1/2/2023 0 Comments Happy days movie![]() ![]() ![]() The family and teen audience, initially attracted to the exploits of 1950s middle-American good kid Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) and his jerky, pseudo-worldly best friend Potsie Weber (Anson Williams), made their choice and went with the more modern, urban-oriented humor of Jimmie Walker's J.J. The series' second season (still filmed as a one-camera sitcom) took a ratings hit when aggressive counter-programming from CBS's bit hit, Good Times, knocked Happy Days out of the Top Thirty. ![]() Once American Graffiti became one of the top grossing pictures in Universal's history, Garry Marshall immediately re-shot the original pilot and successfully sold Happy Days as a mid-season replacement for the 1973-1974 television season, where it proved to be a phenomenal hit for the always ratings-starved ABC, winding up 16th for the year in the Nielsen ratings. Director George Lucas, who was casting around for someone to play the lead in his upcoming teen opus, American Graffiti, looked at the pilot and signed Howard to the smash hit movie, which, along with Happy Days, started a mini-nostalgia boom in the mid-70s for anything 1950s (later, there were some grumblings from ABC and the series' producers that maybe Lucas borrowed a little bit more than just Howard when he watched the unsold pilot). ![]() Happy Days, created by producer Garry Marshall, started off as a failed ABC sitcom pilot, which was then reworked to run on ABC's anthology series, Love, American Style. Certainly one of the best-remembered and beloved sitcoms of the 1970s, Happy Days' third season, reformatted to a three-camera shoot and now focused squarely on the exploits of the series' break-out star, Henry Winkler, features a remarkable number of all-time classic episodes that play just as well today as they did over thirty years ago. Paramount has released Happy Days: The Third Season, a fantastic season of the long-running comedy series. ![]()
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