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From 1974 to 1984, Happy Days broadcast 11 seasons, including seven with Ron Howard Like Richie Cunningham. The show and the character are now big songs in the history of television, but that was almost not the case. Howard threatened to stop Happy Days Quite early in his race, when the leaders of the show planned to change his title.

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Howard and several others Happy Days distribution members recently spoken to The New York Times In honor of the 50th anniversary of the show. Howard and Henry Winkler Rest on how the network proposed to modify the title by The happy days of Fonzie After this character, he became the break. Not only Howard told his bosses that he would work if it happened - Winkler, who played the Fonz, was not for the idea either.

Howard explained to Nyt That the show took off after his second season when he went to a configuration to three cameras filmed in front of an audience. At the same time, Fonzie has become a more important part of the show, which also helped him win more fans. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It was a kind of calculation for me because the objective of the show changed, and yet it was our way of winning," said Howard. "The only thing I have ever said to the bosses or leaders is:" What happened here with Fonzie is great. Just make sure you also understand that we have real chemistry here, and we consider ourselves a set. 'I'm glad they made the movements they made, that I was 100% comfortable with them at the time or not. It was exciting to see the show take off. ""

Winkler said it was at the time ABC told him that they wanted to change the title for The happy days of Fonzie . "I said, 'If you do that, it's an insult to everyone with whom I work. Why repair something that is not broken? We are really good. I live in the family and c' is why I succeed. I succeed. 'I ask you, if you never listen to me again, leave it alone.' ""

Howard confirmed that he "had said [he] would leave", if the title was changed. "I don't think I can have contractually," added the actor and director. "But I told them that if you really wanted to change the name of the show to that, I prefer to return to the USC and the film school and what I did before the launch of the show."

Howard and Winkler agreed that they had a good time working together, Winkler calling Howard an "incredible partner" and Howard saying: "It was an explosion". Howard also said that "you couldn't be jealous" of what happened with Winkler and Fonzie "because he was won at 1,000 percent." Asked if he was jealous of Winkler's fame, Anson Williams , who played potsie, said, "People ask me this question and I would say:" Are you kidding? Le Fonz bought me a house. He was probably the most popular actor in the world for a while, but he never came to the whole. As popular as it has not changed anything as a team. ""

In the past, Howard revealed that He treated a lot of stress During the first years of Happy Days. In his book in 2021, Boys: a Hollywood memory and Family, co-written with their brother Clint Howard , He said that stress has manifested itself in physical symptoms.

"I did not manage my stress well. Apollo 13 The filmmaker wrote. "Instead, I kept everything inside. Then I started to break out in rashes of eczema all over the body, the most acute on my eyelids ... and my hair started To go beyond. Looking at the men on both sides of my family, I knew it was inevitable ... but it started to go out in alarming tufts during this period. "

"The biggest stressor of everyone was Fonzie," he continued. "Not Henry, but Fonzie. It did not escape in my opinion that the season, the Fonz obtained more and more screen time."

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