Looney TV: The Bob Clampett Show (2000)

 As the 21st century began, Cartoon Network was experimenting with anthology shows showcasing the works of legendary creators. 

Bob Clampett was one of those legends, along with Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. It's too bad the experiment ended before they got around to Friz Freleng. Joking aside, The Bob Clampett Show ran for about a year on CN before being shifted over to the nascent [adult swim] side of the channel. While season 1 was exclusively Warner Bros. material, some of Clampett's early Beany & Cecil work was added for season 2, which marked the only time that series aired on CN.

During its CN run, the series aired on Sunday nights. Shifting to [as] allowed a little more schedule flexibility. Too bad CN can't be bothered to bring the show back along with the rest of the line (i.e. Toon Heads) to fill space on Boomerang.

From a sample episode, here's a Blue Ribbon reissue of "Farm Frolics":

This series deserved a better fate.

Rating: A.

"Farm Frolics" also gets an A.

You Know The Voice: Jackie Joseph (1969)

 Here's a treat that was just recently posted to YouTube.

Vin Scully's NBC game show, It Takes Two, didn't last very long, but it did bring some fun.

This episode was taped in late March 1969, broadcast a couple of weeks later, with James Darren (ex-The Time Tunnel), Norm Crosby, and Ken Berry (Mayberry RFD, ex-F-Troop)(w/then-wife Jackie Joseph).

Announcer John Harlan got the most screen time of his career working on this show.

Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits: I Need Your Lovin' (1981)

 The late singer-songwriter Teena Marie is best remembered for her 1985 top 5 hit, "Lovergirl". However, she already had a few years under her belt, including a 3 year stint with Motown ("Lovergirl" was released on Epic), which produced her 1981 hit, "I Need Your Lovin'". The song barely peaked in the Top 40 at #39, but hit the top 10 on the R & B chart.

Teena showed up on American Bandstand in April 1981.

Countdown to Christmas: Toy Tinkers (1949)

 Donald Duck chops down a tree for Christmas, but Chip 'n' Dale see this as an opportunity to steal some walnuts. Here's "Toy Tinkers":

Seems there was a recurring theme any time these three got together.

Rating: B.

Literary Toons: Oliver Twist (1974)

 Two years after Hanna-Barbera had adapted Charles Dickens' tale for the ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, Warner Bros. & Filmation took their turn with a feature length adaptation of Oliver Twist.

This version hews somewhere between the original story and the musical adaptation, "Oliver!", with all the music. Josh Albee (ex-Sealab 2020) provides Oliver's speaking voice, with Scottish actor Billy Simpson taking over for musical numbers. The cast also includes Davy Jones, Larry Storch, Jane Webb, Les Tremayne (the movie was released two months prior to Shazam! debuting on CBS), Dallas McKennon (ex-Daniel Boone; McKennon would return to playing Archie Andrews in U. S. of Archie a few weeks later), and Larry D. Mann.

As normal, Filmation recycled some music cues from their TV shows, in this case the dramatic cues from Star Trek & Lassie's Rescue Rangers from the previous season.

Many thanks to contributor Jennifer Schillig for tipping us to this film:

A year earlier, the two studios had collaborated on another adaptation, this being Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, with some of the same cast, and, as is the case here, a pet added to the story to attract the small ones. It should be noted that Richard Dawson (ex-Hogan's Heroes), who worked on Oliver & The Artful Dodger two years earlier, had been heard in Treasure Island, but did not return for this version of Oliver Twist.

No rating. Just a public service.

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: Mumbly vs. Hemlock & Alfie (1976)

 In "Sherlock's Badder Brudder", Mumbly plays his usual tricks on a pair of British crooks who've come across the pond to capture him. Good luck with that!

It's clear that Hanna-Barbera had tried and failed to re-acquire Droopy, as every Mumbly episode followed Droopy's playbook. It took fourteen years before Droopy finally arrived at H-B, with a stopover at Filmation before that (1980's Tom & Jerry Comedy Show).

Rating: B.

Saturday School: The series premiere of Mission: Magic! (1973)

 Of the four freshman series produced by Filmation in 1973, Mission: Magic! was the weakest of the lot.

