You know why we’re here! It’s time to kick back, relax and transport ourselves back to an earlier time, where Saturday mornings were chock full of imagination.
This week, I’m reminiscing with a show that I haven’t seen in decades, yet it was one that I would watch religiously as part of my Saturday morning routine. That cartoon? POLE POSITION!
For those of you unfamiliar with the series, here’s the plot direct from the Pole Position Wiki:
The show features the Darretts, a family of stunt-driving crime fighters, who investigated and thwarted wrongdoing while operating under the front of a traveling show known as the “Pole Position Stunt Show”, which was sponsored by the United States government in order to give cover for their investigative activity and provide maintenance for the high-demand vehicles. The Darretts had two adult children and a third child who was much younger in age. A road accident ended the life of the parents, and the father’s younger brother, known as Uncle Zack, took charge of the stunt show. He said that now that the patriarch and his wife were dead, it was incumbent upon the two adult children, Tess and Dan, to continue their parents’ dangerous and proud work.
The vehicles feature numerous hidden gadgets like water skis and hover jets. The vehicles’ computers themselves are portable and can be removed from the dashboards and carried around using handles—thus they are often referred to as “the modules”. The modules are characters appearing as talking computer-drawn faces displayed on video screens.
Wow, talk about a blast from the past. I would always imagine myself driving one of these cars. I could tell you a story about how I tried to take my bike apart to build one of these cars…then again, I guess I just did.
I hope you enjoyed this week’s session! See you next Saturday for more!
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