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Twirling girls with red and white flowers carefully placed into their high buns wore colorful dresses and wide smiles as they flounced across the blacktop at McPolin Elementary School last week.

>> it wasnt by accident everybody on happy days hugged each other. it wasnt by accident everybody in the family ate at the same time at the same table. it was a sweet tender show. looking back on that era of the 50s with a certain affection. >> abc wanted fonzies aye to compete with jimmy j.j. walkers dynamite. >> catch phrases were big. >> sit on it howard. >> does anyone say thank you, arnold? >> no, do you know what they say? >> sit on it arnold. thats what they say. >> you watch fonzie and y...

Howard was there to be the straw that stirred the drink. >> lets go. lets go. >> the pairing of howard with don is a classic sitcom odd couple kind of pairing. you couldnt help but be swept up by what those guys were saying. the booth itself was almost like a variety show. >> i called it a traveling freak show and it really was. and the head freak was howard. no question about that. >> the tension between the two of them made for the kind of thing you wanted to see every week. >> professional fo...

Monday, monday, monday is the greatest day of the week! >> throughout high school there was one show that was religious broadcasting you had to watch because if you didnt see it you wouldnt have anything to talk about for all of tuesday and most of wednesday and a big part of thursday. >> why? because monday night is nfl football night, thats why. >> monday night football got its start on september 21st, 1970 with cleveland browns hosting the new york jets. >> welcome to primetime national telev...

At the family ate at the same time at the same table. >> it was a sweet tender show in the era of "american graffiti" with affection. >> abc wanted fonzies eh to compete directly with jimmie j.j. walkers dynamite. >> im the fonz, eh! >> sit on it howard. >> does anyone say, take you, howard? you know what they say? >> sit on it, arnold. >> thats what they say. >> you watch fonzie and you just want to be fonz. >> knock yourselves out. im sorry. it was a slip of the finger. >> its a fantasy of wha...

With don meredith is a classic sitcom odd couple kind of pairing. you couldnt help but be swept up by what those guys were saying. the booth itself was almost like a variety show. >> i called it a traveling freak show. it really was. the head freak was howard, aint no question about that. the tension between the two of them made for the kind of thing you want to see every week. >> professional football is rapidly growing into a very big business. >> you understand football, right? >> i understan...

I didnt want to be the dumb dad. >> howard, i dont care where we -- i just dont want to make any more decisions. >> people say, gee, my dad and i used to watch this show and it was great. you realize youre part of peoples lives. >> the 70s was the era where a certain artistry developed. >> "mash" really changed many peoples perception what a sitcom can be. a sitcom can be cinematic. >> "mash" was shot like a movie. it was the single most unique situation comedy ever. >> i have a headache, a trem...

A variety show. >> here with us this evening. >> i call it a traveling freak show it really was. and the head freak was howard. there aint no question about that. >> the tension between the two of them made for the kind of the thing that you wanted to see every week. >> professional football is rapidly growing into a very big business. >> you understand football. >> i like to watch it. i dont understand too much about it. >> would you look to learn more about it? >> we were on a mission that too...

>> that will have to discuss in future sessions. >> the 70s also had this therapeutic overlay. >> hi, bob. >> hi, bob. >> hello? >> we decided to make him a psychologist. >> we seem to have run out of things to say. >> why dont we pray? >> lets pray for the end of this session. >> i didnt know anything about therapy prior to that. >> im from the planet. [ indiscernible ] its in the [ indiscernible ] galaxy. >> how long are you going to be in town? >> i didnt want to do a show, "where are your ch...

>> eh. >> abc wanted fonzis "eh" to compete directly with jimmy "j.j." walkers "dynomite." >> eh. >> catch phrases were big. >> sit on it howard. >> does any one say, thank you, arnold? you know what they say? >> sit on it, arnold. >> thats what they say. >> you watch fonzi and you just want to be fonzi. >> oh. >> hey, girls. knock yourselves out. im really sorry it was a slip of the fingers, slip of the fingers. >> its a fantasy of what teen life could be. >> hey, dafazio. here. all right. lave...