Australian singer-actor Rick Springfield had made his debut on the US charts a year earlier, and his handlers were hoping to promote him as a teen idol, figuring that even though the bubblegum pop craze of the late 60's-early 70's was dying out, only to return just three years later, the teenagers would watch the show with their younger sibs.

Nope. Mission was cancelled after 1 season, replaced by The New Adventures of Gilligan.

It wasn't Springfield's fault. The writing was, at best, mediocre. The background score by Ray Ellis (credited as Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael for the balance of the decade) recycled cues from the Archie cartoons, among other places. No originality in the music, save for Springfield's own compositions, which were released on LP in his native Australia before the end of the season, and later imported to the US.

In the series opener, Ms. Tickle (Lola Fisher) and the Adventurers Club (Ericka & Lane Scheimer, also heard on My Favorite Martians, The Brady Kids, & Lassie's Rescue Rangers, and Howard Morris) enter a backward dimension. Literally.

Rating: B.

Getting Schooled: The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon (1976)

 From the ABC Afterschool Special:

"The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon" centers on a 6th grader (Ike Eisenmann, "Escape to Witch Mountain") who discovers a book that gives him the means to overcome his short stature. Co-starring Jim Backus, Jerry Van Dyke, Sparky (spelled Sparkey) Marcus (in one of his first roles), and Lance Kerwin.

By this point, the series had switched exclusively to live-action dramas, the idea being that with the emergence of cable television, the kiddo's would turn to cable for classic shorts, and thus, the 1st run animated entries stopped.

No rating.

Toonfomercial: A primer on preventing cancer (1969)

 Here's an American Cancer Society PSA, which seems to have backgrounds designed by Peter Max (though that isn't the case). Narrated by Gene Wilder.

There's hope for Peanuts fans after all

 You might say Apple's been shamed into this.

The tech giant will repurpose A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, which will begin streaming on Apple TV+ next week, on PBS & PBS Kids on Sunday. Three weeks later, A Charlie Brown Christmas, marking its 55th anniversary, will air on both channels.

Now, you have to believe that if this works out as well as we all think it should, Apple & PBS will team next year to bring It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown back to broadcast television, or maybe have more specials & movies show up on PBS Kids.

Finally, Charlie Brown and friends get a break they deserve.

Animated World of DC Comics: The Spectre (2010)

 Ever since, let's say, the 1970's, DC Comics' The Spectre has been repackaged as a iteration of the vengeance or wrath of God. Writer Michael Fleischer created fresh interest in the character with a series of grisly stories in Adventure Comics, which provide the basis for this DC Showcase entry.

Film producer Joseph Bremmer (Jeff Bennett) is killed in an explosion, which gets the attention of the Spectre and his mortal alter-ego, Jim Corrigan (both voiced by Gary Cole), who had been dating the producer's daughter (Alyssa Milano, ex-Charmed, Who's The Boss?). Jon Polito is also heard.

If there was a DC hero that belonged on [adult swim], it'd be the Spectre. Fleischer would've been proud of this production.

Rating: A.

Toon Rock: Baby on Board (1993)

 The Simpsons kicked off season 5 with "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", which purports to explain how Homer (Dan Castellaneta), Apu (Hank Azaria), Principal Skinner (Harry Shearer), and Barney (Castellaneta) were in a group known as the Be-Sharps, a parody of the Beatles. Bart & Lisa find a Be-Sharps LP at a swap meet, and that leads to Homer explaining the group's history.

The following performance of "Baby on Board", on the roof of Moe's Tavern, is a send-up of the Beatles' famous rooftop farewell concert. George Harrison appears briefly.

The Dapper Dans, a Disneyland barbershop quartet, actually did the singing, mixed in with the actors' voices. As we all know, of the three actors, only Shearer (Spinal Tap and related acts) had any previous musical experience.

Animated World of DC Comics: Superman-Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (2010)

 Ever since the late 80's, DC has repackaged Captain Marvel, now known as Shazam, having taken the name from the wizard who gave him his powers, as Billy Batson's mind in an adult body. Inspired, one must guess, by the Tom Hanks movie, "Big", which came out the same year.

10 years ago, DC released "Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam" as the centerpiece of a DVD compilation of Showcase short subjects, two of which were already reviewed.

