The BEST episodes written by William Bickley
#1 - M is for the Many Things
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 2
Shirley is awarded Mother of the Year by a magazine. The family travel by bus to Sacramento to accept the award. Taking the back road leads them to wrong turns, lost wallet, traffic tickets, and other annoyances.
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#2 - Hate Thy Neighbor
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 1
During a practice session, a young boy walks into the garage. He & his family just moved into the neighborhood. The mother does not like show business and calls the police every time the family practices. A battle of wills ensues.
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#3 - 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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#4 - The Eleven-Year Itch
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 18
Shirley's recent boyfriend, the politician, comes to town. He brings his daughter along. While Shirley and Dick enjoy being together, his daughter has a crush on Danny and he cannot escape her.
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#5 - Al in the Family
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 11
While Ruben is out of town, his nephew takes over managing the Partridges. He is not cut out for the job.
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#6 - Princess and the Partridge
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 3
A princess flies into town with the express purpose of having a date with Keith. They find it difficult to act natural around each other until the princess tells all to relax. Keith & the princess manage to slip away from bodyguards.
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#7 - Ladies and Germs
Perfect Strangers - Season 2 - Episode 4
Larry has a date with a beauty queen but after going to the hospital to visit Mr. Twinkacetti (who has broken his leg), he catches a cold and when Balki tries to cure him with a secret Myposian cure, he ends up sleeping for three days.
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#8 - Motorcycle
Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 2
Fonzie finds his his bike in pieces, and the search is on to find out who did it.
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#9 - Piano Movers
Perfect Strangers - Season 4 - Episode 4
When Lydia wants her piano moved up ten flights of stairs so she can sing for a record producer she is dating, Balki volunteers himself and Larry but Larry's bad back may be a strain on this whole thing.
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#10 - Car Wars
Perfect Strangers - Season 4 - Episode 18
Balki finally has enough money to buy a car and thinks it will be fun. But Larry insists on using his father's ""used car rating system"" to buy him one and ends up buying him a lemon.
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#11 - Black and White Blues
What's Happening!! - Season 2 - Episode 13
To watch a football game, the guys "borrow" the church raffle's grand prize, a new color TV set.
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#12 - Pilot
Step by Step - Season 1 - Episode 1
During their vacations in Jamaica, contractor Frank Lambert and widowed beautician Carol Foster get married. When they return to their hometown, Port Washington, Wisconsin, they need to slowly introduce their very different children. Their plan is to make the children think they are dating but Frank accidentally tells the truth (that they are married) and there is nothing to hide so eventually the Lamberts move to the Foster's house. Later, as a sign of ""step-maternal"" love, Carol believes Al is having a pain that is hurting her (something Frank never believed) and she takes her to the hospital; the pain results to be a appendix and they remove it.
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#13 - My Heart Belongs to a Two-Car Garage
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 19
Chris and Tracy invite a street worker into their home. He says he is a world-class Russian painter and says he can paint a work of art on their garage door. The completed picture is a nude woman that all the neighbors complain about.
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#14 - The Mama Who Came to Dinner
Family Matters - Season 1 - Episode 1
Mother Winslow moves in and immediately begins to usurp Carl's authority. Eddie wants to go out with his friends, but he has a strict curfew that complicates things with Carl.
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#15 - Bye Bye Biki
Perfect Strangers - Season 3 - Episode 18
Balki is excited because his 106 year old grandmother Biki is coming to America to see him but when she switched planes in New York, she died at the airport and Balki has a hard time accepting it and pretends to be happy.
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#16 - Richie's Cup Runneth Over
Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 3
Richie and Potsie are invited to Potsie's cousin's stag party. In an attempt to lessen the effects of the alcohol they will consume, they each drink several cartons of milk and a sip of olive oil.
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#17 - Falling in Love is...
Perfect Strangers - Season 2 - Episode 7
Balki falls in love with a girl at night school and who makes a play for Larry and constantly breaks dates with him. Balki refuses to believe that she is just using him to get good grades.
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#18 - Breaking up is Hard to Do
Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 9
Richie and his girlfriend, Arlene, break up after two weeks of dating. Neither of them have dates for the prom, so they end up going together as friends.
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#19 - The Strike-Out King
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 4
Danny has started following Keith and Laurie around all the time. He even tries dressing and acting like Keith. Ruben suggests he try baseball so he can be around kids his own age. Danny hates baseball, but turns out he is a good pitcher.
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#20 - The Partridge Papers
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 22
The school newspaper is collecting items for an auction to raise money. While Laurie is out, Danny accidentally grabs the wrong box with Laurie's items to contribute. Her personal diary is contributed. The newspaper threatens to publish it.
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#21 - Ain't Loveth Grand?
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 10
Greg, a former childhood friend of Laurie's, returns to town and reconnects. Turns out he is now a minister. They go out together and have a great time catching up on their lives. Laurie starts to fall for him and Shirley is worried.
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#22 - Picture This
Perfect Strangers - Season 1 - Episode 2
Larry tries to kickstart his career and gets tipped off that Dolly Parton is in town committing adultery. So he decides to follow her until he can get a picture to sell to newspapers. Meanwhile, Balki will do a favor for anyone who will ask for it so Larry teaches him to say ""no"" once in a while but it backfires on him.
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#23 - Hello, Mrs. Arcola
Happy Days - Season 8 - Episode 14
Because she's never been to his house or met his mother, Joanie thinks that Chachi is ashamed of her. Fonzie invites the Cunninghams over to the Arcola's for dinner on Chachi's behalf. Fonzie surmizes that Chachi is embarrassed of his mother and uncle and of the fact that they're poor.
