Happy Days

Those were the days of the 1950's...filled with innocence and the promise of even better days to come.

Comedy
English     7.7     1974     USA

Overview

In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.

Reviews

drystyx wrote:
This is an inferior version of American Graffiti. "Happy Days" was made on the heels of the semi classic film about high school kids in the days of the late fifties and early sixties. Whereas "American Graffiti" had some charm, "Happy Days" was totally about "hatefulness". The glorification of hoodlums began early, and despite what anyone involved in the series proclaims, "Fonzie" was always meant to be the star. The first season is proof of that. The entire show was just a means to dehumanize young men who were too blond or pale to be accepted in the seventies, and that is the history of the seventies in the U.S. There just isn't anything else in the show. It is supposed to be a comedy, but it's just an exercise in hatefulness and prejudice.

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The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.

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