Happy Days (season 11)

Fonzie realizes he never accomplished a goal he set for himself as a child, and begins to lose his edge. Only after a pep talk from Chachi does he regain his confidence and set out to attain his dangerous goal once again.

Notes: In one scene, the Fonz wears an old beige windbreaker like the one he wore in early episodes, before the network allowed him to wear black leather regularly.

The first episode of the season produced.

Final appearance of: Pat Morita as Arnold

Chachi resents Joanie's busy college life and wants to settle down. Joanie decides that the pair won't be able to resolve their differences.

Roger, Potsie and Chachi trick Fonzie into going to a singles resort to help him get over his breakup with Ashley.

Note: Fonzie explains his offscreen breakup with Ashley to the character portrayed by Rita Wilson.

Richie and Ralph return, but after life in the Army they are unhappy about going back to their old lives.

Special guest stars: Ron Howard, Don Most (billed as Donald Most) and Lynda Goodfriend.

Fonzie encourages Richie to follow his dreams, and he leaves for Hollywood.

Special guest stars: Ron Howard, Don Most (billed as Donald Most) and Lynda Goodfriend.

Roger and Fonzie are hired as the new administrative team at George S. Patton Vocational High School, a school notorious for disciplinary problems. Their plans to reform the school are easier said than done.

Guest star: Crispin Glover

Note: Steven Baio guest stars as Joey he is Scott Baio's Brother in real-life & he makes two more guest appearances in this season.

Fonzie learns he has a long-lost brother (Michael Holden), who comes to Milwaukee with bad news.

When Howard is constantly forced out of the bathroom by the household's other inhabitants, he decides to build a second bathroom. He hires Fonzie as the contractor and the students of Patton High to do the work. Howard comes to realize that it was a big mistake.

Guest Star: Steven Baio as Joey

Joanie's gets her first teaching job at the infamous Patton High School. Her pride gets in the way of her reasoning when she refuses to heed Chachi's advice. Joanie gets in way over her head when a student devices a plan to show his feelings for his teacher, whether Joanie likes it or not.

Final Appearance of: Steven Baio as Joey.

Fonzie allegedly strikes a student who is bullying another student. With Roger's help, he has to defend his actions at a school-board hearing.

Howard gets jealous when Marion's old flame (Lyle Waggoner) comes for a visit, but gets really upset when he dates Joanie.

With Joanie and Chachi officially broken up, Chachi starts to doubt his ability to ask girls out. The Fonz tries to help, telling him he has "Fonzarelli Power."

Fonzie wishes things could be the way they were back in the '50s when he was younger. He meets a young woman named Nancy Haley and finds out from a resident that Nancy was a ghost, her family having moved after she was killed in a car accident.

Note: This episode is loosely based on the 1965 Dickey Lee hit "Laurie (Strange Things Happen)," which itself is based on the urban legends known as the vanishing hitchhiker and Resurrection Mary.

When it appears the Cunninghams are planning to sell their home (so Howard can accept a job as vice president of a hardware store chain based in New York state), Fonzie may have to leave, too. Fonzie eventually gets his own apartment and adjusts to his new life.

Joanie and Chachi realize that they were meant for each other. Meanwhile, Fonzie becomes a Big Brother to a young orphan named Danny (Danny Ponce), and decides to adopt him; however, Fonzie's dream may be derailed when he finds out about regulations prohibiting single parents from adopting. He adopts Danny on the day of Joanie and Chachi's wedding.

Notes: The series finale originally aired as a one-hour episode; in syndication, it is aired as a two-part episode. Though this is the finale, several earlier unaired episodes were burned off by the network during the coming summer months. This finale was filmed on Stage 19 at Paramount Pictures Studios on November 27 & 28, 1983.

At the beginning of his speech to toast the newlyweds, Howard (Tom Bosley) mentions that "Both of our children are married now," officially writing Chuck out of existence.

Howard ends his speech, as well as the episode (and thus the series), by "breaking the fourth wall", looking directly at the camera and thanking viewers "for being part of our family" before raising a toast "to happy days". Afterward, a closing montage of classic clips is played over a portion of "Memories" by Elvis Presley (who had died seven years prior, shortly before the airing of the fifth season), before a final freeze shot of the current cast celebrating Joanie and Chachi's marriage.

Special guest stars: Ron Howard, Al Molinaro, Ellen Travolta, Cathy Silvers, and Lynda Goodfriend.

Absent: Anson Williams as Potsie Weber

Marion and Joanie spend a weekend with Marion's mother.

Note: This was the first of five previously unaired episodes to be aired in the summer months after the finale. Episodes #251-255 actually take place before "The Spirit is Willing", "Fonzie Moves Out" and "Passages".

Joanie tries to help one of her students who has a problem with drugs.

Chachi falls apart when he learns that he has diabetes.

Howard's position as the Grand Poobah at the Leopard Lodge is threatened when he realizes that he hasn't recruited any new members in the past five years, so Fonzie, Roger, and Chachi Arcola volunteer to join.

Note: Although this was the final episode to be aired due to some previously unaired episodes being presented in the coming summer months after the finale, it is actually #251 in chronological order.