Happy Days - The Complete First Season
starring: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler
directed by: Art Fisher, Joel Zwick, George Tyne, James Tayne
directed by: Art Fisher, Joel Zwick, George Tyne, James Tayne
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The daily lives of the Cunningham family in 1950s Milwaukee, their friends, and their greaser tenant Arthur \""Fonzie\"" Fonzarelli.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: HAPPY DAYS
Title: SEASON 1
Street Release Date: 08/17/2004
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Genre: TELEVISION
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Less than a year after Ron Howard played a college-bound adolescent enjoying a final, summer-of-1962 romp with old friends in American Graffiti, he turned up as high school innocent Richie Cunningham in the memorable, ABC television network debut of Happy Days, set a few years earlier in Milwaukee. The show would last a decade and go through many changes in tone, cast, and character development, but that first season got a boost from the natural perception that it had some things in common with Graffiti: Howard, of course, but also fumbling teenage sex, drag races, drive-in food, pesky little sisters, and laconic greasers.
Happy Days: The Complete First Season is a sweet trip back to the Garry Marshall-produced sitcom's 1974 entry in primetime television, before political correctness would make stories about clean-cut boys fixated on seducing girls unthinkable, and long before older kids were defined by angst on the WB and Fox TV. At least in its first year, before Happy Days developed more of a comic-book feel and energy, the show was about Richie's all-too-human inclination to grow up too fast, to bite off more than he could chew and learn poignant lessons in the process. He was a sympathetic naif, not the charming braggart he later became, and major characters appear to have been created to provide both ballast and motivation. Among them is best friend Potsie (Anson Williams), a superficial hustler who typically incites Richie's enthusiasm for booze, reputed nymphomaniacs, and sophisticated, older girls, and fast-talking Ralph Malph (Donny Most), owner of a fantastic, yellow hot rod. More important are counterparts Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli (Henry Winkler), a vaguely dangerous drop-out, and Richie's exasperated father, Howard Cunningham (Tom Bosley), each of whom provides Richie the validation of an experienced male: Fonzie's raw worldliness versus Mr. C's seasoned view of a man's responsibilities. First-season highlights include the pilot episode (co-written by Rob Reiner), "All the Way," in which Richie's typical decency allows him to see past the sex-mad reputation of an amiable girl from school. Season closer "Be the First on Your Block" finds the Cunninghams' plans to build a bomb shelter turning into a popularity contest as Richie's friends vie for a guaranteed spot in the event of nuclear war. --Tom Keogh
The daily lives of the Cunningham family in 1950s Milwaukee, their friends, and their greaser tenant Arthur \""Fonzie\"" Fonzarelli.
No Track Information Available
Media Type: DVD
Artist: HAPPY DAYS
Title: SEASON 1
Street Release Date: 08/17/2004
Genre: TELEVISION
Amazon.com:
Less than a year after Ron Howard played a college-bound adolescent enjoying a final, summer-of-1962 romp with old friends in American Graffiti, he turned up as high school innocent Richie Cunningham in the memorable, ABC television network debut of Happy Days, set a few years earlier in Milwaukee. The show would last a decade and go through many changes in tone, cast, and character development, but that first season got a boost from the natural perception that it had some things in common with Graffiti: Howard, of course, but also fumbling teenage sex, drag races, drive-in food, pesky little sisters, and laconic greasers.
