Happy Days/The Hucksters

The Hucksters
Season 7, Episode 19
Airdate	February 5, 1980
Written by	Mark Rothman
Directed by	Jerry Paris
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Happy Days — Season Seven

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The Hucksters is the nineteenth episode of the seventh season of Happy Days, and the one hundred sixty-first episode overall.

Starring: Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham), Henry Winkler (Arthur Fonzarelli)

Co-Starring: Marion Ross (Marion Cunningham), Anson Williams (Potsie Weber), Donny Most (Ralph Malph), Erin Moran (Joanie Cunningham), Al Molinaro (Al Delvecchio), Scott Baio (Chachi Arcola)

and Starring: Tom Bosley (Howard Cunningham)

Special Guest Star: Henry Aaron (Himself)

Guest Star: Warren Berlinger (Mr. Vanburen)

Co-Starring: Charles Howerton (Bart), Sparky Marcus (Billy), Hoke Howell (Sidney), Taaffe O'Connell (Ingrid)

Plot Overview

With Cunningham Hardware going through a slump in business, Howard decides to make use of TV advertising to bring back customers. Richie writes the first ad for production but it flops when it airs during a movie, so Howard recruits help from an ad executive to film an ad with the family in his store. Not convinced that the real Cunninghams are right for the ad, the executive hires actors to play the Cunningham family in the ad and even recruits baseball great Hank Aaron to take part.

Trivia

The Show

• The movie on which the gang see the first Cunningham Hardware TV ad is Paramount Pictures' 1953 film version of the H.G. Wells science fiction novel The War of the Worlds

Quotes

• Richie: Hit a homerun!

Hank Aaron: Don't I always?