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The Bad News Bears - TV Show


With the recent release of the remake, do you think the show will become available soon? Is it already available? If so, where?

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I remember watching this as a kid. Was there an episode where Amanda beats Tanner up, pinning him down and making him give up or something? If I remember correctly this then set off a series of incidents with the girls at school bullying the boys?

Does this sound familiar or am I thinking of some other show? If so, please clear up the details for me.

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Yes, this episode was from <i>The Bad News Bears</i>. She doesn't beat him up; she just pins him, and he says, "I give!" There were a lot of scenes like that on TV shows in the late 70s--it must have been some kind of influence from shows like <I>The Bionic Woman</i>, <I>Wonder Woman</i>, and <I>Charlie's Angels</i>.

I also remember an episode about a go-cart race, and Jack Warden wins. And in one episode, Tricia Cast wants to be called "Amanda," but Warden says, "You're Mandy!" She was probably trying to be grownup, like O'Neal was in the movie, and Warden was encouraging her to be a "normal kid." Finally, I remember Cast blowing the paper wrapping off a straw at Warden during the opening credit sequence. I also remember how this sequence introduced the kid actors--two of them would fall down while practicing baseball, then they would look at the camera, and it would zoom in on them. At the end, a baseball flew backwards toward a photo of the team, and landed in the catcher's mitt.

I saw the series when it was on CBS. Did you see it on Nick or TV Land?

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