slightly better than the Brady Bunch but still not nuts about it

Wasnt my cup of tea.

Great show and still like even today!

henry winkler was not my idea of a tough guy

Early Happy Days was great, but as with many shows, it lingers on far too long and gets sloppy with new characters that aren't near as interestig and enjoyable as the originals.  Mork and Mindy suffered the same thing.  Happy Days, in it early days, was great.  Fonzy was great as the cool dude, and Ritchie was wonderful as the nerdy kid.  It was fun to watch...but then we had Chachi, and that little nephen of Fonzie's.  It got all too mushed up for me.

hahaha

Joanie loves Chachi !!!

This is where the phrase "jumped the shark" jumped the shark.

then, not now

INCREDIBLE!!!!

Chachi was the bomb back in the day!

Who didn't love it ~ and who didn't either want to BE the Fonz or be WITH him.

Great show! The cast was so good and people still go around saying "eeeyyyy". They don't come much cooler than Fonzie and the Cunninghams were the coolest straight family around.

Excellent entertainment for about three years, then slowly faded into a good nap show. Should have been renamed the Fonzie show after the first three seasons.

An extended ode to teenage hormonal overload.

Insipid and ignorant.

Not the best written show in the world but for some reason every time I watch this thing I suddenly remember the Fonzie posters on my wall and the fact I had a crush on Joannie. It takes me back.

fonzie made this show,it was very funny.

I'm the second youngest of 6 kids in my family. Most of them were somewhat familiar with the 50s and they watched this show till it almost made me puke. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me, but, I think you had to be a part of the 50s scene to enjoy the show.

I used to watch the old reruns of this when I was a kid. Very good show, even if it is old. Funny, well-written. Good acting.

I never went TOO bananas for this show.It was a nice little show.I hear a lot of people on this post beating up on the Fonz.I think that Fonzie should have been used a bit less,not because he was not funny but characters that provide comic relief should be used sparingly.Leave 'em wanting more is a good rule of thumb.

Nostalgia, mostly for the nostalgia of the 70's!!!

Nobody could have been that Happy. Shows just how moronic we really can be.

Like Mash there were two happy days the early ones which tried to keep focused on Richie and the ones where it was the lobotomized fonzie obsessed ones.The stupid sit on it jokes.It seemed like the show was trying to commit Irwin Allencide.Irwin Allen would make a pretty good show and concept and then when he tired of it.He would kill it with silly plots.Only Happy Days would not die.I think Happy days is the marking point of when peoples minds were turning to mush.If only they would have dumped fonzie and kept chuck(richies never talking basketball dribbling brother wriiten off early).

It was good and deserves a five. What I couldn't figure out, however, is why Richie didn't beat the starch out of that tiny little wimp, the Fonz. This series is also noticed for the Jump the Shark episode and causing that phrase to go into the language.

i watched happy days all the time. i thought fonzie was kind of cool until i got older and realized he wasn't as cool as i thought. i still liked the show. it did get boring to watch toward the end and i wasn't really interested in the joannie loves chachi thing.

This was a good show when it first came on, but later tanked when Richie left and Fonzie settled down with one woman and her annoying little girl.

One of the best sit coms ever. The need of the day in 1975 and following was not for another show to remind us of all that was wrong in our country. There were plenty of shows to do that. What the country needed was for a show to remind us of what is good in the country and Happy Days did that. Sure, there were some sexual inuendos, but, that notwithstanding this is a terrific show.

How about the way Chachi had a late 70s hairstyle in a 1963 setting?

Loved that show growing up.... Fonz for prez...was that the nixon election? No wait that was Ford.

I LOVE Happy Days and i'm only 15! I love how it follows the growth of a teenaged boy, but it's not completely sickening to the max. I love Richie to death and the Fonz is great!

Happy Days is my favorite show. It is an instant classic with characters like the fonz and ritchie. I loved the later years after ritchie was gone, chachi and joanie kept things goings and fonzie really was developped as an actor. It will always be the best in my books!(and ratings!!)

This seems like a show where everybody just had a ball making it. The relationship between Opie, uh, I mean Richie and the Fonz was a good TV matchup. Probably the best Retro show ever.

Started out very well (especially when it was originally presented on Love American Style)as a fun romanticized representation of the 1950's. Turned into swill when it became a Fonz-Fest & Henry Winkler overshadowed the other characters with his horse face & obnoxious demeanor.

