Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
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The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera
in association with Paramount Television
and originally broadcast from November 8, 1980, until September 18, 1982.
as The Fonz
, Ron Howard
as Richie Cunningham, and Donny Most
as Ralph Malph
all supplied their voices to this animated version of the ABC
-TV series, Happy Days
.
The cartoon added an anthropomorphic dog, Mr. Cool, and a girl from the future, Cupcake, to the cast as they travel through history in a time machine, trying, as narrator Wolfman Jack
put it, “...to get back to 1957 Milwaukee,” placing the temporal abduction sometime in late Season 2 or early Season 3 of the live-action series.
Twenty-four episodes were produced. After the series ended, Henry Winkler as the Fonz and his sidekick dog, Mr. Cool, joined the Army and were added to the cast of the animated Laverne & Shirley in the Army
which premiered on October 10, 1981. The show was later renamed Laverne & Shirley with the Fonz and had the Fonz working in the motorpool as the chief mechanic. That series ran until September 3, 1983. Both series were syndicated with the animated version of Mork & Mindy as Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley / Fonz Hour.
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...
in association with Paramount Television
Paramount Television
Paramount Television was an American television production/distribution company that was active from January 1, 1968 to August 27, 2006.Its successor is CBS Television Studios, formerly CBS Paramount Television...
and originally broadcast from November 8, 1980, until September 18, 1982.
Premise
Henry WinklerHenry Winkler
Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...
as The Fonz
Fonzie
Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli is a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the American sitcom Happy Days . He was originally a secondary character, but eventually became the lead...
, Ron Howard
Ron Howard
Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
as Richie Cunningham, and Donny Most
Don Most
Don Most is an American actor best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.-Acting credits:...
as Ralph Malph
Ralph Malph
Ralph Malph is a character on Happy Days played by Don Most.-Background of Character:He usually had two things on his mind, girls and jokes...
all supplied their voices to this animated version of the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
-TV series, Happy Days
Happy Days
Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in mid-1950s to mid-1960s America....
.
The cartoon added an anthropomorphic dog, Mr. Cool, and a girl from the future, Cupcake, to the cast as they travel through history in a time machine, trying, as narrator Wolfman Jack
Wolfman Jack
Robert Weston Smith, known commonly as Wolfman Jack was a gravelly voiced US disc jockey who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s.-Early career:...
put it, “...to get back to 1957 Milwaukee,” placing the temporal abduction sometime in late Season 2 or early Season 3 of the live-action series.
Twenty-four episodes were produced. After the series ended, Henry Winkler as the Fonz and his sidekick dog, Mr. Cool, joined the Army and were added to the cast of the animated Laverne & Shirley in the Army
Laverne & Shirley in the Army
Laverne & Shirley in the Army is a 1981 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series based on the TV show Laverne & Shirley, with the title characters voiced by Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams. The show aired on Saturday mornings for one season of 13 episodes on ABC...
which premiered on October 10, 1981. The show was later renamed Laverne & Shirley with the Fonz and had the Fonz working in the motorpool as the chief mechanic. That series ran until September 3, 1983. Both series were syndicated with the animated version of Mork & Mindy as Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley / Fonz Hour.
Season 1
| No. | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "King for a Day" | 1980 November 8 |
| 2 | "May the Farce Be With You" | 1980 November 15 |
| 3 | "Arabian Knights" | 1980 November 22 |
| 4 | "Bye-Bye, Blackbeard" | 1980 November 29 |
| 5 | "Westward Whoa!" | 1980 December 6 |
| 6 | "Ming Fu to You, Too! | 1980 December 13 |
| 7 | "The Vampire Strikes Back" | 1980 December 20 |
| 8 | "You'll Never Get Witch" | 1980 December 27 |
| 9 | "The 20,000 Drachma Pyramid" | 1981 January 3 |
| 10 | "It's a Jungle Out There" | 1981 January 10 |
| 11 | "Gone With the Wand" | 1981 January 17 |
| 12 | "Science Friction" | 1981 January 24 |
| 13 | "Greece is the Word" | 1981 January 31 |
Season 2
| No. | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | "The French Correction" | 1981 September 12 |
| 15 | "Kelp!" | 1981 September 19 |
| 16 | "Time Schlep" | 1981 September 26 |
| 17 | "It's All Downhill From Here" | 1981 October 10 |
| 18 | "Double Jeopardy" | 1981 October 17 |
| 19 | "Fjords and Sorcery" | 1981 October 24 |
| 20 | "There's No Place Like Rome" | 1981 October 31 |
| 21 | "Perilous Pauline" | 1981 November 7 |
| 22 | "Around the World in 80 Ways" | 1981 November 14 |
| 23 | "All This and Timbuktu" | 1981 November 21 |
| 24 | "Give Me a Hand – Something's Afoot" | 1981 November 28 |
Cast
- Henry WinklerHenry WinklerHenry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...
- Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli - Ron HowardRon HowardRonald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
- Richie Cunningham - Donny MostDon MostDon Most is an American actor best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.-Acting credits:...
