TV Series

Series Name:	Happy Days (Happy Days Again)
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1974 - 1984
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Sitcom, Children & Family, Music
Rating:	7.8 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	38 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham
	Henry Winkler as Arthur Fonzarelli
	Tom Bosley as Howard Cunningham
	Marion Ross as Marion Cunningham
	Erin Moran as Joanie Cunningham
	Anson Williams as Warren "Potsie" Weber
	Don Most as Ralph Malph
	Pat Morita as Arnold
	Scott Baio as Chachi Arcola
	Al Molinaro as Al Delvecchio
	Lynda Goodfriend as Lori Beth Allen
	Cathy Silvers as Jenny Piccalo
	Ted McGinley as Roger Phillips
	Linda Purl as Ashley Pfister
	Gavan O'Herlihy as Chuck Cunningham
	Irving Benson as Irv Hanson

Notes

Spin-off of the series Love, American Style, which aired the pilot for the series (titled "Love and the Happy Days") as one of its episodes.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD Box Set

Happy Days: The Complete First Season - Paramount - USA (2004)

DVD Box Set

Happy Days: The Second Season - Paramount - USA (2007)

DVD Box Set

Happy Days: The Third Season - Paramount - USA (2007)

DVD Box Set

Happy Days: The Fourth Season - Paramount - USA (2008)

DVD

Happy Days Season 1 - Paramount - UK (2007)

DVD Box Set

Happy Days: The Complete First Season - Paramount - Europe

DVD Box Set

Happy Days: The Second Season - Paramount - Europe

DVD Box Set

Happy Days: The Third Season - Paramount - Europe

DVD Box Set

Happy Days: The Fourth Season - Paramount - Europe

Comments and Reviews


Record Collector 23rd Jul 2015		Theme song covered in Australia by the silver studs



Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		@23skidoo, I watched some of the spin-off shows and they were just *"much-of-a-muchness"* affairs. Cindy Williams in Laverne & Shirley can get on your nerves with her whining at times, and Mork & Mindy was a bit too far-fetched. Hardly saw much at all of Blansky's Beauties to make any real comment on it, possibly NBN here in Newcastle only aired one episode. And Joanie Loves Chachi didn't really "click" with me either.



23skidoo 19th Jun 2015		@ Neil I definitely agree that the series outstayed its welcome, and of course it's the show for which the phrase "jump the shark" was coined. Once Ron Howard left the show pretty much was over even considering it had become the "Fonzie" show years earlier.



Record Collector 19th Jun 2015		First episode I saw of happy days in colour was fearless fonzerelli



Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		@23skidoo - I dunno! Happy days started to wear thin on me after about the fourth or fifth season, especially after Ron Howard effectively "left" the show while his character, "Ritchie" was off at college or whatever. I think the show was well beyond its "use-by" date(getting stale) by the fifth season.



23skidoo 18th Jun 2015		@Neil Except, as discussed in the MASH page, the alternative was a laugh track. At least when you saw Happy Days you knew the laughter was genuine and not piped in at a time when the producers felt you should hear laughter. It was actually when they started going away from live audiences that you ended up with sitcoms that forgot at times they were sitcoms. That said there are some shows you just can't do with an audience. I was flabbergasted to learn that Orange is the New Black is technically a sitcom. I can't see that one being done in front of a live audience outside of Amsterdam's Red Light District!



Record Collector 18th Jun 2015		The shows that featured Arnold were my favourites the three guys on a porch episodes an all classic



Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		Yeah, 23Skidoo, but a live audience kills the show in my personal view. Quite frankly the show sometimes forgot that it was supposed to be a situation comedy when you had dance sequences performed in the Cunningham lounge-room or when Suzi Quatro(appearing as "Leather Tuscadero") is doing her own Devil Gate Drive(vintage 1974) in a show supposedly set ten years or more earlier....Hmmm!



23skidoo 18th Jun 2015		@Neil. Strangely enough I have visited homes where such a layout actually exists. But it was pretty common for sets to play with reality to accommodate an audience. I'm sure there are other shows with similar scenarios. Not to mention the fact virtually every sitcom house is a TARDIS (bigger on the inside). If you want a mind-bender, try to rectify the layout of Archie Bunker's house with what you see in the establishing shot. There is no way what you see inside matches what you see outside! I do agree that the early episodes have a completely different feel to them being shot without an audience. Yes, there was a laugh track, but they still felt more like American Graffiti. But his was the 1970s and audience-filmed sitcoms were all the rage. We should count it fortunate that they weren't forced to switch to videotape. Mork and Mindy, too, though in that case an audience was necessary because Robin Williams fed off the live response so the show wouldn't have been the same with a one-camera set-up sans audience.



Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		RC, you responding to yourself now? I think I hear the strains of that Jerry Samuels song coming through......"they're coming to take me away, ha ha, they're coming to take me away, hee hee, ho ho, ha ha...."



Record Collector 17th Jun 2015		There you go RC Neil has beaten you by the punch OUCH!!!!



Record Collector 17th Jun 2015		Yes there was a reason for that to accomodate three cameras to compared to only one and of course the studio audience



Neil Forbes 17th Jun 2015		Did anyone pay attention to the set of the Cunningham house(lounge-room) in this show? In the first season you saw that the front door lead into the lounge-room, then you'd walk through to the kitchen, then out the back door to the garage(carport) - fairly sensible arrangement because there was no "studio audience". But the layout in the second series onwards was ridiculous! In through the front door, couple of steps to your left sees you at the kitchen counter, through the kitchen to the back door, all on the same side of the set? Come on! this is without going "up the stairs" to the bedrooms or bathroom - This was to accommodate a studio audience! Frankly it would've been far better NOT to have a studio audience and have a set that made sense!



23skidoo 25th May 2015		Additional spinoffs to those listed by Gemsmfan included Out of the Blue, Blansky's Beauties and the animated series Fonz and the Happy Days Gang. I believe there was also an animated Mork and Mindy series too. PS. Added Happy Days Again as an alternate title. This is what the shows early seasons were syndicated under while the original show was still on the air.



GEMSMFAN 17th May 2015



GEMSMFAN 16th May 2015		zabadak: This was also heavily influenced by the American Graffitti movie Yes, loosely... the era... in Happy Days the rollerskate waitresses worked at "Arnold's" (in later episodes, "Al's"), instead of Mel's Drive-In



zabadak 14th May 2015		This was also heavily influenced by the American Graffitti movie :happy:



Record Collector 14th May 2015		The very first happy days episode I ever saw in colour was fearless fonzie and that was in early 1976



GEMSMFAN 11th May 2015		shown on the ABC-TV network, on Tuesday nights (8:00pm, EST) The show actually was inspired from another show called, "Love American Style" which consisted of a few short "Love" stories with the story "Love and the Happy Days" (Season 3, Episode 22, shown on February 25, 1972) which starred, Ron Howard (as Richie Cunningham), Marion Ross (as Marion Cunningham) and Anson Williams (as Warren "Potsie" Weber). The other characters were played by others.. Harold Gould played Howard Cunningham. Spinoffs: "Laverne & Shirley", "Joanie Loves Chacci" and "Mork & Mindy"

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