Who created the show Happy Days?
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.
UK Festival Awards
Beautiful Days
Happy Days (season 3)
This is a list of episodes from the third season of "Happy Days". It was the first season of the show to be filmed in front of a live audience.
The season aired Tuesdays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST).
Happy Birthday (play)
Happy Birthday is a play written by Anita Loos. It opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 31, 1946 and closed on March 13, 1948, after 564 performances. It starred Helen Hayes, for whom it was written. The story involves Addie, a mousy librarian who becomes enamoured of a handsome bank clerk, and her attempts to win him over. It was directed by Joshua Logan and featured a song written for the show, "I Haven't Got a Worry in the World", with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and James Livingston.
Roz Kelly
Roz Kelly (born July 29, 1943) is an American actress, perhaps best known for playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli's (Henry Winkler) girlfriend Carol "Pinky" Tuscadero on the television series "Happy Days".
Happy Days (1978 film)
Happy Days () is a 1978 Turkish comedy film directed by Orhan Aksoy.
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.
Happy Days - The Arena Mega Musical
Happy Days - The Arena Mega Musical is an Australian musical that is a spinoff of the USA sitcom Happy Days.
Happy Days
Gould had originally been tapped to reprise the role of Howard Cunningham on the show. However, during a delay before the start of production he found work doing a play abroad and when he was notified the show was ready to begin production, he declined to return because he wanted to honor his commitment. Bosley was then offered the role.The first two seasons of "Happy Days" (1974–75) were filmed using a single-camera setup and laugh track. One episode of season two ("Fonzie Gets Married") was filmed in front of a studio audience with three cameras as a test run. From the third season on (1975–84), the show was a three-camera production in front of a live audience (with a cast member, usually Tom Bosley, announcing in voice-over, ""Happy Days" is filmed before a live audience" at the start of most episodes), giving these later seasons a markedly different style. A laugh track was still used during post-production to smooth over live reactions.
Bob Brunner
Brunner joined the production staff of "Happy Days". He produced thirty-seven episodes of "Happy Days" and wrote or co-wrote fifteen episodes. He became an integral member of the production staff, including stints as its showrunner.
Laverne &amp; Shirley (season 1)
The series is a spin-off from "Happy Days", as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as acquaintances of Fonzie (Henry Winkler). Set in roughly the same time period, the timeline runs from approximately 1958, when the series began, through 1967, when the series ended. As with "Happy Days", it was made by Paramount Television, created by Garry Marshall (along with Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman) and executive produced by Garry Marshall, Edward K. Milkis, and Thomas L. Miller from Miller-Boyett Productions.
The Happy Wanderers
The Happy Wanderers was a nationally syndicated travelogue television show that originally aired on KTLA, Channel 5 in Los Angeles, California in the 1960s. The weekly program featured travel destinations, tips, expenses, and highlights. The series was originally produced by Barry Weinstein, David Eisenlohr and Charles Sutton, narrated by Stan Bohrman, which featured Slim Barnard and Henrietta Barnard. Co-hosts included Milas Hinshaw and Buddy Noonan, who was executive producer. The Happy Wanderer theme song by Friedrich W. Moller, with lyrics by Antonia Ridge, was scored by David Dunn Productions of Hollywood, CA. Sponsored by local area Ford dealers, the show received an ARB and Nielsen rating of 15 as of June 2, 1965, making that series the most popular local television show in Southern California. Television personality Huell Howser later featured Slim and Henrietta Barnard on his show, "Visiting with Huell Howser".
Happy Days
There have been two reunion specials which aired on ABC: the first was "The Happy Days Reunion Special" originally aired in March 1992, followed by "Happy Days: 30th Anniversary Reunion" in February 2005 to commemorate the program's 30th anniversary. Both were set up in interview/clip format.
Happy Madison Productions
Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1999 by Adam Sandler which is best known for its comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison", two box office successes starring Sandler himself, both produced by Robert Simonds. The elderly man depicted in the production logo is Sandler's late father, Stanley, who also says the accompanying audio, "Terrific."
Happy Town (TV series)
Happy Town is an American drama television series that premiered on ABC on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, and ended on June 16, 2010. It was created by Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, and Scott Rosenberg. It had a total of eight episodes, but only six would be broadcast on ABC. The remaining two, "Dallas Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and the series finale, "Blame It on Rio Bravo", were available for viewing only at the network's website.
Michael Levitt (producer)
Winkler, Ron Howard, Garry Marshall and the whole "Happy Days" gang returned to Arnold's Diner to reflect back on 11 successful seasons for ABC's "Happy Days' 30th Anniversary Reunion", the third highest rated television special of 2005.
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 one of the most successful series of the 1970s, 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 its time.
Lex Medlin
Lex Medlin (born March 30, 1969) is an American actor. He has appeared in a wide variety of television commercials and sitcoms. A star of the 2006 Fox TV sitcom "Happy Hour", he is noted for his droll facial expressions and anything-for-a-laugh physicality. He recently starred as a fun-loving judge and love interest of the main character on the Lifetime series "Drop Dead Diva".
