That was Fonzie’s leap into legend and language when he jumped the shark on “Happy Days” in September 1977. A ’70s sitcom about life in the ’50s, the show’s title was at once literal ...

Back in 1978, Happy Days invented the TV franchise idiom “jumping the shark” by literally having Winkler’s legendary character do just that. From the moment the Fonz completed his famous ...

Happy Days aired between January of that year and July 1984 (though Fonzie jumped the shark in ’77). “Oh my God, he’s just so good,” Dolenz told People of Winkler.

Micky Dolenz reflected on how he was almost cast as Happy Days’ greaser sex symbol Arthur Herbert “Fonzie” Fonzarelli in a new interview. “I almost got it,” the actor told People.

It was as star of the seminal TV show Happy Days some 40 ago when Winkler’s character, Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli, jumped over a shark on water skis.

I’m from Southern California. It wasn’t gonna happen!” Still, a Daydream Believer can imagine a world where Micky Dolenz jumps the shark and proves The California Kid wrong.

Henry Winkler revealed that the thrill-seeking stunts his Happy Days character performed on the show were not his thing. In a new interview, the actor, who played Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on the ...

Comedian Jon Harvey celebrates 50 years since Jaws first surfaced in cinemas with a hilarious history of shark fiction, quite possibly the maddest genre in entertainment. Show more Available now ...

Henry Winkler revealed that the thrill-seeking stunts his Happy Days character performed on the show were not his thing. In a new interview, the actor, who played Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on ...

At least according to The Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz, who told People magazine that back in the day he auditioned for the role of the jukebox-smacking, shark-jumping bad boy with a heart of gold.