Saturtainment: A complete episode of The Kwicky Koala Show (1981)

 Well, this one's a treat.

Episodes of Kwicky Koala are now available on YouTube, or at least until Warner Bros Discovery sends their copyright enforcement unit out to have them removed. You know how it works.

Anyway, the Bungle Brothers (Michael Bell & Allan Melvin) are a would-be post-modern vaudeville act. The three vignettes here have them trying out various circus acts. Loosely based, we think, on Tex Avery's George & Junior.

Kwicky in "Robinson Caruso". Kwicky (Bob Ogle impersonating Bill Thompson) is on a deserted island where Wilford Wolf (John Stephenson) has been marooned. A treasure is involved.

Crazy Claws in "The Claws Conspiracy": Crazy (Jim MacGeorge doing a slight mimic of Groucho Marx) creates trouble for Rawhide Clyde (Don Messick) as usual.

Dirty Dawg in "Dirty's Debut": Dirty (Frank Welker mimicking Howard Cosell) tries entering Ratso (Peter Cullen) in a dog show, thinking no one would know the difference. One of the first instances of the two actors working together, forging a partnership still going strong more than 40 years later.

What doomed the show was its early time slot, airing at 8 am on the east coast as a lead-in for Trollkins. If CBS had slotted The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Show at 8 (it was 90 minutes by this point), and plugged in Kwicky & Trollkins from 9:30-10:30, maybe they survive the season.

Rating: B.