We've talked about this enough in the past. When Hanna-Barbera decided to begin what amounted to a new season of Josie & The Pussycats, two years after the original series, they sent the gang into space in a parody of Lost in Space, Star Trek, etc., but with disastrous results.
In the opener, a despot plots to overthrow his planet's ruling council, and kidnaps Josie (Janet Waldo) as a means of achieving his ends.....
The animation was worse than the 1970 series, and even with bringing in experienced writers like Fred Freiberger (ex-Star Trek, Wild, Wild West, etc.) and Heywood (Woody) Kling, they still fumbled.
Rating: C--.
2 comments:
It's usually a sure sign that a show is about to "Jump the Shark" when it's producers a) send the cast into outer space, b) have them travel around the world, c) have the cast travel through time or d) start adding new characters for no reason.
Yeah, this season of Josie pretty much sucked. It was kind of interesting how every single alien race that the gang encountered had plans to invade or conquer Earth. You'd think that they would have encountered a friendly alien race, just once.
Repetitive plotting, just like the first series. No wonder people are down on 70's Hanna-Barbera.
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