Happy Days: Which season was the best?

lowjack9
[1]May 12, 2006
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Which season of Happy Days had the best episodes?
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anglemark10
[2]May 18, 2006
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I can't really pick just one season, but my favorites are 1-4 and 11.
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Cutekatelyn
[3]Jun 10, 2006
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anglemark10 wrote:

I can't really pick just one season, but my favorites are 1-4 and 11.

I kind of disagree.
I didn't really like it back in the older episodes. The jokes were kind of corny and it was too much like a typical family sitcom. In the later seasons, it started to get really funny and now it wasn't as typical as it used to be.
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Theben27
[4]Jul 5, 2006
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I like 3-6, 8 and 9.
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bubble992
[5]Jan 18, 2007
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iv only seen th end of season 5 an th start of season 6, but i think ther gr8.
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acsgrlie
[6]May 5, 2007
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Was Season 3 when they started filming infront of a live audience?
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anglemark10
[7]May 7, 2007
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Yes, that was the first full season they filmed before a studio audience. They also did one such episode in season two.
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8052681619
[8]May 12, 2007
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Season 1 & 2 are the best by-far!!!!! None of the other seasons can compare! The filming of the 1st two seasons imitated American Graffiti, the episodes look more like a movie than a sitcom. The season 3 episodes before a live audience began the eventual downward spiral that would lead to the Grand-Pooba (a little Happy Days lingo, if you will) of all Jump The Shark moments- the one in which JTS is named for! After season 2, I won't purchase any of the other DVD sets!
Edited on 05/12/2007 3:21pm
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Jay-Spacedust
[9]Sep 12, 2007
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Although there are a few episodes of Season 3 that I haven't seen for some years, I would personally rank seasons 2-3 as the show's best, as they have some of the best (and funniest) stories.
But anything from season 1 roughly up until Richie and Ralph leaving the series are good, with some great episodes thrown in. Afterwards, there was the odd good episode but a lot of so-so ones mixed in, and they should have called it a day a season or two earlier.
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GabeRuth2
[10]Oct 29, 2007
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all of them with Richie,and the final season
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francklloyd
[11]Mar 9, 2008
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Three. It took some time for them to get it right and then a year later they started running out of steam.
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ct02809sb
[12]Jan 30, 2010
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I still haven't seen a lot of the post-Richie episodes, so I can't really judge them all.
But I think Season 3 (1975 - 1976) would be my favorite. I think the live audience was better and also the writing was funny. I also think the show started to look like a mix of 1950's/1970's after that. The earlier shows looked more like the 50's.

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NikiMattson
[13]Sep 7, 2010
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I like season 3 because of the new look. There are some that I like ineach season, and I dic really like Richie, Ralph, Potsie, and of course, the Fonz, but I really like the ones with Joanie and Chachi There were episodes in seasons 9 & 10 that I liked, I liked the fact that Fonz had a steady girlfriend with a little girl. But I liked season 11 better. Although Joanie and Chachi broke up, but I was thrilled when they got married and the whole family (except Chuck, of course) came back for it
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Stephen0684
[14]May 11, 2011
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I would say seasons 3-7 However, I also liked the 8th, and 9th seasons as well. I felt that the scripts were better overall during the 4 year period. I also liked the two year period that featured Jonnie and Chachi's singing.
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pscf3
[15]Jul 29, 2011
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I have to say 3-5 were the best.
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sam24
[16]Dec 3, 2011
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Well, I have to say i like the seasons where joanie and chachi took over lead from ron howard so i would say season 8 or 9. I think season 10 was the worst with the departure of joanie and chachi they needed have anyone to pick up the slack and although i did like the fonzie/ashley scene the shows were more about fonzie but they fell flat and the new characters like k.c, flip couldn't replace joanie and chachi
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ChipsTheButler
[17]Aug 31, 2012
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that one based in the fifties
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