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#24 - The Horn Blows at Midnight
Perfect Strangers - Season 3 - Episode 7
When a famous psychic visits the Chronicle, She goes into a trance and predicts that a bog storm will come and Larry will die at midnight after sitting on a sheep and eating a golden ring. Larry thinks that it is just superstition until a storm comes out of nowhere.
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#25 - Hello, Elaine
Perfect Strangers - Season 2 - Episode 22
When Larry's sister Elaine stops by for a visit, Larry is appalled when she tells him that she's going to New York to become a pianist instead of college.
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#26 - Check This
Perfect Strangers - Season 1 - Episode 5
Larry takes Balki to the bank to open a bank account but Balki doesn't seem to understand everything about banking when he overspends with his checks and buys Larry new furniture. Meanwhile, Twinkacetti is going to a poker game and his wife, Edwina doesn't like him gambling. So he asks Larry to tell his wife that they were at a basketball game but Larry refuses to.
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#27 - One Flew Over Milwaukee
Laverne & Shirley - Season 1 - Episode 8
Shirley drives everyone she knows crazy when she loses her pet canary.
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#28 - College Bound
Perfect Strangers - Season 4 - Episode 8
Larry prepares a surprise party for Balki who is taking his college entrance exams. While they are waiting for him to return, they talk about some things they've been through together such as when they first met, the first day at the Chronicle, when they tried to fix Jennifer and Mary Anne's shower, etc. Larry thinks that he has helped Balki come along way but it seems that Balki has been helping him more.
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#29 - Short Story
Family Matters - Season 1 - Episode 3
Rachel writes a short story with characters that seem all too familiar; Carl becomes obsessed with the family's out of proportion water bill.
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#30 - Laura's First Date
Family Matters - Season 1 - Episode 12
Laura wants to go to an upcoming dance with a good-looking boy. Carl and Eddie try to find Laura a date. Carl asks Steve Urkel to take Laura to the dance, while Eddie asks one of his friends to take her out. When Laura finds out what happened, she is humiliated.
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#31 - Fonzie Drops In
Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 7
After taking a look at a B+ Potsie got on an exam, Fonzie decides to drop back into school. He asks Richie to do his homework and cheat for him.
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#32 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Partridge
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 7
Keith decides he has to be a better role model to his younger brothers and sisters, but it seems like everything backfires.
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Step by Step - Season 5 - Episode 1
J.T. is excited about his double date with his pal and two girls, until he finds out who his pal's date is.
#34 - The Skin Game
Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 8
Richie and Potsie obtain fake identification cards in order to attend a burlesque show where Ralph says Bubbles McCall takes it all off.
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#35 - Hello, Tough Guy
Happy Days - Season 9 - Episode 11
Dateless for an upcomming concert, Jenny is set up with Eugene Belvin by Joanie and Chachi. They, along with Fonzie, try to make Eugene appeal to Jenny by making him seem more manly.
#36 - A Woman Not Under the Influence
Happy Days - Season 10 - Episode 1
It's love at first sight for Fonzie when he sees a woman in a store as they pass each other on the escalator. Potsie happens to know who she is (Ashley Pfister), and Fonzie vows to find her and make her his.
#37 - 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.
#38 - Fonzie's Baptism
Happy Days - Season 4 - Episode 24
After crashing in a stock-car race, Fonzie begins to worry about what will happen when his number comes up. Al suggests Fonzie seek the guidance of his brother, Father Anthony Delvecchio.
#39 - Angels of Mercy
Laverne & Shirley - Season 2 - Episode 2
Laverne & Shirley become hospital volunteers.
#40 - Chachi's Future
Happy Days - Season 9 - Episode 20
After a day of fishing with Howard, Chachi gets to thinking about his future when he realizes that being a success in the music business is a long shot. He leaves the house determined not to come back until he finds a career that would be sufficient to support Joanie should they get married one day. He tries his luck at being a salesman.
#41 - Fonzie Loves Pinky (2)
Happy Days - Season 4 - Episode 2
Fonzie assesses the damage to Pinky's car, and Richie asks Howard to delay the start of the demolition derby.
#42 - Two for the Show
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 14
Reuben manages a new twin singing act, but the boys have a crush on Laurie. They won't perform until they get a date from her.
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#43 - A Nun's Story
Laverne & Shirley - Season 1 - Episode 4
While Laverne & Shirley await their yearly high school reunion, they reminisce about their old crazy friend, Anne-Marie, who shows up at the reunion a nun.
#44 - Hello, Pfisters
Happy Days - Season 10 - Episode 12
Ashley receives an invitation to her estranged parents' wedding anniversary party. She doesn't want to go, but Fonzie insists.
#45 - Because It's There
Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 1
Fonzie finds a note he wrote as a child containing a list of things to accomplish in the next twenty years. On the list is one goal he hasn't yet accomplished: climb Suicide Hill on a motorcycle. The problem is that he's already tried it and failed.
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#46 - The Sit-In
Welcome Back, Kotter - Season 1 - Episode 15
The Sweathogs, diverged from a food-fight, hold a sit-in to protest the school cafetieria's Wednesday liver.
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#47 - Hello, Roger
Happy Days - Season 8 - Episode 4
Roger Phillips, Marion's nephew, comes to Milwaukee to become an English teacher and the basketball coach at Jefferson High School. He gets off on the wrong foot with Fonzie after he inadvertently empties his locker, insults him, and crashes into his motorcycle.
#48 - Graduation (2)
Happy Days - Season 4 - Episode 18
After passing make-up health exams and getting permission for Fonzie to participate, the guys arrange for aspects of the graduation ceremony to be sped up in order to accomodate the inclusion of Fonzie's speech.
#49 - Good News, Bad News
Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 21
After his single makes it onto the record charts, Chachi is invited to go on tour with the Beach Boys as one of their opening acts. However, he quits the tour after learning he has diabetes.