

#21 - 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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Married Strangers
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8.00
27 votes

#22 - 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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Fonzie's Funeral (1)
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8.00
27 votes

#23 - 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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Chachi's Incredo-Wax
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8.00
27 votes

#24 - Chachi's Incredo-Wax

Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 25

Needing extra money, Chachi begins selling Incredo-Wax, a miracle product that will shine anything. Unfortunately, it has disastrous side effects and ruins everything it touches.

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Fonzie Meets Kat
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8.00
27 votes

#25 - Fonzie Meets Kat

Happy Days - Season 7 - Episode 3

The merchant seamen are in town, and with them is Rico, a sworn enemy of Fonzie. Fonzie is primed to fight, but Father Delvecchio makes him promise not to.

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R. C. & L. B. Forever
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8.00
0 votes

#26 - R. C. & L. B. Forever

Happy Days - Season 8 - Episode 19

Richie and Lori Beth want to get married, but Lori Beth cannot go to Richie's base until they're already married. Roger suggests that they have a ceremony in which a proxy stands in for Richie because he can't be there in person. Fonzie volunteers to be the proxy.

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Break a Leg
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8.00
8 votes

#27 - 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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The Howdy Doody Show
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8.00
54 votes

#28 - 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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Fonzie Moves in
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8.00
54 votes

#29 - Fonzie Moves in

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 1

With Howard's hardware store about to face new competition, the Cunninghams decide they need to rent the room above their garage to generate extra income. Howard is shocked when Richie rents it to Fonzie.

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A Cowboy in Paradise
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8.00
4 votes

#30 - 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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Fearless Malph
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8.00
27 votes

#31 - 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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He's No Heavy... He's My Brother
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7.98
43 votes

#32 - 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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It May Look Like a Walnut!
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7.89
99 votes

#33 - 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 Magic Show
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7.79
27 votes

#34 - 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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Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
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7.73
66 votes

#35 - 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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Fish and the Fins
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7.70
81 votes

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

#37 - 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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Fonzie the Salesman
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7.70
81 votes

#38 - 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.

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Fearless Fonzarelli (2)
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7.70
81 votes

#39 - 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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A Sight for Sore Eyes
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7.70
81 votes

#40 - 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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Richie Fights Back
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7.70
81 votes

#41 - 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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Three on a Porch
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7.70
81 votes

#42 - 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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Fearless Fonzarelli (1)
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7.70
81 votes

#43 - Fearless Fonzarelli (1)

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 3

Worried that he's losing his cool, Fonzie attempts to jump 14 garbage cans on his motorcycle. The stunt will be televised on You Wanted to See It.

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Two Angry Men
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7.70
81 votes

#44 - 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's New Friend
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7.70
81 votes

#45 - 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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Tell It to the Marines
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7.70
81 votes

#46 - 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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Fonzie the Superstar
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7.70
81 votes

#47 - 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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The Murray Who Came to Dinner
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7.70
40 votes

#48 - 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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The Alan Brady Show Presents
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7.66
67 votes

#49 - 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 Flatfoot
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7.65
81 votes

#50 - 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.

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