1981 10:00 on ABC: GOLDIE GOLD AND ACTION JACK

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Goldie Gold and Action Jack was a Ruby-Spears cartoon from 1981 that aired for 13 episodes at 10:00 Saturday mornings on ABC. It also aired at 9:00 starting in the Spring of 1982 (the second half of the season), and that's kind of important... remember what was so weird about the 1980 Saturday Morning line-up? NO CARTOONS STARTED AT 10:00! This is the first time I've ever had to use the 10:00 tag in this community, and it feels WEIRD!

This show woulda/coulda/shoulda been a prime-time action/comedy along the lines of "Moonlighting" (the TV show that introduced the world to that old guy from the new GI Joe movie - kids, ask your parents).

Goldie Gold was a super-rich and super-beautiful (teenage?) owner of a newspaper, Action Jack was her ace reporter friend (boy friend?). Each episode had them being pulled in to some random action-adventure that lead them to uncovering some great front-page news story.

Comments

[janusfiles.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else ever get the impression that Jack was hired by Goldie's parents to keep her from getting into trouble? Or at the very least, to get her OUT of trouble once she managed to get herself into trouble?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I could see that,,, but really, I think it was just a spoiled girl and the luckless reporter who is trying to cover his own butt :)

[janusfiles.livejournal.com]

Possibly . . . of course, the two theories are not mutually exclusive.