Happy Days

:For the play by Samuel Beckett, see Happy Days (play).

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Play - Samuel Beckett - Happy Days (play)

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Happy Days is a popular United States television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. It presented an idealized version of life in late 1950s and early 1960s America.

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United States - Television - Sitcom - 1974 - 1984 - ABC - Television network - 1950s - 1960s

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Happy Days centered on the life of a middle-class family named the Cunninghams, who lived in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The family consisted of Howard, a hardware store owner and the family patriarch; Marion, a homemaker and the family matriarch; and the couple's teenage children, Richie (who had an optimistic if somewhat naïve outlook on life) and Richie's younger sister Joanie. As the series went on the story focus often shifted to additional characters, notably those of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, who was originally portrayed as a local thug but soon became a friend to Richie and the Cunningham family, and Fonzie's cousin Chachi, who became a love interest for Joanie Cunningham. The long-running show also resulted in several spinoff shows, several of which were highly successful in their own right.

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Middle-class - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Patriarch - Homemaker - Matriarch - Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli - Chachi - Spinoff

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