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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: 235
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
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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
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Rating:  -
It's a shame there are no extra's. One they could've added is the original pilot from Love, American Style. What they should've done (since the 1st season started in January 1974 instead of September 1973, thus having only 16 episodes) is release Seasons 1 and 2 together, like they did with Seinfeld. One thing that's great about this is that the color looks better than it did in reruns (I remember how black the original episodes looked).
Richie (Ron Howard) was the original star, a nice ... Read More
Rating:  -
loved the entire set, a must if you ever watched it as a child, my kids even love them today.. I wasn't very old when they aired so i don't remeber them all so its really time less to watch and enjoy.
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I dont own this but I remember all of them. This first season will always be my favourite as it wasnt 'The Fonz Show' - it was about an american family and centred mainly around Ritchie, Ralph and Potsie as well as Fonz(whatever happened to Chuck anyway?). I generally prefer no canned laughter but this show is different. The female audience response to Henry Winkler's every entrance in later seasons turned me off. Also, characters like Bag, and in particular poor suffering waitress, Marsha, were used ... Read More
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I couldn't resist buying this for $16.95 during Amazon's Great DVD sale of 2008 earlier this month. So I got this along with Season One of LaVerne & Shirley.
"Happy Days" doesn't seem to be as fondly remembered as other ABC series of its day like "The Brady Bunch." It went from being the Ron Howard Show to the Fonzie show fairly quickly, and one can forget that this show had some true family values which I appreciate in 2008.
The prints on this set are excellent and each ... Read More
Rating:  -
We purchased this for our 11 year old children and were surprised at several topics during the first 10 minutes of the first episode regarding dating. We turned it off and I would return it if I could. Perhaps the latter seasons were the ones we remembered as being more family friendly. Would not recommend.
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