when you hear that mew umusie whole show would flash in your mind. gary marshal was becoming a legend in his own day. he s done the odd kcouple. happy days were built around the family. does richard look nice tonight? he s got stinky stuff on his hair. is that what that smell is? i thought the milk was sour. not a lot of people were watching abc. in the early 70s, abc made a big mistake for not picking on families. abc reinvented itself. they brought over fred si
dynamic changed. that show ends up going from 22nd place to the number one show. there would be traffic and people getting home to watch happy days. it was targeting 18 or 29 years old. garry marshal says we got this part on happy days. they were incredibly individually funny. anybody s calling me a nasty
barry marshal was becoming, like, a legend in his own day because he had done the odd couple. gary marshal always said, you know, a lot of people, they do important television. i do recess. happy days was built around the family, originally. doesn t richard look nice tonight? he s got stinky stuff on his hair. is that what that smell is? i thought the milk was sour. the fonz was a background character and he was lucky if he had two lines for an episode. it s probably just fuel pump. you know? but not a lot of people were watching abc. they were a distant-third place. remember, in the early 70s, abc made a big mistake in not picking up all in the family. but then, abc decided to really reinvent itself. they brought over fred silverman from cbs, and fred silverman said, let s go after the young people. under fred silverman, it s
let s see it. doesn t look like a hickey. that show ends up going from 22nd place to first place and becomes the number-one show in the country. there d be traffic, people getting home to watch happy days. it was a revolution. networks targeted 18 to 49-year-olds not necessarily with family sitcoms but with friend sitcoms. laverne defazio and shirley feeney. gary marshal said we have got this pod on happy days. the show we did was a double date with fonzie and richie. oh, he s nice. and a tie, too. and a hanky. is that for showing? or for blowing? they were incredibly individually funny. is anybody upstairs gonna run down and call me a nasty name? and then, gary got the idea to spin them off into their own series. my jesus and my beatles was
sure, i do. and compared to blanch, everybody looks good. the odd couple was one of the first shows that began to explore the breakup of the family on television. two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? the perfect opening to a a sitcom was, of course, the odd couple opening. which told all the back story and set it all up, in this beautiful way. felix was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. that request came from his wife. the odd couple was, originally, a neil simon play on broadway. it then became a movie, and came to television in 1970, thanks to gary marshal. would you do me a favor? what? for my birthday, let me clean up in here. no. the finniciness of tony randal s character was because tony randal was a little bit finnicy. in my room, you can eat off