American Greetings developed several characters for their greeting cards in the 80's. Some you know, like Strawberry Shortcake and the Care Bears. Then, there is Lady Lovely Locks & The Pixietails.
Lady Lovely Locks was introduced in 1987, and, like the others, was licensed for other products. Mattel developed a toy line, and the characters were also brought to life in a short-lived animated series produced by DIC for syndication.
In the series, Lady Lovely Locks had to fend off the schemes of a jealous, envious ruler of a neighboring land. It is said that Lady Lovely Locks' powers were in her flowing hair, much like the Biblical hero Samson. In a way, then, she is a mash-up of Samson and, oh, I don't know, maybe Snow White?
Let's take a look at the opener. The live-action sequence at the close provides a protracted moral.
Only 10 half hours were produced, as apparently, kids weren't buying the toys or the cards, and the plots lacked imagination, and, save for VHS releases, these cartoons haven't been seen in 30 years.
Rating: C.
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Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails aired as part of a short lived (2 seasons) weekend block produced by DiC called "Kideo TV". LLL aired during the block's second (and last) season in syndication, replacing Rainbow Brite. My brother and I used to watch Kideo TV on Sunday mornings on WDCA channel 20 in Washington D.C..
As I recall, it aired on Sundays in my area, too. I'm going to try to do a bit on Kideo TV down the line.
I recall Kideo TV being the only time DiC found a home for one of their very first shows, Ulysses 31.
As memory serves, Ulysses 31 also aired on Nickelodeon.
Yet strangely I don't recall U31 on Nick at all myself, though DIC's other show, Mysterious Cities of Gold, did air on there.
Oh, it did.
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