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1979-84, CBS
Filmation Associates
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at Albert and The Cosby Kids was a long-standing Saturday
morning cartoon that featured a group of urban adolescents
growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood. It had various
"show-within-a-show" elements throughout its production run, and
one of those elements was a segment called The Brown Hornet,
which first appeared in 1979 when the series itself was
re-titled The New Fat Albert Show.
Supposedly, The Brown Hornet was a favorite
TV program of Fat Albert and the
gang, and the kids would race to the television in their
junkyard clubhouse whenever the latest installment aired. The
self-titled show was about a confident and daring, space-age
African-American superhero who patrolled intergalactic space
with his trusty assistant Stinger and robotic sidekick
Tweeterbell, to search out and fight evildoers. Episodes were
presented in the same manner as old movie serials, which ended
with Brown Hornet facing some perilous cliffhanger he would be
forced to overcome at the beginning of the next episode (which
normally took him about two seconds). Apart from being
entertaining, the Brown Hornet's exploits served as a moral
underpinning to whatever dilemma was confronting the Cosby kids
during that week's episode. |
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Brown Hornet ...................................... Bill
Cosby
Stinger ......................................... Lou
Scheimer
Tweeterbell ................................... Erika
Scheimer |
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