Jillian Kesner-Graver
Jillian Kesner-Graver (August 9, 1949 – December 5, 2007) was an American actress and historian who worked with her husband, Gary Graver, to preserve the work and legacy of director Orson Welles. She was best known as an actress for playing Fonzie's girlfriend, Lorraine, on "Happy Days".
Happy Days (Ai Otsuka song)
"Happy Days" is Ai Otsuka's fourth single. The title track was used as background music in the Morinaga ICE BOX CM, which starred Otsuka, and as the theme of Koukousei Quiz 2004 on Nihon TV. It also contained a new b-side song and instrumental versions of both songs. Number three Oricon charts.
The Brighter Day
The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from January 4, 1954 to September 28, 1962. Originally created for NBC radio by Irna Phillips in 1948, the radio and television versions ran simultaneously from 1954–1956. Set in New Hope, Wisconsin, the series revolved around Reverend Richard Dennis and his four children, Althea, Patsy, Babby and Grayling.
Happy Days (1929 film)
Happy Days is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, notable for being the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed in the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gance's "Napoléon" (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. In 1927, Paramount released "Old Ironsides" with two sequences in a widescreen process called "Magnascope". In 1928, MGM released "Trail of '98" in a widescreen process called "Fanthom Screen".
The Days (TV series)
The Days is a 2004 ABC television series. Each episode chronicles 24 hours in the lives of the members of the fictional Day family. Produced in association with Valleycrest Productions and talkbackTHAMES.
Happy Holidays (TV series)
Happy Holidays was a British television mini-series aired on the BBC during 1954. Its cast included Hattie Jacques, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, Carole Lorimer, Colin Campbell, Robert Scroggins, and Anthony Lang. Although telerecording existed, none of the episodes remain in the archives.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the play by John Dighton. The two men also wrote the screenplay. It is one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film Corporation. The film was made on location and at Riverside Studios, London. In several respects, including some common casting, it was a precursor of the more anarchic "St. Trinian's" films of the 1950s.
Dominic Treadwell-Collins
Treadwell-Collins stood down from his "EastEnders" role on 25 June 2010, becoming head of development at Kudos' Lovely Day production company. The company is run by former "EastEnders" executive producer Diederick Santer, who commented: "Dominic is a brilliant and original talent, bursting with great ideas and gripping stories. Many of "EastEnders" best storylines and characters of the last few years have come directly from his imagination and design, and he played an integral part in conceiving and plotting the hugely successful 25th anniversary episodes. I'm delighted to be resuming our creative partnership at Lovely Day." Treadwell-Collins stated: "I have had an amazing time at "EastEnders" and I couldn't have dreamed of a better place to work. Working on "EastEnders" has enabled me to create some fantastic storylines and characters that have been received so well but after four-and-a-half years of life in Walford, I feel that it is time to move on and try something new."
Joanie Loves Chachi
Scott Baio later recalled that:
All the "Happy Days" people had written the first four episodes, when the show got picked up for series, but then they left to go back to Happy Days, and we were stuck with new writers who didn’t know us. So that was a problem. And then some of the people on the show had chemical issues, and that was a problem. It was just on and on and on, and it just sort of all crumbled and fell apart. In retrospect, if given the choice again, I would not have done that show. That was just the wrong idea. If I had to do it all over again, I would’ve waited ’til "Happy Days" was over until I did anything else.
Garry Marshall
One such project titled "Four Stars" was directed by Lynda Goodfriend (who portrayed Lori Beth in "Happy Days"), and was based on a play Goodfriend had read when she was studying at the Lee Strasberg Center, which had been written by John Schulte and Kevin Mahoney. It starred Julie Paris (the daughter of Jerry Paris) and Bert Kramer. Schulte later co-wrote with TV veteran writer and producer, Fred Fox, Jr., who penned and produced a number of Marshall's television series, including "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley". Marshall went on to focus on directing feature films, with a series of hits, such as "Beaches", "Pretty Woman", "The Princess Diaries", "Valentine's Day", and "New Year's Eve".
Those Happy Days (2006 film)
Those Happy Days () is a 2006 French film, directed and written by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano and starring Marilou Berry, Jean-Paul Rouve and Omar Sy.
Happy Now? (No Doubt song)
"Happy Now?" was written by No Doubt band members Gwen Stefani, Tom Dumont, and Tony Kanal. It was produced by American singer-songwriter Matthew Wilder, whose presence as an outsider upset former member and Gwen's brother, Eric Stefani, so he departed the group due to creative differences in early 1995. Because of Eric's departure, the remaining band members were tasked with writing their own lyrics, something that had been somewhat foreign to them. However, Gwen saw this opportunity as a creative outlet to express her feelings towards breaking up with Kanal; she began writing intense breakup songs, such as "Sunday Morning" and "Happy Now?".
Barry O'Brien
Barry O'Brien (born 1959) is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator of Disney Channel Original Series "Hannah Montana". His credits include "Happy Days", "Perfect Strangers", "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper", "Judging Amy", and "".
