I was the oldest teen in captivity

HE was playing a teenager but by the time he had finished starring as The Fonz in Happy Days, Henry Winkler was 37.

- BY SANJEETA BAINS and FRAN BOWDEN

Joking as if he were a zoo specimen, Henry, 80 today, says: "I was the oldest teenager in captivity!"

The Fonz-like swagger that made teenage hearts flutter in the US sitcom - which ran from 1974 to 1984 - is still present as he presents a quirky new Sky History show.

In Perilous Play, the first of eight episodes of Hazardous History starting on November 17, he examines shocking everyday activities and products that were once considered normal.

Winkler asks: "Did you know there was once a time when kids played with a science kit that was actually radioactive? Do you remember playgrounds before safety standards? Or when the hottest new toy came with a blow torch?