Details

Release year: 1976

Storyline

The misadventures of two single women in the 1950s and '60s.

Top credits

Cast

Penny Marshall — Laverne DeFazio
Cindy Williams — Shirley Feeney
David L. Lander — Andrew 'Squiggy' Squiggman, Squendoline Squiggman
Eddie Mekka — Carmine 'The Big Ragoo' Ragusa, Carmine Ragusa, Carmine Raguso

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• For several years there was a certain amount of interplay between the characters of this show and Happy Days (1974), especially when both shows were set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

• Michael McKean and David L. Lander were originally hired as writers/consultants. They wrote themselves into the show as Lenny and Squiggy, two characters they created in college. Squiggy was originally named "Ant'ny" but the producers wanted the two boys' names to coincide with the girls'. Squiggy was the name of an unseen character in McKean and Lander's "Lenny and Ant'ny" sketches.

• According to the book Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Penny Marshall stated that Gilda Radner was considered for the part of Shirley.