Monday, 21 March 2011

Happy Days

    
   
        Happy Days is an american television sitcom that originally aired from 1984 on ABC. The show presents an idealized vision of life in mid 1950s to mid 1960s America. The family consists of howard cunninham, a hardware store owner, his homemaker wife marion, and the couple’s children, richie, an optimistic is somewhat naïve teenager, and hoanie, ichie’s sweet but nosey  yonger sister. The Cunninghams originally had an older son named chuck, a college student. Chuck was phased out of the show with no onscreen explanation for his departure
           The earlier episeoder revolve around richie and his friends, warren “Potsie” Weber Ralph Malph. As the  series progressed “Fonzie” proved to be a favorite with viewers and soon more story lines were written to reclect his growing popularity. Soon fonzie befriended richie and the cunningham family. Later the focus would sometimes shift to other characters such as fonzie’s cousin, charies “Charles Arcola. Who became a love interest for joanie Cunningham.

            This long-running show spawned several other television series, including lavems & Shirley, mork mindy. And joanie loves chachi, and is currently a musical touring the united states. The show has been syndicated under the title happy days again. Despite some inconsistencies, it is generally indicated that the events of the series begin about 1956 and, despite eleven seasons, ended around 1965 (though the ssass ination of President John F. Kennedy, a pivotal event, was not mentioned). As a general rule, most episodes take place about 19 years before the year of their first air date. The second season episode "The Not Making of the President" revolves around the 1956 presidential election, while two other episodes in the same season specify 1958. The sixth season episode ristmas Time" ends with a photo dated Christmas 1960. In the 10th season episode "Babysitting,"Fonzie watches the first championship fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston on television. This boxing match occurred on 25, 1964In the first part of theperies finale, "Passages," and Chachi are wearing T-shirts that "The Kinks – smmer 1965 Tour." Series  producer Garry period icons, such as Howdy
Doody nd The Lone Ranger,to make visits to underscore a feel of innocence and hero worship
History :                                                              
     Happy Days originated during a time of 1950s nostalgic interest evident in film, television and music . The show began as an unsold pilot filmed in the late 1971 called new family in town. With Harold gould in the role of howard Cunningham, marion ross as marion, ron hiward as Richie anson Williams as potsie, ric carrotl as charies “Chuch” Cunningham. And susan nether as joanie. While paramout passed on making it into a weekly series, the pilot was recycled with the tittle love and the happy days, for presentation on the television anthology series love,  American style.

Storylines dictated that the set would be destroyed by fire, so in later seasons, a different amold’s drive-in emerged and lasted through the later years of the show. The new set featured wood paneling and stained glass.

In 2004. Two decades after the first set was destroyed, the Happy Days 30th Anniversary Reunion requested that the reunion take place in Arnold’s. The familiar set was rebuilt  by Production Designer James Yarnell.  Built from the original ground plan, this was the first that the Happy Days cast had been in this set since the 1970s…….

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