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1980 American animated television series

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.^[1] It is a spin-off of the live-action sitcom Happy Days.^[2]

Henry Winkler (The Fonz/ “Fonzie”), Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham), and Donny Most (Ralph Malph) all reprised their respective roles for The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang.^[3]

The series’s “present day” is 1957. Each episode begins with an expository narration that Fonzie and his friends (including a new anthropomorphic dog named Mr. Cool) 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.^[4] Twenty-four episodes were produced.

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

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

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.