Season 5 Coming to DVD on April 10th!

[Skywalker]

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Lav...Season-5/16392

Laverne & Shirley - The Long-Awaited DVD Release of 'The 5th Season' is Announced!

April street date for the final season that's set in Milwaukee
Posted by David Lambert
1/10/2012

The legendary television show Laverne & Shirley, like Happy Days (the program it was spun off from) and Mork & Mindy (another Happy spin-off!), has been "stalled" on DVD since 2008 (well, 2007 in Mork's case) because of a combination of lower-than-needed sales on the most recent releases and too-high production costs, especially when you combine the price of cleaning/remastering the episodes with the music costs on these shows. But CBS/Paramount has found a way to make the numbers work out on one of the three programs named above, and so they've announced that on April 10th they will finally put out Laverne & Shirley - The 5th Season!

Set in the 1950s, this half-hour situation comedy revolved around the friendship between bright-eyed, naive and demure Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking, street smart Laverne De Fazio. Two bottle cappers for Shotz Brewery, the duo dated an array of questionable men, tolerated their dippy, loony neighbors Lenny and Squiggy, and forever pursued to "make all their dreams come true."

This is the final season that's set in Milwaukee, before the sixth-season move to Burbank, California. Besides regulars Laverne, Shirley, Lenny, Squiggy, Carmine ("The Big Ragoo"), Frank and Edna, you'll also see guess stars like Ron Howard as "Richie Cunningham", Henry Winkler as "Fonzie", Susan Kellermann, Ed Begley Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Elizabeth Daily, Michele Greene, Vicki Lawrence, Julie Payne, W.G. "Snuffy" Walden (better known in TV circles as the music composer on shows like thirtysomething, Friday Night Lights, The West Wing and many more, he appears here as a member of Squiggy's "The Squigtones"!), Ted Danson, Scatman Crothers, Roger C. Carmel, Wilfred Hyde-White, Conrad Janis, Charlene Tilton, singer Julius LaRosa (as himself) and Pat Morita. This 653-minute set from the 1979-80 production year includes the fan-beloved double-tength episode "We're In The Army Now", which served as a springboard for the 1981 Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera cartoon series "Laverne & Shirley In The Army" (nope; no word on a DVD release of that show, either!).

[Heidi Dawn]

It's about time! I wish they would release the final season of Mork & Mindy too, plus some more Happy Days seasons.

[Heidi Dawn]

The first part of the crossover episode with Happy Days 'Shotgun Wedding', will be released as a bonus on Season 5 of Laverne & Shirley. I guess when Season 7 of Happy Days is released, they'll have the second part as a bonus on that set. Episode promos of each episode are listed as bonus material.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Lav...Season-5/16394

[likewow]

Originally Posted by Heidi Dawn

The first part of the crossover episode with Happy Days 'Shotgun Wedding', will be released as a bonus on Season 5 of Laverne & Shirley. I guess when Season 7 of Happy Days is released, they'll have the second part as a bonus on that set. Episode promos of each episode are listed as bonus material.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Lav...Season-5/16394

The episode promos are whetting my appetite I like the Columbia House VHS tapes because they included the commercial bumpers: "Stay tuned for more" and "We'll be right back" type of voiceovers and a still frame image.

This season has some wonderful physical comedy, and maybe not too much music that the DVD company would have to edit.

[AB]

Great news, I'm looking forward to getting this dvd.

[robyrob]

whatever else it means for the other two series, this is good news and fans should snap this up quickly to send a message to CBS/Paramount

[OneWayFilms]

Originally Posted by nany3319

This season has some wonderful physical comedy,

I am SO excited, that even if CBS DID have to make some music changes, I wouldn't care, Im just so happy they are FINALLY releasing this final season from Milwaukee and I can have a complete set of this show.


Yeah, yeah, I know they have more seasons in California, but the show was never the same after this season ended. I still can't believe they tried to continue this show after Shirley left, it just didn't feel right, so for me.....this 5th season is the last.

(sigh) HURRY UP APRIL!

[likewow]

Originally Posted by OneWayFilms

Yeah, yeah, I know they have more seasons in California, but the show was never the same after this season ended. I still can't believe they tried to continue this show after Shirley left, it just didn't feel right, so for me.....this 5th season is the last.

I agree with everything you said. There are only a few gems in the California seasons.

[catlover79]

Yay!!! Finally, we get "The Diner" (aka "Betty, please pick up your HASH BLACKS!!" ) - one of the funniest episodes of the whole run.

On a serious note, I'm looking forward to seeing the episode with Ted Danson, who plays Laverne's ill-fated firefighter boyfriend. I've never seen it, but I've heard that Penny Marshall hits the ball out of the park in the final scene.

Good for Paramount for finally releasing Season 5!!!

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Heidi Dawn

The first part of the crossover episode with Happy Days 'Shotgun Wedding', will be released as a bonus on Season 5 of Laverne & Shirley. I guess when Season 7 of Happy Days is released, they'll have the second part as a bonus on that set. Episode promos of each episode are listed as bonus material.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Lav...Season-5/16394

Wait I'm confused, I thought the first part of Shotgun wedding was on HD and then concluded on LS on ABC in 1979? So why would Part 2 only be added and not part 1?

[robyrob]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Wait I'm confused, I thought the first part of Shotgun wedding was on HD and then concluded on LS on ABC in 1979? So why would Part 2 only be added and not part 1?

i think what they are saying is that because they are including the part 1 HD episode with the L&S set, that it stands to reason that they would include the part 2 L&S ep with the respective HD season set (should it ever be released)

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by robyrob

i think what they are saying is that because they are including the part 1 HD episode with the L&S set, that it stands to reason that they would include the part 2 L&S ep with the respective HD season set (should it ever be released)

Season 5 of L&S is 80-81 season right? isn't the shotgun wedding episode in the 79-80 season?

[catlover79]

Per imdb, "Shotgun Wedding: Part 1" on Happy Days originally aired September 11, 1979 (the 7th season premiere). "Shotgun Wedding: Part 2" aired two nights later on September 13, 1979, kicking off L&S's 5th season.

L&S had an abbreviated first season (much like Sanford & Son, Good Times, and Barney Miller did), and aired 16 episodes between January and May of 1976. So, technically, 1979-80 was L&S's 5th season.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by catlover79

Per imdb, "Shotgun Wedding: Part 1" on Happy Days originally aired September 11, 1979 (the 7th season premiere). "Shotgun Wedding: Part 2" aired two nights later on September 13, 1979, kicking off L&S's 5th season.

L&S had an abbreviated first season (much like Sanford & Son, Good Times, and Barney Miller did), and aired 16 episodes between January and May of 1976. So, technically, 1979-80 was L&S's 5th season.

Oh ok, so season 6 is the move to CA. Thanks

[ThomasE]

All right. Let's get this party started. I gotta see if the other shows have been released. They need to release Mork and Mindy: The Final Season.