Last February, you may recall, we had great expectations that the Boomerang cable channel was going to air the 1966 Hanna-Barbera TV special, Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? This was the H-B version of the classic story as adapted by Bill Dana, who wrote the script, and Lee Adams and Charles Strouse, who wrote the Broadway-quality songs. Despite rumors that it may happen soon, this show has never been available on home video.
Just to screw with us, Boomerang advertised that version but ran a different, less interesting animated Alice in Wonderland instead. Well today, they apparently decided to even up the score. They advertised that less interesting Alice in Wonderland and, Christopher Cook informs me, ran the '66 Hanna-Barbera version. Somewhere in the vast Time-Warner empire, someone is toying with us. Just because they can.