Happy Days - The Fourth Season

Great season and the music is there!
Whomever wrote that this set was missing orginal music obviously hasn't watched it. I've heard songs that were replaced in even the sydicated versions. In fact the usual Parmount disclamier "music has been changed for this home entertainment version". is nowhere to be seen.
If there's anything missing here it's very, very minute.
I've been jumping around as far the episodes go and from what I've seen this the one of the most complete sets yet. In the episode "shot in the dark" the scene where Mr. C offers Richie a lifesaver after the basketball game is here. That's largely been cut out of sydicated airings.
As far the episodes if you're reading this you're probably already familiar with them! From what I recall this this season Happy Days was the #1 show on TV so there's plenty of classics here.

Classic and enduring
Richie and the gang near graduation in this fourth season, which also centers more prominently upon the Fonz than ever before. (The season opens with a three-part episode, "Fonzie Loves Pinky," in which the Fonz reunites with an old girlfriend in hopes of winning a demolition derby -- with disastrous results.)

There's also "Time Capsule," where the gang is accidentally locked in Mr. Cunningham's hardware store vault with their dates while working on a school project; and "They Shoot Fonzies, Don't They?" where the Fonz promises to accompany Joanie in a dance marathon -- never anticipating he'd have to push his broken motorcycle 12 miles home just before the event.

Other episodes touch upon issues that will become more prominent in sitcoms of future decades, such as "Marion Rebels," where Mrs. Cunningham tires of being a housewife and -- against the wishes of her family -- decides to get a job.

Fans of Anson Williams' singing voice are in for a treat,...

Happy Days Rocks Around The Clock!
A great season that starts off with the "Fonzie Loves Pinky" three parter. Originally it was shown as a two parter on ABC (the first two parts were combined into one hour show). Pinky was supposed to become a regular charcter on Happy Days, but according to what I have heard Roz Kelly, the actress who played Pinky, did not get along with the rest of the cast. Too bad. But wait until season five. Another Tuscadero comes along in season five that made more appearances than Pinky. Of course I am talking about Leather, played by Suzi Quatro, a very real life singer who is still performing to this day. Getting back to season four, we see Fonzie romancing Pinky and later getting his high school diploma. There is also the episode in which Howard and Fonzie invent the Garbage Gulper, a precusor to the trash compactor. And Al replaces Arnold as the proprietor of Arnolds. Also, this is the season before Chachi came around and the Fonz jumped the shark.

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