- Ralph Malph - Frank WelkerFrank WelkerFranklin Wendell "Frank" Welker is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal effects to American television and motion pictures.-Acting career:...
- Mr. Cool - Didi ConnDidi ConnDidi Conn is an American film, stage and television actress.-Personal life:Conn was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a clinical psychologist. "Didi" was her childhood nickname...
- Cupcake
Production Credits
- Executive Producers: William HannaWilliam HannaWilliam Denby Hanna was an American animator, director, producer, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of people for much of the 20th century. When he was a young child, Hanna's family moved frequently, but they settled in Compton, California, by...
and Joseph BarberaJoseph BarberaJoseph Roland Barbera was an influential American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century.... - Produced by: Don Jurwich
- Directed by: Ray Patterson, George Gordon and Rudy Zamora
- Story Supervisor: Ray Parker
- Story Editors: Tom Swale and Duane Poole
- Story Directors: Gary Hoffman, Emilie Kong, Dick Sebast and Don Sheppard
- Animation supervisor: Bob Hatchcock
- Recording Director: Gordon HuntGordon Hunt (director)Gordon E. Hunt is an American actor, voice actor, director of stage, film, and voiceover and casting director.-Life and career:...
- Animation Casting Director: Ginny McSwainGinny McSwainGinny McSwain is a voice actor, voice casting director, and animation production professional from Los Angeles, CA.McSwain graduated from Stephens College in 1974, before moving to Los Angeles...
- Voices: Marlene Aragon, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Bell, Mary Ann Chin, Didi ConnDidi ConnDidi Conn is an American film, stage and television actress.-Personal life:Conn was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a clinical psychologist. "Didi" was her childhood nickname...
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, B.J. Ward, Frank WelkerFrank WelkerFranklin Wendell "Frank" Welker is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal effects to American television and motion pictures.-Acting career:... - Guest Appearances in "Fonz & the Happy Days Gang": Henry WinklerHenry WinklerHenry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...
, Ron HowardRon HowardRonald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
, Donny MostDon MostDon Most is an American actor best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.-Acting credits:... - Graphics: Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
- Title Design: Bill Perez
- Music Director: Hoyt Curtin
- Music Supervision: Paul DeKort
- Creative Producer: Iwao Takamoto
- Design Supervisor: Bob Singer
- Character Design: Ruben Aquino, Curtis Cim, Debbie Hayes, Don Morgan, Lew Ott
- Layout Supervision: Steve Lumley, Don Morgan
- Key Layout: John Tucker
- Layout: Cosmo Anzilotti, Dale Barnhart, Owen Fitzgerald, Bob Fosbury, Luis Garcia, Mike Hodgson, Todd Hoff, Gary Hoffman, Karenia Kaminski, Mike Kawaguchi, Greg Martin, John Martin, John Perry, Shane Porteous, Linda Rowley, Joe Shearer, Bob Smith, Andrew Szermenyei, Deane Taylor, Cliff Voorhees
- Animation Supervisors: Chris Cuddington, Don Patterson, Jim Duffy
- Animation: Sue Beak, Ty Bosco, Gairden Cooke, Dick Dunn, Peter Eastment, John Eyley, Peter Gardiner, Gerry Grabner, Murray Griffin, Greg Ingram, John Martin, Paul McAdam, Paul Maron, Vivian Ray, Steve Robinson, Di Rudder, Irena Slapczynski, Jean Tych
- Assistant Animation Supervisor: Martin Chatfield
- Background Supervisor: Richard Zaloudek
- Backgrounds: Milena Borkert, Jerry Liew, Beverley McNamara, Mike King-Prime, Olek Rozin, Sue Spear, Ken Wright, Milan Zahorsky, Sr.
- Checking and Scene Planning: Ellen Bayley
- Xerography: Joan Mead, Sven Christofferson
- Ink and Paint Supervisor: Narelle Derrick
- Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Joe Citarella
- Technical Supervisor: Mark D'Arcy-Irvine
- Camera: Shaun Bell, Bob Cohen, Tom Epperson, George Epperson, Liz Lane, Bob Marples
- Supervising Film Editors: Larry C. Cowan, Robert Ciaglia
- Dubbing Supervisor: Pat Foley
- Music Editors: Terry Moore, Robert Talboy
- Effects Editors: Catherine MacKenzie, John Semper, Jr., Kerry Williams
- Show Editor: Gil Iverson
- Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
- Production Supervisors: Lyn McLean, Brodie Myers
- Production Managers: Jack Pietruska, James Wang
- Executives in Charge of Production: Jayne Barbera and Margaret Loesch
- A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
- This Picture Made Under the Juridiction of IATSE-IA Affiliated with A.F.L.-C.I.O.
- All material except "Fonz & the Happy Days Gang" and "Laverne & Shirley"
- (c) 1981 HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS, INC.
- "Fonz & the Happy Days Gang" and "Laverne & Shirley": (c) 1981 Paramount Television (now owned by CBS Studios)