The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang

The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang is an American animated science fiction comedy series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Paramount Television and originally broadcast during the Saturday morning schedule on ABC from November 8, 1980, until November 28, 1981. It is a spin-off of the live-action sitcom Happy Days.

Premise

Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, and Donny Most all reprised their respective roles for The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang.
The series's "present day" is 1957. Each episode begins with an expository narration that Fonzie and his friends are visited by Cupcake, a girl from the future who pilots a malfunctioning time machine. After Fonzie repairs the machine to get her back to the 25th century, a subsequent accident causes the group to become missing in time.
The series focuses on Fonzie and his friends as they land in various periods in time, attempting to return to 1957 Milwaukee. Twenty-four episodes were produced.

Cast

Henry Winkler as Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli
Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham
Donny Most as Ralph Malph
Frank Welker as Mr. Cool, a dog
Didi Conn as Cupcake, a space pilot from the 25th century whose clumsy superpowers usually make things worse by accident
Wolfman Jack as opening narrator

Anson Williams, who played Potsie Webber in the live action Happy Days, did not appear in the cartoon series.

Home media

On November 5, 2019, the complete series was released as a made-on-demand DVD-R by CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment.

Legacy

After the series ended, the characters of Fonzie and Mr. Cool were introduced in the series Laverne & Shirley in the Army, which premiered October 10, 1981. The series was subsequently renamed Laverne & Shirley with Special Guest Star The Fonz and depicted Fonzie working in the motorpool as the chief mechanic. That series ran until September 3, 1983. Both series were syndicated with an animated spin-off of the series Mork & Mindy as Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour.