"and ""The Jeffersons."" The series consistently ranked among the top twenty (if not the top ten) programs in the ratings. However, the network moved the show around on the prime time schedule eleven times. By the end of the 1982–83 season, viewership was beginning to slip and the series ended season eight ranking at No. 16. At this time, Bonnie Franklin and Valerie Bertinelli were anxious to move on, but agreed to do a ninth (and final) season. (Although both were offered contracts for two more seasons: a ninth and a tenth according to Bertinelli in her autobiography ""Losing It:"
"Happy Days Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984 on ABC, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning eleven seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presented an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s Midwestern United States, and starred Ron Howard as teenager Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Arthur ""Fonzie""/""The Fonz"" Fonzarelli, and Tom Bosley and Marion Ross as Richie's parents, Howard and Marion Cunningham. ""Happy Days"" became one of the biggest hits in television history and heavily influenced the television style of"
"Tom Bosley presented an introduction before each performance live on stage, and pop group Human Nature played a 1950s-style rock group. Another stage show, ""Happy Days: A New Musical"" began touring in 2008. Happy Days Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984 on ABC, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning eleven seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presented an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s Midwestern United States, and starred Ron Howard as teenager Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Arthur ""Fonzie""/""The"
"title. The show has aired in Australia on Eleven (a digital channel of Network Ten) since January 11, 2011 during the afternoon and midnight. ""Happy Days"" was a perennial favorite seen on the Nine Network from 1974 to 2006. During its original run in the 70s and early 80s on the Nine Network was shown every Sunday night with reruns shown every Saturday afternoons during the early 2000s. Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS DVD have released the first six seasons of ""Happy Days"" on DVD in Region 1, as of December 2, 2014. For the second season, CBS features music"
"as ""M*A*S*H"", ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"", and ""All in the Family"". ""Happy Days"" has been syndicated by many networks. It aired in the United States on TBS from 1989 to 1995, Nick at Nite from 1995 to 2000 (and again in 2002–03), Odyssey Network/Hallmark Channel from 1999 to 2002 (and again from January to April 2013), TV Land from 2002 to 2007, WGN America from 2002 until 2008, and FamilyNet from 2009 to 2010, INSP from 2012 to 2013, The Hub Network from 2010 to 2014. It currently airs reruns on MeTV. In the United Kingdom reruns aired on"
"Elizabeth Estensen. Happy Families (1989 TV series) Happy Families is a British children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the ""Happy Families"" series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. ""Happy Families"" ran for two series, 24 episodes in all (since each story was split over two episodes), and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990. Each tale is about a family of characters – typically father, mother, son and daughter, but this varies. The cast played several different characters throughout the series with many recurring roles for the main cast including Milton Johns, Annette"
"in the 1950s, and Potsie convinces Richie to use that as an enticement to get a girl to agree to a date, which he does but in the end Richie gets crushed. His father uses his wisdom of experience to console him. Howard is so entranced by his new TV that he sits alone in the living room watching nothing but a test pattern and tone. The season aired Tuesdays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST). <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Happy Days (season 1) This is a list of episodes from the first season of ""Happy Days"". The pilot for the series was aired on"
"series where it resorts to outlandish or preposterous plot devices to maintain or regain good ratings. Specifically, the term arose from the season five episode ""Hollywood (Part 3)"" that first aired on September 20, 1977, in which a water-skiing Fonzie (clad in swim trunks and signature leather jacket) jumps over a confined shark. Despite the decline in ratings, ""Happy Days"" continued for several years until its cancellation in 1984. The program never received an Emmy nomination for writing during its entire run; comedy writing Emmy nominations during ""Happy Days"" broadcast history were routinely awarded to the writers of such shows"
