Editing Ron Howard (section)

===''Happy Days'' (1974–1984)===
[[File:Happy days motorcycle richie fonzie 1977.JPG|right|thumb|Richie (Ron Howard) takes a turn on Fonzie's ([[Henry Winkler]]) motorcycle in a scene from ''[[Happy Days]]'']]
A role in an installment of series ''[[Love, American Style]]'', titled "Love and the Television Set",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0637037/ |title="Love, American Style" Love and the Happy Days/Love and the Newscasters (TV Episode 1972) |author=fmsteinberg |date=September 21, 2009 |work=IMDb}}</ref> led to his being cast as [[Richie Cunningham]] in the TV series ''[[Happy Days]]'' (for syndication, the segment was re-titled "Love and the Happy Days"). Beginning in 1974, he played the likable "buttoned-down" boy, in contrast to [[Henry Winkler]]'s "[[greaser (subculture)|greaser]]" [[Fonzie|Arthur "Fonzie"/"The Fonz" Fonzarelli]]. On the ''Happy Days'' set, he developed an on- and off-screen chemistry with Winkler.<ref name="sagfund">{{cite web
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMrdyleW2Q8
|title=Conversations with Henry Winkler (Fundraiser)
|access-date=October 7, 2021
|last=Schneider
|first=Michael
|date=November 21, 2018
|publisher=[[SAG-AFTRA]]
|archive-date=October 7, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007163351/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMrdyleW2Q8
|url-status=live
}}</ref> Howard left ''Happy Days'' to become a film director just before the start of its eighth season in 1980, but returned for guest appearances in the show's eleventh season (1983–1984).<ref name="sagfund"/><ref name=eptvg>{{cite web
|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/happy-days/1000242245/
|title=TV Guide: Happy Days
|access-date=October 31, 2021
|publisher=[[TV Guide]]
}}</ref>