Taking place prior to the infamous New 52 reboot a year later, Billy (Zach Callison, later of Steven Universe) is all alone, having been tossed out of a foster home. You know most of the origin story, I'm sure, even as it's been rebooted for the 21st century.

Meanwhile, Black Adam (Arnold Vosloo, "The Mummy") returns to Earth after many years away, seeking to avenge himself upon the wizard Shazam (James Garner, in his final role), or his champion. Billy meets with Clark Kent (George Newbern, reprising as both Clark & Superman from Justice League Unlimited) for a Daily Planet story. Adam attacks, and, well, we're off and running.

Jerry O'Connell voices Captain Marvel, reprising also from Justice League Unlimited.

Following is a trailer:

It's only 25 minutes, flying by faster than the proverbial speeding bullet, but way too quick for this kind of feature. Then again, writer Michael Jelenic hasn't exactly proven to be a genius since then (i.e. Teen Titans Go!, Thundercats Roar!).

Rating: A.

From Comics to Toons: A complete episode of Richie Rich (1981)

 From season 2 of Hanna-Barbera's adaptation of Richie Rich:

"Chilly Dog": Dollar (Frank Welker) goes on a cruise, and gets framed for a robbery, forcing him to clear his name, with Richie (Sparky Marcus, ex-The Bad News Bears) helping him via video relay at home.

"Rich Mice": Richie loses his father's favorite coin in a mousehole, so he & Dollar set out to retrieve it.

"King Bee": Richie and his girlfriend, Gloria (Nancy Cartwright), battle the titular villain, another costumed foe with designs on controlling the insect kingdom.

Plus, a pair of "Gems" skits with Reggie (Dick Beals) and Gloria, respectively.

If fans have one complaint, it's the fact that Richie, Gloria, & Reggie, as well as the rest of the kids, were aged up ever so slightly, leaving Richie without his signature attire (bow tie, shorts, etc.). The new look was strictly for television, so that he would look mature as well as resourceful. Joan Gerber (ex-Lancelot Link) is the voice of Irona, Richie's robot bodyguard, who was given shapechanging abilities in this series.

Richie gets showcased here, since former President Obama referenced his successor, Donald Trump, as a grown-up Richie Rich, but without all the positive qualities, in an interview on 60 Minutes.

Rating: B.

Animated World of DC Comics: Jonah Hex (2010)

 While his live-action debut was a bomb, Jonah Hex feels more at home in animated form.

Jonah (Thomas Jane, "The Punisher") is on the trail of Red Doc (Michael Rooker), unaware that a murderous hooker (Linda Hamilton, "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", ex-Beauty & The Beast) has already beaten him to the bounty, even if she didn't realize it.

Novelist Joe R. Lansdale, who authored a pair of critically acclaimed miniseries about Jonah for DC's now-defunct Vertigo line, scripted this tale.

A full length DTV would be nice.

Rating: A.

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: The Inspector in Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat (1966)

 The Inspector (Pat Harrington, Jr.) runs into all sort of problems staying afloat while trying to capture the smuggler, Captain Clamity, in "Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat".

13 years later, Plastic Man would fight The Clam, another villain with a similar design, but no connection, obviously.

Rating: B-.

Rein-toon-ation: Revenge of The Spy (Fantastic Voyage, 1968)

 Busby Birdwell (Marvin Miller) is on a solo mission when he's trapped by enemy agents. The only way the rest of the CMDF can catch up is via Busby sending the Voyager back to headquarters via autopilot. So begins "Revenge of The Spy", a sequel to an earlier episode of Fantastic Voyage:

Rating: B.

It Should've Been on a Saturday: Where The Action Is (1965)

 A ways back, we took a look at Dick Clark's Where The Action Is over at The Land of Whatever, but we're not going to regurgitate that exact entry. Not when we've uncovered more information.

You see, Action was originally pitched not to ABC, which eventually picked up the show, but CBS, which denied itself the opportunity to pick up a piece of the youth demographic that ABC had mined with American Bandstand, which had moved from weekdays to Saturdays, and the primetime series Shindig!, while NBC countered with Hullabaloo. At the time, the "Tiffany of The Networks" was skewing more toward older viewers.

