Not sure why this show is listed as a spinoff of Happy Days

[opus]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

But what about her meeting the Cunninghams in the 1950s on Happy Days that led to the spin off? Time machine?

TVFactFan is going to have to buy the DVD and tell us if they tried to make her look younger (makeup, wigs, whatever) or they just didn’t care.

By the way, another connection between the two shows. Pat Morita was his Arnold character for all 13 BB episodes.

[TVFactFan]

Ok just finished watching the 4th anniversary show and I was wrong and its definitely a spinoff

Nancy Blansky mentions she has to get back to vegas for show girls

Howard mentioned that Nancy is connnected to the Oasis Hotel in Vegas which is the hotel featured on Blansky Beauties


So Happy days has 4 spinoffs

L&S
M&M
BB
JLC

[BestTVever]

This thread did something really bad. It made me go to youtube and watch clips of episodes and the opening theme. Now I can't get that dumb theme out of my head. I have been walking around the house for the past 2 days singing "I want it all, I want it all." That's the only words I know and its not even that great of a theme song.
Was strange how the dancers would open the show different each time. The Arkansas girl was so over acting lol

[BestTVever]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Ok just finished watching the 4th anniversary show and I was wrong and its definitely a spinoff

Nancy Blansky mentions she has to get back to vegas for show girls

Howard mentioned that Nancy is connnected to the Oasis Hotel in Vegas which is the hotel featured on Blansky Beauties


So Happy days has 4 spinoffs

L&S
M&M
BB
JLC

Did she mention she is going in a time machine to the 1970s?

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

Did she mention she is going in a time machine to the 1970s?

Like Opus said they probably didnt care lol

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

This thread did something really bad. It made me go to youtube and watch clips of episodes and the opening theme. Now I can't get that dumb theme out of my head. I have been walking around the house for the past 2 days singing "I want it all, I want it all." That's the only words I know and its not even that great of a theme song.
Was strange how the dancers would open the show different each time. The Arkansas girl was so over acting lol

yeah that theme was pretty bad

[BestTVever]

I was reading something in the youtube comments that I thought was credible. This was another ABC attempt at jiggle TV. They already had Charlie's Angels and Threes Company debuted a month later after this show. Both were mid season replacements.
Guys would do anything back then to see a woman on TV in a bikini dancing or jumping up and down.

[BestTVever]

This video explains some of the confusion with the time difference between shows and explains how the show failed. Laverne from L&S was brought in at the last minute in an episode trying to boost ratings. Blanskey traveled back in time to visit Laverne.
Weird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sXDlqoz_XI

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

This video explains some of the confusion with the time difference between shows and explains how the show failed. Laverne from L&S was brought in at the last minute in an episode trying to boost ratings. Blanskey traveled back in time to visit Laverne.
Weird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sXDlqoz_XI

I was trying to find the ratings when Laverne was a guest but didnt have any luck

[BestTVever]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

I was trying to find the ratings when Laverne was a guest but didnt have any luck

I think it made the show even more confusing. They made no mention when Ms Blanskey was in the 1950s on Happy Days saying she has to get back to Las Vegas with her girls and show. Yet for Laverne she goes back in time.
I am only guessing but when they showed women dancing they were professional dancers shown from far away. The key cast members were not professional dancers. That made things even more confusing. For example in the opening women are standing in front of Nancy near a water fountain. Slowing they all peal off revealing Nancy. Those women were not cast members but the professional dancers?
The show was trying to be too many things to too many people. Part jiggle TV, part teen idol (Chachi), part comedy, part dance show, and giving Nancy another try at her own show. It also was like the Facts of Life in season 1. Too many girls and it was hard to get to know any of them. These women would be in one scene, then leave and never be seen again the whole show.
But its such a train wreck and I love the mid 1970s so much that I wish it would be released on DVD.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

I think it made the show even more confusing. They made no mention when Ms Blanskey was in the 1950s on Happy Days saying she has to get back to Las Vegas with her girls and show. Yet for Laverne she goes back in time.
I am only guessing but when they showed women dancing they were professional dancers shown from far away. The key cast members were not professional dancers. That made things even more confusing. For example in the opening women are standing in front of Nancy near a water fountain. Slowing they all peal off revealing Nancy. Those women were not cast members but the professional dancers?
The show was trying to be too many things to too many people. Part jiggle TV, part teen idol (Chachi), part comedy, part dance show, and giving Nancy another try at her own show. It also was like the Facts of Life in season 1. Too many girls and it was hard to get to know any of them. These women would be in one scene, then leave and never be seen again the whole show.
But its such a train wreck and I love the mid 1970s so much that I wish it would be released on DVD.

Her other failed show doesnt even exist.....Nancy walker show.

[BestTVever]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Her other failed show doesnt even exist.....Nancy walker show.

I was watching the only episode on Youtube "The Sheik" I think its called. Horrible writing. Bami gets called to a Sheik's hotel room and Ms Blanksey begs her not to go because Arab men can be problems. Blanskey goes undercover with a blonde wig to distract the Sheik. That theme has not aged well today. There would be nothing funny about rape or attempted rape. At the end Bami does not learn her lesson and runs off to a bull fighter's room.