Uncle Croc's Block was all about parody. The show itself was a send-up of, for example, Captain Kangaroo. Recurring characters were spoofs of Sherlock Holmes and The Six Million Dollar Man, among others, showing that ABC was, we thought, willing to laugh at itself. The ratings said otherwise.
In this skit, Croc (Charles Nelson Reilly) gets a visit from Junie the Genie (Alice Ghostley), who is supposed to be a teenager, two years after CBS had done a "prequel" of sorts of I Dream of Jeannie, except that Junie is a total bungler, not unlike Ghostley's character of Esmerelda, a bumbling witch, on Bewitched.
ABC was fine with self-parody, but the sketches on this show were so bad (how bad were they?), ABC ended its association with Filmation after 9 seasons.
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