Episode
Happy Days: The Spirit Is Willing
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Happy Days
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1984-04-24
Episode context
The Spirit Is Willing is Episode 14 in Season 11 of Happy Days. It aired on 1984-04-24.
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Episode 13: Social Studies
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.
Episode 15: Fonzie Moves Out
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.
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Episode 16: Passages (1)
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Meanwhile, Fonzie wants to adopt an orphaned boy to whom he's been a Big Brother.
Episode 11: The People vs. The Fonz
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.
Episode 17: Passages (2)
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.
Episode 10: Kiss Me, Teach
Joanie accepts an assistant teaching position at Patton High and immediately encounters trouble when a student has a crush on her.
Episode 18: So How Was Your Weekend?
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.
Episode 9: You Get What You Pay For
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.
Episode 19: Low Notes
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.
Episode 8: Arthur, Arthur
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.
Episode 20: School Dazed
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.