Changes to the happy days that saved the offer from early cancellation

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Garry Marshall “Days Days” presented a welcome boost when it was first shown as an alternative in the middle of the season on January 15, 1974. He says that its success was surprising is to ignore the pioneering elephant in the room That was “writing on the American walls”, “ The next Comedy George Lucas, which tore the box office in the previous year by using nostalgia to grow, amid the emergence of a culture of rocks and wandering in the fifties and sixties. Many members of this generation have reached the age of paternity and motherhood, and in this way, they welcomed any opportunity to escape their daily jobs and raise children and remember their quiet days in absorbing milk at local dinner and their numbers in the boxes.

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While “Happy Days” was ranked at the beginning, the 16th rank in Nielsen ranked after its first season, the exhibition faced some unexpected disorders dangerously when it received direct competition from the time from “All in the Family” Spinoff “good times.” Suddenly, the beloved series that had mocked Henry Winkler to TV stardom, where the wonderful networks and kindness Arthur “Fonzi” Fonzarili were struggling to stay in the best 50 years in Nielsen.

Marshall, who stormed the work as a 26 -year -old writer in the movie “The Jack Paar Show”, dug the depths of his bag of tricks and reached a single important style, if there is nothing else, gives each episode an increase in energy. The network had other notes of Marshal, some of which were dropped. However, his instincts and cooperative spirit helped save a cultural institution from sudden sudden cancellation.

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The executive approach to the stereotype network to save the turbulent display is to determine the elements of a specific chain that appears to be working and pushing it to the interface. In the crew of “Happy Days”, there was no doubt that Winkeler Fonzi was not just a intermittent personality but also a cultural feeling of Maboto. It was great, attractive, and in the context of the show, joyful. ABC TV Honcho Fred Silverman prompted the “Fonzie Happy Days”, which was supposed to spoil the virtual novel of the show, Richie Keningham (Ron Howard), to a supportive figure, and the entire Cunningham family may have transferred to her frequent position.

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Ron Howard pushed again against this. The veteran warrior in Schuez, who was directed to the best part of the contract by Andy Griffiths, can carry his hanging suits. Tell them unconfirmed phrases that he would walk from the series that suddenly struggles if they turned it into a star vehicle for Winkler. Fortunately for him and the health of the show, Winkeler was on the same page as his co -star.

In the newly released book “50 years of happy days: an American -TV -TV visual history,” The authors remember Brian Levant, Farid Fox Junior Winkler, that Winkeller pleases with copper ABC for not making it the solo star of the series. According to Fox, Henry told them, no, you don’t get it. The offer revolves around my relationship with the family. You take me away from the family, you don’t have much. “Barbara Marshall (Gary’s sister) told us that if the title changed, Gary Marshall would have left.”

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ABC, which allowed Marshall to build on the issue of the family that would operate the series during 11 seasons. “Instead of Ghazal Fonzi, Marshall deepened the depth of his integration in the Keningham family by making him move to an apartment over their garage, literally and symbolically on his seat at the dinner table. He gave him a more to engage with their families. Very simple reforms when you look at it, and the audience went.”

And Levant could say this about the “audience” because “Happy Days” has made another change to give the series A Jolt of Life.

Marshall knew one confirmed way to shoot to start the energy full of “Days Days”. It was a borrowing of a trick from the release of the comic play from “The Odd Cain”, which Marshall wrote before developing “Happy Days”. Such a show, “Happy Days” started her life as a single camera theatrical series without an audience. Marshall gambled this transition to the coordinating trio with the direct studio audience may kick the show to Overdrive.

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If you have seen “Happy Days”, then you know that the audience of the studio is very answered was practically personal in this series. They exploded with applause and zeroes when Fonzi entered it and spread love to all the main players. When the exhibition was cooking, you can feel the enthusiasm of the building of the fans, according to Levant and Fox, which once lined up a week outside Paramount LOT to ensure themselves a seat in the studio. “It becomes an offer that the audience will move by the characters of the actors.” “Under the supervision of Jerry Paris, the third season, the fourth season – they have removed energy.”

He made this “happy days” feel like it happened. If you are not seized, you are missing. And if Marshall has not made the amendments mentioned above, we may all miss us – which has made a key In the profession of Robin Williams.

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