The Fantastic Funnies (1980)

A salute to comic strips.The host was WKRP in Cinicinnati's Loni Anderson, with appearances from her WKRP co-star Howard Hesseman in character as Dr. Johnny Fever (doing like New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1945 reading comics during a newspaper strike); musical numbers, including from Keene Curtis and Patricia Patts of the musical "Annie"; interviews with cartoonists Charles M. Schulz, Mort Walker, Hank Ketcham, Johnny Hart, Brad Anderson (no relation to Loni), Dean Young and Jim Raymond, Morrie Turner, Mell Lazarus, Russell Myers, Dik Browne, Cathy Guisewite, and John Cullen Murphy; and segments with comic strip characters Doonesbury, Broom-Hilda, Momma, Drabble, Cathy, Hagar the Horrible, Pogo, Tumbleweeds, Miss Peach, B.C., Beetle Bailey, Blondie, Dick Tracy, Barney Google, Alley Oop, Prince Valiant, Peanuts, Wee Pals, Dennis the Menace, Nancy, Little Orphan Annie, Fred Basset, Marmaduke, Flash Gordon, Popeye - and, in his first animated appearance, Garfield the cat.