I gotta tell ya, I am gettin' the feelin' this might've been what inspired ABC to commission Hanna-Barbera to adapt Happy Days into a Saturday morning action comedy cartoon (Fonz & The Happy Days Gang, 1980-2).
See, during season 6 of Happy Days, someone got the idea to have a small time mobster and his goons show up in Milwaukee and take over Arnold's, now owned by Al Delvecchio (Al Molinaro, ex-The Odd Couple), but Da Fonz (Henry Winkler) has other ideas.
Since complete episodes ain't available online for posting, we'll take you right to the climax, as Fonzie duels, if ya will, with The Claw.......!
It was this sort of non-violent solution that led to Happy Days Gang, although that series was really a reboot of 1972's Josie & The Pussycats in Outer Space. Winkler, in particular, didn't want violence on Happy Days, and kept the fight scenes to a bare minimum (i.e. Fonzie & Carmine's double mule kick to the Red Devils in "Joanie's Weird Boyfriend" a year and a half earlier).
Rating: B.
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