Penny Marshall
Garry Marshall, creator and then part-time writer for "Happy Days", cast Marshall and Cindy Williams to guest on an episode of the show. The installment, titled "A Date with Fonzie", aired on November 11, 1975 and introduced the characters Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney (played by Marshall and Williams, respectively). In that episode, Laverne and Shirley were a pair of wisecracking brewery workers who were dates for Fonzie (Henry Winkler) and Richie (Ron Howard). The pair were such a hit with the studio audience that Garry Marshall decided to co-create and star them in a successful spinoff, "Laverne & Shirley" (1976–1983). The characters of Laverne and Shirley appeared in five more episodes of "Happy Days". In 1982 at the beginning of "Laverne & Shirley"s eighth season, Williams left the show due to her pregnancy. Marshall continued with the show, but it was canceled after the season's final episode aired in May 1983.
A Million Happy Nows
In response to the overwhelming global support and positive outpouring from the underrepresented LGBT community, Chappell (now a recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Ally Award) created her production company, Open Book Productions, to bring original programming to the screen, producing "", which received the 2011 Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime - the first Emmy awarded to content produced for the web, and the 2014 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches - Drama Series She continued to produce original and creatively uncensored programming with her latest series, LGBT themed political drama Beacon Hill, which was also nominated for the 2015 Outstanding New Approaches - Drama Series Emmy. 
Open Book Productions was approached by writer Marisa Calin in 2013 and began the collaboration to bring A Million Happy Nows to the screen with Calin’s production company Perfect Features.