Ron Howard played Richie Cunningham on "Happy Days" for eight seasons, before leaving the show to focus on a career as a director. He started his directing career with small projects, but quickly ...

Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) driving a police car on the Paramount lot where Happy Days was filmed. Hmm, we must have missed that episode. From left to right, Anson Williams, director Jerry ...

"Getty Images Donny Most's Ralph Malph was the third part of the early friend triangle along with Richie and Potsie on Happy Days during the show's first season. But, like Anson Williams ...

So it was a thrill to watch him come of age as Richie Cunningham in an era they longed to revisit. "Happy Days" nearly lost that connection when Howard threatened to quit the show after its second ...

“Happy Days” premiered on Jan. 15, 1974 — and prime-time television was never the same. The ABC series, set in Eisenhower-era Milwaukee, materialized on the heels of the 1950s nostalgia ...

“Happy Days” had its origin in a pilot two years earlier on the ABC anthology series “Love, American Style.” Ron Howard was already starring as teenager Richie Cunningham; Fonzie was not ...