Happy Days - The Third Season
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Actor: Henry Winkler, Ron HowardBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Restored
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 540 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Happy Days - The Third Season
Movie Review: Sit on it!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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This is the best set of Happy Days released on DVD yet. While I haven't reviewed season 4 yet, I think this is much better than Season 2 and even Season 1 on DVD. Filming is excellently transferred to DVD, very vivid colors and great film transfer.
The shows are supper funny. Very good writing. The characters are all fully developed by now, and it's fun to see early appearances from currently well known actors like Jeff Conaway (Ritchie Fights Back), and others. Ritchie's sister seemed like such a baby in the first two season, but she seems like a full-fledged teen in this season; makes me wonder if they "babied" up her appearance in the first two seasons. She's very funny in this season, and not such a "little girl" annoying anymore.
Where's Ritchie's older brother? Killed in a war? Off to the NBA? Funmny, I know this disappearance is well discussed on all the message boards, but you gotta admit, it's probably more discerned, but less noticed than even the "jumping the shark" bit by Fonzie in a later season.
I highly recommend this season for purchase, or even rental. My wife bought it for me, for Christmas, and I'm well into the 2nd disc. The 4 disc set includes a very nifty space saving 1 plastic case holder, and the discs all fit nicely into the packaging. The descriptions are on the inside cover of the artwork and it makes a very nice and space saving package. Very sweet deal!
Recommended!
Summary of Happy Days - The Third Season
"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.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). --Tom Keogh
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