servicemen stationed in South Korea, and has never even been dubbed or subtitled in Korean. In actuality, the show was never broadcast to the general public of Korea, only to U.S. This is the only Garry Marshall/Miller-Boyett sitcom that does not have Charles Fox and/or Norman Gimbel as the show's theme song/music cue composer.Īn urban legend circulated that the show was the highest-rated American program ever in Korea due to "chachi" being a Korean word for "penis". Boyett, and was created by Lowell Ganz, Mark Rothman and Garry Marshall. Joanie Loves Chachi was the first Miller-Boyett (and only Garry Marshall–produced) sitcom developed by Thomas L. The show was set in the 1960s yet characters were styled in a manner more true to the 1980s. Like other Garry Marshall-related sitcoms such as Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, Joanie Loves Chachi had its share of anachronisms. Winifred Freedman played Rico's daughter, Annette, Chachi's cousin and bandmate. Art Metrano played Chachi's uncle Rico Mastorelli, who was the band's manager and helped Joanie and Chachi advance in their careers. The series also starred Ellen Travolta as Louisa Delvecchio, Chachi's mother, and Al Molinaro as Al Delvecchio, Chachi's stepfather (and formerly the owner of Arnold's Drive-In in Happy Days), who opened a restaurant in which Chachi and Joanie performed most of their music. Their backup band consists of a spaced-out drummer named Bingo and Chachi's blasé cousins Mario and Annette. It mixed the traditional elements of a sitcom with musical performances on each show by Baio and Moran their characters sang to one another in the opening credit sequence of the show. The series is set in the early to mid-1960s and follows the exploits of Joanie and Chachi as they moved to Chicago and tried to make it on their own with a rock band and a music career at a time when the British Invasion was looming (one episode was titled " Beatlemania"). The series was cancelled after 17 episodes, in its second season, due to a drop in ratings. It stars Erin Moran and Scott Baio as the characters Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola, respectively. Joanie Loves Chachi is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of Happy Days that aired on ABC from March 23, 1982, to May 24, 1983. "You Look at Me", performed by Scott Baio and Erin Moran American TV series or program Joanie Loves Chachi
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