A pilot episode was produced for CBS in January 1965. Writers Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas and producer-director Norman Abbott had been working on CBS' The Munsters at that time, and Abbott would later direct episodes of Ghost Busters a decade later. Another familiar name in the credits is choreographer Toni Basil. Nearly 20 years later, she was atop the pop charts with "Mickey". Small world, isn't it?

Anyway, Youcandancetoit, a Bandstand fan channel on YouTube, uploaded the pilot, with guests Frankie Avalon, Dick & Dee Dee, Paul Revere & The Raiders (the show's house band for the first year when it went to series 5 months later), Bobby Rydell, and Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.

Action, trimmed to a half hour, launched on ABC in June '65, and lasted 21 months before being cancelled in March 1967. CBS & Clark would break bread a few years later, when Bob Stewart hired Clark to host The $10,000 Pyramid.

No rating.

You Know The Voice: Keith Andes (1959)

 Before being cast as the voice of Birdman, Keith Andes was a respected character actor. Unless I'm wrong, 1959's This Man Dawson might've been his one and only lead role on TV in front of the cameras.

Dawson lasted just 1 season, but the sample episode offers the idea that maybe it could've lasted longer.

Rocky & His Friends narrator William Conrad has those chores here, and also is a producer.

Edit, 2/15/24: Had to change the video. "Arson Ring" features future announcer Bill Woodson in a supporting role:

More on this over at The Land of Whatever.

Literary Toons: Winnie The Pooh & a Day For Eeeyore (1983)

 Ok, this one's going to be a little confusing.

Winnie The Pooh's final theatrical featurette for Disney was 1983's "Winnie The Pooh & a Day For Eeeyore". It'd been 9 years since the last theatrical release, during which time the previous ones had been airing on television, usually as stand-alone primetime specials for NBC.

The credits shown on the screen as this begins are radically different from the actual product. For example, per other sources, Hal Smith (Owl) doubled as Winnie, though Jim Cummings is credited, not so much as Winnie, but the story is that Cummings, Tress MacNeille, and others were brought in for re-dubs for a later DVD/Blu-Ray release that apparently was aborted. Tress was supposed to be voicing Kanga, but the role actually was performed by Julie McWhirter-Dees (ex-Casper & The Angels, Jeannie, etc.). The obvious constant at the time is Paul Winchell as Tigger.

Laurie Main was given the envious task of succeeding the late Sebastian Cabot as narrator. We know from the later New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh that Cummings would not only assume the role of Winnie, but would also do a near-perfect mimic of Sterling Holloway's characterization, as Smith comes up short there.

Here we go:

Rating: B.

Game Time: Meet Bob Clampett (To Tell The Truth, 1975)

 45 years ago this month, on To Tell The Truth, animation legend Bob Clampett was a contestant, following behind William Hanna and actor-writer Jack Mercer (Popeye). Host Garry Moore and the panel (Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Nipsey Russell, & Kitty Carlisle) were probably fans as youths.

Clampett plays the first game, but they couldn't get Mel Blanc to do any voiceovers for a man in a Bugs Bunny costume. "Bugs" enters with Moore at the start, and returns to identify Clampett around the 11 minute mark.

A YouTube commentator noted that Clampett's hairstyle resembled that of singer Roy Orbison. Ehhhh, could be!

Coming Attractions: Freakazoid returns......on Teen Titans Go!

 Well, you knew it was going to happen sooner or later. It's just happening sooner than we thought.

Freakazoid, the last of Steven Spielberg's original collaborations with WB in the 90's, is making at least a 1-shot return Saturday.......on Teen Titans Go! on Chumptoon Network.

The plot, such as it is, has Freakazoid (Paul Rugg) teaming up with the Titans to battle his arch-nemesis, the Lobe, who is joining forces with the Brain (the leader of the Brotherhood of Evil). If you were expecting WB's Brain and his dimwitted sidekick, Pinky, fuhgeddaboutit! With the revived Animaniacs, featuring Pinky & The Brain as a back-up feature, just like the old days, debuting on Hulu a week later, CN wanted to get a bit of a jump, but there's no way they'd give Hulu any free publicity. The evil mouse has already appeared on TTG!, along with one of the Warner brothers from Animaniacs, so that ship already sailed. 

Then again, TTG!'s producers aren't exactly brain surgeons, and think we aren't, either.

