TV series
Laverne & Shirley
Overview
Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and keep each other's spirits up at home.
Details
- First air date
- 1976-01-27
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 8 seasons
- Episodes
- 178 episodes
- Genres
- Comedy, Family
- Network
- ABC
- Production
- Henderson Productions, Miller-Milkis Productions, Paramount Television
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Penny Marshall as Laverne DeFazio
- Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney
- David L. Lander as Squiggy
- Michael McKean as Lenny
- Phil Foster as Frank DeFazio
- Eddie Mekka as Carmine Ragusa
- Betty Garrett as Edna Babish
- Leslie Easterbrook as Rhonda Lee
- Carole Ita White as Rosie Greenbaum
- Ed Marinaro as Sonny St. Jacques
- Vicki Lawrence
- Harry Shearer
Creators and crew
- Garry Marshall - Creator
- Mark Rothman - Creator
- Lowell Ganz - Creator
- Garry Marshall - Producer
- Edward K. Milkis - Producer
- Tom Trbovich - Director
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