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However, it was rejected by most networks at the time. However, a year later, ABC picked it up and the pilot for the series was aired it as part of an episode of Love, American Style in a segment titled "Love and the Television Set", originally aired on February 25, 1972. For syndication reruns, this was retitled "Love and the Happy Days."
The series' pilot was originally shown as "Love and the Television Set", later retitled "Love and the Happy Days" for syndication, a one-episode teleplay on the anthology series Love, American Style, aired on February 25, 1972.
"Love and the Television Set." (Titled "Love and the Happy Days" in syndication.) An American family of the 1950s gets their first television; teenage son Richie and his friend Potsie assume it can be used as a chick magnet. Written directly for television by Garry K. Marshall, this was the pilot episode for Happy Days.
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[1] Happy Days, in turn, launched an extensive franchise of spinoffs into the 1980s. The series was also flexible enough to include repurposed pilots that had already failed or been retooled. One first-season example was "Love and the Good Deal," which was actually the original, unaired pilot for the sitcom adaptation of the Neil Simon play and ...
Garry Marshall, who created some of the 1970s’ most iconic sitcoms including 'Happy Days' and directed the major blockbuster, 'Pretty Woman.'
He also appeared in a pilot later broadcast as a 1972 episode of Love, American Style titled "Love and the Happy Days" with him in the role of Howard Cunningham, the frustrated father of a high schooler named Richie Cunningham (played by Ron Howard). [5]
Howard C. Cunningham is a fictional character played by Tom Bosley on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days. Actor Harold Gould played the character in the pilot, which aired as an episode of the anthology series Love, American Style. [1] He is the husband of Marion Cunningham, and the father of Chuck, Richie, and Joanie Cunningham.