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| - Laverne & Shirley is an American sitcom of the late 1970s, spun off from Happy Days. After spoofing it in Scooby Goes Hollywood, Hanna-Barbera adapted it for Saturday-morning television as Laverne & Shirley in the Army.
- The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as acquaintances of Fonzie. Set in roughly the same time period as Happy Days, the Laverne & Shirley timeline started in approximately 1959, when the series began, through 1967, when the series ended.
- It also starred Michael McKean, David E. Lander, Phil Foster, Eddie Mekka and Betty Garrett. The series premiered on January 27, 1976. By the show's third season, it became the most-watched American TV program. In March of 1982, Cindy Williams was pregnant with her first child and after Paramount refused her list of demands to accommodate her pregnancy, she would later leave the show & filed a $20 million lawsuit against Paramount which was settled out of court & Williams was released from her contract.
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| - The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as acquaintances of Fonzie. Set in roughly the same time period as Happy Days, the Laverne & Shirley timeline started in approximately 1959, when the series began, through 1967, when the series ended. While fighting in Cleveland's old room at his parent's house in "Hustle 'N' Bros.", Roberta Tubbs throws Cleveland's Laverne & Shirley 98 piece jigsaw puzzle at him that he had been working on for more than thirty years. When they bond later over drinks taken from LeVar Brown's liquor cabinet, Robert apologies, admitting that the puzzle would have taken him forever to finish as well.
- Laverne & Shirley is an American sitcom of the late 1970s, spun off from Happy Days. After spoofing it in Scooby Goes Hollywood, Hanna-Barbera adapted it for Saturday-morning television as Laverne & Shirley in the Army.
- It also starred Michael McKean, David E. Lander, Phil Foster, Eddie Mekka and Betty Garrett. The series premiered on January 27, 1976. By the show's third season, it became the most-watched American TV program. In August of 1979 (before the show's fifth season), the series was moved to Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m. (which was opposite the show "The Waltons" on CBS and "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" on NBC) which caused viewership to drop and in an effort to improve it, it was moved to Monday nights at 8:00 p.m. in December of 1979, but when it didn't improve, "Laverne & Shirley" was moved back to its usual Tuesday night spot and stayed there for the next three years. In March of 1982, Cindy Williams was pregnant with her first child and after Paramount refused her list of demands to accommodate her pregnancy, she would later leave the show & filed a $20 million lawsuit against Paramount which was settled out of court & Williams was released from her contract. Despite Cindy Williams' departure, "Laverne & Shirley"'s ratings held steady and it ranked at #25 for the 1982–83 season. ABC asked Penny Marshall to return for a ninth year, but she insisted that the show move its production base from Los Angeles to New York. Eyeing the cost of such an endeavor, and given the age of the show, ABC quietly canceled "Laverne & Shirley" on May 10, 1983 after 8 seasons and 178 episodes. During the run of the show, an animated spin-off called "Laverne & Shirley in the Army" began airing on Saturday mornings in 1981. It was later renamed "Laverne and Shirley with the Fonz" when the Fonz began working in the motorpool as the chief mechanic. Then it was renamed the "Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour" and the series ran until September 3, 1983.
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