| Season Number: | 2 |
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| Num Episodes: | 23 |
| Network: | ABC |
| Prev Season: | Season 1 |
| Next Season: | Season 3 |
| Episode List: | List of Happy Days episodes |
The second season of Happy Days, an American television sitcom, originally aired on ABC in the United States between September 10, 1974 to May 6, 1975. The show was created by Garry Marshall, under the production company Miller-Milkis Productions, in association with Paramount Television.
Starting with this season, Henry Winkler and Donny Most were added to the main cast, being included now to the opening credits. The second season consisted on 23 episodes. This was the last season of the series where "Rock Around the Clock" was the show's original theme song. The song did not appear on the Season 2 DVD release due to music licensing issues, being replaced with the Happy Days theme. This is also the last season to have the original version of "Happy Days" as the closing theme. This season and the previous one, were filmed using a single-camera setup and laugh track, however, the episode "Fonzie Gets Married" became the first episode of the series filmed in front of a studio audience with three cameras as a test run.
The series was a modest hit when it debuted in early 1974, however, ratings began to fall during its second season, causing the show's creator Garry Marshall to retool it. This was due to CBS programming head Fred Silverman, who scheduled the Maude spin-off Good Times on the same night and timeslot as Happy Days, in an attempt to kill the ABC show's growing popularity, and it worked, as the show reached a new low at number 49 on the Nielsen ratings for the 1974-75 season. This would change when Silverman was named president of ABC in 1975, and came up with a way to save the show he tried to kill the year before, eventually Happy Days would not be on top of the Nielsen ratings until its fourth season.
The season originally aired Tuesdays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST).[1] [2]
See also: List of Happy Days episodes.