Added to the cast at this juncture were the girls' new neighbors, a vapid model-dancer named Rhonda Lee (Leslie Easterbrook), and their apartment manager and part-time stuntman, Sonny St. Laverne and Shirley landed jobs at Bardwell's Department Store, Lenny and Squiggy became two-bit talent agents, and Carmine was.well, still Carmine. The series segued from the 1950s to the 1960s during its fifth season the following year, the entire cast moved from Milwaukee to Burbank, CA, where Frank and Edna had purchased an eatery called Cowboy Bill's. Lander and Michael McKean as the girls' goofy co-workers, brewery-truck drivers Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman and Lenny Kosnowski and Eddie Mekka as Laverne's sometime boyfriend Carmine Ragusa (aka "The Big Ragu"). Featured in the cast were Phil Foster as Laverne's father, Frank De Fazio, who owned a restaurant called the Pizza Bowl, and who married Edna early in season five David L. The girls also shared the same basement apartment, managed from season two onward by widow Edna Babish (Betty Garrett). From 1977 through 1979, the series was America's top-rated series, outstripping the former league-leader Happy Days on both occasions! Initially set in the late '50s, Laverne & Shirley starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as wisecracking Laverne De Fazio and vulnerable Shirley Feeney, who worked together in the bottle-cap division at Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee, WI. Derived from an episode of the same network's blockbuster Happy Days (both series were executive produced by Garry Marshall), Laverne & Shirley premiered January 27,1976, and by the time it ended its first season 15 episodes later, the series ranked number two in the overall ratings. It is not often that the spin-off of a top-rated TV sitcom becomes even more popular than its "parent" program, but that's just what happened with the classic ABC comedy series Laverne & Shirley.
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