Happy Days 1st Season Closing Credits

[falconvideos01]

@supremetaco Was this closing from the pilot episode? It seems like it is.

[mx94racer]

OMG! There's Chuck!

[littledebbie187]

RIP Tom Bosley. You will be missed.

[jameskoolkat]

Tom Bosley, Mr. C on 'Happy Days,' dies at 83 (AP)

AP - It was a constant in American television for more than a decade: Viewers could turn on their TVs and find Howard Cunningham in his armchair, reading the newspaper and providing a fatherly voice of reason to young Richie Cunningham and his friends on "Happy Days."

[cagedkittie]

someone knows whats the name o the song?

[kallemick]

@cagedkittie its called "happy days" or the "happy days theme" the full version is on youtube and itunes :) just search (youtube) "happy days theme full lenght release" and (itunes) "happy days theme" i think the offical is the one by "pratt & mcClain"

[brucedavis76]

it was good for about a year and a half

once they went to a live audience it went down hill

[kallemick]

@brucedavis76 why was it bad after that? did the audience laugh too much?

[brucedavis76]

@kallemick no i really enjoyed the 50's theme it just became a generic sitcom about fonzie after the first year and a half

[genericgeorge]

@kallemick no they just laughed at the stupidest things

[kallemick]

@genericgeorge i actully watched season 3 now and i agree a reason of why happy days used to be my favorite show (before the terrible season 3 where it was all about fonzie) was that it wasnt filmed in front of a live audience and they didnt use the laugh track non stop i usually hate sitcoms but i liked happy days because of that and they fucked it up with the live audience thing :(

[genericgeorge]

@kallemick The first two seasons was more about storylines and decent acting. Once it went to live, it lost a lot of charm. They had to overplay their lines and speak loud so the audience could hear whereas early eps they spoke at a normal level. Close ups were no more and they lost a lot here too. Winkler has a great expressive face and this was evident in 'Guess who's coming to christmas' ep. Fonz became an unreal superhero, Rich lost his shy likeability & Potsie became more stupid each year.

[wallofvideo]

@genericgeorge you phrased that very well. long before fonzie jumped the shark, "happy days" had already done so.

[vegaslover777]

Chuck, where are you???

[arthurv2008]

I think Chuck went out to Los Angeles. That is part of the reason Richie was going to move out there with his wife Lori-Beth when he got out of the Army.

Did Richie mention in an episode that Chuck was going to get him a job as a screenwriter, which was Richie's dream?

(I am not sure if this is true, I haven't seen this show for ages)

[vegaslover777]

I don't know about that but years ago I saw an interview with Tom Bosley. He said the they wrote Chuck out of the show because he was intended to be Ritchie's "mentor" but the development of Fonzie's character more less took his place. Also, there's an interview on-line with the first Chuck (Gavin O'Herlihy who did the first half of the first season) and he said he pulled out because he was in demand and he didn't want to be stuck in a role bouncing a basketball around and not much else.

[StuntmanJackR]

He became the leader of a possibly gay biker gang in "Death Wish 3". I am serious. That actor plays the main bad guy.

[JP5466]

Happy Days was the real deal back then.

[uhnter1]

the show had a real 50,feel to it back then the clothes and hairstyles and the sets were very close to the period-not like the later episodes when they just went early 80,s

[arthurv2008]

The show was set in the 1950's. Garry Marshall once said that he set the show in the 1950's to prevent the show from being dated.

Some sitcoms and even drams today will sometimes make a reference to some news item and that tells you exactly when the show was made.

That's how you can tell when a talk show is a repeat.

[AdamLambertsVoice]

Sunday Monday happy days Tuesday Wednesday happy days Thursday Friday happy days

the weekend comes my cycle hums ready to race to you ♥

[BCK]

Back when 'Happy Days' was cool.

[MexicanJuice7]

Hello sunshine, good-bye rain.

She's wearing my school ring on a chain.

She's my steady, I'm her man.

I'm gonna love her all I can!

[mediadude4God]

I thought they used "rock around the clock" by Bill Haley and his comets for season 1 of Happy days?

[supremetaco]

They did (and for season two, as well), but not for the closing credits.

[mediadude4God]

ohhh yeah that's right I remember now. Thanks

[TheMashwatcher585]

@mediadude4God they played rock around the clock the 1st 2 seasons as the opening theme not the closeing. this was the closeing theme

[cossack207]

this was when Happy Day's was VERY funny ! and the Fonze wasn't a god

[rebwanz]

featuring Gavin O'Herlihy as CHUCK!!!!!

[Stormievb]

I like this closing!

[Skibibbles]

To be specific, this close was from the first episode. It is ever so slightly different from the close of the other 13(?) episodes in Season one. The way to tell is that the font on the letters is different, and at the end, there is an edit cut in the music (0:28/0:29) as if it was possibly longer the first time it was played.

[gameshowguy2000]

So did the other episodes close out like the remaining seasons (i.e. 4 separate still shots of the jukebox; don't ask me why they decided to do that during the closings)

[megamanj2004X]

The other difference is that the jukebox's colors actually flashes in this version of the S1 closing credits.

[vfreeck]

1. Thank You for leaving the Paramount log. I love that one. It has a scare factor, but unaware of why. Some of the seasons Viacom didn't replaster luckily.

2. This was my favorite Credits. I live seeing them dig in to that Fried Chicken. It makes me hungry.

[GreekGuy9999]

I can't believe it!!! Someone else was scared by the logo too!  My friend sthink I am a LUNATIC to this day for being frightened by it as a kid. Good to see I am not alone in my dysfunction!

[Skibibbles]

It gave me nightmares as a kid too!

[Jnelson09Returns]

It didn't scare me. But WGBH did.

[JMFabianoRPL]

True story: This wasn't the original logo...the first HD season had...the SPLIT BOX! Which is retained on the Season 1 DVD, thankfully before CBS-Paramount started to wreak havoc.

[livinlarge18]

now CBS Television Distribution wreaks havoc

[JMFabianoRPL]

CBS Boredom Distribution...

[livinlarge18]

What next ESPN is discontinued and it channels are sold to DIsney who allows WB to relaunch Kids' WB!

[retroguy1976]

@JMFabianoRPL scrrew cbs

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@JMFabianoRPL

Season 2 also had the Split Box (with the 1974 jingle?), but from Season 3 forward it was all Blue Mountain blues.

[Kaleigh1221]

Yeah, in the last few seasons of it, Ron Howard left, and so that's why in the later epsoides it says starting Henery Winkler insted of Ron Howard.

[haney8106]

co-starring Henry Winkler, he moved up later ;)

[Jr24001]

no fucking kidding!

[ajbalfour]

Thanks for posting this. It's great to hear the original closing theme from the 1st season after so many years. Nick & TV Land used the closing theme from the 2nd season over these credits. They've violated many old series thev've aired in a similar fashion (bad print quality and/or bad quality transfer to videotape being other pet peeves of mine).

BTW, that's not the original Paramount logo at the end. The original was red.

[ShaDeed329]

That's true. This happened in the 1980s. That makes that one a variation with the 1972-1974 logo theme.

[mrceleb2006]

...but the 1972-1974 marching band rendition of the Schifrin score is still intact.

[britfrenir]

WFLD in Chicago used to use season 3's introcuction or use the theme song from season 3 for season 1. It finally had the orginal back.

[heyheyheydude]

Yeah, that was Richie's big brother..he didn't last very long on the show though..

[dunskie]

Gavin O'Herlihy as "Chuck".  HA!