Mark Y
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I did a search and didn't really find an answer. I was a big fan of "Happy Days" when it originally aired -- our family watched it every week at 7:00 on Tuesday nights, as well as the ABC daytime reruns and later in syndication as "Happy Days Again." However, I really haven't watched this series much since maybe the 1980s.
Something reawakened my interest in this show recently. I had bought the first season on DVD back when it was released years ago, but I went no further with it on hearing that subsequent seasons had a lot of music replacements. Anyway, all these years I had been under the impression that the first season had the original music. I know I remembered "Rock Around The Clock" as the theme song, but again, I probably watched a few shows when I first got this, but hadn't revisited it since.
So last night I put on an episode which happened to be "Fonzie Drops In." The show starts with Bill Haley's song. Then the opening scene of the episode begins and I was hearing the early version of the "Happy Days" theme song which was played in the closing of the first two seasons. It just seemed a little odd to me, then as it faded out I could hear a tiny little bit of a 1950s song, but not enough for me to identify what it was. On the flip side, later on in the show I did hear "See You Later, Alligator" in the background, but it seems like otherwise there wasn't much music from the era like I remember.
So there's music replacements on Season 1 as well? I really wasn't aware.
I really wanted to get the second season, especially as one of my favorite episodes is in it, but the reviews I read made it sound like it was badly compromised with music replacements. But I also read that some International versions of the release have the original music. Is that correct, and can anyone fill me in on that?
I do remember several favorite episodes and looking at online guides, a bunch of them are in the third season, which is later than I expected. I know they didn't (haven't?) finished this series on DVD but with what they have released, what is the status of the music on the later seasons?
Stuff like this gets me regretting not taping these during the years they were on every day in reruns.
A couple of asides...like I said, even though it's a favorite show of my youth, I haven't revisited it often in recent decades. But I remember reading that in some fairly recent cable reruns, some episodes had the syndicated "Happy Days Again" titles. That would be cool to get just for the sake of nostalgia. Is this still the case? Anyone know which ones?
I also remember like other network shows, they had a mid-show bumper in the original prime time broadcasts as well as the ABC daytime reruns. I remember in one Erin Moran said something like "Happy Days will be right back...I think." I miss stuff like that. Our local station that ran "Mission: Impossible" in the late 1980s included those bumpers, yet stuff like that is very rarely included in DVD sets, even as extras.
Something reawakened my interest in this show recently. I had bought the first season on DVD back when it was released years ago, but I went no further with it on hearing that subsequent seasons had a lot of music replacements. Anyway, all these years I had been under the impression that the first season had the original music. I know I remembered "Rock Around The Clock" as the theme song, but again, I probably watched a few shows when I first got this, but hadn't revisited it since.
So last night I put on an episode which happened to be "Fonzie Drops In." The show starts with Bill Haley's song. Then the opening scene of the episode begins and I was hearing the early version of the "Happy Days" theme song which was played in the closing of the first two seasons. It just seemed a little odd to me, then as it faded out I could hear a tiny little bit of a 1950s song, but not enough for me to identify what it was. On the flip side, later on in the show I did hear "See You Later, Alligator" in the background, but it seems like otherwise there wasn't much music from the era like I remember.
So there's music replacements on Season 1 as well? I really wasn't aware.
I really wanted to get the second season, especially as one of my favorite episodes is in it, but the reviews I read made it sound like it was badly compromised with music replacements. But I also read that some International versions of the release have the original music. Is that correct, and can anyone fill me in on that?
I do remember several favorite episodes and looking at online guides, a bunch of them are in the third season, which is later than I expected. I know they didn't (haven't?) finished this series on DVD but with what they have released, what is the status of the music on the later seasons?
Stuff like this gets me regretting not taping these during the years they were on every day in reruns.
A couple of asides...like I said, even though it's a favorite show of my youth, I haven't revisited it often in recent decades. But I remember reading that in some fairly recent cable reruns, some episodes had the syndicated "Happy Days Again" titles. That would be cool to get just for the sake of nostalgia. Is this still the case? Anyone know which ones?
I also remember like other network shows, they had a mid-show bumper in the original prime time broadcasts as well as the ABC daytime reruns. I remember in one Erin Moran said something like "Happy Days will be right back...I think." I miss stuff like that. Our local station that ran "Mission: Impossible" in the late 1980s included those bumpers, yet stuff like that is very rarely included in DVD sets, even as extras.
