Some great TV shows become great not because every movable part fits flawlessly, but because they are skilled in the closest avoidance of the ultimate disaster. The main example of this is Gari Marshall's "happy days", the 1970s seminal sitcom featuring all of the future "karate child" the Great Pat Morita to the future Master Director and Ron Howard's "Arrested Development" narrator. The show had to Dodge terrible original title and Make changes that save them from early cancellation Before that, even there was a chance to completely establish - and as we would talk soon, these were not the only topics that could fall "happy days" early.

While "Happy Days" was technically about the group of teenagers since the 1950s who moved to adulthood and their families, Henry Winkler's Uber-Ladal Uber-Ladal, Arthur "Fonzi" Fonzarelli soon, but kidnapped the show, becoming a clear character. Similarly, although the series was well used during the whole period, without Winkler's hard performance, as the Cool Fonzi has become the secret sauce of the show without effort. However, in another time schedule, we may have received a very different version of the character ... played by Mickey Dolenz from the glory of Monks, to all people. In an interview of 2025 with PeopleThe beloved musician revealed that he not only audited to play Fonz in 1973, but he was actually one of the two finalists:

"I almost got it. Allegedly, it was between me and Henry. He remembers that. So we're laughing about it now.

And they openly fabricated the Beatles Experts and Open TV Series for the said group, the monques were Mickey Dolenz's second major gig, following a child actor in the mid-1950s, Circus Boy. This type of acting CV may not have made it an obvious choice for a role as Arthur Fonzarelli, and in retrospect, casting could have been something catastrophic. After all, even the Foundz Winkler version switched from a real cool (and tragic low -key tragic, thanks to the heavy family history of the character) a caricature grayer whose antiquity became antiquity The story of the origin of the phrase "jump the shark". With Dolenz and his history with the frenetic chaos of monqueons, this degeneration of the character can happen much earlier.

Or, then again, maybe not. Only the people who witnessed his audition knew what Dolenz would bring in the role, but that clearly impressed them enough to move him very close to the finish. However, if you ask Dolenz himself, "happy days" would definitely be shot at the foot if he threw him instead of Winkler. As he told people:

"Oh, God, he's just that good. I definitely not as good as he was. Come on - he was FONZ! He had that newuork, Newoo Jerseyers. I'm from Southern California. It wouldn't have happened! "