Ron Howard and Henry Winkler reunited with their Happy Days co-stars Anson Williams and Don Most at Steel City Con in Pittsburgh on Saturday for an incredible moment. Indeed, this marked the first time that they had all reunited in 50 years!
Happy Days Cast Reunites
“I’m just emotional here,” Winkler, 79, said in a video posted to Instagram from the event. “This is the first time that we have appeared this way in 50 years.”
After the audience cheered at this, Howard, 71, chimed in to add, “It feels like 50 minutes.”
For some of us, it has only been 50 minutes since we saw them together… on TV watching Happy Days!
“We’re having so much fun hanging, and this is sort of our great excuse to come together, so thank you,” Howard continued. “It’s just been a great show.”
Happy Days ran from 1974 until 1984. On the sitcom, Howard starred as Richie Cunningham. Meanwhile, Winkler played the legendary Fonzie. Williams, 75, and Most, 71, then portrayed Potsie and Ralph, respectively.
“First of all, Garry Marshall was, like, a brilliant creator, a great writer,” Winkler said of the late Happy Days creator. “They chose a wonderful cast — some of them, unfortunately, are no longer on the earth with us — but we played together, we stayed together, and we worked hard together.”
“I say that was a huge key,” Howard added. “The show evolved as, really, an ensemble. So that idea of we were like a family, well, okay, maybe not a family, but we were a unit, we were a community, and also, I think for us, it was kind of like our coming of age story. We were just growing up through this process.”
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Winkler ‘Loved Doing That Show’
Prior to this appearance, Winkler opened up to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about just how grateful he still is for Happy Days.
“I loved doing that show. What that show gave me in my life, on every level, the warmth that I receive walking through the world because of that character,” Winkler said. “For 50 years, people have come up to me everywhere in the world and metaphysically embraced me.”
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The Happy Days Cast Has Always Been Close
In the decades since Happy Days went off the air, the entire cast has remained very good friends.
“We immediately bonded and became great friends,” Howard said back in 2021. “We were a fantastic ensemble — we all got along great.”
Howard and Winkler are particularly close. In fact, Winkler is godfather to all four of Howard’s children. This is all the more impressive, given how open Howard has been about clashing with network executives after Winkler skyrocketed to fame playing Fonzie.
“It was a really interesting kind of paradoxical situation because the show began, and the Richie Cunningham character was the undeniable lead of the show,” Howard previously recalled.
“When we would go out of the road to promote the show, it was just insane, focused on Fonzie, clearly that was very exciting,” he continued. “Except the executives, studio heads, network heads, you know, they started treating me with a lot of disrespect from a business standpoint [and] in terms of interaction.”
“The press kept saying ‘What’s it like? Do you feel like you’ve become a secondhand citizen on your own show?'” he remembered.
It’s so nice to see that the cast of Happy Days is still as close as ever. If only we had more shows on television like Happy Days these days!
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