Happy Hour is a sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that debuted on Fox

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 in the United States and on CTV

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 in Canada on September 7, 2006. The show starred John Sloan as Henry Beckman, a young man rebuilding his life after losing his girlfriend, his job, and his apartment. The series was produced by husband/wife duo Jeff and Jackie Filgo of That '70s Show

That '70s Show

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Fox put the show on hiatus in September, 2006, and officially canceled it the following May. Thirteen episodes of Happy Hour were made, of which four have aired and nine remain unaired.

Cast and characters

Actor	Character
John Sloan	Henry Beckman
Lex Medlin Lex Medlin Lex Medlin is an American comedic actor who has appeared in a wide variety of television commercials and sitcoms. A star of the 2006 Fox TV sitcom Happy Hour...	Larry Cone
Nat Faxon Nat Faxon -Life and career:Faxon is a graduate of Holderness School and Hamilton College, he is best known for his appearances in comedic films such as Orange County , Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story , and several Broken Lizard films including Beerfest...	Brad Cooper
Jamie Denbo Jamie Denbo Jamie Denbo is an American actress and comedienne. She most recently co-starred in the FX series Terriers.-Life and career:...	Tina Difabio
Beth Lacke	Amanda Pennington
Brooke D'Orsay Brooke D'Orsay Brooke D'Orsay is a Canadian actress and voice actress best known for her role as Caitlin Cooke on the animated Canadian series 6teen and on King's Ransom as Brooke Mayo. She was recently in the Nickelodeon movie The Boy Who Cried Werewolf as Paulina Von Eckberg.-Early life:D'Orsay was born in...	Heather Hanson

Episode list

Episode #	Production #	Air Date	Title	Summary
1	276005	September 7, 2006	Pilot	Henry Beckman has a girlfriend who convinces him to move to Chicago to work for her uncle. But his life is sent into a loop when she dumps him, which causes him to lose his job and to be thrown into an apartment with Larry, a man who has his own surreal opinions on life and women. Larry sets up Henry with a new job and life begins anew. Of course, one of the house rules is that every day at four is Happy Hour.
2	3T5352	September 14, 2006	"The Mix CD"	Henry finds a mix CD of love songs and gets details about Larry's one true love, Molly. Amanda is concerned when a doctor in her gynecologist's office cancels a date with her.
3	3T5351	September 21, 2006	"Larry's Birthday"	It's Larry's birthday and his friends all forgot about it.. all except Henry who got him a lame camping trip as a present.
4	3T5353	November 2, 2006	"The Ring & I"	When Larry discovers that Henry is hanging onto an engagement ring that he had planned to give Heather, he tries to get Henry to sell the ring and buy a wine refrigerator. Henry still hopes that Heather will come back to him; however he does agree to put his engagement ring to auction.
5	3T53??	Unaired	"Crazy Girls"	When Henry dates a girl named Shauna, Larry warns him to stay away from her. After Henry ignores the warnings he returns to Larry to help him get out of the relationship.
6	3T53??	Unaired	"Thanksgiving"	Tina is planning a Thanksgiving dinner, and her mother, Nannette (Jessica Walter Jessica Walter Jessica Walter is an American actress, known for the films Play Misty for Me, Grand Prix, and for her role as Lucille Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development... ), and sister are is planning to visit. Unfortunately Henry makes too good of an impression on his mother-in-law as she puts the moves on him.
7	3T5354	Unaired	"Boo! This Party Sucks"	Larry and Tina host separate Halloween parties and Brad begs everyone to attend Tina’s dreary party. Amanda and Heather wear identical sexy costumes to Larry’s party.
8	3T5355	Unaired	"The Election"	With Tina and Brad’s rule on the tenants’ association coming to an end, Larry and Henry decide to run against them. Amanda gets bored with her doting husband.
10	3T5359	Unaired	"New Year's Eve"	Everyone likes Amanda’s current boyfriend except for Larry, who gets a ‘bad vibe’ from him. Although Larry always protects Amanda, he goes too far this time and hurts her feelings.
11	3T5360	Unaired	"11:30 Snuggles"	Larry and Brad almost get into a fight in a bar, and Henry calls the police to save them, forgetting that all three are impersonating police officers to impress women.
12	3T5361	Unaired	"A Dead Man's Ham"	It’s Christmas and Larry’s friends leave to be with their families, however they then decide to stay with him because all flights out of Chicago have been cancelled. However, at the apartment, the only food available is a mail-order ham that arrived for a neighbour who has died
13	3T5362	Unaired	"The T-Shirt"	Larry’s T-Shirt business soars in popularity after George Clooney is seen wearing one of his shirts, however the reverse happens with Kevin Federline. Heather then saves the business by changing the company slogan.

International Broadcasts

Country	Broadcaster	Timeslot
Arab World	Super Comedy Channel Dubai One	The entire series has been broadcast from Saturday till Wednesday every week at 4:30pm GMT.
Australia	Nine HD Nine HD Nine HD was an Australian television channel, owned by Nine Entertainment Co., that launched on 17 March 2008. The channel was available to high definition digital television viewers in metropolitan and regional areas through a number of owned-and-operated and affiliate stations...	The entire series has been broadcast.
Finland	MTV3	Friday 2:15pm
Singapore	Channel 5	Thursdays & Fridays at 1.30am
Poland	TVN 7	Saturday mornings
New Zealand	TV2	Friday 12:00am
Croatia	HRT2 Croatian Radiotelevision Croatian Radiotelevision is a Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite...	Late afternoon
Romania	Procinema	Afternoon