Ninjas Vs. Hippies: 1981
(artwork courtesy of Matt Maloney @ mybigmuddy; click to enlarge)
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY short lived NBC family situation comedy Tie-Dye Ninja made its on-air debut. The shows focus centered on a teenage ninja-in-training named Naruto who is instructed by his Master House to move to suburban Connecticut and enroll in a typical American high school as a test of his willpower in the face of modernity. But on Naruto’s first day he befriends the children of the Rosepopper family and the two sides form an unlikely bond.
Tie-Dye Ninja debuted amid a backdrop of violent outbursts between the two warring factions of ninja’s and hippies, and suffered poor ratings as a result. Its final episode, “The Sword of Detention,” scored the lowest Nielsen returns in the history of television. The show has the distinction of being the only network program in modern television to go unarchived. A year later, the network reworked the format and scored a much larger hit with the half-hour comedy Family Ties.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
“The Sword of Detention,” . . . all I can say is “PU”! The show jumped the shark in episode 7 when Mrs. Rosepopper took Naruto’s prized numchucks and fashioned them into wind-chimes.