It Should've Been on a Saturday: Sidekicks (1986)

 We previously wrote up this next item over at The Land of Whatever a ways back, but it belongs here, too.

Sidekicks sprang from a Disney Sunday Movie, "The Last Electric Knight". Gil Gerard (ex-Buck Rogers in The 25th Century) stars as a police sergeant tasked with caring for a young karate master (Ernie Reyes, Jr., whose father choreographed the fight scenes) at the request of a sensei (Keye Luke, seen in flashbacks after the pilot movie).

There was a subsequent movie, "Sidekicks", with Chuck Norris & Jonathan Brandis, six years later, but has nothing to do with this series.

Here, politics and bullies are at issue. Frank Bonner (ex-WKRP in Cincinnati) and Nancy Stafford co-star.

Sidekicks did move to Saturday nights during the season, but by then it was too late.

Rating: B.