Joanie Loves Chachi [SEP] creator
cousin and bandmate.
Production.
"Joanie Loves Chachi" was the first Miller-Boyett (and only Garry Marshall-produced) sitcom developed by Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett, and was created by Lowell Ganz, Mark Rothman, and Garry Marshall. Unlike other Garry Marshall/Miller-Boyett sitcoms, this is the only series that does not have Charles Fox and/or Norman Gimbel as the show's theme song/music cue composer.
A false urban legend circulated that the show was far more popular
street where the show's creator Garry Marshall had lived. There have been false rumors that circulated claiming that the broadcast of "Joanie loves Chachi" had high viewership numbers in Japan and Korea because the name "Chachi" sounds like slang term for "penis" in those countries.