Ralph Malph
Ralph Hector Malph is a character on "Happy Days" played by Donny Most.
Bob Brunner
Robert "Bob" Brunner (August 3, 1934 – October 28, 2012) was an American screenwriter, film producer, and television producer. He frequently collaborated in film and television with Garry Marshall, the creator of "Happy Days". Brunner is credited with creating the "Fonzie" nickname for Henry Winkler's character, Arthur Fonzarelli, on "Happy Days". He also created one of Fonzie's key catchphrases, "Sit on it."
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Garry Marshall said that he drew inspiration from "Dobie Gillis" when he created the ABC sitcom "Happy Days".
Happy Hairston
After his retirement in 1975, Hairston established the Happy Hairston Youth Foundation in Century City. With financial help from celebrities such as Kelsey Grammer, the foundation found bright children from broken homes and paid for their college education. He also hosted a celebrity golf tournament and had a small role in the 1981 "Happy Days" episode "Tall Story," where he played the father of an epileptic high school basketball player.
The Pleasure Seekers (band)
Suzi Quatro became very popular in Europe, enjoying a successful and long lasting music career. She sold over 55 million records and is still active as a touring and recording artist. She also branched out as a TV actress, stage actress, radio D.J. and author. She is well known for her role as Leather Tuscadero in the popular TV show "Happy Days".
Shana Alexander
Alexander was born Shana Ager on October 6, 1925 in New York City, the daughter of columnist Cecelia Ager (née Rubenstein) and Tin Pan Alley composer Milton Ager, who composed the song "Happy Days Are Here Again". Her family was Jewish. Alexander graduated from Vassar College in 1945, majoring in anthropology. She fell into writing when she took a summer job as a copy clerk at the New York City newspaper "PM", where her mother worked. She worked as a freelance writer for "Junior Bazaar" and "Mademoiselle" magazines before becoming a researcher at "Life" for $65 a week in 1951. During the 1960s she wrote "The Feminine Eye" column for "Life".
Happy Days (play)
"Happy Days" was first published by Grove Press in 1961 followed by Faber in 1963. By this stage in his writing career Beckett was becoming more aware of the importance of revising his work in actual performance and so wrote to Grove Press about "Happy Days" on 18 May 1961 to advise them that, "I should prefer the text not to appear in any form before production and not in book form until I have seen some rehearsals in London. I can't be definitive without actual work done in the theatre."
Happy Days
The idiom "jumping the shark" describes a point in a 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 as "M*A*S*H", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and "All in the Family".
Howdy Doody
The 1970s brought a wave of nostalgia interest in an idealized representation of the 1950s, and with its films such as "American Graffiti" and the TV show "Happy Days". An episode of "Happy Days" was entitled "The Howdy Doody Show" (number 33 of the series; original airdate February 18, 1975), during the series' second season, having a Howdy Doody storyline featuring Smith as Buffalo Bob with actor Bob Brunner as Clarabell.
Happy Days
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 the Smithsonian Institution for the permanent collection at the National Museum of American History.
The original tan McGregor jacket Winkler wore during the first season was eventually thrown into the garbage after ABC relented and allowed the Fonzie character to wear a leather jacket.
Anson Williams
Williams is also a businessman. In 1987, fellow "Happy Days" cast member Al Molinaro and he opened a chain of diners called Big Al's; the business went defunct. He founded Starmaker Products, a cosmetics company, and was a featured speaker at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's National Trademark Expo in April 2008, at which he talked about the importance of registered trademarks for small businesses (and signed autographs for "Happy Days" fans). Williams is the author of "Singing to a Bulldog: From Happy Days to Hollywood Director, and the Unlikely Mentor Who Got Me There".
Olivier Nakache &amp; Éric Toledano
Olivier Nakache (born 15 April 1973) and Éric Toledano (born 3 July 1971) are French filmmakers, best known for directing the films "Those Happy Days" and "The Intouchables".
Lynda Goodfriend
Lynda Goodfriend (born October 31, 1953) is an American actress who is best remembered as Lori Beth Cunningham (née Allen), Richie's girlfriend then wife on the TV sitcom, "Happy Days".
Happy Days (Brooke Candy song)
Remixes EP
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
"Happy Days" (2014) - starring Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub
Garry Marshall
Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor, best known for creating "Happy Days" and its various spin-offs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play "The Odd Couple" for television, and directing "Pretty Woman", "Beaches", "Runaway Bride", "Valentine's Day", "New Year's Eve", "Mother's Day", "The Princess Diaries", and "".
