"A Star Is Bored"

I remember this episode less well than the one where Fonzie and Marion do a play together.  The timing feels off for much of this one, but I like the surprisingly downbeat little exchange between Richie and Fonzie where we find out that Fonzie's father ran out on him when he was twelve and Fonzie hasn't seen him since, and the Fonz has even considered suicide.

A few notes:

• We learn a little bit more about Howard's wartime experiences.
• Howard makes a gratuitous reference to a "sissy."
• The Buffalo Bob reference would become ironic when he'd actually show up, on the Howdy Doody episode of course.
• Ronnie Schell previously was Ernie the bomb-shelter salesman, while here he's the agent Monty Miller, and he was Anne Marie's agent on a couple That Girl episodes in '66.
• Alice Nunn doesn't make much of an impression as Mrs. Stewart here, but it looks like she'd be back as Mama Delvecchio (presumably Al's mother) in '81.
• Britt Leach, who's Rev. Harlan, I recognize mostly from his three Three's Company appearances.
• Bobby Boswell would write one more HD episode but has no other IMDB credits.