Happy Days: Season 2

1974 · 23 episodes · ★ 4.9

What Season 2 of Happy Days

The second season opens with Richie tired of having no privacy at home, so he moves in with Chuck and discovers that bachelor life isn't what he expected. His doubts about love grow when an old girlfriend reappears and wants to get back together with him. Fonzie remains a source of trouble: he sells Richie a car that turns out to be stolen and later asks him to look after his girlfriend, Denise, which puts the lead character's trust to the test. Howard and Marion keep trying to get their son to grow up, while Potsie and Ralph share plans and scrapes with him. Between TV game shows, a production of Hamlet, and an impromptu band, Richie has to face what is expected of him.

23episodes

Sep 10, 1974premiered

May 6, 1975latest episode

9.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Richie Moves Out
Sep 10, 1974 · 25 min
Richie feels that he doesn't have enough privacy, so he decides to move in with Chuck. He quickly discovers, though, that bachelor life isn't quite what he expected it to be.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Linda Purl, Randolph Roberts, Tita Bell
2x02 Richie's Car
Sep 17, 1974 · 25 min
Richie buys a car from Fonzie and finds out that it is stolen.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Linda Purl, Joshua Shelley, Karl Swenson, Lew Horn
2x03 Who's Sorry Now?
Sep 24, 1974 · 25 min
Richie's old girlfriend comes back to Milwaukee and wants to go steady with him.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Virginia Gregg, Gary Morgan
2x04 You Go to My Head
Oct 1, 1974 · 25 min
Richie reads a book about abnormal psychology and begins to think that there's something wrong with him.
Directing: Jerry London · Starring: Ivor Francis
2x05 R.O.T.C.
Oct 8, 1974 · 25 min
Richie is named R.O.T.C. squad leader but has trouble controlling his squad. After several warnings to obey his commands, he puts them all on report.
Directed by: Jerry Paris · Starring: David Ketchum
2x06 Haunted
Oct 29, 1974 · 25 min
After experiencing a few strange happenings, Richie begins to buy into the legend that the place where their Halloween party is to be held, the old Simpson house, is haunted.
Directing: Garry Marshall · Writing: Bruce Shelly, David Ketchum · Starring: Linda Purl, Scott Marshall
2x07 Wish Upon a Star
Nov 12, 1974 · 25 min
Richie wins a date with a movie star, Cindy Shea, to a school dance, and Gloria breaks up with him because of circumstances surrounding it. Cindy, however, will only be able to meet up with Richie after the dance has started.
Directing: Herb Wallerstein · Starring: Linda Purl, Frank Ashmore, Cheryl Ladd, Bryan O'Byrne
2x08 Not with My Sister, You Don't
Nov 19, 1974 · 25 min
Spike, Fonzie's little cousin, takes Joanie out on her first date. Richie and his date act as Joanie and Spike's chaperones and discover them missing at the movie theater.
Directing: Jerry Paris
2x09 Big Money
Nov 26, 1974 · 25 min
As a game-show contestant, Richie wins $3200 before time runs out for that week's show. After the show, he is given an envelope by the show's host that contains the answer to the $5000 question.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Linda Purl, Lou Wagner, Dave Madden
2x10 A Star Is Bored
Dec 3, 1974 · 25 min
Richie, Potsie, and Ralph need new uniforms for their baseball team and want to get a big celebrity to play the title role in their upcomming fundraiser production of Hamlet. When they can't get a big name to play the part, Fonzie agrees to do it.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Ronnie Schell, Britt Leach, Alice Nunn
2x11 Guess Who's Coming to Christmas
Dec 17, 1974 · 25 min
Howard wants Christmas Eve to only include the family, but Richie discovers that Fonzie will be all alone.
Directing: Frank Buxton · Starring: Randolph Roberts, Robert Casper, Marjorie Bennett, Misty Rowe
2x12 Open House
Jan 7, 1975 · 25 min
Richie and Potsie plan to host a poker night at the Cunningham house as Howard and Marion will be out of town. However, their plans change when three young women stop by after their car breaks down, and Potsie invites them to stay the night.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Colleen Camp