Happy Days (1991 film)
Happy Days (, translit. Schastlivye dni) is a 1991 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Happy Days
Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the series revolves around teenager Richie Cunningham and his family: his father, Howard, who owns a hardware store; traditional homemaker and mother, Marion; younger sister Joanie; Richie's older brother Chuck (seasons 1 and 2 only); and high school dropout, biker and suave ladies' man Arthur "Fonzie"/"The Fonz" Fonzarelli, who would eventually become Richie's best friend and the Cunninghams' over the garage tenant. The earlier episodes revolve around Richie and his friends, Potsie Weber and Ralph Malph, with Fonzie as a secondary character. However, as the series progressed, Fonzie proved to be a favorite with viewers and soon more story lines were written to reflect his growing popularity, and Winkler was eventually credited with top billing in the opening credits alongside Howard as a result. Fonzie befriended Richie and the Cunningham family, and when Richie left the series for military service, Fonzie became the central figure of the show, with Winkler receiving sole top billing in the opening credits. In later seasons, other characters were introduced including Fonzie's young cousin, Charles "Chachi" Arcola, who became a love interest for Joanie Cunningham. The eleven seasons of the series roughly track the eleven years from 1955 to 1965, inclusive, in which the show was set.
Happy Days
"Happy Days" resulted in seven different spin-off series, including two that were animated: "Laverne & Shirley," "Blansky's Beauties," "Mork & Mindy," "Out of the Blue," "Joanie Loves Chachi," "The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang" (animated) and "Laverne & Shirley with Special Guest Star The Fonz" (animated).
Gavan O'Herlihy
Gavan O'Herlihy (born July 29, 1951) is an Irish-American actor. He is best known for his role as the first Chuck Cunningham on "Happy Days".
Happy Days (play)
Cyril Cusack claimed that "Happy Days" was, by Beckett's own admission, "influenced" by Cusack's wife, Maureen Cusack's request that he "write a happy play" after "Krapp".
Blansky's Beauties
Pat Morita, after the failure of his series "Mr. T and Tina", was added to the cast as Arnold, the character he originated on "Happy Days". As with Pinky Tuscadero, he seemed not to have aged in 20 years' time. Here he ran a coffee shop, whereas in "Happy Days", he owned the diner. Morita would re-join the cast of "Happy Days" five years later, while his replacement on that series, Al Molinaro, would repeat Morita's career move at that time by joining another "Happy Days" spin-off, "Joanie Loves Chachi".
Happy Days
The show's closing theme song in seasons one and two was a fragment from "Happy Days" (although in a different recording with a different lyric from that which would become the standard version), whose music was composed by Charles Fox and whose lyric was written by Norman Gimbel. According to SAG, this version was performed by Jimmy Haas on lead vocals, Ron Hicklin of the Ron Hicklin Singers, Stan Farber, Jerry Whitman, and Gary Garrett on backing vocals, and studio musicians.
Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays are an English rock band formed in Salford in 1980. The band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder (vocals), his brother Paul Ryder (bass), Mark Day (guitar), Paul Davis (keyboard), and Gary Whelan (drums). Mark "Bez" Berry later joined the band onstage as a dancer/percussionist. Rowetta joined the band as a guest vocalist in 1990.
Mel Ferber
As a member of CBS, Ferber directed "Wonderful Town", the first live two-hour show on TV, in 1958. Subsequently, he earned Emmy nominations for his work as executive producer and creator of "Good Morning America" and executive producer of CBS' "Calendar". He produced the pilot of "60 Minutes" and directed the pilot of "Happy Days". The 1972 Democratic National Convention's TV and radio work was produced by Ferber as well.
Social Diary Daily
"Social Diary Daily" was founded by Melissa Russell. Prior to creating the print issue, Melissa Russell, created and produced Social Diary Daily as an online radio talk show. The show ran online for 4 seasons before Russell decided to discontinue the show and create the print magazine.
Social Diary Daily began in 2007 as an online network between friends. Established and operated by Melissa Russell, the Daily Diary connected with over 15,000 online participants on a daily basis. Fill in the blank questions, comments or thoughts were e-mailed for daily responses. From this daily questionnaire, a yearly calendar was formed and distributed to all of the online participants. In 2009, the Daily Diary became Social Diary Daily Online Radio Talk Show and began broadcasting twice a week on the online radio station Artist First. The one-hour show would discuss all types of social issues, inviting the 1.2 million listeners to interact with the show by calling in during its broadcast. Special guests would co-host the show with Mrs. Russell. The show traveled to three major cities. Miami, Florida resulted in the largest participation.
After 4 seasons, Melissa Russell, the Executive Producer of the show, decided to bring the show to the printed pages of a magazine. The first issue was published in December 2010.
Fonzie
Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli (better known as "Fonzie" or "The Fonz") is a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the American sitcom "Happy Days" (1974–1984). He was originally a secondary character, but was soon positioned as a lead character when he began surpassing the other characters in popularity.
Olly Murs
Murs released an illustrated autobiography, "Happy Days", published by Coronet (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton) on 11 October 2012. Photography for the book was shot by Dean Freeman, who has also worked on books for JLS, Michael Bublé and David Beckham, and Murs also recorded an audio version of the book that was made available to download. In January 2013 it was confirmed that Murs would guest star in a season 5 episode of the American drama series "90210" where he would perform "Troublemaker" and "Right Place Right Time". The episode aired on 22 April 2013. On 6 October 2013, Murs returned to "The X Factor" as a guest mentor to help judge Gary Barlow pick his finalist for the finals of the competition.
