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15 unusual facts about Happy Days


Aideen O'Kelly

She appeared off-Broadway on several occasions, most notably in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days as "Winnie".

Babaloo Mandel

His writing credits include the television series Happy Days and the movie Night Shift.

Don Weis

Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as M*A*S*H, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Hawaii Five-O among others.

Eh

This behavior was prominently displayed in the TV show Happy Days, having its character "The Fonz" constantly use this phrase.

Gila River War Relocation Center

Pat Morita (1932–2005), an American actor known for roles on Happy Days and in the Karate Kid movies.

Habib Beye

His ability to defend well and provide a good outlet going forward have enamored him to the Newcastle faithful and a number of terrace songs became established, starting with a chant of his name to the tune of Happy Days first heard at Fulham.

Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 6

The all-female band The Pleasure Seekers – pictured on the cover – feature Suzi Quatro (along with three of her sisters), who had later fame as both a rock musician and an actress on Happy Days.

Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage

American Graffiti is a nostalgic portrait of teenage life in 1962 which spawned numerous imitations such as the TV series, Happy Days, and films like The Lords of Flatbush.

KTVF

While primarily a CBS station, KTVF also served as secondary affiliates for ABC from 1971 to 1985 (when it aired some of ABC's top-rated shows like Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, and Eight is Enough as well as Wide World of Sports, Super Bowl XIX and the Academy Awards) and NBC from 1985 to 1996.

Marci Liroff

While there, Liroff placed ICM clients on such shows as Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, WKRP in Cincinnati, Soap, Barney Miller, All in the Family, and Maude.

Nikhil Siddharth

After playing roles in few films, Nikhil rose to fame with Sekhar Kammula's college drama Happy Days (2007).

He did minor roles in various movies before doing Happy Days, the first movie in Tollywood with an overseas release date earlier than the Indian release.

Penny Marshall

Then Garry Marshall, creator/part-time writer for Happy Days, cast his sister, Penny, and Cindy Williams to guest on an episode of that show.

Studio audience

For comedy television shows like All in the Family, Saturday Night Live and Happy Days (for indoor scenes), the use of a live studio audiences essentially turns them into de facto stage productions while shooting individual scenes, with minor problems like the audience applauding when favorite performers enter the stage.

Tita Bell

Besides working on soap operas, Tita also wrote a scenario for a Bednaya Nastya in 2003, and had a recurring role as Trudy on Happy Days from 1974 - 1977.


Clarabell the Clown

In season 2, #33 of Happy Days, Richie Cunningham is able to get a candid shot of Clarabell (Robert Brunner) without his makeup, but chooses to destroy it.

Jumping the shark

Its name is taken from a scene from a fifth season episode of the sit-com Happy Days when the character Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis.

Milwaukee Riverwalk

The Bronze Fonz, a bronze statue of the character Fonzie from the Happy Days television program is on the east side of the Milwaukee Riverwalk just south of Wells Street.

Nancy Steen

In 1980, she began writing on the ABC-TV series Police Squad! which starred Leslie Nielsen, and Happy Days'.

Nellie Bellflower

She has also been in The Last Unicorn (voice), Rankin/Bass The Return of the King, Americathon, the miniseries East of Eden, and guest roles on various TV shows such as Barnaby Jones, Barney Miller, Starsky and Hutch, and Happy Days as Fonzie's ex-fiancée.

Patrick Gorman

His television credits include the 1981 Masada, The Bionic Woman, Happy Days, MacGyver, The Drew Carey Show and most recently in 2008 appearances in 3 episodes of The Young and the Restless.

Paul Linke

His career has included appearances on many well known television series such as, The Waltons, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, M*A*S*H, Knots Landing, St. Elsewhere, Quantum Leap and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

The Otto Show

Homer makes a comment on their situation with Otto, saying "This is not Happy Days and he is not The Fonz!"

The Son Also Draws

Much of the episode's humor is structured around cutaway sequences that parody popular culture, including references to Happy Days, Nova, One Day at a Time, and The More You Know.