"Happy Families (1989 TV series) Happy Families is a British children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the ""Happy Families"" series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. ""Happy Families"" ran for two series, 24 episodes in all (since each story was split over two episodes), and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990. Each tale is about a family of characters – typically father, mother, son and daughter, but this varies. The cast played several different characters throughout the series with many recurring roles for the main cast including Milton Johns, Annette Badland and"
"finished the 1976–77 television season at #1, ending the five-year Nielsen reign of ""All in the Family"". On the Season 2 DVD set release and later re-releases of the Season 1 DVD set, the song ""Rock Around the Clock"" was replaced with a reconstructed version of ""Happy Days"" because of music rights issues. For the show's 11th and final season (1983–84), the theme was rerecorded in a more modern style. It featured Bobby Arvon on lead vocals, with several back-up vocalists. To accompany this new version, new opening credits were filmed, and the flashing ""Happy Days"" logo was reanimated to"
"create an overall ""new"" feel which incorporated 1980s sensibilities with 1950s nostalgia (although by this time the show was set in 1965). On April 19, 2011, ""Happy Days"" co-stars Erin Moran, Don Most, Marion Ross and Anson Williams, as well as the estate of Tom Bosley (who died in 2010), filed a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, which owns the show, claiming they had not been paid for merchandising revenues owed under their contracts. The cast members claimed they had not received revenues from show-related items, including comic books, T-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars,"
"its time. The series began as an unsold pilot starring Howard, Ross and Anson Williams, which aired in 1972 as a segment entitled ""Love and the Television Set"" (later retitled ""Love and the Happy Days"" for syndication) on ABC's anthology show ""Love, American Style"". Based on the pilot, director George Lucas cast Howard as the lead in his 1973 hit film ""American Graffiti"", causing ABC to take a renewed interest in the pilot. The first two seasons of ""Happy Days"" focused on the experiences and dilemmas of ""innocent teenager"" Richie Cunningham, his family, and his high school friends, attempting to"
"""Happy Days"" during its first two seasons. In the UK, the song again reached the top 20 and as of 2013 remains the only non-Christmas single to have done so on five separate occasions. The original version was also featured in the 1978 film ""Superman"", heard playing on a car radio just prior to Glenn Ford's final scene in the film; Ford, as noted earlier, had starred in ""Blackboard Jungle"". During the 1970s Haley shortened his performances of ""Rock Around the Clock"", dropping one verse and the second instrumental break from most performances. However, his last known recorded performance of"
"Happy! (TV series) Happy! is an American fantasy black comedy crime television series based on the four-issue comic book series of the same name created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Darick Robertson, with Brian Taylor serving as director for five of the eight episodes. The series premiered on Syfy on December 6, 2017, receiving mostly positive reviews. On January 29, 2018, it was announced that Syfy had renewed the series for a second season, which is set to premiere around Easter 2019. Disgraced police detective Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) lives as a social outcast, filling his days with heavy"
"both consumed by and annoyed with the frenetic world we live in. It's biting, but easy to swallow – social commentary at its best."" Happy Endings (TV series) Happy Endings is an American sitcom television series that ran on ABC from April 13, 2011, to May 3, 2013. The single-camera ensemble comedy originally aired as a mid-season replacement with a one-hour premiere of two back-to-back episodes starting at 9:30pm ET/PT. In the weeks that followed, the show continued to air back-to-back episodes that began airing at 10pm ET/PT. The show was created by David Caspe, who along with Jonathan Groff"
"Happy Days (season 1) This is a list of episodes from the first season of ""Happy Days"". The pilot for the series was aired on February 25, 1972, as part of an episode of ""Love, American Style"" in a segment titled ""Love and the Television Set"". For syndication reruns, this was retitled ""Love and the Happy Days."" The role of sister Joanie was played by 12-year-old Susan Neher. Father Howard was played by Harold Gould, and brother Chuck (/Charles) was played by Ric Carrott. The plot centers around how the Cunninghams buy their first television set, an expensive rare novelty"
"Achievement in Comedy for the series. He later devoted himself to directing both in film and television, including ""The Partridge Family"" and ""Here's Lucy"" (including the famous third season opener featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton), but he worked most notably on ""Happy Days"", where he directed 234 of the show's 255 episodes. Imitating Hitchcock, he appeared uncredited in at least one episode of every season. Paris also directed ""Laverne & Shirley"" as well as episodes of ""The Odd Couple"", ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"", ""The Ted Knight Show"" and ""Blansky's Beauties"". He returned to directing feature films in 1985's"
