It Should've Been on a Saturday: Strong Kids, Safe Kids (1984)

Child sexual abuse is big news these days, in case you think all the headlines are about bashing the President.

It was also a thing 35 years ago, hence the video, Strong Kids, Safe Kids, which could just as easily have been an ABC Afterschool Special or something.

Henry Winkler serves as host and executive producer, as Strong Kids was one of the first projects for his Fair Dinkum Productions. Winkler appears as himself and, of course, as Fonzie from Happy Days, which had wrapped its 11 season run around the time of the video. Mariette Hartley and John Ritter are the other celebrity guests, plus appearances by the Smurfs, Yogi Bear (voiced by Hal Smith in this case), Scrappy-Doo, and Fred & Pebbles Flintstone.

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Had any network decided to run this, a parental discretion advisory would've been mandatory, due to the frank talk about genitalia.

Rating: B+.