Happy Days Tom Bosley presented an introduction before each performance live on stage, and pop group Human Nature played a 1950s-style rock group. Another stage show, "Happy Days: A New Musical" began touring in 2008. Happy Days Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984 on ABC, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning eleven seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presented an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s Midwestern United States, and starred Ron Howard as teenager Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Arthur "Fonzie"/"The
Teen sitcom Knows Best" and "The Donna Reed Show" were popular with teenagers, along with the entire family. The teen movie genre was popular during the 1960s and led the way towards the teen sitcom genre. The earliest ancestor of the teen sitcom was "Meet Corliss Archer", a TV adaptation of a popular radio show about a teenage girl which aired briefly in syndication in 1954. The first teen sitcom on a major network was "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", a 1959–1963 CBS sitcom based on collegiate short stories by humorist Max Shulman. "Dobie Gillis" followed the adventures of a teenage