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John Buck: Deer Detective
Mentioned in Hypnosis Doesn't Work Like That!, John Buck is an animated movie released a few years before which seems to have made a bit of a media splash. It's successful in that every supermarket had shelves filled with tableware, bed linen, lunchboxes, and stationery bearing pictures of the characters for nearly a year.
The main characters seem to be a deer with a deerstalker and magnifying glass, and a dog in dark glasses. The deer occasionally has trouble getting his antlers through doors, which is mostly played for laughs. One sad moment in the movie is when an otter is locked up, but it's not mentioned why. There is a little adult humour in the movie, designed to keep the parents entertained, but it would mostly go over the kids' heads.
There is a series (mentioned in Unexpected Daddy chapter 16) following on from the movie a few years later, which takes a different tack. It is mostly computer generated, and features John Buck and his love interest Ruby Rabbit travelling around the country solving crimes. It is a cartoon for older children (or at least older than the target audience of shows like Paradise Pen and Bibi Babi Miko), where there are enough clues for a child to be proud of solving the mystery before the detective reveals the answer. The opening sequence features higher quality animation than most of the show, and features Buck racing along a country road in a red sports car, while Ruby lies across the back seat playing the harmonica (the opening theme starts with his solo).
