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Adventures with Kanga Roddy (1998-2000)
About this film
Created by two masters of martial arts for American Champion Entertainment and PeopleNet, Adventures with Kanga Roddy is a rare live-action PBS Kids series premiering in KTEH in 1998 through 2000. The plots for each episode go like this: children from a community centre encounter a problem, so they visit Pat Morita (and his assistant, Shakespeare)'s bookstore in order answer the problem where he transports the kids into the magical land of Hi-Yah. In there, Kanga Roddy and his friends solve the problem that kid is facing through song and dance numbers and flashbacks to his various lessons he has learned with Zatochi or his many parallels with Tackle Bear, and in the end, the kids return to the community centre to recap the lesson they've learned with their teachers. Rise, rinse and repeat. The series lasted for 26 episodes in two seasons before getting the yank on KTEH and Kanga Roddy disappeared and was never heard from us ever again. Well, except for people who worked on it, especially Yippee Coyote, who he appears in here as his Hi-Yah counterpart Chaka! The regular Yippee makes a cameo in the season 2 episode Try to Remember . He even has a VHS of the episode, and is interested…
Directors & creators
American Champion Entertainment, PeopleNet
Subjects
1998, rare, lost media, lost series, pbs kids, rare media
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