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|Producers admitted to pushing pro-[[pacifist]], anti-[[Vietnam War]] themes.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/29/is-us-tv-too-leftwing</ref>  One of the show's main characters, high school student Richie Cunningham (played by Ron Howard as a regular from 1974 to 1980), was a supporter of the Democrat Party on the show (as part of his school's Young Democrats club, he supported Democrat presidential candidate [[Adlai Stevenson]] in the 1956 elections in the Season Two episode "The Not Making of a President") and, as such, was depicted as young and idealistic yet naïve.

|Originally launched as a 1972 episode of ''Love, American Style'' called "Love and the Television Set" and set in the 1950s, producers admitted to pushing pro-[[pacifist]], anti-[[Vietnam War]] themes.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/29/is-us-tv-too-leftwing</ref>  One of the show's main characters, high school student Richie Cunningham (played by Ron Howard as a regular from 1974 to 1980), was a supporter of the Democrat Party on the show (as part of his school's Young Democrats club, he supported Democrat presidential candidate [[Adlai Stevenson]] in the 1956 elections in the Season Two episode "The Not Making of a President") and, as such, was depicted as young and idealistic yet naïve.

 

Debuting to modest ratings in January 1974 after ABC green-lit it to series, ''Happy Days'' became a huge hit in its later years after the emphasis was shifted more to formerly-minor character Arthur "The Fonz/Fonzie" Fonzarelli (played by Henry Winkler), a greaser, former gang member, womanizer and high school dropout who nonetheless became increasingly popular with the show's audience and became the main focus of the show after Howard's departure.  The show also spawned several spinoffs, including ''Laverne & Shirley'', ''Mork & Mindy'' (created as a vehicle for stand-up comedian [[Robin Williams]]) and the animated series ''The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang''.

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