Episode
Laverne & Shirley: The Right to Light
Overview
To protest a false bill, the girls chain themselves insde the gas company building, little knowing that another disgruntled customer has planted a bomb in the building. Because the girls are chained to the wall, they can't get out.
Details
- Series
- Laverne & Shirley
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1980-01-28
Episode context
The Right to Light is Episode 17 in Season 5 of Laverne & Shirley. It aired on 1980-01-28.
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Episode 16: The Beatnik Show
Shirley is turned on to Beatnik culture, while visiting a local coffee house one evening. She soon begins wearing black, and moping around the apartment, complaining that nothing in her life is ""cool"" anymore. Laverne then tries to snap her friend out of this Beatnik mindset, so she can go back to being her old self again.
Episode 18: Why Did the Fireman . . .
Laverne falls for a fireman who is always being called to duty. Before he gets a chance to propose to Laverne, he dies in the line of duty saving many lives.
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