2x13 Fonzie's Getting Married
Jan 14, 1975 · 25 min
Fonzie announces that he's getting married and brings his bride-to-be to the Cunningham house for dinner. There, Howard recognizes her as stripper he saw at a hardware convention in Chicago.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Writing: Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz · Starring: Nellie Bellflower
2x14 The Cunningham Caper
Jan 21, 1975 · 25 min
An ill Richie is home alone after the rest of the family go to see Cinerama. When he goes to see what is causing noises downstairs, he finds a burglar.
Directing: George Tyne · Writing: Michael Weinberger · Starring: Herb Edelman
2x15 The Not Making of the President
Jan 28, 1975 · 25 min
Richie goes against Howard and, to get a girl, campaigns for Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 Presidential race.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Writing: Lloyd Garver
2x16 Cruisin'
Feb 11, 1975 · 25 min
Richie, Postie, and Ralph are forced to go cruising for girls in Howard's DeSoto after Marion dents Richie's car at the supermarket. They find three girls but, later, find their boyfriends who are members of a gang called the Dragons.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Michael Lembeck, Maureen McCormick
2x17 The Howdy Doody Show
Feb 18, 1975 · 25 min
Facing a deadline for the school paper, Richie tries to get a photo of Clarabell the clown, from The Howdy Doody Show, without makeup. To get on the set, Richie plans to get Ralph to enter a Howdy Doody look-alike contest the show is conducting.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Buffalo Bob Smith, Bruce Kimmel
2x18 Get a Job
Feb 25, 1975 · 25 min
Looking for work, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph agree to fix the fence of an attractive divorcee. When the woman leaves for awhile, Potsie and Ralph decide to take off, as well, leaving Richie to finish the job by himself.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Leslie Charleson
2x19 Fonzie Joins the Band
Mar 4, 1975 · 25 min
Howard secures a gig for Richie, Potsie, Ralph, and Bag to play at the Leopard Lodge dance. Fonzie is able to get the guys tuxedos, but, in return, he joins them as a member of the band. When Fonzie plays a loud bongo solo during a slow dance, Richie is chosen to give him the news that he's out of the band.
Directing: Frank Buxton · Starring: Adam Arkin
2x20 Fish and the Fins
Mar 11, 1975 · 25 min
To hide from overzealous fans, a popular rock group (one of the members was Richie's childhood friend) is staying at the Cunningham house, but Richie can't tell anyone that they're there. This poses a problem for Richie because nobody believes he actually knows them.
Directing: Jerry Paris · Starring: Hank Stohl, Marjorie Bennett
2x21 Richie's Flip Side
Mar 18, 1975 · 25 min
Richie is forced into being a disc jockey at a local radio station when one there suddenly quits. His boss informs him that he has the potential to become the next Wolfman Jack, and Richie begins to develop an inflated ego and neglect his friends.
Directing: Herb Wallerstein · Starring: Alberto Isaac, Misty Rowe, Warren Berlinger, Jesse White
2x22 Kiss Me Sickly
Apr 29, 1975 · 25 min
Fonzie asks Richie to watch after his girl, Denise, while he's out of town at a demolition derby. Denise, upon hearing what Fonzie's asked Richie to do, decides to test Richie's trustworthiness. Richie succumbs to temptation and makes out with Denise at Inspiriation Point, but he later finds out that she has mononucleosis.
Directing: George Tyne · Writing: James Ritz, Michael Weinberger · Starring: Didi Conn, Misty Rowe, Laurette Spang, Richard Kuller
2x23 Goin' to Chicago Season Finale
May 6, 1975 · 25 min
Richie, Potsie, and Ralph go on a trip to Chicago with the school choir. Not wanting to stay in their hotel room all night, they decide to sneak out and see a show.
Directing: George Tyne · Writing: Frank Buxton · Starring: Helen Page Camp, George Furth, Pamela Myers, Phil Leeds