Chris:L

I fear for Happy Days

I fear this show will not do well in the releasing of the series. I wish all 11 seasons would be released but I fear only the first two will sell. Maybe not even that.

The intention of Happy Days only lasted about 2 seasons before the character of Fonzie dominated the writers. I hope this isn't the deathnail for the release.

Mark To

I will buy the first 2 seasons definitely. Those were the only 2 seasons of Happy Days. Seasons 3-11 were The Fonzie Show, of which I have no interest in having.

Randy A Salas

I've been watching the first-season set, and I must say that it looks spectacular. I don't recall it looking that good even in the original broadcasts.

Randy A. Salas
DVD Columnist & Feature Writer
Minneapolis Star Tribune daily newspaper

Mark Lx

Yes it sounds from the review I read, that the original music is all in there, and the episodes are complete at about 25'30". No extras apparently.

Carlos Garcia

Your fears are well thought out. In my heart I already am prepared to see Happy Days end after 2 seasons on DVD. Let's face it, once the show became the silly "Fonzie Show", it became a kid farce. Not that it wasn't entertaining at times, but I doubt most people will want to buy seasons 3-11. People who think the "Jumping the Shark" episode was the series' low point should watch the pathetic "Pinky Tuscadero" episode that's loaded with awful editing, continuity, no sense plotholes (Fonzie shooting a 1970's electric blow drier running on a car battery in the 50s!) and other bad filming techniques. Yikes, I cringe just thinking about it. I will be buying the first 2 seasons though, before Chachi arrived. WAH WAH WAH!

Chris:L

I also only think that if the set does well, past the second season.... only the true Happy Days fans will buy the Fonzie Show. It does well on TVLand... because TVLand hasn't pulled teh plug on that show. The episodes after the thrid season aren't that bad. Only hopefully the fonzie pandemonium will save the Happy Days extinction.

If you want to talk about a show I think will not sell... is possibly The Brady Bunch. Bad KARMA.

As a collector, I'll be getting all eleven. My favorite season as the last few. The one where Joanie and Chacie had begun dating.

The first two seasons, too me, were the worst.

Fonzie hadn't fully developed. And other character's hadn't fully developed.

Joe Karlosi

Like many, I prefer the first two seasons of HAPPY DAYS, and they're all I wish to own. However, a big majority of fans liked when it became "The Fonzie Show". That's the whole reason it went that way.

AnthonyC

I'd possibly pick them up until Richie left. The show was crap after that, IMHO.

Chris:L

What about the episode when Richie comes back to his home in Welcome Back, Part 1 and Part 2? That two part episode was a tear-jerker.

Pinky was a female Fonzie. Nothing wrong there. I just don't like that Roz Kelly, who played her, was a real winner - if you know what I mean. Probably why they didn't write her in after that trilogy.

I'd like to know why everybody thinks the show became the fonzie show after the first two seasons. there was still episodes about richie and his family. it was poignant. I don't understand. Give me some examples. Yeah, there were episodes about Fonzie, but that didn't make it become Fonzie's Happy Days.

Matt.Koz

Any links to this review?

Mark Lx