"of the few to remain through the entire run of the series, although his appearances became less frequent in later seasons. In some episodes, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph formed a band combo that performed at Arnold's Drive-In and other places. As Potsie, Williams actually sang lead vocals for the group. Williams' first wife, Lorrie Mahaffey, portrayed Potsie's girlfriend, Jennifer, in later seasons. After ""Happy Days"", Williams began a much more prolific career as a television director, starting with short programs for adolescent-age children, including afterschool specials ""No Greater Gift"" (1985) and ""The Drug Knot"" (1986), and TV-movie ""Lone Star Kid"""
"Happy Endings (TV series) Happy Endings is an American sitcom television series that ran on ABC from April 13, 2011, to May 3, 2013. The single-camera ensemble comedy originally aired as a mid-season replacement with a one-hour premiere of two back-to-back episodes starting at 9:30pm ET/PT. In the weeks that followed, the show continued to air back-to-back episodes that began airing at 10pm ET/PT. The show was created by David Caspe, who along with Jonathan Groff (previously a showrunner on ""Scrubs"") served as the show's executive producers and showrunners. On May 10, 2013, ""Happy Endings"" was canceled by ABC after"
"Happyland (TV series) Happyland was an American comedy television series created by Ben Epstein. The series aired for one eight-episode season from September 30 through November 18, 2014, on MTV. On January 8, 2015, MTV officially cancelled the series. ""Happyland"" follows the reality of the park workers of one of the most popular theme parks in America. The series centers on Lucy, the cynical daughter of the park's Princess Adriana, who, after deciding that she wants to leave the park and experience something real, is swept off her feet by the new park owner's son, Ian, not knowing that Ian"
"Happy Days (TV theme) ""Happy Days"" is a song written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. It is the theme song of the 1970s television series ""Happy Days"". It can be heard during the TV show's opening and closing credits as it runs in perpetual rerun syndication. The song was first recorded in 1974 by Jim Haas with a group of other session singers for the first two seasons. These versions of the song were used only during the closing credits of Seasons 1 and 2, with an updated version of ""Rock Around the Clock"" by Bill Haley and His"
"on the Easy Listening chart, and No. 31 on the UK Singles Chart. In Canada, ""Happy Days"" reached No. 3. Australian band Silver Studs also recorded a version of the theme for their debut album. It became their biggest hit single in Australia, reaching No. 4 in June 1976. In 2014, a re-recorded version of the song was used in commercials for Target. Happy Days (TV theme) ""Happy Days"" is a song written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. It is the theme song of the 1970s television series ""Happy Days"". It can be heard during the TV show's opening"
"Happy Family (Singaporean TV series) Happy Family (simplified Chinese: 过好年) is a Singaporean family-themed Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It stars Rui En , Chen Shucheng , Ann Kok , Darren Lim , Cynthia Koh , Shaun Chen , Chen Tianwen & Pan Lingling as the casts of the series. It made its debut on 19 January 2010 and ended on 16 February 2010. This drama series consists of 20 episodes, and was screened on every weekday night at 9:00 pm. This drama was a series in response for Reunion Dinner, which is"
"dedicated to rescuing dogs. In 2002, Michael Levitt partnered with veteran actor/producer Henry Winkler when the pair were approached by King World Productions to revamp and update Hollywood Squares, the company's classic game show. Together, Levitt and Winkler completely redesigned the show's look and feel, and the series flourished, earning five Daytime Emmy Award nominations for the 2002-2003 season (including Best Game Show). Levitt continued working with Winkler throughout the 2000s as they reunited the casts of four long-running classic television series for network TV specials. Winkler, Ron Howard, Garry Marshall and the whole ""Happy Days"" gang returned to Arnold's"
"set. The series' pilot was originally shown as ""Love and the Television Set"", later retitled ""Love and the Happy Days"" for syndication, a one-episode teleplay on the anthology series ""Love, American Style"", aired on February 25, 1972. ""Happy Days"" spawned the hit television shows ""Laverne & Shirley"" and ""Mork & Mindy"" as well as three failures, ""Joanie Loves Chachi"", ""Blansky's Beauties"" featuring Nancy Walker as Howard's cousin, and ""Out of the Blue"". The show is the basis for the ""Happy Days"" musical touring the United States since 2008. The leather jacket worn by Winkler during the series was acquired by"
