Mission: Magic!

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

"Do you believe you believe in magic?
'Cause I believe I believe that I do.
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic.
If your mission is magic, your love will shine through!"

Mission: Magic! is a Fantasy Animated Series from Filmation that ran from 1973 to 1975 on ABC. Like the better known The Magic School Bus, it featured a magical teacher, Miss Tickle, who would take her "Adventurers' Club" group of six multi-ethnic students (consisting of the blonde Carol, the African American male Franklin, the Asian female Kim, the fat, sardonic Harvey, the Cloudcuckoolander Socks, and the Malaproper Vinnie) through a portal in a magical blackboard, which she would open by bringing to life the statuette of her cat, Tut-tut, with the chant:

O Tut-Tut, cat of ancient lore,
'Tis time to draw the magic door.

Very often Miss Tickle and her adventurers would be summoned to the other side of the blackboard by Rick Springfield and his owl Ptolemy for some special mission -- often to spoil the schemes of some magical offender committing a series of themed crimes in "the real world," such as Dr. Astro, stealing treasures representing the Zodiac, or the light-wielding Madam Marquee and Baron Borealis, who steal power-stations.


Tropes used in Mission: Magic! include: