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
The Cunninghams and their friends go west to help run Marion's injured Uncle Ben's Colorado dude ranch, soon finding that they only have five days to pay the balance on a loan owed to nasty neighbor, H.R. Buchanan, to save it from foreclosure.
Pretty wrangler, Thunder McCoy, helps the Milwaukee city slickers stage the dude ranch's annual rodeo, planning to use the proceeds from the event to pay off the loan, while H.R. Buchanan lurks on the sidelines, hoping they'll fail.
With a thousand dollars still needed to save Uncle Ben's dude ranch, Joanie Cunningham has a close call in a runaway wagon and the Fonz eyes the prize for riding the rodeo's killer bull, Diablo.
Richie tries tough love to snap the Fonz out of his self-pity after the leather-jacketed legend is blinded by a blow to the head and unexpectedly adds a new four-letter word to his vocabulary...fear.
Richie and his fellow fraternity members are required to take visiting baton twirlers to a special dance, leading Richie to have to fib to his girlfriend Lori Beth for the first time ever.
Fonzie's new best friend is six-year-old Bobby, son of his girlfriend Peggy, whose husband abandoned them years earlier. Wrestling demons from his own past, Fonz faces an ethical dilemma when the father returns.
A two-timing star quarterback may leave Joanie dateless for her own sweet sixteen birthday party.
Hypnotic suggestion during research for science editor Richie's college newspaper article leaves phobic Ralph Malph fearless.
Richie and his pals perform a Halloween exorcism after Al Delvecchio's right arm is cursed to do the bidding of an old witch with the evil eye.
The Fonz takes on The Claw after a small-time gangster tries to take over Al's Restaurant and turn it into a bookie joint.
Richie tries to find the reason Fonzie seems to be allergic to girls before the celebrated chick magnet ditches dating forever.
Marion Cunningham tells a tale of the first Thanksgiving to remind her family that the Pilgrims gathered around the table for fellowship, not around the television for football.
Richie's reputation goes from respectable to racy after he's identified in a police line-up as the notorious Kissing Bandit.
Committee co-chairmen Howard Cunningham and Al DelVecchio must somehow replace accidentally drunk magician, the Amazing Randi, star of the Leopard Lodge's annual Sunnyside Orphanage fund-raising dinner show.
Trying to save his reputation and his candidacy, Richie and his pals plan to steal the film that will soon be used to incriminate him after his sophomore class president opponent photographs him in a massage parlor.
A cold, snowy Wisconson Christmas finds Howard Cunningham trying to convince his family to put up a new-fangled, artificial tree, and a mysterious sailor delivers a gift from Fonzie's father, forcing the Fonz to deal with his long-suppressed feelings of abandonment.
New member Joanie Cunningham worries that the Magnets, the coolest girl's club in school, will dump her if she doesn't smoke cigarettes like the rest of them.
Richie Cunningham anonymously takes over for absent advice columnist, Aunt Fanny, and innocently sews the seeds of disaster when he answers a letter from feuding roommates, Ralph and Potsie.
The Fonz makes an appearance on popular dance show "National Sock Hop" to accuse host Skip Oliver of stealing Leather Tuscadero's new song," Moonlight Love", from her audition tape and giving it to not-so-hot rockers, Freddie and the Red Hots, to jump-start the band's stalled career.
The Cunningham kids send squabbling Marion and Howard off to celebrate their 23rd anniversary at the lakeside hotel where they honeymooned, hoping happy memories will rekindle their parents' romance.
Tough-girl rocker, Leather Tuscadero, and corny Ralph Malph both try on new personalities along with their formal attire when they go to his college's military ball together.
Richie gets a call from Fonzie to see him at his garage. When Richie arrives he finds Fonzie finishing up repairs on a hearse - in whose casket is contained thousands of dollars in counterfeit money. Fonzie recognizes the funeral home that owns the hearse is a front for illegal movement of counterfeit money, and Richie tells him to call the police. Fonzie, however, decides that to avoid suspicion from the funeral home he'll return the hearse as if nothing is wrong. Later that day, however, when Fonzie is not seen anywhere, Richie grows concerned, and he takes Postie and Ralph to the funeral home to look for Fonzie. Fonzie, however, returns to Howard and Marion's house unharmed, having gone to the police after returning the hearse. Unaware of this, Richie, Postie, and Ralph uncover the mastermind behind the counterfeiting ring, a flamboyant heavyset criminal known as Candy Man for his obsessive indulgence in lollipops. Richie overhears Candy Man lamenting that Fonzie has found his counterfeit loot, and vows to kill him. Richie manages to sneak out of the funeral home, but Ralph and Postie are grabbed by Candy Man's henchmen. When Richie returns home he learns that Fonzie is going to his garage. Fearing Candy Man has set a trap, Richie drives desperately to the garage just as Fonzie enters - and Richie's worst fear erupts in his face as the garage explodes, with Fonzie inside.........
Fonzie survives the explosion at his garage and now it's up to him and Richie and the Cunninghams to save Ralph and Potsie and foil the Candyman...by letting him think the Fonz died.
Mischievous Mork from Ork takes a break from earth year 1979, where he has been assigned to observe humanity, to visit 1950's Richie Cunningham, get a dose of humdrum and learn about relationships.
Hot-headed Richie challenges an arrogant French fencing champion to a duel after the visiting swordsman insults sister and country.
Richie's band hunts for a piano player, Howard and Marion practice their bridge signals, and Fonzi plans a sting on the shyster who duped Chachi into selling a miracle wax that soon destroys what it shines.
When his bike's brakes fail, Fonzie stops with his feet and ruins his boots; Potsie drops out of college after an anatomy professor intimidates him in front of the whole class.
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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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Erin Moran | Joanie Cunningham |
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Anson Williams | Potsie Weber |
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Don Most | Ralph Malph |
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Al Molinaro | Al Delvecchio |
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Scott Baio | Chachi Arcola |
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Lynda Goodfriend | Lori Beth Allen |
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Lorrie Mahaffey | Jennifer Jerome |
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Jason Evers | H.R. Buchanan |
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Ruth Cox | Thunder McCoy |
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Brad Wilkin | Phil |
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Jerry Young | Hank |
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Richard Moll | Eugene |
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Gino Conforti | Sticky |
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Kathleen Marshall | Allison |
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Ed Peck | Police Officer Kirk |
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Cliff Emmich | Candy Man |
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Suzi Quatro | Leather Tuscadero |
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John Moskal | T-Man Peterson |
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Robin Williams | Mork |
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Michael McKean | Lenny Kosnowski |
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David Keith | Fred Owens |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Stereo [English] |
| Subtitles | English (SDH) |
| Distributor | Paramount |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Dec 02, 2014 |
| Purchased | On Mar 21, 2016 |
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| Index | 3815 |
| Added Date | Mar 23, 2018 00:00:00 |
| Modified Date | Mar 03, 2025 21:40:57 |