Happy Days: Season 11

1983 · 22 episodes · ★ 10.0

What Season 11 of Happy Days

The eleventh season opens with Fonzie determined to check off an item from the bucket list he wrote as a kid: riding his motorcycle up Suicide Hill, something he tried and failed to do before. After his breakup with Ashley, his friends take him to a singles resort with the excuse of a sports camp. Richie returns from the army with his wife and son, but shows no interest in the job his father gets him at a newspaper. Chachi signs up for a boxing tournament to earn Fonzie's respect, and Roger takes over as principal of a very difficult high school. Meanwhile, Joanie and Chachi clash because she hardly has any time for him.

22episodes

Sep 27, 1983premiered

Sep 24, 1984last episode

9.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 11 Episodes

11x01 Because It's There
Sep 27, 1983 · 25 min
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.
Directed by Jerry Paris · Starring Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Pat Morita
11x02 The Ballad of Joanie and Chachi
Oct 4, 1983 · 25 min
New events in Joanie's life cause Chachi to resent her for not having enough time for him. Each has their own solution: Joanie wants to break up, and Chachi wants to get married.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
11x03 Where the Guys Are
Oct 18, 1983 · 25 min
In an attempt to help Fonzie move on after his break-up with Ashley, Potsie, Chachi, and Roger take him on a retreat to a singles resort. However, to get him to go, they tell him they're going to a sporting camp. When they arrive at the lake, Fonzie discovers what the resort is all about and says he's going to leave. He ends up staying which puts a damper on the rest of the guys' fun.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Written by: Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson · Starring: Rita Wilson, Shawn Weatherly, Janine Turner
11x04 Welcome Home (1)
Oct 25, 1983 · 25 min
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.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Lynda Goodfriend, Ron Howard, Don Most
11x05 Welcome Home (2)
Nov 1, 1983 · 25 min
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.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Lynda Goodfriend, Ron Howard, Don Most
11x06 Glove Story
Nov 8, 1983 · 25 min
After being nothing more than a coatrack 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.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Written by: Richard Correll · Starring: Arthur Batanides
11x07 Vocational Education
Nov 22, 1983 · 25 min
Roger is the new principal of the tough George S. Patton Vocational High School. He thinks he can handle the students there but is sorely mistaken.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Ken Osmond, Crispin Glover
11x08 Arthur, Arthur
Dec 6, 1983 · 25 min
Fonzie's long-lost brother from San Francisco, whom Fonzie didn't know existed, tracks Fonzie down in Milwaukee. Fonzie is, initially, happy to have a brother but soon comes to hate him.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Written by: Craig Heller
11x09 You Get What You Pay For
Dec 13, 1983 · 25 min
Howard decides that it is necessary to build a second bathroom after he's forced to shave at the dining room table. To save money, he decides to allow Fonzie's students to build the room. Howard doesn't realize that the room will take all semester to complete, and this hurts his plan to make a killing in whisper-quiet toilets. He fires Fonzie and the students and says he'll finish the bathroom himself.
Directing: Jerry Paris
11x10 Kiss Me, Teach
Jan 10, 1984 · 25 min
Joanie accepts an assistant teaching position at Patton High and immediately encounters trouble when a student has a crush on her.
Directing: Jerry Paris
11x11 The People vs. The Fonz
Jan 17, 1984 · 25 min
Fonzie is accused of hitting a trouble-making student but refuses to testify at a school-board hearing. By not doing so, he runs the risk of being ruled against and getting fired.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Jeffrey Kramer, Grant Heslov, Joe Mays, Michael Leon
11x12 Like Mother, Like Daughter
Jan 24, 1984 · 25 min
Howard is jealous and upset when Marion's high-school boyfriend, Frederick, comes to visit. He becomes enraged when Frederick takes Joanie out on a date.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Lyle Waggoner, Ellen Gerken
11x13 Social Studies
Jan 31, 1984 · 25 min
Chachi is hesitant about asking girls out for fear that he will be rejected. Fonzie tells Chachi that girls will ask him out because he has the Fonzarelli power.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Katherine Kelly Lang
11x14 The Spirit Is Willing
Apr 24, 1984 · 25 min
Fonzie meets a beautiful woman, Nancy Haley, at his garage while listening to the radio in a beat-up 1955 Chevy. He takes the woman home, but when he goes back to return her purse, an older woman tells him that the Haleys moved out ten years ago when their daughter was killed in an automobile accident.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
11x15 Fonzie Moves Out
May 1, 1984 · 25 min
Howard is offered the vice-presidential position at a large hardware-store chain and considers taking it and moving to New York. Despite nothing being final and Fonzie feeling as though the Cunninghams are pushing him to leave, he decides to immediately move out of his apartment.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Maggie Roswell, Stanley Brock
11x16 Passages (1)
May 8, 1984 · 25 min
After realizing they're dating people that look like each other, Joanie and Chachi decide to meet in order to explore the option of getting back together.Meanwhile, Fonzie wants to adopt an orphaned boy to whom he's been a Big Brother.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Written by: Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson · Starring: Cathy Silvers, Pamela Dunlap, Meridith Baer
11x17 Passages (2)
May 8, 1984 · 25 min
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.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Ron Howard, Cathy Silvers, Al Molinaro, Lynda Goodfriend
11x18 So How Was Your Weekend?
Jun 28, 1984 · 25 min
Marion and Joanie take a trip to Mother Kelp's to help her move. From the time they arrive, Mother Kelp does nothing but critcize Marion.Meanwhile, Howard, Fonzie, Chachi, and Roger spend the weekend playing poker.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Billie Bird
11x19 Low Notes
Jul 5, 1984 · 25 min
After having to borrow money from Marion and being hassled by Fonzie about being a bum, Chachi takes a job as a dance instructor.Meanwhile, Howard takes away Potsie's salary after he sells power drills for $13.05 less than cost.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Ralph Steadman
11x20 School Dazed
Jul 12, 1984 · 25 min
Joanie brings home one of her students in an attempt to help her with her drug problem. The student promises Joanie that she'll make changes in her life, but she immediately takes several pills after everyone has gone to bed.
Directed by Jerry Paris · Starring Elinor Donahue, Marta Kober
11x21 Good News, Bad News
Jul 19, 1984 · 25 min
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.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: Martin Ferrero
11x22 Fonzie's Spots Season Finale
Sep 24, 1984 · 25 min
With the recent death of a fellow Leopard Lodge member, Howard fears that he may be ousted as Grand Poohbah for not attracting any new members other than Potsie during his five-year reign. He gets Fonzie, Chachi, and Roger to join as pledges, and they have to follow the orders of Potsie during their initiation.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: David Ketchum