Bailey's Comets
Take all the excitement of roller derby, cut out the violence, throw in
a million dollar treasure hunt, and you've got the premise for Bailey's Comets.
Barnaby Bailey led his team, the Comets, against such cheating
scoundrels as the Dr. Jekyll/Hydes, whose members would involuntarily
change from good to evil in a puff of smoke, and the Yo Ho Hos, a team
of pirates. Naturally, the Comets insisted on fair play and honest
sportsmanship, and just as naturally, they always came out ahead.
The teams would compete all over the world—from England to
Australia, from Japan to Romania—in two episodes per show. Each episode
ended with one of the teams being first to find rhyming clues about the
next destination. The Comets would always arrive first in the last
episode of each show, lest the kids at home start believing that
cheaters sometimes prosper.
A reporter named Gabby covered all the action while flying above in
a helicopter, which was piloted by Dooter Roo. The show was switched
from Saturdays to Sundays in the middle of its first season, and
remained there for its second, which consisted entirely of repeats.
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