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All 2nd Season Shows were 90 Minutes
#2.01 (13) September 5, 1980 Eddie Money (musical guest)
Eddie Money performs "Running Back" and "Trinidad"
#2.02 (14) September 12, 1980 Kim Carnes (musical guest)
Kim Carnes performs "Cry Like a Baby" and "More Love"
#2.03 (15) September 19, 1980 The Cars (musical guests)
Friday Edition
The Cars performs "Touch and Go", "Shoo Be Doo" and "Gimme Some Slack"
#2.04 (16) October 3, 1980 Al Jarreau (musical guest)
Ludeman
George Bargate
Al Jarreau performs "Distracted" and "Spain (I Can Recall)"
#2.05 (17) October 17, 1980 Split Enz (musical guests)
Midnite Sermonette with Pastor James Babbitt
Split Enz performs "I Got You" and "I Hope I Never"
#2.06 (18) October 24, 1980 Ted Nugent (musical guest)
Dick Goes to Las Vegas
Ted Nugent performs "Paralyzed" and "Scream Dream"
#2.07 (19) October 31, 1980 Dire Straits (musical guests)
The Morning After
Dire Straits performs "Skateaway" and "Romeo & Juliet"
#2.08 (20) November 7, 1980 Devo (musical guests)
Backstage Cold Open
Moving Into the White House
Battle Boy
Friday Edition- featuring the Friday Focus Report
Drugs R' Us- Delivery Girl
Atrocity at the Retirement House (Tom Kramer film)
The Liberation of Women
Devo performs "Whip It" and "Uncontrollable Urge"
#2.09 (21) November 14, 1980 The Busboys (musical guests)
Star Wars Memories
The Busboys performs "KKKay", "Johnny Soul'd Out" and "Minimum Wage"
#2.10 (22) November 21, 1980 Heart (band) (musical guests)
Dallas: Who Shot JR? spoof
Heart performs "Bebe le Strange" and "Tell It Like It Is"
#2.11 (23) December 5, 1980 Pat Benatar (musical guest)
Pat Benatar performs "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "Hell Is For Children"
#2.12 (24) December 12, 1980 Steve Forbert (musical guest)
The Ronny Horror Show
Friday Edition
Calvin Klein Jeans takeoff
Nat E. Dred- Rastafarian Chef
Matzoi
Square Trees
Steve Forbert performs "Romeo's Tune", "Lonely Girl" and "Get Well Soon"
In reruns, the Ronny Horror skit is edited out due to the protest of the Rocky Horror Picture Show producer who disapproves of having the film parodied without his permission.
#2.13 (25) December 19, 1980 Rockpile (musical guests)
Dick- Christmas
Strange Christmas Present
Rockpile performs "Knife and a Fork" and "Teacher Teacher"
#2.14 (26) January 9, 1981 George Carlin (guest star)/George Thorogood (musical guest)
Backstage Cold Open
1980- A Look Back
The Life of George Carlin (Tom Kramer film)
George Carlin's standup
Friday Edition
K.P.L.O.
Celebrity Superstunt 1981
Creative Palm Reading
Herpes Test II
Going Western
George Thorogood and the Destroyers performs "I'm Wanted" and "Can't Stop Lovin'"
#2.15 (27) January 16, 1981 Shelley Winters (guest star)/The Plasmatics (musical guests)
Cold Open
Popeye's Got a Brand New Bag
Nat E. Dred- Rastafarian Chef
Friday Edition
Draft Lottery Sweepstakes (Tom Kramer film)
Tom Snyder parody
Creative Palm Reading
Great Medical Discoveries
Frieda Mueller, Art Agent
The Plasmatics performs "Living Dead" and "Butcher Baby"
#2.16 (28) January 23, 1981 Henny Youngman & REO Speedwagon
Opening - Newly freed American hostages from Iran are treated to comedy from Henny Youngman and an episode of Fridays! (full cast)
President Reagan (JR) turns off Fridays and watches Tonight Show (JR) in his bedroom with Nancy (MC)
The Pharmacist (MB) helps supply birth control and diet pills to 2 patrons (MC, BK) and deals with a pharmaceutical salesman (BM).
Friday Edition (MC) reports the news. Larry David reviews Island of the Wild Babysitters with film clip. Melanie comments on upcoming Super Bowl XV.
REO Speedwagon, intro'd by MR, performs "Don't Let Him Go"
Dancing Chicken along with Al the Fish who does impressions (BM)
Fridays Cast worships their guru Henny Youngman backstage & then Henny performs for Fridays audience (& cast) on the Fridays stage
REO Speedwagon, intro'd by MB, performs "Keep On Loving You"
El Show de Inez Prado, starring BK, parody of Latin Variety Show, includes most of Fridays cast
Close of Show led by Larry David (full cast)
#2.17 (29) February 6, 1981 Valerie Bertinelli (guest star)/The Jim Carroll Band (musical guests)
Dick Visits the Barbershop
The Jim Carroll Band performs "People Who Died", "Wicked Gravity" and "Day & Night"
#2.18 (30) February 13, 1981 Michael McKean and David Lander , Kool & the Gang
Backstage Opening. Fridays cast questions Landers & McKean to see if they are fit to host Fridays.