Happy Trails (song)
"Happy Trails" was a song by Roy Rogers and wife Dale Evans, known as the theme song for the 1940s and 1950s radio program and the 1950s television show in which they starred. It was written by Evans and always sung by the duo over the end credits of those programs.
American Broadcasting Company
In the early 1970s, Michael Eisner, who joined ABC in 1966, became the network's program development manager. He helped bring about ideas for many series including "Happy Days" (which originated as a segment on the anthology series "Love, American Style"), as well as several soap operas; however, Eisner's main credit at ABC was for developing youth-oriented programming. He was responsible for reacquiring the rights to the Looney Tunes-Merrie Melodies library, bringing the shorts back to ABC after spending several years on CBS, as well as developing "The Jackson 5ive" animated series and a series about the Osmonds, and greenlighting "Super Friends", based on DC Comics' Justice League of America series He also laid ground-work for the development of educational children's programming (predating the 1990 Congressional passage of the Children's Television Act) through interstitials such as "Time for Timer", "The Bod Squad" and, perhaps most famously, "Schoolhouse Rock!". Eisner left ABC in 1976 to become president of Paramount Pictures; he would later become the President of ABC's eventual parent company, Disney.
Happy Days (TV theme)
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 Comets used as the opening theme. The song was re-recorded in 1975 with different lyrics for both the opening and closing credits for Seasons 3 through 10. Pratt & McClain released the song as a single in 1976 from their album "Pratt & McClain Featuring Happy Days". Bobby Arvon recorded an updated version of the song in 1983 for the opening and closing credits of Season 11, with the same lyrics as the version used for seasons 3-10.
Howard Cunningham (Happy Days character)
Howard C. Cunningham is a fictional character played by Tom Bosley on the sitcom "Happy Days," Actor Harold Gould played the character in the pilot, which aired as an episode of the anthology series "Love, American Style"). He is the husband of Marion Cunningham, and the father of Chuck, Richie, and Joanie Cunningham. Originally, Gould was supposed to reprise his role on Happy Days as Howard Cunningham but wanted to commit to something else so Bosley was offered the part. Howard is one of only two characters, the other being Fonzie, to appear in all 255 episodes of "Happy Days" and to remain with the rest of the cast for all 11 seasons; of the two, Howard is the only one to have also appeared in the pilot.
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 Daily Show
"The Daily Show" was created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg and premiered on Comedy Central on July 22, 1996, having been marketed as a replacement for "Politically Incorrect" (a successful Comedy Central program that had moved to ABC earlier that year). Madeleine Smithberg was co-creator of "The Daily Show" as well as the former executive producer. A graduate of Binghamton University, she was an executive producer of "Steve Harvey's Big Time" and a talent coordinator for "Late Night with David Letterman".
B. Happy
B. Happy (1999) is a Cartoon Network "World Premiere Toons" series created by Mark Newgarden. It was originally produced in Flash 3.0 by Funny Garbage. The series lasted four episodes and ran 24 hours a day on cartoonnetwork.com from 1999–2003. In each episode B. Happy, a reluctant Bluebird Of Happiness, is dispatched to Earth by Maureen, the Goddess of Happiness, to help determine a case of personal human misery. If B. Happy chooses incorrectly he is made personally miserable himself by the angry Goddess. If he chooses correctly, he is rewarded with complex carbohydrates. The viewer (augmented by the technological marvel of CLICK-O-RAMA) helps the decide the fate of each case and of B. Happy himself.
List of Happy Endings episodes
"Happy Endings" is an American television sitcom broadcast on ABC. Starring Eliza Coupe, Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton, Adam Pally, Damon Wayans, Jr., and Casey Wilson, the single-camera ensemble comedy revolves around the lives of a group of friends whose group is rocked when the couple that brought them together, Alex and Dave, break up. This leaves the rest of the group—Max, Brad, Jane, and Penny—in an awkward position of either trying to stay together as friends or having to choose sides.
Happy Days (play)
The film version of "Happy Days" was produced in 2001 as part of the Beckett on Film project. The film was directed by Patricia Rozema and starred Rosaleen Linehan as Winnie.
Our Beautiful Days
Our Beautiful Days or Our Best Days (, translit. Ayyamna al-Holwa) is a 1955 Egyptian romance/musical film directed and co-written by the Egyptian film director and writer Helmy Halim. It starred Abdel Halim Hafez, Ahmed Ramzy, Omar Sharif, and Faten Hamama. In 1996, during the Egyptian Cinema centennial, this film was selected one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions.
Blansky's Beauties
After the end of "Blansky's Beauties", Lynda Goodfriend and Scott Baio would join the cast of "Happy Days" at the start of the 1977–78 season. Goodfriend and Baio, along with their "Blansky's Beauties" co-stars Caren Kaye, Shirley Kirkes and Elaine Bolton, would appear in a similarly-plotted pilot, "Legs," for NBC in 1978, using different character names. This project would be revised further and appear on the network as "Who's Watching the Kids?" in the fall of that year, lasting half a season.
