Sunday, August 4, 2024

Getting Schooled: The Gymnast (1980)

 From the ABC Afterschool Special:

If you thought Hanna-Barbera only made animated episodes of this anthology series, you'd be mistaken. H-B served up this item from October 1980, "The Gymnast", about a teen (Holly Gagnier) looking to take her first steps toward becoming a world class athlete.

With Olympic gymnastics competition all but concluded in Paris as we write, we thought this would be a perfect complement. The grainy tape comes from a Showtime rebroadcast.


By this point, the Afterschool Special had dropped from bi-weekly to monthly, and the number of episodes per season would continue to drop.

Rating: A.

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