1980 9:00 on ABC: The Fonz & The Happy Days Gang

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

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At 9am Saturday morning over on your local ABC affiliate station in 1980 you could tune in to see one of my all-time favorite BIZARRE CARTOONS of all time, “THE FONZ AND THE HAPPY DAYS GANG”. Originally broadcast from November 8, 1980 until September 18, 1982, this show was pretty darned incredible. If you can disassociate the show from it’s prime-time origins (“The Fonz” has a product of the popular sitcom “Happy Days”), what you have is a story about a 1950’s “Greaser” with semi-magical powers traveling through time trying to set things straight with the help of a super-evolved dog that is capable of walking up-right and rudimentary speech, his two straight-laced Teenage friends and a girl from the farthest reaches of time and space who has provided them all with a Time Machine so that they can hopefully reset the time lines and return them all to 1957 where they belong.

This show is more “Doctor Who” than “American Animated Sit-Com”! Give it a try some time!

(also aired at 9:00 in 1981)

Comments

[bookishwench.livejournal.com]

::slow blink::

Okay, that is one of the more bizarre things I have seen in my entire life. Just when it couldn't get weirder, Cupcake? With the leg warmers? Okay...

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to rewatch this series because I'm sure it can't live up to the Quantum Leap / Doctor Who / Back To The Future mash-up that I've imagined it as all these years...

[aurora77]

Oh wow. I DO remember this! I watched it as a kid.

I read your synopsis to my husband, starting at "What you have is a story about a 1950's greaser..." I'm not sure I can accurately reproduce the sounds and facial expressions he produced, either before OR after I told him the show's name. XD