The Wrong Way Kid was first shown as part of the CBS Library in March 1983. More than four years later, it resurfaced on Nickelodeon's Special Delivery, which is where BetaGems found this special. Some commercials are left intact.
Dick Van Dyke essays three roles, including a father who drops his son at the library, and the librarian. Voice talent includes June Foray, Don Messick (Smurfs, etc.), Arnold Stang (ex-Top Cat), and Stan Freberg. Keith Coogan, grandson of Jackie Coogan (ex-The Addams Family), credited as Keith Mitchell, is the son, Chris.
Producer Nick Bosustow is the son of UPA executive Stephen Bosustow, and struck out on his own, producing a fair number of CBS Library entries.
Rating: B.
4 comments:
Keith Coogan is Jackie Coogan's grandson; Keith Mitchell is the name on his birth certificate.
Keith and his granddad were close; when he started getting known as an actor, he took Jackie's name as a tribute, and uses it professionally to this day.
Just so you know ...
I will amend my original post, Mike. Thank you. I think he changed his name also because there was already a Keith Mitchell who was an actor ("The Six Wives of Henry VIII").
Belatedly:
The British actor referred to here is Keith Michell (no t), who is best known as Angela Lansbury's designated hitter during Murder, She Wrote's seventh season.
Oh, I always thought it was also Mitchell.
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