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SEASON 1 – ABC

Theme song: “Angela” by Bob James

• 001. Like Father, Like Daughter – 9/12/1978
  • At Manhattan’s Sunshine Cab Company’s fleet garage in Manhattan, we meet taxi drivers Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsch), Tony Banta (Tony Danza), an aspiring prizefighter, Bobby Wheeler (Jeff Conaway), an aspiring actor, Elaine Nardo (Marilu Henner), mechanic Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman), and cranky dispatcher Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito). Alex’s fare John Burns (Randall Carver) accompanies him back to the garage to make change for his fare and discovers that the payphone returns any money put into it, so everyone takes advantage to make free calls. Alex decides to call his daughter Cathy (Talia Balsam) whom he hasn’t seen in fifteen years after being asked by his ex-wife Phyllis to let her new step-father raise her. When he finds out that Cathy will be flying from Rio to Portugal, stopping in Miami along the way, he and his friends drive down to greet her. Although they only get five minutes together, they are able to connect and promise to keep in touch. John ends up getting a job as a driver. 5/29/14

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Theme music: “Rock Around the Clock” written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (as Jimmy DeKnight) and performed by Bill Haley & The Comets (new version recorded in 1973). Closing theme was “Happy Days Theme” written by Norman Gimbel with Charles Fox, performed by Jim Haas.

NOTE: This series is based on an segment entitled “Love and the Television Set” – later re-titled for syndication as “Love and the Happy Days” – on episode #70 of “Love, American Style”

• 000. Unaired Pilot – 1973
  • Potsie sets up Richie with a girl named Mary Lou Milligan who is said to be easy. Richie has a lot of questions on how to score with this girl, but when he joins her on one of her babysitting jobs, they end up just kissing a couple of times and playing chess. When the other guys assume that he has gone all the way with her, he lets them believe it – but later feels guilty and asks his father for advice. He ends up telling his friends that he had an innocent evening with her, and she tells him that the rumors about her being loose are untrue. Fonzie forgives Richie for the lie, but is a little disturbed that he had set up a date with her based on Richie’s testimony. NOTE: This pilot is nearly identical to the premiere episode All the Way, with some minor changes. The biggest difference is that Joanie is portrayed by Louise “Wish” Foley. 4/19/21

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SEASON 1

Created by Abby McEnany and Tim Mason

Theme music by Ethan Stoller

• 001. 180 Almonds – 12/8/2019
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• 002. 176, 172, 171 – 12/15/2009
  • 5/24/26

SEASON 1 – CBS

Theme music: “The Love Nest” (from the musical comedy “Mary”) by Louis A. Hirsch

NOTE: This series is a continuation of the radio show “The Burns and Allen Show” which aired between 1936-1950. This was preceded by their show “The Adventures of Gracie” which aired 1934-1936, and the team’s appearances on “The Guy Lombardo Show” between 1932-1934 and Rudy Vallee’s “The Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour” in 1932.

• 000. Pilot – UNAIRED
  • George Burns does a monologue about being a straight man, then he introduces his wife Gracie Allen, their neighbors Harry and Blanche Morton, and Bill Goodwin, the world’s most loved announcer (as he kisses two girls and a cop). Gracie is visited by a salesman selling encyclopedias, and in addition to nearly driving him crazy with her banter, she keeps smashing his hat. George introduces the singing act who perform Do the Huckabuck, and then attempts a duet of the song April Showers. Gracie visits Blanche and the two decide to take the husbands to see the new Gregory Peck movie, but Harry doesn’t want to go with Gracie because she often embarrasses him. George reminds Harry that he has two tickets to the fights so they need to get out of going to a movie. He asks Bill to take the wives, but Bill is shaken up by near plane mishap where he radios for help but can’t help but talking about ‘Dr. Wilson’s toothpaste.’ George and Harry then tell the wives that they have been invited to Bill’s house to play cards. In order to keep them from wanting to join them, they invent a game called Kleebob, which has rules that are indecipherable, hoping that it will discourage them from joining. However, Gracie seems to understand the game since George has tried the same ploy before with a game called ‘Mogo’. 8/24/14 (online)

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Dan T. Bradley and Allan L. Rice, and developed by Stanley Ralph Ross.

Theme song by Allan Blye, Chris Bearde, and Gene Farmer

• 001. Pilot (aka Whose Child Is This?) – 9/4/1974
  • Clifton Curtis (Clifton Davis) is a barber in Washington D.C. running Oscar’s Barbershop, which he inherited from his late father and adjoins the home he lives in with his mother Eloise (Theresa Merritt), whom everyone calls ‘Mama’. Mama is upset that Clifton is still staying out late with women and has not yet settled down and started a family. Clifton has a younger sister named Tracy Taylor (Lynne Moody) and his friends include postman Earl Chambers (Ed Bernard) and Junior (Ted Lange). A woman named Judy Wilson (Judy Pace) who claims to have had a fling with Clifton while he was stationed in the Army a year earlier, resurfaced and tells Clifton that he is the father of her baby Clifton Jr., and that she wants him to marry her. Clifton denies knowing who she is but matters aren’t helped when Earl remembers her from a drunken night, and Mama notes how much the baby looks like him. When Clifton refuses to marry her, Judy brings in her lawyer Ted Carruthers (Teddy Wilson) to try to reach a monetary settlement. Mama foils the plan when she agrees on Clifton’s behalf, that he will in fact marry her. Earl also recognizes Carruthers as the bartender where they met Judy. Carruthers is in fact the actual father of the baby and they are just looking for a settlement. Jester Hairston is Wildcat and DeForest Covan is Josh, seniors who often hang around Oscar’s. 5/19/16

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