This is a list of episodes from the sixth season of Happy Days.
The season aired Tuesdays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST).[1][2]
With the deadline for payment looming, the gang is still trying to raise the money to save Uncle Ben's Colorado ranch. In a desperate last-ditch effort—and trying to reassert his coolness—Fonzie volunteers to try to ride a killer bull for the $1,000 prize money.
When Al accidentally strikes him on the head with a metal tray, Fonzie loses his sight. With the possibility of his blindness being permanent, Fonzie struggles to come to terms with it; but Richie is determined to make his friend face the situation and revive his morale. So he has Potsie and Ralph take apart Fonzie's motorcycle, and leaves a helpless Fonzie in his apartment to conquer his blindness and repair the motorcycle, which he ultimately does.
Richie concocts a cover story to tell Lori Beth when he's actually escorting a baton twirler to the fraternity dance. Does this mean the end of their relationship?
Fonzie has developed a very close bond with Bobby, the young son of his latest flame Peggy. But when Peggy tells Fonzie that she plans to try to patch up the relationship with her estranged husband (Bruce Weitz), Fonzie must face not seeing Peggy's son anymore.
A party is planned for Joanie's sixteenth birthday. Everyone except Marion is pleased that she intends to date high school football star Tip Corrigan, until Joanie finds that he is a liar and a cheat. With the big party looming, will she be able to find her dream date in time?
Note: Although out of order, this was the first episode of the season produced.
When Richie begins a writing project on people's phobias; he, Potsie, and Ralph visit an eccentric Austrian professor (Leon Askin) to try to cure Ralph's numerous neuroses. When the professor predicts an imminent tornado, Ralph panics—until the professor hypnotizes him, bringing out a completely different side of Ralph's personality.
In the season's Halloween episode, Al is cowering in terror at a curse he believes he has received from an old lady. So at Fonzie's suggestion; Richie, Ralph, and Potsie arrange a mock exorcism to banish Al's demons.
Al is thinking about taking on a partner to create an Arnold's franchise, but his supposed partner turns out to be a gangster who, with his henchmen, try to intimidate Al into signing them up as partners whether he likes it or not. Fonzie and the gang try to come up with a plan to put the goons out of business.
Absent: Scott Baio as Chachi Arcola.
Fonzie becomes convinced that he is allergic to girls, and decides to give up his dating life. Richie tries to find a cure to help his best friend get back to normal.
Upset that the family is set on watching football on television at Thanksgiving instead of celebrating in a more traditional manner, Marion tells the story of the first Thanksgiving with the cast playing various historical characters.
After Richie is mistakenly arrested for being the "kissing bandit," Fonzie helps him set a trap to expose the real culprit.
Howard and Al have a big magic act booked for their lodge meeting. But when the magician is injured, who will take his place?
Richie is running for student council president, but is unwittingly photographed in a compromising position at a massage parlor. Ralph and Potsie devise a plan to get the potentially scandalous photo back from Richie's election rival—but are they doing the right thing?
It's Christmas 1960, and Fonzie refuses to accept a Christmas gift that arrived from his estranged father.
When Joanie starts smoking to retain her membership in a club called the Magnets, both Richie and Howard try to convince her to stop, but to no avail. Fonzie is then called upon to intervene and break Joanie's nasty habit.
Leather and Ralph, both lonely and lovelorn, agree to go on a date with each other to a big upcoming party. Leather is concerned that her image turns men off, and asks Marion for some lessons in how to be a lady. Meanwhile, Ralph tries hard to lose his humorous image.
With Fonzie believed to be dead by the Candyman and his goons, and Ralph and Potsie kidnapped; Richie and company devise a plan to put the criminals out of business by faking Fonzie's funeral.
Mork returns from 1979 to revisit Richie, this time to learn about the human concept of friendship in the 1950s from Richie's memories, which are shown through clips from past episodes.
Chachi is swindled by a scam artist into buying a wax spray that turns out to be corrosive; damaging Al's tables, Potsie's hair, Richie's bowling ball, the Cunninghams' chairs, Lori Beth's shoes, and—worst of all—Fonzie's motorcycle seat. Richie and Fonzie plan to get even with the fraudster.
Worried about a big upcoming exam, and not helped by his ferocious professor, Potsie dramatically quits school. Fonzie comes up with an unorthodox way of helping him, to try to persuade him to take the exam. Guest Stars: James Millhollin and Allan Rich.
Note: Final appearance of Lorrie Mahaffey as Jennifer Jerome (Potsie's girlfriend).