The BEST episodes written by Fred Fox, Jr.
#1 - Hot Rods to Heck
Family Matters - Season 7 - Episode 7
When Laura's emotions go into overdrive for drag racer Curtis, Urkel soups up the Isetta and challenges the daredevil to a race. In an effort to distract Laura from Curtis Williams, a flirtatious high school senior, Steve challenges him to a car race. Steve converts his wimpy little car into a powerful racing machine. Meanwhile, Eddie has annoyed Carl ever since he moved back home. After Eddie's friends keep coming over and making noise, Carl tells Eddie to respect the others in the house.
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#2 - The Substitute Son
Family Matters - Season 6 - Episode 14
The transformation machine turns Urkel into a karate master who defends Laura's honor at a rough longshoreman's bar; Waldo becomes Carl's substitute son when Eddie starts taking his father for granted.
#3 - Number One with a Bullet
Family Matters - Season 4 - Episode 5
Carl and Urkel are hospital roommates and Urkel, as usual, is a pain -until he gets the opportunity to save Carl's hide.
#4 - Dark and Stormy Night
Family Matters - Season 6 - Episode 6
On a dark and stormy Halloween night Winslows play Pass the Ghost Story, in which Carl and Harriette are 19th-century vampires licking their chops over the wayfaring Sir Steven (Urkel).
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#5 - All the Wrong Moves
Family Matters - Season 5 - Episode 10
At the drive-in movie, Laura's new boyfriend (Kevin Mambo) has trouble getting the message that no really means no; and at home, Carl just doesn't get it when his insults drive Harriette to retaliate.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Car Thieves
Hong Kong Phooey - Season 1 - Episode 1
A stolen car ring is operating in town, and it's up to Hong Kong Phooey to break through the ring's sneaky secrets and stop them in their fiendish tracks. Meanwhile, Sarge is expecting the Commissioner to stop by, so he wants Penry to have the police station cleaned up before he arrives.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Mother and Child Reunion
Happy Days - Season 8 - Episode 21
Fonzie takes his auto shop class to an out-of-town junkyard and meets a waitress at a diner whom he thinks is his mother.
#10 - Hot Stuff
Happy Days - Season 7 - Episode 17
Chachi accidentally sets Arnold's on fire, and Fonzie, Potsie, and Ralph are trapped inside.
#11 - Turn Around and You're Home
Happy Days - Season 10 - Episode 21
After deciding to quit the band, Joanie moves back in with Howard and Marion to enroll in a teaching program at the University of Wisconsin. Chachi tries to convince her to stay with him in Chicago after he isn't willing to go with her back to Milwaukee.
#12 - Letting Go
Happy Days - Season 10 - Episode 2
Joanie and Chachi come back to Milwaukee after spending the summer in Chicago. Joanie wants to move there to be with Chachi and to continue their music career. After telling Howard and Marion her plans, which include attending Northwestern University, Howard refuses to let her go.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Passages (2)
Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 17
Fonzie's adoption request is reconsidered after a stern talk by Howard to the adoptions administrator. Meanwhile, Joanie and Chachi continue to prepare for their wedding.
#15 - Little Case of Revenge
Happy Days - Season 10 - Episode 5
Fonzie receives a good citizenship award from the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, but the ceremony is interrupted by a disgruntled childhood classmate of the Fonz who's been waiting 17 years for his revenge. They agree to settle their differences, but Ashley asks Fonzie to promise not to fight.
#16 - The Mechanic
Happy Days - Season 7 - Episode 12
A wheelchair-bound man, injured by a drunk driver, answers Fonzie's want advertisement for Bronko's Auto Repairing and is hired. He drives Fonzie crazy and is rude to everyone he comes into contact with.
#17 - Welcome Home (1)
Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 4
Richie (with Lori Beth and Richie Jr.) and Ralph return from the army. Howard is able to get Richie an interview with The Milwaukee Journal, but Richie doesn't appear to be interested.
#18 - Kid Stuff
Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 6
Fonzie and his girlfriend's son are getting along together as if they were father and son, but his girlfriend reveals that she and her estranged husband are getting back together.
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#19 - Spunky Come Home
Happy Days - Season 4 - Episode 22
Fonzie gets a dog, and she escapes when Ralph and Potsie accidentally leave the gate open. Ralph tells Fonzie that the dog, Spunky, was stolen.
#20 - Best Friends
Family Matters - Season 5 - Episode 6
Harriette tries to fit in with Laura's friends but gets the cold shoulder from Laura. And Waldo's not so hot as Eddie's new hire at Mighty Weenie.
#21 - Kiss Me, Teach
Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 10
Joanie accepts an assistant teaching position at Patton High and immediately encounters trouble when a student has a crush on her.
#22 - Excuse Me, May I Cut In?
Laverne & Shirley - Season 2 - Episode 4
Laverne and Shirley's tv breaks down, and when the contest offering a prize of a new color set arises Shirley acts nice to Richie Cunningham so that he'll ask her and Laverne to the dance, but also the real reason is that they want Richie to ask his friend Potsie Weber, who happens to be the school's best dancer, to partner Laverne. Potsie gets injured and can't dance so Laverne teams up with Richie at the last minute to win the TV. When back at the flat, the girls have to come clean about them just wanting the TV, but the guys are so nice about it that they get a little of what they were hoping for anyways.
#23 - The Sixth Sense
Happy Days - Season 8 - Episode 9
Chachi tells Fonzie that his motorcycle has seen better days, but Fonzie refuses to junk it. He finally decides to get a new bike after crashing his old one but has to save his money a little longer. Joanie suggests to Chachi that they all pool their money with Fonzie's to surprise him with a new bike for his birthday. Meanwhile, Arnold's has a new cook, but Fonzie's sixth sense tells him that something isn't right about him.
