For those that didn't know the format, Andy LeBeau (Coleman), apprentice guardian angel, had two adventures in each half-hour episode. Andy's antics frustrated his supervisor, Angelica (Jennifer Darling, ex-The Six Million Dollar Man/The Bionic Woman). Hanna-Barbera and NBC, seeing how the shorts format had come back into style in recent years, opted for 2 10-11 minute "shorts" in each episode of both this series and its other freshman entry, Shirt Tales, which managed to be renewed for a second season. Viewers, it seemed, tired of Andy rather quickly, and were content with seeing Coleman weekly on Diff'rent Strokes.
Now, let's check out "Fouled Up Fossils" & "Going, Going, Gone":
It's too bad Andy only had one mortal outfit to wear on the show. It might've helped if his halo could change the colors of his clothes once in a while.
Rating: B.
2 comments:
'The Gary Coleman Show' was loosely inspired by the NBC TV movie (also a star vehicle for Coleman) 'The Kid with the Broken Halo'. Personally, if I were going to turn one of Gary Coleman's TV movies into an animated series, I would've gone with 'The Kid with the 200 I.Q.', but that's just me.
Ditto that. I previously covered that in an overview of the series a ways back.
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