Happy Days: Season 3

Great set.

I appreciate those who hold the first two seasons with such high reverence at the expense of the live audience seasons, but I'm not sure it's terribly deserved. Objectivity is difficult, but I (and some other viewers who have posted, as well) found Season 2 to be relatively not-so-well-written, and, worse, boring and dry at many turns. Sure, it was shot film style ... and, yes, "every episode is like a little movie," etc. ...But, Season 3 leaps off the page. The energy is so palpable you become a part of it. And, I think Season 3 is the raciest and sexiest of all the seasons (sometimes downright - and very UN-Happy Days-esque, naughty). It is truly the peak of Fonzie mania, and it captures the Winkler/Howard/Williams/Most fab four at their rawest. Tom Bosley's character has an edge (and layers) in this season that the writers never really gave him again. After watching Season 2, pop in Season 3 and I defy you to miss it: it's live, it's raw, it's exciting ... and funny as all hell. Probably the most laugh-out-loud season of all eleven. Purists may be purists, but I truly believe if Happy Days had stuck to the first formula (one-camera with canned laughter), it wouldn't have seen a fourth season. Happy Days was quite Darwinian. It morphed into a variety of shapes to survive 11 seasons. Like some, I love them all, and all for different reasons. Garry Marshall said, "I just wanted to create a group of people that you'd want to welcome into your home every week." He sure did. These kinds of heartwarming shows just don't exist anymore. At least we have these DVD sets!

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Heeeyyyy.Good wholesome family tv. Love these older shows. Not like the filth on tv this day in age. I own most of this series. Gonna own them all.

Happy Days was pretty good quality television when it started out. I think what killed the series for me was when they went to a live audience it seemed to play out for responses from the audience rather than regular TV episodes without it being live. After all these years have gone by I suppose that's what many TV shows that became hits use for a formula. Live audiences.

My favorite tv show as a child is a warm, funny classic, and soo wonderful to watch over and over again. I love this gem on dvd its a warm, wonderful timeless classic and beats anything out there on tv today... Well worth it. A++++++++++++

Daughter wanted this for Christmas. It is great! What can I say, "it's Happy Days!"

The relationship/chemistry between Ron Howard's Richie Cunningham and Henry Winkler's Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli is what powered this series for the first several seasons, and it's in fine form here. The first episode of the season sees Fonzie moving into the Cunninghams' attic, over Richie's father Howard's objections, initiating what I thought were the series' best episodes--the more time Fonzie and Richie spent around each other, the stronger the episodes were. Other favorites of mine during this season were "The Motorcycle" (Richie and his friend Potsie--they never did explain how he got that nickname--conspire to keep Fonzie from finding out that Richie's other friend Ralph Malph has crashed into Fonzie's motorcycle), "They Call it Potsie Love" (a really sweet episode in which Richie's little sister Joanie falls for Potsie after he practices a song by serenading her, then secretly sends him love letters addressing him as "Dren" ["nerd" backwards, because she believes he's the total opposite of a nerd]; Potsie is excited about having a secret admirer, until she arranges for a meeting and he realizes Joanie is the one with a serious crush on him), "Richie Fights Back" (one of a number of early episodes in which Fonzie coaches Richie on how to deal with gang-member bullies by looking and acting tough), "Dance Contest" (After being teased by her family about wanting to enter a TV dance contest, Richie's mother Marion goes behind their backs to take dance lessons from Fonzie; Howard and the others try to figure out where she's going all the time and decide she must be having an affair, and Fonzie almost gets gang-banged by the lot of them before he and Marion can participate in the contest), and too many others to list here.The series was really starting to hit its stride with this season, and I am anxious to complete my season collections--up TO the season where they separated Fonzie and Richie and started messing with the characters, which I think is around season 6 or 7.

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Usage privé, nous commanderons la saison 4 dès quelle sera disponible. Meilleures salutations, C.W.

