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

1950s Fun

This show was truly a blast to the past. It was filled with 1950s fun like music-filled jukeboxes, recklessly riding motorcycles, and cool guys in leather jackets. It's central to the plot, but the show originally was set to be a little farther back in the past. Originally, producers thought it should be set in the 1920s or 1930s, but Garry Marshall, the show's creator, wanted it to be the era he was raised in...

Home Sweet Home

The show promotes the way of midwestern living, but the beautiful house pictured on the show wasn't actually located in Wisconsin. The setting was falsified because the Cunningham house fans know and love can actually be found in the suburbs of California, not Wisconsin. In the show though, viewers were led to believe it was somewhere in the city of Milwaukee...

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The More You Know

  • All the characters in ‘The Simpsons’ have four fingers.
  • The Brady Bunch: Uh, you might have noticed that the kids' bathroom didn't have a toilet. Allegedly, network censors at the time didn't want a toilet shown on TV.
  • The longest-running primetime animated series is the Simpsons, which began in 1987.
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a trailblazer in bringing feminist issues onto the small screen, depicting Moore as a single female striving to make it in a male-dominated workplace.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.