"three seasons. ABC's erratic scheduling of the third season, perhaps causing the season's lower ratings and subsequent cancellation, was called one of the ""worst TV decisions"" of the 2012–13 television season by the pop-culture website Vulture. ""Happy Endings"" follows the dysfunctional adventures of six best friends living in Chicago: ""crazy-in-love"" married couple, businessman overachiever Brad (Damon Wayans, Jr.) and his neurotic perfectionist wife Jane (Eliza Coupe); ditzy Alex (Elisha Cuthbert), a happy-go-lucky boutique owner and Jane's younger sister; daydreamer Dave (Zachary Knighton), an aspiring restaurateur and food truck owner who used to be engaged to Alex; slacker manchild Max (Adam"
"Happy Families (1985 TV series) Happy Families is a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which was a BBC series first broadcast in 1985. It recounts the tale of the dysfunctional Fuddle family. It stars Jennifer Saunders as Granny Fuddle, Dawn French as the Cook and Adrian Edmondson as her imbecilic grandson Guy. The series centred on Guy's attempts to find his four sisters – also played by Saunders – for a family reunion. Each sister's story was shot in a different ""style"" of film; Cassie's story was shot to make it appear to be a U.S. soap opera,"
"Wisconsin. It ran for eleven seasons, from 1974-84. In 1981, Molinaro remarried, to Betty Farrell. He left ""Happy Days"" in 1982, when tapped by Garry Marshall to play the Al Delvecchio role on the short-lived ""Happy Days"" spin-off ""Joanie Loves Chachi"". Molinaro starred in a failed TV pilot called ""The Ugily Family"" (1982) as the patriarch of an unattractive clan who is constantly correcting mispronunciations of his surname as ""ugly”. In 1987, Molinaro and fellow ""Happy Days"" cast member Anson Williams opened a chain of diners called Big Al's. The business went defunct. He revealed in 1990 that he declined"
"Happily Divorced Happily Divorced is an American sitcom created by Fran Drescher and her ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson. Inspired by their experiences, the series, which became TV Land's third original scripted series following ""Hot in Cleveland"" and ""Retired at 35"", ran from June 15, 2011, to February 13, 2013, and revolves around a Los Angeles florist who finds out her husband of 18 years is gay. The series was canceled after two seasons on August 23, 2013. Drescher plays Fran Lovett, a Los Angeles florist who is shocked when Peter, her husband of 18 years, comes out of the closet"
"Happy Days (musical) Happy Days is a musical with a book by Garry Marshall and music and lyrics by Paul Williams, based on the ABC TV series of the same name. The story is set in approximately during Season 4 of the original sitcom. The story concerns the kids' plans to save Arnold’s from demolition by hosting a dance contest and wrestling match. It is 1959 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Richie Cunningham and his best friends Potsie Weber and Ralph Malph are about to graduate high school and go off to college. His friends and family meet at Arnold's malt"
"Happy Family (U.S. TV series) Happy Family is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 9, 2003 until April 20, 2004. John Larroquette and Christine Baranski star as Peter and Annie Brennan, soon-to-be empty nesters who could not be happier about it. But when their youngest son Tim (Tyler Andrews aka Tyler Francavilla) flunks out of community college, Peter and Annie cannot escape the duties of parenthood. Their eldest son, Todd (Jeff Bryan Davis) decides to dump his fiancée only days before the wedding. Their daughter Sara (Melanie Paxson), while having a successful career, cannot find or keep"
"The series won a total of 37 Primetime Emmy Awards during its 11-year run, breaking the record long held by CBS' ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"" (29). It held the record until 2016 when ""Game of Thrones"" won 38. Grammer and Pierce each won four, including one each for the fifth and eleventh seasons. The series is tied with ABC's ""Modern Family"" for the most consecutive wins for Outstanding Comedy Series, winning five from 1994 to 1998. Grammer has been Emmy-nominated for playing Frasier Crane on ""Cheers"" and ""Frasier"", as well as a 1992 crossover appearance on ""Wings"", making him"
"is one of her half brothers and the park owner is her real dad. Happyland (TV series) Happyland was an American comedy television series created by Ben Epstein. The series aired for one eight-episode season from September 30 through November 18, 2014, on MTV. On January 8, 2015, MTV officially cancelled the series. ""Happyland"" follows the reality of the park workers of one of the most popular theme parks in America. The series centers on Lucy, the cynical daughter of the park's Princess Adriana, who, after deciding that she wants to leave the park and experience something real, is swept"