Herbie, the Love Bug

Herbie, the Love Bug
Directed by	Bill Bixby Charles S. Dubin Vincent McEveety
Starring	Dean Jones Patricia Harty Richard Paul Claudia Wells Douglas Emerson Nicky Katt Larry Linville
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	5
Production
Running time	48 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	March 17, 1982 – April 14, 1982
Chronology
Preceded by	Herbie Goes Bananas
Followed by	The Love Bug

Herbie, the Love Bug is a short-lived situation comedy that aired on CBS in the spring of 1982. The series is based on Walt Disney Productions' popular Herbie film series, about a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. It was cancelled after five episodes and, for the next fifteen years, would mark Herbie's last new appearance in either television or film; Herbie would next return to television in the 1997 film The Love Bug.

Plot

Actor Dean Jones, who had appeared in two of the films (The Love Bug and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo), reprises his role of Jim Douglas, Herbie's original owner who now works as an instructor at a driving school. He and Herbie stumble upon a bank robbery in progress. They manage to thwart the crime and rescue a young divorcée named Susan MacLane (Patricia Harty), who works at the bank and is a mother of three: Julie (Claudia Wells), Robbie (Douglas Emerson), and Matthew (Nicky Katt). Jim and Susan soon begin to fall in love, much to the consternation of her ex-boyfriend Randy Bigelow (Larry Linville). Randy's attempts to break them up are in vain; Jim and Susan get married in an episode that aired on April 7.

Episodes

For the television series, only five episodes were produced:^[1]

References

1. ↑ List of Herbie, the Love Bug episodes at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• Herbie, the Love Bug at the Internet Movie Database