CBS: "Happy Days" actors don't have a case
(CBS) In April, four "Happy Days" actors - Anson Williams (Potsie), Don Most (Ralph), Marion Ross (Mrs. Cunningham) and Erin Moran (Joanie Cunningham) - and Tom Bosley's estate filed suit claiming they've been cut out of money owed them from "Happy Days" merchandizing. CBS, which owns "Happy Days," has responded.
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The case is "a garden-variety breach of contract action, nothing more," reads the company's response to the lawsuit, according to CNN. CBS says the actors are "attempting to generate a lucrative litigation windfall by riddling their complaint with unsupported and overreaching causes of action."
The actors' contracts state they were to be paid 5 percent from net merchandizing proceeds for sole image use and 2.5 percent for group images, less a 50 percent "handling fee," reports CNN.
The actors told CNN in April they brought the lawsuit after "Happy Days" slot machines started popping up in casinos. Ron Howard, who played Richie Cunningham, and Henry Winkler, who played The Fonz, are not part of the lawsuit against CBS.
"Happy Days" ran from 1974-1984.