#24 - Live and Learn
Happy Days - Season 8 - Episode 2
Fonzie is given the job as teacher of auto mechanics at Jefferson High School. He gets frustrated when his students don't pick everything up as quickly as he did when he was a kid.
#25 - Westward Ho (3)
Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 3
Richie is able to stop the out-of-control horses that are pulling a wagon Joanie is in. With the deadline looming, the gang is still short $1017.38 for H. R. Buchanan's note, so Fonzie volunteers to ride a killer bull for a $1000 prize.
#26 - Home Movies (2)
Happy Days - Season 9 - Episode 2
Fonzie's Falcons and their rival gang, the War Mongers, attempt to settle their old scores with a game of softball. The outcome is disputed, so they end up rumbling. Marion confronts Howard about his anxiety over becoming a grandfather, and Chachi continues to try to make up with Joanie.
#27 - A Touch of Classical
Happy Days - Season 9 - Episode 16
Initially furious that the music teacher, Cynthia Brannigan, hires the Boston Conservatory Orchestra for the annual Jefferson High concert, Fonzie changes his tune when he realizes that famous composer Tchaikovsky was very much like himself. Fonzie decides to get the entire Jefferson High gang to like classical music.
#28 - Sink or Swim
Family Matters - Season 6 - Episode 8
It's no secret that Urkel is deathly afraid of the water and his heart sinks when he learns that he can't graduate from high school unless he can pass a pass a swimming test, so he asks Carl for lessons.
#29 - Shotgun Wedding
Happy Days - Season 7 - Episode 1
The Cunninghams and Fonzie go on vacation to Lake Pinewood. Richie and Fonzie get together with two lonely milkmaids, and, when their father catches them in his barn with his daughters, he says they will have to get married.
#30 - Miracle on Elm Street
Family Matters - Season 6 - Episode 11
Richie brings home a homeless person on Christmas.
#31 - The Duel
Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 24
A fencing champion from France visits UWM for an exhibition. After he insults Joanie and America, Richie challenges the champion to a duel.
#32 - Little Baby Cunningham
Happy Days - Season 9 - Episode 5
Lori Beth asks Fonzie to be her coach in a new birthing method called natural childbirth. He's fully on board until he learns he has to be in the delivery room with her.
#33 - Glove Story
Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 6
After being nothing more than a coat rack for Fonzie's scarf during a rumble, Chachi enters the city boxing championship tournament to earn his respect. Fonzie is elated when Chachi wins his first fight.
#34 - Just One Date
Family Matters - Season 4 - Episode 8
Urkel resorts to desperate measures to win a date with Laura by sitting on the roof and refusing to come down even though a blizzard is fast approaching Chicago.
#35 - Home Movies (1)
Happy Days - Season 9 - Episode 1
Joanie prepares some home movies to send to Richie. She mentions that she and Chachi have had their problems over the summer. In the movies, Lori Beth announces that she's going to have a baby, Al's mother visits for the entire summer, Howard is consumed with Braves baseball, and Fonzie and his former gang, the Falcons, get ready to settle old scores with a rival gang.
#36 - Grandmama
Family Matters - Season 5 - Episode 7
The NBA's Larry Johnson plays Grandmama (his TV-ad alter ego), who becomes Urkel's new partner in a city basketball competition after Eddie dumps Urkel for star player Kenny.
#37 - Do You Want to Dance?
Happy Days - Season 5 - Episode 23
Fonzie's girlfriend is a moderately successful ballet teacher, but Fonzie has trouble accepting that she may be happier as a professional performer in New York.
#38 - Brain Over Brawn
Family Matters - Season 3 - Episode 2
Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
#39 - Words Hurt
Family Matters - Season 3 - Episode 4
Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.
#40 - To Be or Not to Be (2)
Family Matters - Season 6 - Episode 2
After a vengeful Myra tampers with Urkel's transformation chamber, Carl steps into it and steps out as an Urkel-like nerd.
#41 - A Shot in the Dark
Happy Days - Season 4 - Episode 15
Richie makes a lucky shot to win a basketball game and suddenly becomes a big hero.
#42 - Boxcar Blues
Family Matters - Season 2 - Episode 6
Carl gets trapped inside a railroad boxcar with Steve and a cargo of cattle.
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#43 - Dog Day Halloween
Family Matters - Season 2 - Episode 7
Steve and Laura are held hostage during a Halloween bank robbery.
#44 - Fast Eddie Winslow
Family Matters - Season 2 - Episode 12
Eddie is cornered by a tough pool hustler.
#45 - High Hopes
Family Matters - Season 2 - Episode 17
In a hot-air balloon, Carl tries to overcome his fear of heights. Harriette and Rachel clash over a car won in a contest.
#46 - Busted
Family Matters - Season 2 - Episode 19
When Eddie cracks up the family car, Steve suggests raising repair money at an illegal gambling hangout.
#47 - Finding the Words
Family Matters - Season 2 - Episode 22
A charming, mysterious figure, claiming to be a family friend from the past, comes to visit - and turns out to be Harriet and Rachel's long-lost father.
#48 - Hollywood (3)
Happy Days - Season 5 - Episode 3
Fonzie faces jumping a caged shark on water skis, and Richie decides whether or not he wants to sign the Paramount Pictures contract he was offered.
#49 - Psycho Twins
Family Matters - Season 5 - Episode 18
Carl and Urkel end up in the ring with the World Wrestling Federation's Bushwhackers after Urkel creates a "snooze juice" that knocks out the wrestling team's original opponents.
#50 - Tender Kisses
Family Matters - Season 4 - Episode 16
Eddie gets more than he bargained for when he and his pals sneak into R&B singer Tracie Spencer's hotel room in search of tickets to her concert; and Carl is in for a big surprise when he discovers Harriette's diary.