Happy Days (disambiguation)
Happy Days may also refer to:
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.
Roy Rogers
Rogers and Evans were well known as advocates for adoption and as founders and operators of children's charities. They adopted several children. Both were outspoken Christians after their marriage. Beginning in 1949 they were part of the Hollywood Christian Group, founded by their friend Louis Evans, Jr., the organizing pastor of Bel Air Church. The group met in Henrietta Mears's home and later in the home of Evans and Colleen Townsend, after their marriage. Billy Graham and Jane Russell were also part of this group. In 1956 the Hollywood Christian Group became Bel Air Church. In Apple Valley, California, where they made their home, streets, highways and civic buildings have been named after them in recognition of their efforts on behalf of homeless and handicapped children. Rogers was also an active Freemason and a Shriner and was noted for his support of their charities.
Rogers and Evans's famous theme song, "Happy Trails", was written by Evans; they sang it as a duet to sign off their television show. In the fall of 1962, the couple co-hosted a comedy-Western-variety program, "The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show", aired on ABC. It was canceled after three months, losing in the ratings to "The Jackie Gleason Show" on CBS. He also made numerous cameo or guest appearances on other popular television shows, starring as himself or other cowboy-type characters, such as in an episode of "Wonder Woman" called "The Bushwackers".
Blansky's Beauties
Blansky's Beauties is an American sitcom and ostensible spin-off of "Happy Days" that aired on ABC from February 12 to June 27, 1977. The main character of the series was introduced on an episode of "Happy Days", then set in the 1950s, but the show is set in the present-day of 1977.
Happy Days (2007 film)
Happy Days is a 2007 Telugu musical coming of age film written, produced and directed by Sekhar Kammula. The target audience for this movie was primarily the youth, teenagers and engineering college students in the Telugu speaking states. It turned to be a "Blockbuster" at the box-office.It is considered as one of the most profitable films ever in Telugu Film Industry.
Happy Days tells us a story that explores the lives of eight friends through the four years of their engineering course. Each one of them joins Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology with their own set of idiosyncrasies the, eccentricities, beliefs and ideals. What starts off as a journey of individuals, slowly becomes a collective one over time. They bond over as they go through bullying seniors, stringent professors, intense examinations, over the top celebrations, love, betrayal, sacrifice and every other possible emotion that an individual can experience in a college. The movie portrays the mindset of a typical engineering student which helped youth to connect with the characters involved.
30 Days (TV series)
30 Days was an American reality television show on the FX cable network in the United States, created and hosted by Morgan Spurlock. In each episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle with which they are unfamiliar (e.g. working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim etc.), while discussing related social issues. As in Spurlock's film, "Super Size Me", there are a number of rules unique to each situation which must be followed during each such experiment. At least one episode each season has featured Spurlock as the person spending the month in the particular lifestyle.
Suzi Quatro
Quatro is possibly best known in the United States for her role as the bass player Leather Tuscadero on the television show "Happy Days". The show's producer, Garry Marshall, had offered her the role without having an audition after seeing a photograph of her on his daughter's bedroom wall. Toby Mamis, who was acting as her U.S. representative at that time, helped effectuate the deal and generate enormous media attention to it, elevating Quattro's profile in her home country. Leather was the younger sister of Fonzie's girlfriend, hot-rod driver Pinky Tuscadero. Leather fronted a rock band joined by principal character Joanie Cunningham. The character returned in other cameo roles, including once for a date to a fraternity formal with Ralph Malph. Marshall offered Quatro a Leather Tuscadero spin-off, but she declined the offer, saying she did not want to be typecast.
Bez (dancer)
After the Happy Mondays broke up, Bez became a member of Black Grape, a group founded by Mondays band member Shaun Ryder, but he left them in 1997. In 1997, he had a feature on the BBC Two television programme "The Sunday Show" called "Science with Bez". When both faced large tax bills, he and Ryder reconciled and reformed the Happy Mondays in 1998, but this was short-lived.
Tom Bosley
Thomas Edward Bosley (October 1, 1927 – October 19, 2010) was an American actor, voice artist, television personality, and entertainer. Bosley is best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the ABC sitcom "Happy Days", and the title character on the NBC/ABC series "Father Dowling Mysteries". He also was featured in a recurring role on "Murder, She Wrote". He originated the title role of the Broadway musical "Fiorello!", earning the 1960 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical.
Happy Endings Productions
Happy Endings Productions is an Irish entertainment television production company, founded by Dara Ó Briain and Seamus Cassidy in 2003. Their best-known programme is the topical RTÉ comedy show, "The Panel", which Ó Briain presented for a number of seasons. They have also produced the Ó Briain-hosted interview show "Buried Alive", the comedy special "This is Ireland" for BBC2 and the 2008 comedy cabaret "Smoke and Mirrors", presented by Andrew Maxwell.. The company's commissioned work has included two series of "Saturday Night With Miriam", an RTÉ chat show presented by Miriam O'Callaghan. They are developing a sitcom for the UK's Five Channel.
