Happy Days
One of the most successful series of the 1970s is Happy Days, which is set in the late 1950s, early 1960s in Milwaukee, the heart of middle-class America. Happy Days tells the story of the Cunninghams, one of America's most beloved TV families played by Tom Bosley (Howard), Erin Moran (Joanie), Marion Ross (Marion), and Ron Howard (Richie). Richie and Joanie had an older brother, Chuck (Gavan O'Herlihy and Randolph Roberts), but he was phased out by the third season. Richie, who hangs out at Arnold's Drive-In with his buddies Potsie Weber (Anson Williams) and Ralph Malph (Donny Most), forms a close bond with neighborhood greaser, the Fonz (Henry Winkler). Living in an apartment above the Cunningham garage, the Fonz gives Richie advice on just about everything that he wants to know. Wearing his leather jacket atop his motorcycle while saying phrases like "aaaayyyy" and "sit on it," the Fonz is the king of cool and quickly became a cultural icon. As time passed, additional characte
When Howard Cunningham rents out the apartment over the garage, he is horrified when Richie proposes that Fonzie should use it.
The Cunninghams try to keep Fonzie too tied up to take revenge when he finds out who demolished his beloved bike.
Trying to revive his slumping "cool," Fonzie plans a televised motorcycle jump over a record 14 garbage cans in the parking lot of Arnold's Drive-In.
Surgery fixes the Fonz's injured knee but the Cunningham's coddling and his fear that pain will make him appear "uncool" keeps him lying on the couch, until Richie resorts to extreme measures to get Fearless Fonzarelli walking again.
To help secure a lucrative business deal for Cunningham Hardware, Howard asks Richie to take his client's daughter out on a date. Problem is, Richie already has a date ... but then he learns that Potsie doesn't.
Richie is continually harassed by local hoodlums Frankie and Rocko. When they humiliate him in front of his girlfriend at Arnold's, he turns to Fonzie for advice in turning the tables on his foes and he ends up enrolling in a jujitsu class.
An act of vandalism at the high school causes a curfew to be set for Milwaukee teenagers. Richie and friends get jailed by Officer Kirk and Richie's dad Howard Cunningham.
The Cunningham family unintentionally make things worse when they stage a "This Is Your Life" birthday evening to try to lift 45-year-old Howard out of a mid-life crisis.
Officer Kirk promises to forgive Howard Cunningham's parking tickets and allow a loading zone space in front of his hardware store, if Howard can convince the Fonz (who is given a temporary Special Police appointment) to stop his old gang, the Falcons, from rumbling with their rivals, the Dragons.
The Fonz picks two of his favorite chicks out of his not-so-little black book to help Richie out of a dating dry spell.
High-schoolers Richie, Potsie and Ralph hope to score during spring break by masquerading as foreign businessmen at a lake resort frequented by college girls.
1950s racial prejudice and stereotyping are explored when most of their friends refuse to attend the Cunninghams' Hawaiian luau after finding out that Richie's band's new drummer and his date are Black.
Fourteen-year-young Joanie Cunningham falls hard for seventeen-year-old Potsie Weber when he looks deep into her eyes while rehearsing a romantic song with his band.
Unable to dial back his infamous slapstick humor that caused his girlfriend Olivia, to break up with him, a rejected Ralph Malph follows Fonzie's advice to forget all about her and join the Marines.
Marion wants to join a dance contest but Howard and the kids think it's ridiculous. But she decides to enter with Fonzie and they spend their free time practicing. When she acts strangely because she's keeping it a secret from everybody, Howard wonders what's going on. And when Arnold who knows about it let's it slip that Marion is seeing someone else, Howard follows her. And when he sees her with Fonzie he loses it.
Fonzie's friends reminisce about the impact he's made on their lives when the Cunninghams throw him a surprise birthday party at Arnold's Drive-In.
The Fonz looks for a new job after the eccentric new owner of Herb's garage orders the super-cool mechanic to put on a vinyl uniform and get a crew-cut.
Richie, Ralph, and Potsie decide to babysit 15 kids at once to earn fast money to attend a big football game.
Richie asks Fonzie to be their lead singer at Arnold's when Potsie can't make the Senior High Dance.
Howard and Fonzie end up in small-claims court when Fonzie's rooftop pigeon coop crashes down into his apartment.
In a sneaky scheme to widen their dating pool, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph stage a bogus beauty contest, planning to rig the vote to ensure that a ringer provided by the Fonz will win but won't accept the promised fabulous prizes the boys can't afford and never intend to award.
When nephew Spike comes for a visit and gets into trouble, frustrated Uncle Fonzie goes to Howard Cunningham for some expert fatherly advice.
Fonzie fears that his famous cool will be compromised if he wears the reading glasses prescribed to cure his headaches.
Best man Fonzie's fears that Arnold's wedding plans will be ruined by the Fonzarelli Curse appear to come true after the newly-arrived Japanese bride-to-be calls the whole thing off.
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Henry Winkler | Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli |
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Ron Howard | Richie Cunningham |
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Marion Ross | Marion Cunningham |
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Tom Bosley | Howard Cunningham |
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Don Most | Ralph Malph |
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Erin Moran | Joanie Cunningham |
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Anson Williams | Potsie Weber |
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Lora Marie Taylor | Girl in the booth at Arnold's Soda Shop |
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Pat Morita | Arnold |
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Hillary Horan | Girl in Plaid Skirt |
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Heather Warren | Ramona |
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Kit McDonough | Girl #2 |
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Susan Lawrence | Gigi |
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Debbie Chaffin | Cute Girl in Grocery Store |
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Penny Marshall | Laverne DeFazio |
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Cindy Williams | Shirley Feeney |
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Bob W. Hoffman | Old Man |
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Ken Lerner | Frankie |
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Ed Peck | Kirk |
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Melinda Naud | Roberta |
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Dick Van Patten | Hunsberger |
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Jeff Conaway | Rocko |
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Beatrice Colen | Marsha |
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Jack Baker | Sticks |
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Jack Smith | Jack Smith |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 4 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Stereo [English] |
| Extras | - Happy Days: 3rd Anniversary Show |
| Distributor | Paramount |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Nov 27, 2007 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Purchased | On Mar 21, 2016 |
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| Index | 3812 |
| Added Date | Mar 23, 2018 00:00:00 |
| Modified Date | Mar 03, 2025 21:40:56 |