Should Happy Days have ended when the timeline got to 1963

[TMC]

I don't know right off the top of my head if Ron Howard was still on the show at the time. But the series apparently begins in 1955 and concludes in 1965. I bring up pre-November 1963 because it's debatable that the '50s culturally, officially ended upon President John F. Kennedy's assassination. I don't even know for sure if Happy Days even touched upon JFK's death.

[Chocolate Moose]

i do not remember much history or current events of the day being discussed. The show was about relationships.

[PracTz]

Originally Posted by TMC

I don't know right off the top of my head if Ron Howard was still on the show at the time. But the series apparently begins in 1955 and concludes in 1965. I bring up pre-November 1963 because it's debatable that the '50s culturally, officially ended upon President John F. Kennedy's assassination. I don't even know for sure if Happy Days even touched upon JFK's death.

IMO, it should have ended when the timeline got to Live Studio Audience!

In any case, even when it was good[BLSA], the timeline flittered about all over the place from 1955 to 1959 - back and forth many times!

[Sgt. Saunders]

Originally Posted by PracTz

IMO, it should have ended when the timeline got to Live Studio Audience!

In any case, even when it was good[BLSA], the timeline flittered about all over the place from 1955 to 1959 - back and forth many times!

Wow, is that ever the truth about how “Happy Days” actually “jumped-the-shark” when the show’s producers decided to tape the comedy series in front of a crowd of extremely loud and overly enthusiastic pre-pubescent teenyboppers.

Prior to the raucous teenagers being at the taping of “Happy Days,” the show was both a very funny and thoughtful program, addressing such serious topics as racism, suicide, political differences between fathers and sons and the widespread paranoia over the threat of nuclear war during the 1950s.

If “Happy Days” had continued to be filmed in a closed studio, maybe the show would have only lasted for another year or two, but I think that it would be remembered as a funny and quality tv show from the mid-1970s and not the schlocky show it became with Chaci Arcola, Pinky Tuscadero and actor Ted McGinley, the official patron saint is of “jumping-the-shark.

[Sgt. Saunders]

Originally Posted by PracTz

IMO, it should have ended when the timeline got to Live Studio Audience!

In any case, even when it was good[BLSA], the timeline flittered about all over the place from 1955 to 1959 - back and forth many times!

Wow, is that ever the truth about how “Happy Days” actually “jumped-the-shark” when the show’s producers decided to tape the comedy series in front of a crowd of extremely loud and overly enthusiastic pre-pubescent teenyboppers.

Prior to the raucous teenagers being at the taping of “Happy Days,” the show was both a very funny and thoughtful program, addressing such serious topics as racism, suicide, political differences between fathers and sons, mental illness and the widespread paranoia over the threat of nuclear war during the 1950s.

If “Happy Days” had continued to be filmed in a closed studio, maybe the show would have only lasted for another year or two, but I think that it would be remembered as a funny and quality tv show from the mid-1970s and not the schlocky show it became with Chaci Arcola, Pinky Tuscadero and actor Ted McGinley, the official patron saint is of “jumping-the-shark.