Happy Days
There are two animated series, both produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Paramount Television (now known as CBS Television Distribution). "The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang" ran from 1980 to 1982. There are also animated spin-offs of "Laverne & Shirley" ("Laverne & Shirley in the Army") and "Mork & Mindy" (centering on a young Mork and Mindy in high school). The following season, they were connected together as "Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour" (1982).
Happy Days
Season one used a newly recorded version of "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets (recorded in the fall of 1973) as the opening theme song. This recording was not commercially released at the time, although the original 1954 recording returned to the American Billboard charts in 1974 as a result of the song's use on the show. The "Happy Days" recording had its first commercial release in 2005 by the German label Hydra Records. (When "Happy Days" entered syndication in 1979, the series was retitled "Happy Days Again" and used an edited version of the 1954 recording instead of the 1973 version). In some prints intended for reruns and overseas broadcasts, the original "Rock Around the Clock" opening theme is replaced by the more standard "Happy Days" theme.
The Happy Gang
In 1937, CBC Regional Program Director George Taggart was given the assignment to come up with a Monday-through-Friday half-hour variety program that would fill the period 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. E.S.T. His tight budget permitted only four musicians. To “lead the band”, and as Master of Ceremonies, Taggart’s choice was Bert Pearl, whose real name was Bert Shapira. Credited with coming up with the concept that became the Happy Gang, Pearl's on-air persona was "that slap-happy chappy, the Happy Gang's Own Pappy." His fellow musicians were trumpeter Robert (Bob) Farnon, violinist Blain Mathé and organist Kathleen (Kay) Stokes. Stokes was already a popular entertainer; she had been the staff organist at CFRB in Toronto, and was also known in vaudeville and on the air as "Canada's Sweetheart of the Theatre Organ." She was the only female member of the Happy Gang, and she remained with them throughout their 22 years on the air. The fact that Stokes was the Happy Gang's only female member was mentioned in the show's signature song: they would sing "It’s the Happy Gang with the boys and Kay Stokes. We hope you’ll like our music and our songs and our jokes..."
Pratt &amp; McClain
That year, the producers of ABC-TV's successful situation comedy "Happy Days" decided to replace its theme song, Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock", with a new song written especially for the show. The tune was written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, who also wrote themes for "Love, American Style", "Wonder Woman", "Laverne & Shirley", and "The Love Boat". Omartian was chosen to produce the song, and he recommended Pratt & McClain to record it. Multiple short arrangements were produced for the show and its promotional vehicles, and a full-length version was recorded for popular release.
Don Most
Most played jokester Ralph on "Happy Days", appearing through to the eleventh and final season. Most has appeared in other film and television work. Film credits include "EDtv" (1999), "Planting Melvin" (2005) and "The Great Buck Howard" (2008). He also made the regular round of guest appearances on TV shows like "Emergency!", "CHiPs", "Baywatch", "The Love Boat", "Sliders", "", "" and "Glee". He also made an appearance on "Charles in Charge", alongside his former "Happy Days" co-star, Scott Baio. He plays a man who has just won the lottery and, as part of the cameo joke, he runs up to Baio and waving the winning ticket shouts, "It looks like happy days are here again!" (He also receives several looks from Baio that suggests familiarity throughout the episode.) He is sometimes credited as "Donny Most."
Al Molinaro
Molinaro was proud of his role on "Happy Days" and defended its anachronistic look as authentic and a genuine show that did not sentimentalize the past. Its success was down to syndication of the series into a franchise that was marketed around the world in many countries. Molinaro was a frequent guest on the "Don and Mike Show", a nationally syndicated radio show that aired from 1985 to 2008.
Happy Days (musical)
From January 2014, the musical will make its European and UK premier as it embarks on a UK National Tour. The cast for the touring production include Ben Freeman as The Fonz, Heidi Range as Pinky Tuscadero and Cheryl Baker as Mrs Cunningham.
Lori Beth Allen
Lori Beth Cunningham (née Allen) is a fictional character played by Lynda Goodfriend in the American sitcom "Happy Days". She was first introduced in Season 5's episode 4 "Hard Cover".Goodfriend joined the main cast in season 8 after Ron Howard & Donny Most left the show the previous season to do other things. In this season Lori Beth & Richie were later married over phone in the same season with The Fonz filling in for absent Richie. Goodfriend was later dropped at the end of season 9 (though Goodfriend was absent for the season 9 finale).
Happy Days
The show had two main sets: the Cunningham home and Arnold's/Al's Drive-in.
Happy Hours (TV series)
Happy Hours is an Indian Hindi comedy television series, which is broadcast on &TV. The series is aired on weekdays nights. The series is produced by Essel Vision Productions of Subhash Chandra. It airs every weekday evening at 7 PM IST. The show started on August 29th, 2016.
