Love, American Style/Love and the Happy Days

Love and the Happy Days
Season 3, Episode 22B
Airdate	February 25, 1972
Written by	Garry Marshall
Directed by	Gary Nelson
← 3x22A Love and the Newscasters	4x01A → Love and the Sensuous Twin
Love, American Style — Season Three

This article about an episode needs to be expanded with more information. Please help out by editing it.

Love and the Happy Days is part of the twenty-second episode of the third season of Love, American Style, and the seventieth episode overall. This episode led to the creation of the series Happy Days.

Guest Stars: Marion Ross (Marion), Peggy Rea (Aunt Bessie), Ron Howard (Richie), Tannis G. Montgomery (Arlene), Susan Neher (Joanie), Ric Carrott (Chuck), Anson Williams (Potsie), Harold Gould (Howard), Jackie Coogan (Uncle Harold), Sheila Jo Guthrie (Corrine), Ed Cambridge (Mr. Dickerson), Ronda Copland (Teresa), Nellie Burt (Grandma), Virginia Gregg (Arlene's Mother)

Trivia

The Show

• This episode was originally filmed in 1971 as an unsold pilot called New Family in Town. While Paramount Television, which produced the pilot, initially passed on making it a series, it decided to instead make the pilot an episode of Love, American Style under the title "Love and the Television Set", which it originally aired as in its appearances on ABC before being renamed as "Love and the Happy Days", its best-known title, in syndicated reruns after Happy Days, which developed from this episode, became a success for ABC

Behind the Scenes

• Harold Gould, who played Howard Cunningham in this episode, was pegged to reprise that role when Happy Days went to series, but he was unavailable to return due to appearing in a play overseas, so the role went to Tom Bosley when production began in 1973

Reviews

• Overall Grade: no reviews yet
• Review Breakdown: A+: 0 A: 0 A-: 0 B+: 0 B: 0 B-: 0 C+: 0 C: 0 C-: 0 D: 0 F: 0