Customer Reviews

Happy Days - The Complete Second Season

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(13)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(31)

 

 

This is really irritating! This show (at least in the early years) is as good as any show ever was! The fact that the studio is too cheap to pay for the rights to the music is ridiculous! To add insult to injury the picture and sound go from very good to bargain basement quality during some episodes?! I think everyone who bought this or any other show that has been altered should return the shows for a full refund. Let the cheapskate studio eat the loss instead of making the fans digest this SH**!

I refuse to buy altered DVDs. I don't care how classic the show was. And, to me, Happy Days was a classic show. It was part of my childhood. I was in my early teens when this great show was broadcast. I've waited for it to appear on DVD ever since. But I WILL NOT BUY DVDs THAT ARE POORLY MADE -- ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE MISSING THE ORIGINAL MUSIC, OR HAVE SLOPPY CUTS TO COVER UP THE LACK OF ORIGINAL MUSIC.

I don't understand how anyone could buy ANY DVD set that lacks the original music and contains sloppy cuts to cover the fact. I didn't buy WKRP In Cincinnati for that very reason. I had it in my hand. Then I read the back of the box and saw that it didn't contain the original music. I put it back on the shelf.

Come on, people! How short-sighted are you to accept trash like this?!?!?!?! Americans complain about the poor quality of merchandise available in our country (Asian imports cost less because they're made less well. Duh!), but here we have a chance to fight the problem simply by doing nothing. That's right -- nothing. Don't buy the product. You'll save $30-$40, you'll retain your self respect, and the studios that released the garbage will be out tens of thousands of dollars. It's a win-win situation.

The more we accept shoddy merchandise, the more studios will continue to force it on us. Don't you people realize that? Don't you see what's happening here? If everyone refused to buy Happy Days, the studio would lose money on this release. They'd have a choice then. If they want to MAKE money on the release, they go back and do it right. And they do it the right way for all future releases.

The flip side is true as well. If we buy this garbage now, they'll continue to release DVD sets like this in the future. It's all about the bottom line, people!

Miami Vice is an example of a DVD series done the right way. Those episodes are intact, all the music is there, and believe me it makes a difference. Some of the music in those scenes has stuck with me -- connected to those scenes! -- since the day they were broadcast 20 years ago. I applaud the Miami Vice DVDs. They were done right. I abhor the Happy Days DVD releases and I am ashamed of those who bought them for purely selfish reasons instead of considering the bigger picture.

Upon release, I've since changed my mind about supporting this set. Nearly all of the original music has been removed or replaced with generic music. The episodes themselves contain all of the original footage, but without the music they definitely lose a LOT. When I wrote my original review, I was acting on the assumption that Paramount would do as they did for the first season and fork over the extra dough to retain the original music. Since it turns out they did not do that, I won't be buying this after all. Such a shame.

1) removal of original background music
2) removal of Opening "Rock Around the Clock" theme song
3) the film itself was not cleaned up/digitally restored as it could have been...you can still see the pops
4) the new replacement music sucks and it's boring.
5) new replacement music often does not suit the scene. Example : midtempo songs playing while crowd is notably dancing to more uptempo rhythm.

very botched job, to say the least, and I think it would have been worth to pay the copyright fees for the songs.

Stick to Season 1

Do yourself a favor and skip this.Edited music has taken ALL of the heart and soul out of this early classic.Only the first 3 season are worth anyone's time and the butcher job to the original soundtrack is the worst decision by a studio head to date.Have they no shame? I already know the answer to that one!!!

THE WORST PART ABOUT THIS "NO 50'S MUSIC THING" IS THE EPISODE WHERE RICHIE PLAYS A TEEN D.J. AND "ALL" THE MUSIC HE PLAYS IS FAKE OLD NOISE, PLUS THE FILM IS "CUT" WHERE THE MUSIC WAS REPLACED. DO NOT BUY THESE DVD'S UNLESS YOU ENJOY THROWING UP. NOTHING WORST THAN WATCHING SOMETHING "CUT", MOSTLY WHEN YOU THINK IT WILL ALL BE THERE. I GUESS I'LL GO BACK TO TAPING THE EPISODES ON TV-LAND TO GET IT RIGHT, AS FOR THESE SORRY DVD'S I GOT, I'LL JUST USE THEM FOR TARGET PRACTICE. I MIGHT SOMEDAY RUN INTO A PARAMONT REP'...............

I'm sorry to say -- it's true! Season 1 was perfect, but Season 2 is a hack job. The music is GONE!!! "Rock Around The Clock" is GONE! The background songs at Arnold's -- GONE!! I'm almost afraid to watch the episode where Ritchie becomes a disc jockey!

Even the discs themselves look cheap -- generic gray faces.

Bad set -- and I hear that WKRP season 1 is going to be worse!

Sorry but my enthusiasm for this release is completely gone. I was only going to buy the first two seasons of Happy Days anyway because I really didn't like it when they went to the three camera format. But again -- you take away the msuci and all the life is completely sucked out of these shows.

Wow, what a dissapointment. I knew I was in trouble when I popped on the first show and found no "Rock Around The Clock" in the opening credits.
All the "oldies" have been removed from the soundtrack, and the picture itself looks like it was recorded from TV Land reruns. If it were not for the fact that all the episodes are complete and unedited, I would believe it. The picture is that poor compared to the great quality of season 1. This should all have been advertised before these sets went on sale. If they were too cheap to spring for the music rights to the songs, the set should have been offered at a reduced price. "Happy Days" without the original music is like watching "Cheers" without the beer.

I know some might think I'm being an oddball about this, but part of the great thing about the first two seasons of "Happy Days" is . . . the music!
Season One was great. The visuals are stunning in their colors and all syndicated scenes are restored. But, Season Two is horrible! I don't know what jackass was in charge of this second season project, but they should be fired and Paramount should scrap it and correct all of their mistakes! The video quality is lame, at best; but the music is pure horror! They stupidly replaced the opening theme of "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley with the stupid "Happy Days" song from the third season.
Also, gone are the music of The Everly Brothers, Fats Domino and the other rock'n'roll classics this show was famous for, and dubbed in with badly-done generic instrumentals! I was so angry after watching the first one and then the episode where Ritchie is a D.J., that I literally yanked the DVD out of the player and threw the entire set across the room! I want these shows looking and SOUNDING just as I remember them in the '70s. The sound quality of the voices are terrible, too! Please, if you're a real "Happy Days" fan, write Paramount and demand they correct all their stupid blunders . . . and DO NOT BUY THIS SET! You will be disappointed!

The magic of the first 2 seasons of Happy Days was the opening of "Rock Around The Clock" and all the great rock and roll songs of the fifties. Season 2 has been totally altered and the excitement is lost. Shame on Paramount for dumping the great music in favor of generic instrumentals. What an injustice to a great TV show. The video quality for the first episode of the season is awful and the fact that it's out of sequence just makes it even worse. Granted, it may have aired this way, but why not correct the sequence on the DVD? This DVD set is truly a disappointment, especially after the excellent job they did with Season 1. Don't waste your money. Maybe Paramount will pull all these inferior DVD sets and re-release Season 2 the way it really was.