Happy Days is a popular United States television sitcom
that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC
television network. It presented an idealized version
of life in 1950s and early-mid 1960s America. Happy Days
centered around the life of a middle class family named
the Cunninghams, who lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The
family consisted of Howard, a hardware store owner and
the family patriarch; Marion, a homemaker and the family
matriarch; and the couple's teenage children, Richie (who
had an optimistic if somewhat naive outlook on life) and
Richie's younger sister Joanie. (The first season of the
series also featured an older brother of Richie named
Chuck, but his character was quickly and thoroughly written
out of the series, with no explanation within the series
of his disappearance or even being referred to again;
such a tactic has come to be called Chuck Cunningham syndrome).
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