Glad Days first debuted on ABC on January 15, 1974, which means 2024 is the present’s fiftieth anniversary. The sitcom, a few bunch of youngsters rising up within the Fifties, grew to become one of many greatest hits on tv within the Seventies, working for 11 seasons and 255 episodes, and launching a number of spinoffs.
50 years later, two of the present’s greatest alumni — Ron Howard, who performed Richie Cunningham, and Henry Winkler, who performed Fonzie — appeared collectively on the Emmys on a recreation of the present’s iconic diner set. Only for outdated instances’ sake, Winkler even banged on the outdated jukebox.
You possibly can watch the Glad Days section from the Emmys beneath.
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A number of of the members of that basic Glad Days forged have handed away by way of the years. Tom Bosley, who performed Richie’s dad Howard, died in 2010; Al Molinaro, who performed Al at Arnold’s Diner, handed away in 2015. (Pat Morita, who performed Arnold, died in 2005.)
Nonetheless, there have been different dwelling members of the outdated Glad Days forged who may have theoretically appeared in a Glad Days reunion beside Howard and Winkler, together with Don Most (Ralph Malph), Scott Baio (Chachi), and Anson Williams (Potsie).
Glad Days was nominated for 9 Emmys over the course of its run on ABC, however received only a single award over all these years. In 1978, it was the winner of the Greatest Movie Modifying in a Comedy Sequence award for the episode “Richie Virtually Dies.” Not one of the iconic actors from the present ever received an Emmy for his or her work on Glad Days, though Winkler and Marion Ross had been each nominated a number of instances.
It spawned extra spinoffs than nearly any sitcom in historical past, together with Laverne & Shirley, Joanie Loves Chachi, Blansky’s Magnificence’s, and Mork & Mindy starring Robin Williams.
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