MR T: The Mystery of the Disappearing Oasis (1984)
Friday, 10. November 2006, 14:46:28
In 1983 Ruby-Spears cashed in on Mr T's popularity and created the MR T animated series. In the series Mr T travels around with a gymnastics team and finds mysteries. In many ways Mr T is similar to BA Baracus, not just in appearance but in personality, both enjoy helping children, both have a fear of flying (although Mr T doesn't need to be knocked out) and both use the same catchphrases.In this episode Mr T and his Gymnastics team fly to Egypt bringing the team bus along with them (why? I don't know and I don't know why Mr T needs a coach size bus for himself, Miss Brisby and five meddling kids and the Dog Dozer)
Anyway the whole team is in Egypt to meet Kim's penpal. The penpal is the daughter of an archeologist who has given her a ruby necklace - which turns out to be the key to a treasure and naturally bad guys are tring to steal it.
Oh I pity the poor fools who mess with T or the kids. Several of the kids are running around Egypt without telling anyone where they going and one by one the baddies capture them and it's up to Mr T to stop them. I wasn't aware but it appears that Mr T is quite the gymnast able to flip and vault as well as any member of his team (who frequently cartwheel out of danger)
Lest I forget each episode has a moral - This one "tell people where you'll be"
(another one had the moral of Don't Brag - "If you're great people will know it and you won't need to tell them. Just like I don't need to tell you" a live action Mr T informs us.
Think of this as A-Team very lite and it's not a bad show.
Brad
