Laverne & Shirley

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sitcom television series

Laverne & Shirley is an American sitcom that follows the comedic misadventures of two single women working in a Milwaukee brewery in the 1950s and 1960s.

Aliases (1)

The Odd Couple (TV series) ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	sitcom → television series →
broadcastFormat	half-hour →
cameraSetup	multi-camera →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
creator	Garry Marshall → Lowell Ganz → Mark Rothman →
finalAired	1983-05-10 →
firstAired	1976-01-27 →
genre	situation comedy →
hasSettingWorkplace	Shotz Brewery →
laterSettingCity	Burbank NERFINISHED →
mainCharacter	Laverne DeFazio → Shirley Feeney →
numberOfEpisodes	178 →
numberOfSeasons	8 →
openingSequenceFeature	Laverne and Shirley chanting "Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!" →
originalLanguage	English →
originalNetwork	ABC →
originalRunEndYear	1983 →
originalRunStartYear	1976 →
partOf	American network television sitcoms of the 1970s → American network television sitcoms of the 1980s →
pictureFormat	color →
portrayedBy	Betty Garrett → Cindy Williams → David L. Lander → Eddie Mekka → Michael McKean → Penny Marshall → Phil Foster →
producedIn	Los Angeles →
productionCompany	Paramount Television →
protagonistOccupation	bottle-capper →
setInCity	Milwaukee →
setInPeriod	1950s → 1960s →
spinOffFrom	Happy Days →
supportingCharacter	Carmine Ragusa → Edna Babish → Frank DeFazio → Lenny Kosnowski → Squiggy →
targetAudience	family →
themeSong	Making Our Dreams Come True →
themeSongPerformer	Cyndi Grecco →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Blansky's Beauties → Joanie Loves Chachi →	relatedShow
Penny Marshall → Penny Marshall ("The Odd Couple (TV series)") →	starredIn
Garry Marshall →	creatorOf
Penny Marshall →	notableWork
Happy Days →	spinOff
Arthur Fonzarelli →	spinOffOrRelatedShowAppearance
Babaloo Mandel →	wroteForTelevisionSeries