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Kideo TV
GenreAnimation
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish

Kideo TV was a 1986 syndicated anthology packaging by DIC Animation City and LBS Communications, which premiered in April of that year. The 90-minute show premiered with three half-hour segments: Rainbow Brite, Popples, and Ulysses 31.[1]

Ulysses 31 was dropped in September and replaced with reruns of The Get Along Gang. (Jeff Lenburg, in his The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, erroneously claims that The Get-Along Gang was dropped in favor of Rainbow Brite.) In April 1987, Rainbow Brite was replaced with Lady Lovelylocks and the Pixietails.[2][3]

Hosts

The show was hosted by four youths in auto racing attire with chassis on their shoulders. They included a boy, 4U (Mark Hennessy) and a girl, Euphoria, who were the "good kids" of the show, and they taught lessons to the reckless Fast Lane, a fiery-haired teen with a flame-decorated chassis on his shoulders and the chubby, impressionable Couch Potato. These sketches were under five minutes in length, and their lessons were restated by Bob Keeshan, and the youths also did commercial bumpers. While this material was originally credited, no resources have made note of who was involved, and it is omitted from rerun packages.

References

  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (4 May 2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538103746. Retrieved 26 September 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 28 March 1987 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=19870328&printsec=frontpage&hl=en. Retrieved 8 January 2019 – via Google News. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ . The Oregonian. 5 April 1987 http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives/?p_product=HA-ORGB&p_theme=histpaper&p_nbid=&p_action=doc&p_docid=132847B9AC21F254&s_lastnonissuequeryname=7&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=7&p_docnum=5&p_docref=v2:11A73E5827618330@HA-ORGB-132A7C169271A273@2446891-132847B9AC21F254@241-132847B9AC21F254@. Retrieved 8 January 2019 – via Newsbank. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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