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Happy Days - The Complete First Season

starring: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler
directed by: Art Fisher, Joel Zwick, George Tyne, James Tayne

: Happy Days - The Complete First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HAPPY DAYS
EAN: 9781415700761
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 1415700761
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 17, 2004
Running Time: 383 minutes
Sales Rank: 166
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: January 15, 1974



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Product Description:
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

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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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Happy Days Season 1, Better Than Later Seasons
Before I had bought Season 1 of Happy Days I had watch a couple episodes from later seasons, and I ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Great Show Fondly Remembered From Childhood
I remember this series and a few others very fondly and with great joy to see them released on dvd ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Please Come Forth, Fourth Season!
Being a naive 8-year old in a late-30s body, I tend to forget the business aspect of releasing Happy ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Arguably the best sitcom around
Loved watching Happy Days as a kid. Too bad it got stupid later with the live audience. The series started ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Rock Around the Clock
It's a shame there are no extra's. One they could've added is the original pilot from Love, American Style. ... Read More

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