Reagan (JR) in oval office with Secret Service Agents (Landers, McKean)
Nat E. Dred, The Rasta Gourmet (DI), Smoked Jamaican Hotdog
Kool & the Gang performs "Celebration" Intro'd by BM
Friday Edition. Science Correspondent Bruce Mahler. Melanie receives Valentine's flowers?
Brotherhood of Men Who Hum Between Words welcome female member who "ho's" between words (MB)
Latin DJ (BM)
Tom Kramer Film. Admitted low budget version of The Frank Sinatra Story
The Elevator Sisters. Valentine's Day medley (MC, MB, BK)
The Joker (MR) seeks to apply for an accounting job and speaks to personnel (JR)
(MB) intros Kool & the Gang, they perform "Take it to the Top"
Jr. college kid (MR) auditions for film to (BM)
Landers & McKean interviewed by Rona Barrett (BK) and discuss their new pilot with clip of it
Close of the show, led by Maryedith Burrell with rest of Fridays Cast
#2.19 (31) February 20, 1981 Andy Kaufman (guest star)/Sir Douglas Quintet (musical guests)
Andy Kaufman's monologue
The Moral Majority Comedy-Variety Hour
Masked Magician
Friday Edition- featuring Andy Kaufman's Thought/Counterthought segment
Howdy Doody
The Return of Frankenstein
Latin DJ
The Marijuana Sketch
Sir Douglas Quintet performs "You're Gonna Miss Me", "Mendocino" and "It Was Fun While It Lasted"
During the 'Marijuana' sketch, Andy Kaufman broke character and started a fight after he threw a glass of water at Michael Richards's face in response to him dropping a set of cue cards in front of him. Later, the incident is claimed to be a prank planned by Kaufman himself, but it was disputed as of today.
#2.20 (32) February 27, 1981 Billy Crystal (guest star)/Randy Meisner (musical guest)
Altered Statesman
Dick's Date Night
A Comic's Line (Tom Kramer film)
Creative Palm Reading
Friday Edition- featuring the Friday Focus Report
That's Meshuggah
Andy Kaufman's apology
Randy Meisner performs "Hearts on Fire" and "Gotta Get Away"
#2.21 (33) March 13, 1981 David Steinberg (guest star)/The Marshall Tucker Band (musical guests)
Backstage Cold Open
The Road to El Salvador
Drugs R' Us- The Security Alarm
Friday Edition
The Games People Play
The 8th Wonder of the World
The Marshall Tucker Band performs "Heard It in a Love Song" and "This Time I Believe"
#2.22 (34) April 3, 1981 Father Guido Sarducci (guest star)/Jefferson Starship (musical guests)
Father Guido Sarducci & Dawn
A Fistful of Darwin
Friday Edition
The Eyes of The Woodsman
They Shot...!
Jefferson Starship performs "Find Your Way Back" and "Jane"
#2.23 (35) April 10, 1981 Madeline Kahn (guest star)/Franke and the Knockouts (musical guests)
President Reagan in the Hospital Bed
The American Constitution, 1789
Battle Boy
Friday Edition- featuring Science Correspondent Bruce Mahler
The Monster Always Ring Twice
Fridays 1st anniversary (Tom Kramer film)
Lose The Fish
Franke and the Knockouts performs "Sweetheart" and "Come Back"
#2.24 (36) May 8, 1981 Mark Hamill (guest star)/Jimmy Buffett (musical guest)
Close Encounters of the Third World
Nat E. Dred- Rastafarian Chef
Friday Edition- featuring the Pitkinville Report
Men Who Hug
Midnite Sermonette with Pastor James Babbitt
Just Pull Over
Dancing Chickens
Creative Palm Reading
Howdy Doody
The Teenage Years
Jimmy Buffett performs "Volcano (Jimmy Buffett song)", "It's My Job", and "Stars Fell on Alabama"
#2.25 (37) May 15, 1981 George Hamilton (guest star)/Gary U.S. Bonds (musical guest)
Backstage Cold Open
The Three Stooges- Rona Barrett's George Hamilton Interview
The Elevator Sisters commercial
Man in The Bushes
Friday Edition
Hollywood Party
The George Hamiltion Story
Dick Cavett parody
Repulse commercial
Howdy Doody
Record Co. Audition
Gary U.S. Bonds performs "This Little Girl", "Way Back" and "Jole Blon"
