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Happy Days
Season 1
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16 Episodes
All the Way
E1
Episode 1
All the Way
Potsie sets Richie up with a girl known to have a reputation. Richie doesn't get far with her but leads Fonzie and others to believe he did.
The Lemon
E2
Episode 2
The Lemon
Tired of driving around in Howard's DeSoto, Richie and Potsie buy a car of their own. The car has several problems including an engine that won't run consistently. This causes problems when they try to impress two girls.
Richie's Cup Runneth Over
E3
Episode 3
Richie's Cup Runneth Over
Richie and Potsie are invited to Potsie's cousin's stag party. In an attempt to lessen the effects of the alcohol they will consume, they each drink several cartons of milk and a sip of olive oil.
Guess Who's Coming to Visit
E4
Episode 4
Guess Who's Coming to Visit
Potsie is staying with the Cunninghams, and he and Richie sneak out to watch a drag race in which Fonzie is involved.
Hardware Jungle
E5
Episode 5
Hardware Jungle
Richie buys tickets to a rock and roll show from Fonzie but has to work at the hardware store when Howard needs to have his tonsils removed. Because he'll be working until 9:00 PM, he won't be able to go to the show, so he asks Fonzie for a refund. Later, Howard tells Richie that he can close the store at 5:00 PM leaving him free to go to the show. He, now, has to ask Fonzie for the tickets back.
The Deadly Dares
E6
Episode 6
The Deadly Dares
Richie and Potsie, in their never-ending effort to get girls, decide that they want to join a gang called the Demons. However, in order to be accepted, they have to perform several dares.
Fonzie Drops In
E7
Episode 7
Fonzie Drops In
After taking a look at a B+ Potsie got on an exam, Fonzie decides to drop back into school. He asks Richie to do his homework and cheat for him.
The Skin Game
E8
Episode 8
The Skin Game
Richie and Potsie obtain fake identification cards in order to attend a burlesque show where Ralph says Bubbles McCall takes it all off.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
E9
Episode 9
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Richie and his girlfriend, Arlene, break up after two weeks of dating. Neither of them have dates for the prom, so they end up going together as friends.
Give the Band a Hand
E10
Episode 10
Give the Band a Hand
To make some money, Richie, Potsie, Ralph, and Bag form a band. They secure a gig, but Richie and Potsie lose the money (including that of Ralph and Bag) playing poker.
Because She's There
E11
Episode 11
Because She's There
Richie's enthusiasm for Ralph Malph's costume party begins to wane when he finds out that his and Ralph's parents are chaperoning and Potsie has set him up with a blind date who is tall enough to go dressed as the Statue of Liberty.
In the Name of Love
E12
Episode 12
In the Name of Love
Cindy, a new girl in school, asks Richie to tutor her. Richie is interested in more than just studying and makes several attempts to win her over.
Great Expectations
E13
Episode 13
Great Expectations
Richie meets a beatnik named Diedre at the movies and gets caught up in her type of lifestyle.
The Best Man
E14
Episode 14
The Best Man
Howard's old army buddy, a black man, asks Howard to be the best man at his wedding. Howard and Marion consider holding the wedding at their home when the man can't find anyone else willing to do it.
Knock Around the Block
E15
Episode 15
Knock Around the Block
Richie gets on the good side of a local gang, the Dukes, when he protects the leader's sister from being picked on. However, things change when the Dukes steal Potsie's bike, and Richie tries to get it back.
Be the First on Your Block
E16
Episode 16
Be the First on Your Block
The height of the Cold War and fears of an apocalyptic war breaking out at any moment take center stage in this episode, where Howard ponders purchasing a bomb shelter for his family's protection. Richie's friends quickly learn about the shelter and ask if, in the event of war, they can stay too.
Cast of Season 1
Ron Howard
Richie Cunningham
Henry Winkler
Arthur Fonzarelli
Tom Bosley
Howard Cunningham
Marion Ross
Marion Cunningham
Anson Williams
Potsie Weber
Don Most
Ralph Malph
Erin Moran
Joanie Cunningham
Season 1 Reviews
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Win Fanning
As the series continues I suspect this character of Fonzie, excellently played by Henry Winkler, will contribute substantially to its success. Winkler has struck a nice balance between the town tough and an understanding "older" confidant.
San Francisco Examiner
Dwight Newton
Jukebox music interludes are good and rousing. Most everything else is good and silly.
Orlando Sentinel
Noel Holston
I have to wonder how long nostalgia and nostalgia alone can hold an audience's attention. Even an audience eager for the good ol' happy days.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Will Jones
The minds behind Happy Days, I fear, have no nostalgic feeling for life as it really was in the '50s. What they're really yearning for is a return to TV's family situation comedies of the period... Reruns could serve as well. Maybe better.
Associated Press
Jay Sharbutt
It is a half-hour comedy series. It is set in the 1950s. It is awful. Naturally, I like it. I grew up in the 1950s and had an awful time... Time-warp dialogue and all, Happy Days does a pretty fair job of recapturing the atmosphere of the era.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Winkler epitomized unforced studliness for a generation, but he never ignored his character's underlying sad, even pathetic qualities.
New York Daily News
Kay Gardella
As for "The Happy Days," it will, at least, appeal to some young people, and it's not long enough to get too upset about.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Lee Winfrey
I tuned in prepared to hate a show with two characters on it named Potsie and Fonzie, but it didn't turn out that way.
New York Times
John J. O'Connor
That's the trouble with nostalgia. It's dishonest. And within the context of a situation comedy it's more dishonest than usual.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Jerry Coffey
The new show is written, directed and played, most of the time, in a broad campy larger-than-life style that drowns much of the program's potential charm and humor in silliness and disbelief.
AV Club
Emily St. James
The differences between the episodes in the series' first and best season and what came later are legion.
Detroit Free Press
Bettelou Peterson
The minute attention to the physical details of the 1950s, from the kind of cars to the length of the boys' chinos, has to be admired... But Happy Days wasn't funny, even gently funny. It wasn't satire and it wasn't camp.
Philadelphia Daily News
Jim O'Brien
Happy Days is harmless enough. And it has at least two good performers in young Ron Howard and Tom Bosley, who plays his father.
United Press International
Rick Du Brow
Happy Days is not a great show, but it has a certain curiosity shop attraction, and maybe more. The values it depicts are as tacky as they were in the 1950s, but now we can look at them with the added dimension of gentle satire.
Chicago Tribune
Gary Deeb
Happy Days is mostly lightweight fun -- cheery entertainment -- and if subsequent scripts are as lovingly crafted as the premiere, ABC may finally have a situation comedy that couples healthy escapism with a reasonable dose of truth.
Baltimore Sun
Horace M. Newcomb
There are no real characters here, no people who can feel pain and joy. These are comicbook characters, pasteboard dolls. They mouth words that were never spoken so incessantly, and they bore us after it is all said and done.
Los Angeles Times
Cecil Smith
An awful hunk of nostalgic claptrap... Garry Marshall, who should know better, gave this to the world.
Boston Globe
Robert A. McLean
It's all done with that kinda wide-eyed, "let's neck, but nothing else" breathless charm, which never seems out of style.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Jones
A beautiful new series which is certain to return young viewers to the American television audience.
Arizona Republic
Phil Strassberg
If you are like me and recall the mid '50s as spiraling years; years which were pushing you to and past the over-30-and-can't-be-trusted plateau, then the [period references] are delightful aspects of nostalgia-dripping.
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