I haven’t watched happy days or the partridge family personally (not yet anyway) but going off looks. 100%. She’ll get a pass because she’s nine (canonically) and Danny is closer to her age but omg no question
On Tuesday night, Jan. 15, 1974, Fonzie, Ralph, Richie and Potsie entered our living rooms for a visit that would end up lasting more than a decade.
Created by Garry Marshall, “Happy Days” arrived as a comic but earnest chronicle of adolescence in 1950s Milwaukee. It revolved around Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) and his equally hormonal pals — Warren “Potsie” Weber (Anson Williams) and Ralph Malph (Donny Most) — along with the rest of the Cunninghams: Richie’s younger sister, Joanie (Erin Moran); mother, Marion (Marion Ross); and father, Howard (Tom Bosley).
In the 1976-77 season, “Happy Days” became the most-watched show on television, supplanting “All in the Family.” It ran until the summer of 1984, a total of 11 seasons, while generating multiple spinoffs — “Laverne & Shirley,” “Mork & Mindy,” “Joanie Loves Chachi” — and untold tons of Fonzie merchandise.
'The Rachel & Steve Show' – Does Television Still Tell the American Story?
There were young boys pounding on every jukebox they could find in the 1970s because they were praying for a magic moment of super coolness.
That’s what The Fonz did, after all, so young men from 7 to 17 years old attempted to flip their leather collars and impersonate the star of “Happy Days” on those Tuesday nights in front of their parents’ console TV. There were Ralph Malph, Potsie Weber, Joanie, Mr. and Mrs. C., and, of course, the all-knowing Richie Cunningham.
But “Happy Days” provided a story about how America operated during the 1950s, and nines times out of 10 the endings were happy and filled with smiles. But were there other shows, like “Good Times,” All in the Family, and “The Jeffersons,” that were telling tales about a nation perpetually mourning the murders of the two men brave enough to promote and push for racial unity.
Both shot. Both dead. And no one was sure how to frame the American Dream for some time, especially on TV. That’s why, in the 1980s, the dysfunctional family took TV’s center stage with “Growing Pains,” “Full House,” and “Married with Children” toyed with the notion of family fun, and only a few shows, like “M*A*S*H*, “Murphy Brown,” and “Family Ties,” turned political from time to time.
These days it appears children – and their parents – have more choices than what I did so many years ago, and streaming, of course, is king. The topics of the shows appear to be more obvious, too, but that could be a product of the 40-plus years that have passed since I was Rachel's age and in eighth grade. Drugs, sex, relationships, and gender identification all topics, and those issues were handled with whispers when I was a kid.
That's why, I believe, the conversation Rachel and I will have tomorrow afternoon will be most interesting because of the change that's taken place with the delivery of social messages, and why the hints I received have turned into over-the-head-and-obvious directives.
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'Happy Days' star Anson Williams to run for mayor of Ojai, Calif. - Deadline
‘Happy Days’ star Anson Williams to run for mayor of Ojai, Calif. – Deadline
Actor Anson Williams hopes voters in Ojai, Calif., will tell him to “sit on it.” The mayor’s chair, that is.
Williams, best known for his role as “Potsie Weber” in the classic television sitcom Happy Daysannounced that he was running for mayor of his hometown of Ojai.
Ojai is located approximately 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County. It has a population of less than 8,000 and is…