It's Punky Brewster

It's Punky Brewster
Title screen
Format	Animation Fantasy
Voices of	Casey Ellison Ami Foster Soleil Moon Frye George Gaynes Cherie Johnson Frank Welker
Country of origin	USA
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	30 mins.
Production company(s)	Ruby-Spears Enterprises NBC Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	September 14, 1985 – December 6, 1986

It's Punky Brewster is an animated spin off of the live action television show Punky Brewster. The show was animated by Ruby-Spears Productions.

Synopsis

It's Punky Brewster featured the voices of the original Punky Brewster cast as their respective characters. A new animal character, known as Glomer (voiced by Frank Welker), was added as the "leprechaun gopher". Glomer came from Chaundoon, a city at the end of the rainbow and possessed various magical powers. One such power was the ability to transport Punky and her friends, Margaux, Cherie, and Allen, and at times her beloved dog, Brandon, to any part of the Earth instantly.

Some episodes included Glomer having to correct his own mistakes, as when he plays around with magic and transforms Henry into a statue of Julius Caesar.

Episode guide

Season 1 (1985)

1. "Punky to the Rescue/The Quartersize Quarterback"
2. "The Gold Rush/Phar Out Pharaoh"
3. "Pretty Ugly/Glomer's Story"
4. "Brandon the Dialogue Dog/Winning Isn't Everything"
5. "Punky Wise and Pound Foolish/A Small Mistake"
6. "Return to Chaundoon/Christmas in July"
7. "Halloween Howlers/Fish Story"
8. "Glomer Punks Out/The Shoe Must Go On"
9. "Growing Pain/Double Your Punky"
10. "Spellbound/Louvre Affair"
11. "Switchin' Places/The Perils of Punky"
12. "Any Wish Way You Can/The Bermuda Tangle"
13. "Unidentified Flying Glomer/How the Midwest was Won"

Season 2 (1986)

1. "Little Orphan Punky/Punky's Millions"
2. "Punky, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs/Punky the Heiress"
3. "Fair Feathered Friend/Be My Glomley"
4. "All in Henry's Family"
5. "Call Me Ms."
6. "Punky P.I."
7. "Mississippi Mud"
8. "Punky's Half Acre"
9. "Camp Confusion"
10. "Bright Eyes"
11. "Mother of the Year"
12. "Allen Who?"
13. "Caught in the Act"

Cast

• Casey Ellison - Allen Anderson
• Ami Foster - Margaux Kramer
• Soleil Moon Frye - Punky Brewster
• George Gaynes - Henry P. Warnimont
• Cherie Johnson - Cherie Johnson
• Casey Kasem - Announcer
• Frank Welker - Glomer

Additional voices

• René Auberjonois -
• Vince Edwards -
• Pat Fraley -
• Alejandro Garay -
• Linda Gary -
• Patty Glick -
• Renae Jacobs -
• Christina Lange -
• Joycelyne Lew -
• Tress MacNeille -
• Mea Martineau -
• David Mendenhall -
• Scott Menville -
• Lilly Moon -
• Pat Musick -
• Denise Pickering -
• Hal Rayle -
• Josh Rodine -
• Neil Ross -
• Shavar Ross -

DVD release

The show is available on DVD as part of the Punky Brewster DVD releases. Each season also contains a certain number of episodes from the animated series as a bonus feature. Due to music rights issues, "The Shoe Must Go On" is the only episode not released on DVD in the season box sets released by Shout! Factory. A song that played in this episode was the theme to Beverly Hills Cop. It may be possible that this is the music that Shout! Factory had some issues with.

Popular culture

• It's Punky Brewster was parodied in the Robot Chicken episode "But Not In That Way" (aired Feb. 8, 2009) with Soleil Moon Frye reprising Punky Brewster, Henry P. Warnimont voiced by Seth Green and Glomer voiced by Tom Kane.

External links

• It's Punky Brewster at the Internet Movie Database
• It's Punky Brewster at TV.com