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Gari Marshall's "Happy Days" Sitom provided ABC to step up the welcome ratings when it premiered as a replacement for the middle season on January 15, 1974. To say that his success was surprising would be to ignore the blockbuster elephant in the room Those were "American graffiti", George Lucas's comedy, which broke up the cashier, a year before exploiting Baby Bummer's nostalgia for growth in the rise in the 1950s and 60s cruising. Many members of this generation have reached the age of parenting and, as such, welcomed every opportunity to escape their daily jobs and breeding children and to remember their carefree milk sucking days at their local dinner and beverage coins in Ukebobobox.

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While "Happy Days" was initially a rating hit, ranking number 16 in Nielsen's rating after its first season, the show came across some seriously unexpected viewership turbulence when it received a direct competition for the "all in the family" Spinoff "beautiful times". Suddenly, the well -desired series that Henry Winkler's tuned in the television Ardwarr as a cool, Kindubezer Graser Arthur "Fonzi" Fonzarelli fought to stay in Nielsen's top 50.

Marshall, who entered the business as the 26 -year -old writer of Theek Paar Show, dug deep into the tricks bag and came up with a significant stylish adjustment that, if nothing else, gives every episode of energy. The network had other notes for Marshall, some of which were the councils. But his instincts and collaborative spirit helped save a cultural institution from shockingly abrupt cancellation.

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The executive access of the stereotypical network to save on a problematic show is to identify which elements of a given series seem to work and push them. In the "Happy Days" cast, there was no doubt that Winkler's Fonzy was not only a character, but also a pop cultural sensation. He was cool, charismatic and, in the context of the show, funny. ABC TV Honcho Fred Silverman is pushing to withdraw the show "Happy Days of Fonzi", which would probably blow the protagonist of the show, Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard), to an accompanying character and perhaps sent the whole family to repeat.

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Ron Howard pulled against this. The veteran of show business, which was mentening for a better part of a decade of Andy Griffith, could hold his own with mixing suits. He told them in uncertain terms that he would go from the series "Sudden Fight" if he turned it into a Starwar vehicle for Winkler. Fortunately for Howard and the health of the show, Winkler was on the same page as his co-star.

In the newly published book "50 Years of Happy Days: Visual History of American Television Classic", "" Authors Brian Levant and Fred Fox Runior remember Winkler unselfishly prayed with brass ABC not to make a lonely starvet of the series. According to Fox, "Henry told them," No, no, you don't get it. And Barbara Marshall (Gary's sister) told us that if the title changed, Gari Marshall himself would leave. "

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The ABC withdrew, allowing Marshall to be based on a family theme that will power the series over 11 seasons. "Instead of turning Fonzi," said the Levant, "Marshall deepened his integration into the Cunningham family by making him move to an apartment above their garage, literally and symbolically gave the table a place. It gave him a reason to be even more involved in their family."

And the Levant could say this about the "audience" because the "happy days" made another big change to give the series of life.

Marshall knew a sure way to use energy with "happy days" flags was to borrow a trick from the "odd couple" sitcom version, which Marshall wrote before developing "happy days". Like that show, "Happy Days" began his life as a Sitkom with a camera without an audience. Marshall gambled that transitioning to three -cameras with live audiences in the studio could start the show in overview.

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If you were watching "Happy Days", you know that the audience with a wildly responsible studio was practically a character in the series. They exploded with applause and gigs when Fonzi made his entrance and spread the Loveube to all the main players. When the show was cooking, you could feel the construction enthusiasm of a fan -base that, according to Levant and Fox, arranged once a week out of Paramount Lot to hope to be guaranteed in the studio. "The becoming of an audience -driven show has released the actors' figures," the Levant said. "Under the directing of Jerry Paris, the third season, the fourth season - they just got rid of energy."

This made them "happy days" to feel like an event. If you weren't set up, you missed you. And if Marshall doesn't make the mentioned changes, we would all miss - which may throw a key In Robin Williams' career.

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