Everyone remembers the "forgotten" HAPPY DAYS character, Chuck Cunningham...but what about Sticks? The great new book above, 50 YEARS OF HAPPY DAYS, fails to even mention the character or his actor.
John-Anthony Bailey was cast as "Sticks," Fonzie's new black friend, in Season Three of the long-running 1970s sitcom. Sticks got a lot of press at the time--some seen below--and then disappeared. If IMDB is to be believed, he only appeared in two episodes total.
Bailey turned up soon enough as a regular on Sid and Marty Krofft's Saturday morning series, WONDERBUG.
After that, he reinvented himself as Jack Baker and became a major player in more than 100 adult XXX features before his death in the early '90s.
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