The show about the Cunningham family — with particular focus on the growing friendship between Richie and the "cool kid in town," Fonzie — was a huge success, spawning the spin-offs Laverne & Shirley, ...

When ABC’s Happy Days debuted in January 1974, it was a gentle, nostalgic, single-camera filmed sitcom about life in the 1950s. Created by Garry Marshall and based on his rejected pilot that aired as ...

The series followed the two best friends throughout the ’50s and ’60s. The protagonists were roommates — already the makings for a great sitcom — and allowed audiences a glimpse into their friendship, ...

On a few occasions, some TV show spinoffs end up doing much better than their parent shows. A good example is the iconic 1970s show Laverne & Shirley, a show that followed two roommates in Milwaukee ...

Chances are, fans of retro TV could probably name at least two spinoffs of ABC’s Happy Days — the two successful ones — but there are many more TV shows that can count the classic sitcom as a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Originally aired beginning in 1974 -- just one year after "American Graffiti" put George Lucas on the map and made the 1950s cool again -- ...

At 50, the classic sitcom is the model of a kind of nostalgia that’s as much about what we forget (the bad stuff) as what we remember. (Aaaay!) Credit...Doug Chayka Supported by By James Poniewozik ...

Happy Days spawned several spinoff series during its 11-season run—who can forget Joanie Loves Chachi, even if they’d like to?— but the very first spinoff was Laverne & Shirley. The sitcom, about ...

Television spin-offs are a funny thing. For every Frasier, begat from Cheers, there is a Joey, the offspring of Friends. Rare is the television sitcom that has launched multiple spin-offs, with series ...

What began as a single segment titled "Love and the Television Set" on the anthology series "Love, American Style," grew to become a top ten sitcom that lasted 11 seasons and defined "cool" for a ...