Episode
Happy Days: The Cunningham Caper
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Happy Days
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1975-01-21
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Cunningham Caper is Episode 14 in Season 2 of Happy Days. It aired on 1975-01-21. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 13: Fonzie's Getting Married
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.
Episode 15: The Not Making of the President
Richie goes against Howard and, to get a girl, campaigns for Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 Presidential race.
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Episode 16: Cruisin'
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.
Episode 11: Guess Who's Coming to Christmas
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Episode 17: The Howdy Doody Show
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Episode 10: A Star Is Bored
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.
Episode 18: Get a Job
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.
Episode 9: Big Money
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.
Episode 19: Fonzie Joins the Band
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.
Episode 8: Not with My Sister, You Don't
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.
Episode 20: Fish and the Fins
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.