Starring Erin Moran and Scott Baio, the Joanie Loves Chachi spinoff followed the musical pursuits of Happy Days characters Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola in Chicago. Luckily for the actors, Happy Days left the door open for the characters, who slinked back to Milwaukee after their disastrous run in the Windy City.
“Garry Marshall's Happy Days has given the world some of the very best TV spin-offs; it's also given us this, the absolute nadir of taking people from shows you loved and putting them in shows you loathed,” the outlet noted. “The show tried to sell us on Erin Moran and teen heartthrob Scott Baio relocating to Chicago in the mid-Sixties and trying to make it a singer-songwriter duo — a concept that allowed for all the Moran-Baio singing duets you never, ever wanted to hear. …Joanie may have loved Chachi, but nobody loved this musical disaster.”
Scott Baio and Erin Moran on 'Joanie Loves Chachi.'Photo by Walt Disney Television Photo Archives on Getty Images
Joanie Loves Chachi started off strong. Fueled by the success of Happy Days, the four episodes the spinoff series aired in its abbreviated first season were ratings hits, according to MeTV.
Baio once reflected on the demise of the series, telling the AV Club, “Joanie Loves Chachi doesn’t really count as being my own show, it was such a fiasco. People weren’t all there, and… well, whatever.”
In another interview, Baio admitted, “I regret doing Joanie Loves Chachi because, you know, it’s very exciting to have your own show, but if I wouldn’t have done it, I could have done anything I wanted…after [Happy Days].”
Joanie and Chachi ultimately got married on the Happy Days series finale in 1984.
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