The episode premieres at 9:15 am (ET) on Saturday, and will be available On Demand soon after. You've been warned.

Remembering Ken Spears (1938-2020)

 Three months after his long time friend and writing/business partner, Joe Ruby, had passed on, Ken Spears, who began his cartoon career as a sound editor at Hanna-Barbera in 1959, has passed away from Lewy's Body Dementia, the same disease that claimed radio & cartoon legend Casey Kasem six years ago.

Image courtesy of Variety.

Spears, with Ruby, had created Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? for Hanna-Barbera & CBS in 1969, kicking off a string of series for not only H-B, but also DePatie-Freleng (1972-5). Ruby & Spears' 1st foray into live-action came in 1974 when 20th Century Fox hired the duo to work as consultants on Planet of The Apes, a short-lived primetime adaptation of the movie series. A subsequent Saturday morning series co-produced by DFE & Fox for NBC the following year, strangely, didn't have Ruby or Spears credited, ending their run at the studio.

The team returned to Hanna-Barbera in 1976, and created Jabberjaw, Dynomutt, & Captain Caveman over a 2 year period, during which time they also developed the live-action components (most of them, anyway) of Krofft Supershow, most notably Electra Woman & DynaGirl. They launched their own production company in 1978 with Fangface, and contributed mightily to ABC's Weekend Special series. One such entry, "The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy", led to a weekly series, The Puppy's Great Adventures, a few years later. Their first sales to NBC, Mr. T & Alvin & The Chipmunks, followed in 1983.

The studio was, in fact, still active until recently. Now, we'll see how WarnerMedia, which owns most of the Ruby-Spears catalogue from the early years, honors the team.

Rest in peace.

You Know The Voice: Louise Williams (1979)

 A few months back, we had an episode of 13 Queens Boulevard up, but had to take it down when said episode was deleted by YouTube.

Louise Williams was, well, moonlighting, if ya will, landing her 2nd primetime series gig (she joined the cast of Busting Loose in its 2nd season in 1977), but this series, also co-starring Eileen Brennan & Jerry Van Dyke, was a bomb, as ABC burned it off during the spring of 1979.

In this excerpt, Louise appears around the 40 second mark.

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: Dynomutt in The Great Brain.....Train Robbery (1976)

 Dynomutt (Frank Welker) and Blue Falcon (Gary Owens) battle the Gimmick, whose remote control crimes look like a homage to comic strip legend Rube Goldberg. We didn't see "The Great Brain...Train Robbery" the first time, so there's no rating.

Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits: Seventeen Ain't Young (1968)

 From The Archie Show comes "Seventeen Ain't Young". Well, for pre-schoolers, it might've been like that, but you're still young when you're a teenager eventually.

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: Hector Heathcote in The First Fast Mail (1961)

 The fact that President Trump decided to purposely sabotage the Postal Service in a misguided effort to win re-election, an effort that ultimately failed, by the way, leads us to go back in time with Hector Heathcote (John Myhers) as he is placed at the origins of the Pony Express, the forerunner to today's Postal Service. Here's "The First Fast Mail".

Resource information tells us Hector was supposed to be 18. The ambiguity of cartoons allows him to be at different points in history without aging, but, well....!

Rating: B.

Toonfomercial: A very different Cocoa Pebbles commercial (1974)

 Most of the animated ads for Post's Pebbles line of cereals featured only Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. Fred's wife, Wilma (Jean VanderPyl), rarely appeared in the early ads in the 70's.

In this 1974 spot, Wilma joins Fred (Alan Reed), and, later, Barney (Mel Blanc) for breakfast.....

Daytime Heroes: Highlander: The Animated Series (1994)

 The success of the Highlander film & television franchise was bound to include an animated incarnation.

In 1994, a collaboration between Bohbot Entertainment and Gaumont, a French-Canadian studio, brought that animated Highlander to the US, airing initially on USA Network weekly as part of Cartoon Express before moving into syndication.

Set 7 centuries in the future, Highlander tells the tale of one Quentin MacLeod, the last of his clan, but, unlike the live-action series & movies, the immortals do not kill to gain their opponent's life force. Instead, there is a sharing and exchange of knowledge, necessary to fulfill FCC guidelines for educating young audiences.

