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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10106 in DVD
• Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
• Released on: 2007-04-17
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 540 minutes

Amazon.com
Happy Days: The Complete Second Season finds Garry Marshall’s immortal, 1970s sitcom hitting its stride with 23 episodes that continue to be built around Milwaukee native Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) and his family and friends. But there’s also a clear strengthening of one of the show’s eventual, major elements: the close, if unlikely, friendship between Richie and Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli (Henry Winkler). As always, Richie is angling for a way to grow up faster, often getting in over his head. In "Richie Moves Out," the red-haired teen tires of trying to kiss his girlfriend in the goldfish bowl of his house, so he agrees to live with his older brother while finishing high school and holding down a job. The result: there’s no time for making out when one is that busy. A similar scheme backfires in "Richie’s Car," when the Fonz converts a racing vehicle into a family-friendly, second car for the Cunninghams, only to find after the fact that it’s probably stolen. "Fonzie Joins the Band" sees Richie having to stand up to, and disappoint, his greaser pal when non-musical Fonzie presumes to join Richie’s band in exchange for outfitting them in slick tuxedoes. Fonzie looks surprisingly downhearted, too, in "Richie’s Flip Side," in which straight-arrow, young Cunningham gets a job as a disc jockey and develops an unbearable ego. In "Goin’ to Chicago," Richie, Potsie (Anson Williams) and Ralph (Don Most) go on an overnight field trip to the Windy City and discover that stepping into the adult world (they visit a nightclub and end up with a whoppping check they can’t pay) takes some preparation and experience they don’t yet have. Tom Bosley and Marion Ross still look, in retrospect, as wonderful in the roles of Richie’s parents as they did in the early ‘70s. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

BOYCOTT THIS GARBAGE! EDITED MUSIC LOW GRADE PICTURE AND SOUND!
This is really irritating! This show (at least in the early years) is as good as any show ever was! The fact that the studio is too cheap to pay for the rights to the music is ridiculous! To add insult to injury the picture and sound are bargain basement quality! I think everyone who bought this or any other show that has been altered should return the shows for a full refund. Let the cheapskate studio eat the loss instead of making the fans digest this SH**!

Heavily Altered Music = NO SALE!
Upon release, I've since changed my mind about supporting this set. Nearly all of the original music has been removed or replaced with generic music. The episodes themselves contain all of the original footage, but without the music they definitely lose a LOT. When I wrote my original review, I was acting on the assumption that Paramount would do as they did for the first season and fork over the extra dough to retain the original music. Since it turns out they did not do that, I won't be buying this after all. Such a shame.

IT'S SO EASY TO FIGHT CORPORATE GREED! SIMPLY DO...NOTHING. DON'T BUY IT. THE CORPORATIONS WILL GET THE MESSAGE.
I refuse to buy altered DVDs. I don't care how classic the show was. And, to me, Happy Days was a classic show. It was part of my childhood. I was in my early teens when this great show was broadcast. I've waited for it to appear on DVD ever since. But I WILL NOT BUY DVDs THAT ARE POORLY MADE -- ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE MISSING THE ORIGINAL MUSIC, OR HAVE SLOPPY CUTS TO COVER UP THE LACK OF ORIGINAL MUSIC.

I don't understand how anyone could buy ANY DVD set that lacks the original music and contains sloppy cuts to cover the fact. I didn't buy WKRP In Cincinnati for that very reason. I had it in my hand. Then I read the back of the box and saw that it didn't contain the original music. I put it back on the shelf.

Come on, people! How short-sighted are you to accept trash like this?!?!?!?! Americans complain about the poor quality of merchandise available in our country (Asian imports cost less because they're made less well. Duh!), but here we have a chance to fight the problem simply by doing nothing. That's right -- nothing. Don't buy the product. You'll save $30-$40, you'll retain your self respect, and the studios that released the garbage will be out tens of thousands of dollars. It's a win-win situation.

The more we accept shoddy merchandise, the more studios will continue to force it on us. Don't you people realize that? Don't you see what's happening here? If everyone refused to buy Happy Days, the studio would lose money on this release. They'd have a choice then. If they want to MAKE money on the release, they go back and do it right. And they do it the right way for all future releases.

The flip side is true as well. If we buy this garbage now, they'll continue to release DVD sets like this in the future. It's all about the bottom line, people!

Miami Vice is an example of a DVD series done the right way. Those episodes are intact, all the music is there, and believe me it makes a difference. Some of the music in those scenes has stuck with me -- connected to those scenes! -- since the day they were broadcast 20 years ago. I applaud the Miami Vice DVDs. They were done right. I abhor the Happy Days DVD releases and I am ashamed of those who bought them for purely selfish reasons instead of considering the bigger picture.