Secrets From 'Happy Days' That Producers Kept Hidden For Years

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Despite struggling to read scripts, he never let this hold him back. "I never read anything the way that it was written in my entire life. I could instantly memorize a lot of it," said Winkler in an interview, "and then what I didn’t know, I made up and threw caution to the wind and did it with conviction, and sometimes, I made them laugh; and sometimes, I got hired."

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The More You Know

  • Television series featuring superheroes have grown in popularity over the past few decades, with over 70% of superhero t.v. shows made so far appearing after 1990.
  • The Jeffersons: For two years, Marla Gibbs, who played Florence, kept her job at United Airlines in customer service while simultaneously filming for the show. Sometimes people would recognize her voice over the phone.
  • Game of Thrones, Band of Brothers, and The Pacific are among the most expensive television series ever made. An average episode of The Pacific cost $20 million to produce.
  • Happy Days: Ron Howard accepted a role in the pilot of the show to avoid the Vietnam War draft.
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