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- Nancy Walker played Howard Cunningham's visiting cousin Nancy Blansky from Las Vegas on the February 4, 1977, episode of Happy Days.
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Nancy Walker played Howard Cunningham's visiting cousin Nancy Blansky from Las Vegas on the February 4, 1977, episode of Happy Days. Blansky's Beauties premiered the following week, on February 12, 1977.
With Nancy Walker, Caren Kaye, Eddie Mekka, Scott Baio. Gruff but loving Nancy Blansky is busy housing, mothering, and even choreographing for a hotel's showgirls--while providing a home for her nephews, dancer Joey and 12-year-old junior-womanizer Anthony.
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was an American sitcom and a spinoff of Happy Days that aired on ABC-TV from February 12 to June 27, 1977. The main character of the series was introduced on an episode of Happy Days, then set in the 1950s, but the show is set in the present-day of 1977.
Nancy Walker played Howard Cunningham's visiting cousin, Nancy Blansky, from Las Vegas on the February 4, 1977, episode of Happy Days. Blansky's Beauties premiered the following week, on February 12, 1977.
Nancy Blansky (Walker) was a long-time Las Vegas showbiz vet (since the 1950s) and current den mother to a bevy of beautiful Las Vegas showgirls. In addition to keeping order in the chaotic apartment complex where they all lived, Nancy staged the girls' big numbers at the Oasis Hotel. Although the Happy Days episode on which Nancy first appeared took place in the early '60s, Blansky's Beauties itself was set in (then) present-day 1977.
Template:Unreferenced section Eddie Mekka's character Joey DeLuca was a younger cousin to Carmine Ragusa, Mekka's 1950s-era character on Laverne & Shirley. During production of Blansky's Beauties, Mekka continued in his starring roles on both series, a rare occurrence of one actor assuming two regular scripted roles, in two different primetime series, at the same time. The series' star, Nancy Walker, had just finished several seasons of the same situation in which she had co-starred simultaneously in both McMillan & Wife and Rhoda, while also maintaining her ongoing role as diner waitress Rosie, the spokesman for Bounty paper towels, which she continued during Blansky's Beauties.
In episode 1 ("Blansky's Biking Beauty") Joey introduced Nancy Blansky to stunt motorcyclist Pinky Tuscadero (Roz Kelly) who was instantly hired for Nancy's stage show. Pinky wore the same outfit as in her Happy Days episodes, though her hair was now in a '70s style shag cut. She looked as though she had not aged in 20 years.
The show also implied a link to then-ongoing show Laverne & Shirley; in the episode "Nancy Remembers Laverne," Nancy recalls working with a clumsy girl named Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall's character on Laverne & Shirley) back around 1957. She discovered that, despite her clumsiness, Laverne was a great dancer and Nancy offered her a job on the spot, which Laverne declined.
Pat Morita, after the failure of his series Mr. T and Tina, was added to the cast as Arnold, the character he originated on Happy Days. As with Pinky Tuscadero, he seemed not to have aged in 20 years' time. Here he ran a coffee shop, whereas in Happy Days, he owned the diner. Morita would re-join the cast of Happy Days five years later, while his replacement on that series, Al Molinaro, would repeat Morita's career move at that time by joining another Happy Days spin-off, Joanie Loves Chachi.
After the end of Blansky's Beauties, Lynda Goodfriend and Scott Baio would join the cast of Happy Days at the start of the 1977–78 season. Goodfriend and Baio, along with their Blansky's Beauties co-stars Caren Kaye, Shirley Kirkes and Elaine Bolton, would appear in a similarly-plotted pilot, Legs, for NBC in 1978, using different character names. This project would be revised further and appear on the network as Who's Watching the Kids? in the fall of that year, lasting half a season.
Garry Marshall, creator of Blansky's Beauties and the aforementioned Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Joanie Loves Chachi, et al., had a recurring role as Nancy's employer, the enigmatic Mr. Smith.
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•Nancy Walker as Nancy Blansky
•Caren Kaye as Bambi Benton
•Lynda Goodfriend as Ethel "Sunshine" Akalino (actress later moved back to Happy Days as Lori Beth)
•Johnny Desmond as Emilio
•Eddie Mekka as Joey DeLuca (actor simultaneously on Laverne & Shirley as Joey's cousin, Carmine Ragusa)
1.Note, however, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present doesn't include the series in its list of prime time spin-offs. Brooks, Tim (2007). pp. 1707–1709. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4..
Nancy Walker played the part of Howard's cousin, Nancy Blansky in a guest appearance on Happy Days, which she would; revise in its' short-lived spinoff, "Blansky's Beauties".
Nancy Blansky was a character who appeared in the Season 3 episode of Happy Days titled "The Third Anniversary Show" (episode #17), which aired on ABC-TV on February 4, 1977. The part of Nancy is played in the episode by Nancy Walker, who made a guest appearance, as she would reprise the role of...
Oct 13, 2020 · Nancy Walker played Nancy Blansky, Howard Cunningham's cousin from Las Vegas, on a 1977 Happy Days episode, then moved on to 13 episodes of Blanksy's Beauties, in which the character operated a...
May 16, 2018 · Like a lot of failed spinoffs, Blansky’s Beauties had a tenuous connection at best with its predecessor: the title character, Nancy Blansky (played by Nancy Walker), appeared in a single episode of Happy Days as a cousin of Howard Cunningham’s.
