[dirtboy]

You would think she would have some income off of syndication for Happy Days.

[Uncle Chip]

Apparently the residual checks are quite small, especially if the reruns aren’t on television anywhere anymore.

[treetopsandroofs]

Anyone else remember years ago that TV Guide and anyone else would commonly report that she called the Happy Days cast members EVIL and wanted nothing to do with them?

[cicero2k]

You would think she would have some income off of syndication for Happy Days.

Unless she sold the syndication cash stream rights, years ago for a lump sum.

The Beach Boys did the same thing, they sold the airing rights to their catalog in the 1970s and it cost them dearly (in opportunity costs).

[Leaning Right]

You would think she would have some income off of syndication for Happy Days.

A couple of years ago, I was watching an interview of Tom Bosley, who played Howard Cunningham on the show.

He was asked about that very thing. Bosley said that a show's actors are paid on a declining scale. For the first couple of years of syndication, payments are high. But the payments decrease more and more as time goes on.