For me I would rate season three as the best, these episodes come across as fresh and sharp and are full of witty lines. I found the later episodes to be too sentimental, but here Happy Days is really on form. This collection has possibly my favourite episode "Three On A Porch" with Ritchie trying to sound mature on the telephone; "Hello this is a adult business man speaking."Other memorable lines include Fonzie approving of the guys band practice in They Call It Potsie Love; "Hey I support the arts." This series starts with Fonzie moving into the room above the garage at the the Cunninghams house which leads to many witty exchanges. There is also the Laverne and Shirley episode. Happy Days is at it's best with this collection.

The 1975-76 season of the highly successful Happy Days is largely defined by the placement of the Fonz (Henry Winkler) in even closer proximity to the Cunningham family--making him, tacitly and literally, a member of best friend Richie's household. When Fonzie's grandmother moves into the ultra-cool, womanizing biker's apartment, he takes a room over the Cunningham's garage, making Richie (Ron Howard), his mom Marion (Marion Ross), and sister Joanie (Erin Moran) happy, but leaving cantankerous-but-lovable dad Howard Cunningham (Tom Bosley) something more than ambivalent. While several episodes deal with one or another conflict between strong-willed Fonzie and stubborn Howard--at one point, the two sue each other over a roof that collapses from the weight of Fonzie's pigeon coop--life otherwise lurches along for Richie and his gang. In "The Other Richie Cunningham," Richie tries an end run around his dad's expectation that he take a business associate's daughter out for a date. Enlisting pal Potsie (Anson Williams) to pretend to be Richie, the Howdy Doody-faced teen finds the plan backfiring when Potsie proves to be less than a gentleman to the unfortunate girl. "Jailhouse Rock" finds Richie and Howard sharing a jail cell after protesting an arbitrary curfew by police on teens, while "Tell It to the Marines" concerns a desperate attempt by Ralph (Donny Most) to earn respect by threatening to join military service. Not surprisingly, however, most of Happy Days: The Third Season follows the exploits of Fonzie as he constantly lives up to the reputation that inevitably precedes him. The two-part "Fearless Fonzarelli" begins with the Fonz so worried he's losing his cool that he agrees to jump 14 garbage cans on his motorcycle for a television show--and ends up with a serious leg injury. "Fonzie the Superstar" is a popular episode in which the Fonz agrees to substitute for Potsie as vocalist in Richie's band, then freezes up with stage fright on the night of a show at Arnold's. (Winkler's performance on "Heartbreak Hotel," while not exactly singing, is so charged with energy one can tell the actor was probably breaking through his own inhibitions during the scene.) "Bringing Up Spike" focuses on Fonzie's first encounter with child-rearing when his visiting, little delinquent cousin gets into a jam with the law.Happy Days: The Third Season is definitely a peak in the show's lengthy history, just before the series took a turn for the silly (or sillier). This was the year Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) were introduced to the world on Happy Days (before landing their own spin-off series). And armchair TV historians will take note how sexist the show could be while it simultaneously takes a minor stab at American racism in "Fonzie's New Friend" (in which the Fonz shows up with an African-American pal to play drums in Richie's band, and gets a hostile reaction from whites in the community).Product Description"Happy Days" was set in the 1950s in Milwaukee, the heart of middle-class America, and told the story of the Cunningham family. Mr. Cunningham (Tom Bosley) ran the local hardware store and Mrs. Cunningham (Marion Ross), like all good TV Moms, spent her time in the kitchen. Their son, Richie (Ron Howard), hung out at Arnold's Drive-In with his pals Ralph Malph (Donny Most) and Potsie (Anson Williams), trying to be as cool as the coolest greaser in town, the Fonz (Henry Winkler). Richie's sister, Joanie (Erin Moran), tagged along whenever she wasn't at her friend Jenny Piccolo's house. The Cunninghams also had an older son, Chuck, but he mysteriously disappeared after the first season.

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