Henry Winkler
Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE, (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, and author. He played the role of greaser Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, the breakout character of the 1970s American sitcom "Happy Days". He also starred as Sy Mittleman on Adult Swim's "Childrens Hospital", and as Eddie R. Lawson on USA Networks's "Royal Pains". Winkler also had notable guest-starring roles on "Arrested Development" as Barry Zuckerkorn and Dr. Saperstein on "Parks and Recreation". In 2018, he began appearing as Gene Cousineau on the HBO comedy "Barry".
Happy Days (play)
Happy Days is a play in two acts, written by Samuel Beckett.
Happy Days (album)
All tracks written by Rob Dickinson and Brian Futter.
Who's Watching the Kids?
"Legs" was successful as a one time special when it aired in May 1978; therefore, NBC provided a berth for the series on its 1978 fall schedule. However, the network talked with Marshall about adding more of a family appeal to the sex-farce sitcom, which he eventually agreed to. Marshall added two young kids to the cast, and hired another one of his "Happy Days" actors away, Scott Baio, who had also joined the cast of that series in the fall of 1977, along with Lynda Goodfriend. Baio had become familiar to "Happy Days" viewers as Charles "Chachi" Arcola, cousin of Fonzie (Henry Winkler). He and young actress Tammy Lauren were entered into the fray of "Legs" as two kids who lived with their showgirl sisters. Only now, two showgirls instead of four would be the main focus; Kaye and Goodfriend were chosen to be the top-billing stars, while Kirkes and Bolton were relegated to smaller supporting roles. Marshall re-wrote the format so the kids could be well-integrated; the ultimate catch in the re-write was the dilemma Kaye and Goodfriend's characters faced as they were always busy in their performing career: "just who will be watching the kids?" This prompted the ultimate title change.
Jimmy Dunne (songwriter)
After Happy Days ended, Dunne became the Producer and Writer of the spin off show, Joanie Loves Chachi and continued to produce pilots for Ron Howard and other Happy Days colleagues, such as Littleshots. Jimmy also acted in a number of hit series and films including Dynasty, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Santa Barbara, Happy Days, Pretty Woman, and Hotel just to name a few. He also holds screenwriting credits for a number of feature films with Universal Studios, Disney/Touchstone, Columbia Pictures, Kings Road Films, and HBO.
Happy Families (books)
Happy Families is a series of children's books written by Allan Ahlberg, . Ahlberg worked with a number of illustrators and the books were published by Puffin Books. The series form a transition for children between picture books and chapter books. It is a popular series, having sold in excess of 2.6 million copies since its launch in 1980.
A children's TV series based on the books, also called "Happy Families", was produced by the BBC in the late 1980s.
A. D. Miles
Miles is a regular on David Wain's internet series "Wainy Days" and the creator and star of "Horrible People", a show on the website My Damn Channel. He served as the head writer on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", and often appeared in the show's comedy sketches, before moving with Fallon to "The Tonight Show". Miles is a frequent collaborator with comedian and director David Wain and the comedy trio Stella (of which Wain is a member), appearing in the Stella shorts and the 2005 "Stella" TV series, and acting in many of Wain's projects ("Wet Hot American Summer", "", "The Ten", "Role Models", "Childrens Hospital", "Wainy Days") and in Stella member Michael Showalter's "The Baxter". As of season five, Miles is credited as a "consulting producer" on "Arrested Development".
Happy's Place
The original program was called "Happy's Hour" which began broadcasting in 1976 on WTVQ, Channel 62 in Lexington, KY, with Tim Eppenstein playing the character of Happy and Mike McMellon providing the voice of Froggie. The voice of Froggie was later provided by Greg Rice. Eppenstein, McMellon, and Rice all reunited in 2011 for the documentary film "When Happy Met Froggie", which reunited the cast and crew of the show. The documentary film also featured interviews with actresses Lana Wood and Morgan Brittany, who made guests appearances on the original television show.
Charles Willer was slated to be the first Happy, but he turned the job down when WFFT asked him to retire his other locally-known clown character, Chuckles the Clown, as a condition of employment. The original Happy was then played by Mike Fry, a television show host-turned inventor. Fry left the show in 1990 to concentrate on the gourmet fortune cookie company he started with girlfriend Kim Harvey in 1988.
Marcy Carsey
In the 1960s, she was a tour guide at NBC, later becoming a story editor for the Tomorrow Entertainment company. In 1974, she began working for ABC as a comedy programming executive. During her tenure she developed the sitcoms "Happy Days", "Mork & Mindy" and "Soap". In 1980, she left ABC and in 1982 started Carsey Productions, an independent production company. She was joined in this venture a year later by Tom Werner who had worked with her at ABC. Together they formed Carsey-Werner Productions.
Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Ivanovich Sukhorukov PAR (; born 10 November 1951) is a Russian actor. He has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1974. He starred in "Happy Days" (1991), which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Vishnu Manchu
Vishnu made his foray into television by directing the 100th episode of Zee Telugu's series "Happy Days". The episode achieved the highest TRP ratings among the 700 episodes part of the series. "Happy Days" is also produced by 24 Frames Factory. He has also directed "Lakshmi Talk Show" or "Premathoo Mee Lakshmi".