I am the first to admit this show was not really well written or acted and stupid but being a little kid I LOVED it!!!!I will still watch sometimes due to the nostalgia element. This show started before I was born and I believe lasted well into the early 80's so you have a whole generation who grew up watching this..This like the reruns of Brady Brunch are just a huge part of so many childhoods ...for that it gets 5 stars

they had a good stat and then went down hill all the way.

Classic show top 10 of all time for sure

i still find this series lovely and i am not old

This show disappointed me because having a comedy set in the 1950s was such a great idea to start with. Unfortunately, it quickly became a program about people with 1970s values, 1970s haircuts, and 1970s manners. Only the cars looked authentic. People in the 1950s did not call each other nerd and families didn't relate to each other the way they did on this program. People were also able to have conversations without shouting nearly every line. As one season of Happy Days followed another, the plots got sillier, the added cast members got worse, and the audience got noisier. It became a mere caricature of the 1950s, and a poor one. The writers also managed to sneak political messages into some episodes. It did have one saving grace: Ron Howard's presence on this or any other show makes it better than it would have been otherwise.

Happy Days has not aged well. It could be just because I am older now, but the comedy on this show feels dated to me as opposed to (say) Mary Tyler Moore or Bob Newhart which were also on television during the early to mid 1970's. As other comments have noted, Happy Days had the ingredients for success. The show was inspired by a successful movie, American Graffiti (1973), had good casting, namely Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, and Tom Bosley, and was in that key retro period of 20 years after the time period in which the show was set (ie the 1950's). As other comments have noted, the first seasons were very good resulting in a large audience; however, the show quickly lost its focus, getting away from Richie Cunningham and focusing too much on Fonzie. Moreover, non-period clothing and lexicon started to creep into the series. The end result was a bad television show when compared to many of the others on this list. Happy Days was originally broadcast from 1974 to 1984.

Happy Days is my favorite show in the whole world because it can always make me laugh no matter what my mood is and Mr. Henry Winkler, if you ever read this it'll probably make you laugh but I love you and if you weren't married I'd get you, but you're still my favorite actor.

Good start, but that can't balance the later years. The musical episode (the stars displaying their "versatility" by singing off-key) was, I thought at the time, as low as a program could fall. Then, as if to prove me wrong, they had Fonzie jump the shark...

OH MY GOSH I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PROGRAMME!!!!!!Unfortunately for me I only descovered it last year:( But I am only 15, but when I saw it for the first time I was hooked. It is funner than some programmes today, and I just can't get enough of it, even though it isn't on New Zealand televisions at the moment, because I only found it in about the 7th season so I saw 3 seasons back to back which was so cool. My friends were getting so annoyed because I wouldn't shut up about it, and my login song for XP is the happy days theme from the last season :D:D:D

had one good year the first ,after that ,what happened ,it lost it way

Absolute junk. Has as much spirit of the 1950s as Jennifer Lopez. Stupid characters, stupid scripts, lame acting, a total waste. The Fonz, who was supposed to be so cool, was actually a card-carrying douchebag. An irritating exercise from beginning to end and it's amazing there were enough retards watching this crap to keep it on the air for a decade.

I thought it was a good and decent show for all family members to be able to watch together. Ron Howard was great as Richie. The other cast members were pretty good. Had some funny moments -- plus a spin off of Laverne and Shirley came out of it. I still watch the reruns on TVLand and still enjoy. Considering some of the trash and reality shows on tv today --- watching the Happy Days reruns are a pleasure.

Ron Howard was good but my family never really liked this show. Storylines were not that funny.

Fonzie is the coolest

This is a fairly enjoyable show, but the fact is, our local channel used to show this over and over and over, and they basically burned me out. We didn't have cable at the time and could only get two channels (yes, two!), and it was either this or Sally Jesse Raphael. While Happy Days was the obvious choice on that one, seeing the same episode four or five times made it lose some appeal.

Loved it...the Fonze was too cool...and Richie was just too straight, along with the rest of his family...Marion was a riot and Howard was good too. And Richies two buddies Potsi and Ralph were a riot too.

when it was first on when I was a teenager, I thought it was great and tuned into it everyweek.Now that i am older I am not as big of a fan. For one thing the main characters kept leaving and new ones i could care less were added. I do not like it when they change shows too much. It was really on longer than it should have been.I would give this an average of 3.5. A better rating for the first few seasons. less for the last few.