What's Happening!!
Season 3
22 listed hours · 1976–1979 · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Raj, Dwayne, and Fred Berry's Rerun hold court at Rob's Place while Mama's basement rules still apply. Black teen hangout sitcom with Cooley High roots and a later sequel afterlife. Dance breaks, soda-shop plotting, and syndication love that outlasted the original ABC run by years.
TV Flash files Season 3 of What's Happening!! (1976–1979) on ABC as the last listed season of 3 — 22 listed hours, 1978-09-21–1979-04-28 from “Disco Dollar Disaster” (S03E01) to “The Benefit Show” (S03E22). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S03E01 Disco Dollar Disaster
Disco Dollar Disaster is late-1970s teen sitcom in club-economy clothes. Rob's Place still the set: the sequel afterlife not yet filmed, the hangout already looking like a rerun forever.
- S03E22 The Benefit Show
The Benefit Show is the 1979 closer. Three ABC seasons, then a stage-title bow: dance breaks, basement rules, syndication love that outlasted the original run by years.
- S03E01
Disco Dollar Disaster
Rerun raises the money he needs to enter a disco contest by selling a percentage of his winnings to ``investors.''.
- S03E02
Shirley's Boyfriend
Shirley has an affair with a truck driver who, unknown to her, is already married.
- S03E03
Basketball Brain
Raj is hired to tutor a basketball star to take an English exam.
- S03E04
The Creep Detective
Dee and Earl combine their wits to save the boys when Raj and Rerun are jailed for burglary.
- S03E05
Shirley's Cookies
Shirley's homemade chocolate cookies attract a shady promoter who promises her millions.
- S03E06
The Landlady
Raj decides that he's too mature for his friends when he falls in love with his landlady.
- S03E07
Charge
Rerun defaults on his payments after going on a buying spree with credit cards.
- S03E08
Raj Moves Out
The long friendship between Raj and Rerun crashes onto the rocks when Raj moves out to room with a beautiful woman.
- S03E09
No Clothes Make the Man
Raj is forced to take a job as a nude model.
- S03E10
Positive Identification
Raj and Rerun face a bleak Christmas after they unwittingly help a burglar get away with all their valuables.
- S03E11
Making Out
Both Raj and Rerun line up important Saturday night dates that turn into romantic disasters.
- S03E12
Dee, the Cheerleader
Dee confronts the school principal after she is bumped from the cheerleading squad by a white contestant.
- S03E13
A Present for Dee
Dee is held for theft by a store manager when she tries to exchange a birthday present from Earl.
- S03E14
Dwayne's Dream
Dwayne becomes so successful at selling peanuts at football games that he wants to quit school and devote all of his time to the job.
- S03E15
Shirley's Fired
Rob hires a stunning but inept new waitress and fires Shirley when she demands more money.
- S03E16
Food Poisoning
Rerun files suit against the gang's favorite hangout when he gets sick after eating at Rob's.
- S03E17
The Eviction
Raj and Rerun move in with Shirley and Dee when they are thrown out of their apartment.
- S03E18
The Thomas Treasure
The boys discover that stolen money might be hidden in the Thomas house.
- S03E19
The Last Page
Rerun stars as the TV characters the Fonz, Jack Tripper and Mork during his last days as a page at ABC.
- S03E20
First Class Coach
The members of Big Earl's team like Dwayne and decide to vote Earl out and Dwayne in as permanent coach.
- S03E21
Dwayne's Debate
Dwayne runs for student council president to impress his friends and family.
- S03E22
The Benefit Show
After pretending to be chummy with Sammy Davis Jr., Rerun has to produce the celebrity for a benefit performance.
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