The Great Space Coaster (1981)★ 7.9/10
- Animation
- Comedy
- Family
Directed by: Dick Feldman, Hank Blumenthal
Written by: Joseph A. Bailey, Joe Cook, Mark Eisman, Barry Harman, G. Ross Parker
A half hour children's program that featured three friends who loved to make music. They lived in a fantasy land full of talking animals. They sang and would show short cartoons and musical numbers.
- Original title
- The Great Space Coaster
- Storyline
- A trio of human singers (Francine, Danny, and Roy) are brought to the habitable asteroid by the Coasterville by the "space coaster", a roller coaster-like spaceship. The asteroid is populated by strange-looking, wise-cracking puppet characters, such as Goriddle Gorilla, Knock Knock the Woodpecker, Edison the Elephant. The regular pilot of the space coaster is Baxter the Clown. He is on the run from his former employer, the villainous circus ringmaster M.T. Promises. The ringmaster keeps trying to recapture him and force him to work at the circus.
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 312
- Companies
- Metromedia Television, Sunbow Productions, Garden Thieves Pictures, Claster Television, Family Home Entertainment (FHE), MGM/UA Home Video, Telesistema
- Release dates
- US January 5, 1981