Laverne & Shirley

Weekdays at 2:30p ET | 11:30a PT and Sunday at 3p ET | 12p PT

A spinoff of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley follows two young friends living in Milwaukee during the 1960s. The perky and positive Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams) shares an apartment with Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall), a tough-talking tomboy. With a cast of characters that includes lovable pests Lenny and Squiggy (Michael McKean and David L. Lander), the girls experience comedic growing pains as they work to make it on their own.

Next Airings

May 5th 2:30p ET

"Drive!" She Said

Poor Laverne has an embarrassing secret (one of the many)-that she can't drive and never learned how! Shirley is ready and willing to give her driving lessons-and Shirley assures her its a cinch.

May 6th 2:30p ET

Angels of Mercy

Laverne & Shirley become hospital volunteers or "candy stripers". While working, new boyfriend Jerry Callahan has to check in for an operation. The girls get mixed up in many crazy things as they try their newbie hand at being nurses!

May 7th 2:30p ET

Bachelor Mothers

Since the girls have no dates that night, they agree to babysit Fonzie's godson. When they get a call for a big date only one of them can go, the other has to stay home and watch the baby. Laverne gets to go but when the date gets cancelled, Shirley has to stop Laverne from getting on a bus and going to Chicago to meet her date. Shirley asks Lenny and Squiggy to watch the baby while she goes to get Laverne. When the girls return to the apartment they find Lenny and Squiggy there but the baby is gone. Lenny and Squiggy gave it back to a guy who claimed to be it's father, the girls go berserk thinking all manners of horrible things has happened only to find out in the end it was indeed the father that they gave the baby to.

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