A pink advice columnist dog solves international mysteries with her robot butler. Peak 80s nonsense.
Poochie, a little pink dog who runs a newspaper advice column for her owner, receives a letter from a little boy who has literally lost his father in Cairo, Egypt. Poochie and her robotic servant, Hermes, travel there to help him and end up finding a lost city that would prefer to keep its secrets.
Production
That inexplicable 1984 DIC Entertainment aesthetic
Practical Effects
Hermes the robot servant: peak unnecessary sidekick design
Director
Kazuo Terada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a failed pilot for a Poochie TV series based on a Mattel toy line that never launched—explaining the 'let's visit exotic locations' premise designed to sell playsets.
Director Kazuo Terada would later work on actual anime classics like Saint Seiya, making this his secret American cartoon shame.
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