Happy Days: The Complete First Season is a sweet trip back to the Garry Marshall-produced sitcom's 1974 entry in primetime television, before political correctness would make stories about clean-cut boys fixated on seducing girls unthinkable, and long before older kids were defined by angst on the WB and Fox TV. At least in its first year, before Happy Days developed more of a comic-book feel and energy, the show was about Richie's all-too-human inclination to grow up too fast, to bite off more than he could chew and learn poignant lessons in the process. He was a sympathetic naif, not the charming braggart he later became, and major characters appear to have been created to provide both ballast and motivation. Among them is best friend Potsie (Anson Williams), a superficial hustler who typically incites Richie's enthusiasm for booze, reputed nymphomaniacs, and sophisticated, older girls, and fast-talking Ralph Malph (Donny Most), owner of a fantastic, yellow hot rod. More important are counterparts Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli (Henry Winkler), a vaguely dangerous drop-out, and Richie's exasperated father, Howard Cunningham (Tom Bosley), each of whom provides Richie the validation of an experienced male: Fonzie's raw worldliness versus Mr. C's seasoned view of a man's responsibilities. First-season highlights include the pilot episode (co-written by Rob Reiner), "All the Way," in which Richie's typical decency allows him to see past the sex-mad reputation of an amiable girl from school. Season closer "Be the First on Your Block" finds the Cunninghams' plans to build a bomb shelter turning into a popularity contest as Richie's friends vie for a guaranteed spot in the event of nuclear war. --Tom Keogh
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- Seasons 1 and 2 Are The Best Season in the Whole Series
Seasons 1 and 2 are the best seasons of the whole series.The first two seasons have the original concept of the TV show "Happy Days" which first appeared on the TV show "Love American Style" in 1972 as "Love and the Happy Days."Unfortunately, it is not included in the DVD box sets.BAD POINT.
In fact, there is an episode in Season 1 that is a sequel to the pilot.In the pilot, Richie wants to date this girl named Arlene.She shows no interest in him until he invites her over ... Read More
Rating: - A Classic
My kids and I have a tradition of watching a classic TV series once a week. We started with the Star Trek DVD's, then moved on to Kung Fu, then Gilligan's Island and now Happy Days. My kids can't wait for Wednesday night and the Happy Days Complete First Season has been fantastic! My kids have been thoroughly entertained and these first season episodes are all new to me as well.
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- HAPPY DAYS
REALLY LIKED THIS SHOW GROWING UP, NOT AS GOOD SECOND TIME AROUND. RENT OR WATCH A RERUN
Rating: - Great to remember!
I purchased (3) of this for our son (age 10) & nephews!After our son met Henry Winkler at a "Hank Zipzer" book signing in Vero Beach,FL- he was hooked on the Fonz!So not only does he love the book series "we" can relive the 80's!
Rating: 
- Nostalgic Teen Show
A funny story of teenage pupils played by much older actors in tight jeans, tight shirts and black leader jackets, exercising sex on the doorsteps of the post-sexual revolution seventeens.
- Seasons 1 and 2 Are The Best Season in the Whole SeriesSeasons 1 and 2 are the best seasons of the whole series.The first two seasons have the original concept of the TV show "Happy Days" which first appeared on the TV show "Love American Style" in 1972 as "Love and the Happy Days."Unfortunately, it is not included in the DVD box sets.BAD POINT.
In fact, there is an episode in Season 1 that is a sequel to the pilot.In the pilot, Richie wants to date this girl named Arlene.She shows no interest in him until he invites her over ... Read More
- A ClassicMy kids and I have a tradition of watching a classic TV series once a week. We started with the Star Trek DVD's, then moved on to Kung Fu, then Gilligan's Island and now Happy Days. My kids can't wait for Wednesday night and the Happy Days Complete First Season has been fantastic! My kids have been thoroughly entertained and these first season episodes are all new to me as well.
- HAPPY DAYSREALLY LIKED THIS SHOW GROWING UP, NOT AS GOOD SECOND TIME AROUND. RENT OR WATCH A RERUN
- Great to remember!I purchased (3) of this for our son (age 10) & nephews!After our son met Henry Winkler at a "Hank Zipzer" book signing in Vero Beach,FL- he was hooked on the Fonz!So not only does he love the book series "we" can relive the 80's!
- Nostalgic Teen ShowA funny story of teenage pupils played by much older actors in tight jeans, tight shirts and black leader jackets, exercising sex on the doorsteps of the post-sexual revolution seventeens.
