Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

While the School performs Fairy tale shows to local kids Doris learns life is no fairy tale after she is mugged.  

Meanwhile Dwight struggles with his feelings towards Holly when they have to work together on a show. 

I really enjoy this episode. Season 4 is definitely lighter than the three previous seasons and even though the story line of Doris being mugged is pretty heavy they have approached it in a unique way. Linking the events to what is happening in the fairy tale makes the story feel lighter than if they had done a straight forward mugging story line.

At times the writers are a little heavy handed in achieving this  like having a character the Kids call Grandma living next door to the school and the acting of the young children is a little over the top but I can forgive the show these little issues.

I like how, at first,  Doris is all gung ho and the show must go on but when it finally hits the mugging is all she can talk about. This is Valerie’s last big story line before she leaves and it gives her something to get her teeth into.

 I love the relationship between Doris and Danny. We already know that they are really good friends but it’s nice to see that demonstrated here with how Danny wants to do things to help Doris.

 I also like the on going story line of Dwight’s crush on Holly, it gives us some great continuity. However, I was a little confused about Dwight’s issue of even talking to Holly. In previous episodes we’ve known about his crush but that hasn’t actually stopped him talking to her. Maybe it’s the added pressure of having to kiss Holly that has changed how he acts around her. Still it’s good fun particularly when he pretends Holly is his pet dog.

I was also a little confused as to the facts that the other kids didn’t want Dwight going to the movies with them. Dwight has been hanging around with the other kids at Caruso’s in season 3 and at Lou’s previously in this Season and no one ever seemed to have issues with that. It irritates me that writers change how friendships work and how characters behave to fit the current story line without any regard for what has already been established and don't think the audience will notice.  

 The music in this episode is great. I really love Valerie on “The Child In Me” and her singing with Nia and Jesse on “Happily Ever After”. Presumably David Greenlee isn’t really a singer as they turned his song into a poem for him to perform. Still with the music it works really well and I like the whole performance. Cynthia then performs “Lucky Star” which is nice as there haven’t been very many solo songs that Cynthia has performed this season.

One other thing that confuses me is when Cynthia performs “Lucky Star” Dwight is dressed in his frog outfit. Then later on when the two rehearse again he asks her what she thinks of his costume as though she’s never seen it before. 

Original  air date in U.S.A 06th April 1985

Original  air date  in U.K. 15th July 1985,  Repeated on The Children's Channel  Broadcast Autumn 1992

Original air date in Italy 09th September 1986

Original  air date in France 09th February 1996