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Laverne & Shirley
From The TV IV
| Laverne & Shirley | |
 | |
| Premiere | January 27, 1976 |
| Finale | May 10, 1983 |
| Creator | Garry K. Marshall and Lowell Ganz, Mark Rothman |
| Network/Provider | ABC |
| Style | 30-minute sitcom |
| Company | Henderson Production Company
Miller/Milkis Productions (seasons 1–6) Miller/Milkis/Boyett Productions (seasons 7–8) Paramount Television |
| Distributor | Paramount Television (1981–2006)
CBS Paramount Television (2006–2007) CBS Television Distribution (2007–2021) CBS Media Ventures (2021– ) |
| Seasons | 8 |
| Episodes | 178 |
| Origin | USA |
Laverne & Shirley is a sitcom that aired on ABC. The show is a spinoff of Happy Days.
Laverne DeFazio and Shirley are two young bachelorettes who work at the Shotz brewery in Milwaukee. Most of their misadventures have them trying to meet boys and trying to better their lives. Their neighbors are Carmine Ragusa (pro pugilist and the girls' friend) and Lenny Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman (the latter two a pair of well-meaning buffoonish greasers).
Later episodes had the crew relocating to Burbank, California. The show spawned a Hanna-Barbera cartoon for ABC's Saturday morning line-up in 1981, unofficially billed as Laverne and Shirley in the Army.
Contents |
Cast
| Actor | Character | Duration | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Cast | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| Penny Marshall | Laverne DeFazio | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
| Cindy Williams | Shirley Feeney | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
| David L. Lander | Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggmann | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
| Michael McKean | Leonard "Lenny" Kosnowski | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
| Eddie Mekka | Carmine Ragusa | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
| Phil Foster | Frank DeFazio | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
| Betty Garrett | Mrs. Edna DeFazio | * | * | * | * | * | |||
| Leslie Easterbrook | Rhonda Lee | * | * | * | |||||
| Ed Marinaro | Sonny St. Jacques | * | |||||||
| Supporting/Recurring Cast | |||||||||
| Carole Ita White | Rosie Greenbaum | * | |||||||
| Vicki Lawrence | Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout | * | * | * | * | ||||
Seasons
| Season | Premiere | Finale | # | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | ||||||
| Season One: Laverne DeFazio & Shirley Feeney | January 27, 1976 | May 18, 1976 | 15 | |||
| Season Two | September 28, 1976 | April 5, 1977 | 23 | |||
| Season Three | September 20, 1977 | May 30, 1978 | 24 | |||
| Season Four | September 5, 1978 | May 15, 1979 | 24 | |||
| Season Five | September 13, 1979 | May 13, 1980 | 26 | |||
| Season Six | November 18, 1980 | May 26, 1981 | 22 | |||
| Season Seven | October 13, 1981 | May 11, 1982 | 22 | |||
| Season Eight | September 28, 1982 | May 10, 1983 | 22 | |||
In-Depth
- At a Glance: Additional information about the series
DVD Releases
| Title | Release | Discs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete Series (Region 1) | ||||||
| The Complete Series | June 16, 2015 | purchase | 28 | |||
| Season Sets (Region 1) | ||||||
| The Complete First Season | August 17, 2004 | purchase | 3 | |||
| The Second Season | April 17, 2007 | purchase | 4 | |||
| The Third Season | November 27, 2007 | purchase | 4 | |||
| The Fourth Season | April 22, 2008 | purchase | 4 | |||
| The Fifth Season | April 10, 2012 | purchase | 4 | |||
| The Sixth Season | May 21, 2013 | purchase | 3 | |||
| The Seventh Season | February 4, 2014 | purchase | 3 | |||
| The Eighth and Final Season | May 6, 2014 | purchase | 3 | |||
