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Happy Days
For ten years, from 1974 to 1984, a fictional image of suburban Milwaukee brought the 1950s back to America through ABC's Happy Days. The picture of the world that was painted by thi...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
"Happy Days" is a little more than the same old Henry Aldrich sandwich, dressed with the salt of more "relevance" and the store-bo...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
"Happy Days" is something that could be good but, evidently, has decided to go the familiar route of "Dobie Gillis," "Fathe...
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Critical Essay by Cyclops
["Happy Days"] is a sitcom about the ostensibly innocent fifties. The decade itself is presumed to be a sitcom….
Richie, Potsie and Fonzie are fixated on...
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Critical Essay by Richard Schickel
[Happy Days] is the American Graffiti rip-off in which the producers made off with the movie's star (Ron Howard) and its ambience (small-town America in the 1...
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Critical Essay by Frank Rich
ABC's shows do not pretend to deal with topical issues, and their premises are brazenly retrograde. Happy Days copies Dobie Gillis…. Laverne and Shirley�...
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Happy Days
Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
