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Discussion in 'Hanna-Barbera' started by emeraldisle, Jul 24, 2014.

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    emeraldisle Moderator Staff Member I SUPPORT BCDB!

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    I didn't see as much of "The Gary Coleman Show" as I probably should have. The only part I caught was the tail end when Andy and Angelica flew back up to heaven. I also never saw the movie it was based on, "The Kid With The Broken Halo."

    However, long before this animated series premiered, I knew all about Mr. Coleman's health problems, and believe they may have been a key factor in the show's cancellation. Remember, at this time, "Diff'rent Strokes" had just begun its fifth season, and he'd also starred in one made-for-TV movie after another. All this, plus his mandatory dialysis quite possibly took their toll on the young actor. Had he been a picture of health, "The Gary Coleman Show" might have been renewed for a second season. Of course, no one can actually say for sure, not even the late Mr. Coleman himself.

    But the "Angels On Earth" concept didn't end with this show. In fact, I prefer to think it set the template for the later live action shows "Highway To Heaven," and "Touched By An Angel."

    Trivia Question 26: How was Andy able to disguise himself as an ordinary boy?

    Answer: By hiding his halo inside his T-shirt.
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    Another title for this post could be "Whatchoo Talkin' About, Lord Almighty?"

    My local NBC station in San Francisco did not carry the series and the rebroadcasts on Cartoon Network in the mid 2000s were shown around 4 in the morning Pacific time so I have never seen an episode.

    "The Kid With The Broken Halo" starred Coleman and Robert Guillaume. Coleman and Guillaume would appear together in several tv films such as "The Kid From Left Field" and "The Kid with the 200 IQ".

    From reference book sources, Sidney Miller played Andy LeBeau's nemesis Hornswoggle. Miller was the voice of Dungeon Master in "Dungeons and Dragons" and was a child actor himself.

    Joe Barbera in his biography mentioned that the animation was done overseas by Wang Films and Gary Coleman's Andy character was drawn as a Caucasian in error. It was corrected as the series continued in production.

    Gary Coleman starred in a few theatrical movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s "On The Right Track" and "Jimmy The Kid" to poor box office ticket sales.
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    The debacle about Coleman's character being colored wrong is verified in Bill Hanna's biography A Cast Of Friends. The first print for the show was only days away from airing, so Hanna-Barbera's on-hand staff was pulled from other projects to emergency-color the draft spools to make the air deadline. It speaks well of the Hanna-Barbera staff that they could generate as much animation footage as they did, enough to keep three broadcast networks happy. "Lunch box heroes" indeed. :)
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