Although Coca-Cola held onto the deal during the next two seasons of Punky Brewster, production was moved over to Warner Bros. in the second syndicated season, whereupon they became a co-producer with Coca-Cola.

In later years, a talking mini version of the mallet called Pinky Punky was introduced ( the name Pinky Punky was chosen after Mallett asked viewers to write in with their ideas for a name ) and soon became one of Mallett's established sidekicks along with Magic, his pet cockatiel.

Mike formed a close relationship with Punky and her friends, and was also portrayed as a social crusader of sorts.

Many more of Punky and Cherie's friends were seen ( although most only made a handful of guest appearances each ), with Margaux ever more becoming their comic foil and source of friction.

Into season four, much of the action continued to take place at the mall, with Henry, Punky and her friends ' efforts to keep their new restaurant afloat and the many teenage misadventures which passed through at Punky's Place.

Her father walked out on her family, then her mother abandoned her at a Chicago shopping center, leaving Punky alone with her dog Brandon.

During this time, Betty and Cherie made arrangements for Punky to stay with them until Henry recovered.

Unfortunately, everyone's stability was halted when bureaucratic social worker Simon P. Chillings ( guest star Timothy Stack ) showed up, found out about Henry's condition and ultimately deemed the worst: not only did he find Betty unsuitable to care for Punky in the meantime ( because she was a single woman with long working hours, already raising her granddaughter ), but he felt that Henry was unfit to be her legal guardian in the long term, due to his health, age, and uncertain financial future.

Despite Punky's efforts to escape from Fenster, a trick pulled by Margaux in which she dressed up and pretended to be Punky, and advocacy from Mike Fulton, Chillings ended up placing Punky with a new foster family, the fabulously wealthy Jules and Tiffany Buckworth ( Robert Casper and Joan Welles ), the latter of whom did not take to Punky's playful, more working-class ways well at all.

Things gradually returned to normal though, as Henry was back on his feet following surgery, opened up a glitzy new studio at the local mall and therefore was able to reunite with Punky.

As Punky herself embarked on junior high, her avant-garde day-glo and multicolored outfits, along with her pigtails, segued into more traditional teenage styles, and her declaration of, and reliance on " Punky Power!

For the three-part episode " Punky Finds a Home ", the opening starts out with Punky at a supermarket helping a lady load her groceries into her convertible.

Punky had a confrontation with T. C.

It's Punky Brewster !, an animated spin-off with the original cast appeared on NBC on Saturday mornings.

These dyes are typically sold in punk-themed stores ( such as comic book and music stores ), with brand names like " Beyond The Zone ", " Splat ", ' Fudge Paintbox ' ' Crazy Colors ' " Clairol Jazzing ", " Manic Panic ", " Special Effects ", " Punky Colour ", " Stargazer ", " La Riche Directions ".

She appeared in guest starring roles on many United States television programs from the 1970s through the 1990s, including Punky Brewster, Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper, A Different World, Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, 227, and Beat the Clock.

Soon after Hartman found work with Ruby-Spears, where he worked on It's Punky Brewster and Dink, the Little Dinosaur.

Punky Brewster was an immediate success among young audiences, and Johnson continued as the fictional Cherie throughout the series ' run ( 1984 – 1986 on NBC, and 1987 – 1988 in first-run syndication ).

Susie Garrett ( December 29, 1929 – May 24, 2002 ) was an American actress, best known for playing " Mrs. Betty Johnson " on the TV series Punky Brewster from 1984 to 1988.

She is best known for her roles on Punky Brewster and the long-running situation comedy show Family Matters, where she plays Laura Winslow's best friend Maxine " Max " Johnson.

Before Angel he played in the rock group BUX, which included guitarist Punky Meadows ( Angel ) and singer Ralph Morman ( Joe Perry Project and Savoy Brown ).

Punky Brewster is an American sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster ( Soleil Moon Frye ) being raised by her foster parent ( George Gaynes ).

As their day in court approached, Punky was forced by the state to stay at Fenster Hall, a shelter for orphaned and abandoned children, which made her realize all the more how close she had grown to Henry.

Andy Gibb guest-starred twice on Punky: once as himself, hosting a pre-teen beauty pageant ; and once as a music-instructor hired by Henry for Punky who persuades the young man to go out for a recording contract.

