JOANIE LOVES CHACHI: "Everybody Loves Aunt Vanessa"

No, she's not actually Chachi's aunt.  Vanessa is Louisa's old friend from high school, now a record producer out to seduce Chachi.  Posh Jessica Walter gives the part more than it deserves, as she would a sophisticated regular role a couple years later on Three's a Crowd, but I still don't feel like this show clicks enough to go above a C+ on this episode.

Notes:

• The usual Tuesday night lineup was pre-empted that night, I assume for the midterm elections, but that of course didn't affect JLC and other Thursday shows.
• There's more of manic rather than monotonal Mario, here at the midpoint of the series.
• We don't find out what year Vanessa and Louisa graduated, but I assume it was sometime in the '30s.
• I didn't catch Louisa's maiden name (it might well have been Masciarelli, as in the Marshall siblings), but it definitely was not Fonzarelli.
• Chachi has a poster of the mop-top era Beatles, so I guess this is '64.  (There's an episode coming up called "Beatlemania.")
• Steve Granat and Mel Sherer co-wrote a couple HD scripts and one for Laverne & Shirley, but this is their only one for JLC.
• John Tracy, who had directed five episodes of L&S, ten of Angie, and two of Bosom Buddies, seems to have got saddled with directing almost all of the second half of this series.