In all, 40 episodes were produced over two seasons, but the series has not seen the light of day in nearly 25 years in this country.

Following is the intro:

No rating.

You Know The Voice: Larry Storch (1971)

 As we know, after F-Troop ended its run, Larry Storch supplemented his voice work (i.e. Cool Cat) with various guest appearances in primetime. We've previously seen him on Mannix. Soon, we'll pull up something from Love, American Style.

However, we've got a 1971 episode of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. Larry appears in three sketches with Glen, including one in drag around the 12 minute mark, and in a pirate skit with Glen and Liberace. Additional guests include Linda Ronstadt, Jerry Reed, and Neil Diamond. Murray Langston, later known as the Unknown Comic, was part of the repertory company.

Too bad they didn't have room to let Larry sing, too.......

Sunday Funnies: Don Coyote in Pity The Poor Pirate (1989-90)

 Don Coyote (Frank Welker) shares the same mental illness as his human counterpart, Don Quixote. However, something got lost in the translation to a funny animal cartoon. You have to feel sorry for Sancho Panda (Don Messick), who has to keep Coyote's mind on point.

Here's the opener, "Pity The Poor Pirate":

No rating.

Thanksgiving Toons: Grams Bear's Thanksgiving Surprise (Care Bears Family, 1986)

 When the Care Bears changed animation studios from DIC to Nelvana in season 2, there came with it two bigger changes. One was a title change to Care Bears Family. The other was shifting from 1st run syndication to ABC, where it spent 1 1/2 seasons before being cancelled in the winter of 1988.

From that 1st ABC season comes this Thanksgiving episode, "Grams Bear's Thanksgiving Surprise", in which a human enemy, Sour Sam, schemes to ruin the holiday.

ABC's association with Nelvana began a year earlier when the Canadian studio was given a license for a pair of Star Wars animated series, Ewoks & Droids, and continued into the early 90's.

No rating.

Saturday School: Pipe Dreams (Saved by The Bell, 1991)

 When a local oil firm begins drilling for oil at Bayside High, everything seems normal at first. However, it also proves to be an environmental hazard with consequences that the oil company never considered.

From season 3 of the original Saved by The Bell, "Pipe Dreams" was one of the better episodes of the season. The complete episode can only be found on Peacock, as only excerpts are presently available on YouTube. We'll forego the risk of having to replace videos and serve up a screen shot instead:

To think this story began with Zack (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) caring for Becky, the duck, over the weekend.

Rating: A-.

Animated World of DC Comics: Supeman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)

 Based in part on the miniseries of the same name, as well as another miniseries, American Alien, and some other recent material, "Superman: Man of Tomorrow" offers a different take on the Man of Steel's early years.

Clark Kent (Darren Criss, ex-Glee) is merely an intern at the Daily Planet, and Lois Lane a graduate student, but things change when a failed rocket launch supervised and underwritten by Lex Luthor (Zachary Quinto) reveals an elaborate scam perpetuated by Luthor, who ends up going to jail. Lois gets her job as an investigative reporter, and, like everyone else, is assigned to find out about a "flying man" who diverted the rocket to avoid disaster.

Unlike past iterations, the Parasite, aka Rudy Jones, is presented as a family man before an unfortunate accident changes his life. A key scene late involving him pays tribute to "Godzilla". You'll see what I mean when you see the movie.

Let's check the trailer:

Rating: A.

You Know The Voice: E. G. Daily (1984-6)

In 2012, Elizabeth "E. G." Daily sought to resurrect her music career by competing on The Voice at age 51, after more than 20 years of voice acting (i.e. Rugrats, Powerpuff Girls). 

You see, in the mid-80's, Daily's focus was on acting and singing. Most folks will recall she played Pee-Wee Herman's girlfriend in "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" (we have a clip of that here in the Archives), in 1985. A year earlier, she recorded "Love in The Shadows" for the movie, "Thief of Hearts". The song was later reissued by her label, A & M, for her debut album, "Wild Child", around the time of "Big Adventure". A remix was released in 1986, which is where we get this video.

I remember reading how fans were upset over the recasting of Powerpuff Girls a few years ago, but think about this. E. G. was in her 50's when she was on The Voice. Chumptoon Network suits may have seen that as an excuse to "go younger", but we don't know that for sure.