When the con man repeats the same words to Henry that he said to the music teacher, he is exposed as a fraud, and the teacher thanks Henry by giving Punky several free lessons.

The theme song for Punky Brewster is " Every Time I Turn Around ", written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo and sung by Portnoy.

Punky Brewster was a result of dividing television audiences by the time it was created.

" Punky Reggae Party " is a reggae song by Bob Marley, recorded and released in 1977.

In the same year, the show was syndicated by Claster Television as part of a package featuring Maxie's World ( the " lead " program ) and the non-DIC series It's Punky Brewster.

Moonlighting was unique at the time for being one of only three shows, due to FCC regulations, to be owned and produced in-house by a broadcast network ( NBC ’ s Punky Brewster and CBS ’ s Twilight Zone revival being the others ).

Angel is a glam rock and heavy metal band from Washington, D. C., formed in the mid-70s by Punky Meadows and Mickie Jones.

It was slammed by rock critics, and Frank Zappa ridiculed the all-male band ’ s female appearance in the song “ Punky ’ s Whips .” Angel never achieved mass commercial success but acquired a following as a cult band.

The band ’ s 2000 release In the Beginning also features guest appearances by original guitarist Punky Meadows, as well as Robinson.

He has also guest starred on many television shows, including The Bernie Mac Show, NYPD Blue, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Family Ties, ALF, thirtysomething, Punky Brewster, Archie Bunker's Place, Newhart, Moonlighting, Normal, Ohio, Perfect Strangers, Sisters, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Step by Step, Evening Shade, Alice, Bette, Bones and Boston Legal.

* It's Punky Brewster is owned by NBCUniversal Television, producers of the live action sitcom Punky Brewster ;

To television fans, he is perhaps best known as the curmudgeonly Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster ; as high-powered theatrical producer Arthur Feldman on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, in which Gaynes ' real-life wife, Allyn Ann McLerie, co-starred as his love interest ; and as Frank Smith, the mob boss brought down by Luke Spencer ( Anthony Geary ) on the soap opera General Hospital.

By the 1980s, some shows like Bewitched and Jeannie moved to WLVI-TV ; the station did pick up shows like M * A * S * H, Barney Miller, The Beverly Hillbillies, Alice, The Jeffersons, Maude, One Day At A Time, Hart To Hart, Quincy, M. E., Trapper John M. D., Cheers ( itself set in Boston and now owned by CBS ), Family Ties, Small Wonder, Punky Brewster, Scooby Doo, He-Man, Superfriends, Ghostbusters, Ducktales, and others.

" Punky Reggae Party " is a song written by Bob Marley as a positive response to the emerging UK punk scene.

The legendary 70's Casablanca recording artists were originally formed in 1975 by vocalist / lyricist / composer Frank DiMino, guitarist Punky Meadows, keyboardist Gregg Giuffria, drummer Barry Brandt and bassist Mickie Jones ( who was later replaced by Felix Robinson ).

NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff named the series after a girl he had a crush on in his own childhood: an older tomboy named Peyton " Punky " Brewster.

Additionally, the Saturday morning continued to see attempts to adapt prime time series for animation, some successfully ( Happy Days and its spinoffs, Mister T, ALF: The Animated Series ), others less so ( It's Punky Brewster, The Gary Coleman Show, Little Rosie ).

In television, Gaynes provided Henry Warnimont's voice for the animated series version of Punky Brewster ( in addition to playing the same character on the hit sitcom of the same name ), and directed several episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati.

In addition to Gaynes joining the cast of his wife's series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd in 1989, he and McLerie had previously worked together on Punky Brewster, when she guest starred in a first season episode as a love interest of Henry Warnimont's.

* Vanya on 42nd Street also features several actors known to the New York stage, including George Gaynes ( also recognizable from the hit TV series Punky Brewster ), Larry Pine, Phoebe Brand, Brooke Smith, and Lynn Cohen.

Aside from Punky Brewster, she has guest starred on The Twilight Zone, My Three Sons, and her sister's TV series The Jeffersons and 227.

Cooked on Phonics tells the story of a fictitious death metal band from south-central Poland called Cryptic Coroner that sells out their metal look and sound to become a commercial punk rock band called Punky Brüster ( the band's name is a pun on the 80's U. S. television series Punky Brewster ).

The concept won the approval of NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff, who named the titular character, and series, Punky Brewster ( after a girl he had known in his youth ).