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    Henry Winkler has found new success as a television producer through his production companies Fair Dinkum and JZM, which have created pro-social programming for kids. His company Henry Winkler/John Rich Productions produced the hit show "MacGyver". While his acting career has been less successful since "Happy Days", Winkler says he is having a wonderful time producing shows and working with children, which he may do for the rest of his life. His production company has two more shows in development including "Mr. Sunshine" slated for ABC.

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    Henry Winkler has found new success as a television producer through his production companies Fair Dinkum and JZM, which have created pro-social programming for kids. His company Henry Winkler/John Rich Productions produced the hit show "MacGyver". While his acting career has been less successful since "Happy Days", Winkler says he is having a wonderful time producing shows and working with children, which he may do for the rest of his life. His production company has two more shows in development including "Mr. Sunshine" slated for ABC.

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    Nationally syndicated newspaper column (United Media, December 15. 1985). By Frank Lovece

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    Henry Winkler has found new success as a television producer through his production companies Fair Dinkum and JZM, which have created pro-social programming for kids. His company Henry Winkler/John Rich Productions produced the hit show "MacGyver". While his acting career has been less successful since "Happy Days", Winkler says he is having a wonderful time producing shows and working with children, which he may do for the rest of his life. His production company has two more shows in development including "Mr. Sunshine" slated for ABC.

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    Henry Winkler has found new success as a television producer through his production companies Fair Dinkum and JZM, which have created pro-social programming for kids. His company Henry Winkler/John Rich Productions produced the hit show "MacGyver". While his acting career has been less successful since "Happy Days", Winkler says he is having a wonderful time producing shows and working with children, which he may do for the rest of his life. His production company has two more shows in development including "Mr. Sunshine" slated for ABC.

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    BEHIND THE SCENES

    by producing TV fare
    By Frank Lovece

    Winkler is an executive pro- hold, finding new success as a ducer now, and he doesn't say producer-humanitarian. He's things like "Ayyy, Mr. C! Gotta been honored with the United devElopment deal for a prime- Nations Peace Prize and a

    Forget the

    "Happy Days," Winkler has Fonz. Henry put his acting ambitions on

    long-running

    ABC

    series

    time action-adventure series B'nai Brith "Champion of


    targeted

    to 18-to-24-year-old Youth" arvard. His two other urban males!" Winkler doesn't production companies - Fair say things like that, he simply Dinkum and JZM (named for does them. Witness "Mac- his children: Jed, Zoe and Max) Gyver," the splashy first ef- - have helped put together fort from Henry Winkler/John such pro-social TV and video fare as "strong Kids, safe Rich Productions. Kids" and "Who Are the DeBolts and Where Did They Get 19 Kids?"

    Winkler's feu' film appearances have beer met with tepid response, although he did earn a Golden Globe nomina.

    tion for his starring role in

    not have the time (to act), but I don't even think about it the same way I used to. I'm having
    such a good time

    "Night Shift" (1983). As for the future, he says, "Not only do I

    I might produce and work with kids for the rest of my life." He just might. WinklerRich's second show, "Mr.
    Htrry Winkler Sunshine," is slated as an ABC mid-season replacement, and

    the production company


    Winkler adds.

    has

    "Slowly but surely," reckons the articulate, soft-spoken 40year-old Winkler in his Los Angeles Paramount Studios office, "'MacGyver' is working out as we conceived it. Then again," he adds, "you never
    know where your show's gonna take you."

    plans for two more series.

    "I'm very
    "I

    fortunate,"

    derful time doing what I'm doing. I have great children, a great wife and a great partner.

    have a won-

    We're having a good time making a show we enjoy.

    thing about Win(ler's career. After portraying teen icon Ar-

    You could sav the

    same

    thur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli in the

    Gimme a break!" Well, they d9 say California is falling into the sea. Winkler smiles. "I'll tell you what," he quips. "I'll learn to swim."

    Release the week

    of

    Dec, 15-Dec,21, 1985

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