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A [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]] from 1981, this was [[Ruby Spears]]' attempt to follow the lead of then-upcoming film ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' (which came out before the show was released, but the show started production before that), by using the "mismatched couple has globe-trotting adventures" theme that would become popular during the 1980s.
The premise of the series, as spelled out in the opening, is that 18-year-old Goldie Gold, the "world's richest girl", founded her own newspaper, "The Goldstreet Journal". She and her companion, daredevil reporter "Action" Jack Travis, go on adventures across the globe solving crimes and reporting on them to the paper's editor, Sam Gritt. The series featured a new villain and caper each week, and an array of fantastical and improbable gadgets that helped Goldie and Jack in essentially ''any'' situation. The [[Richie Rich]] comparisons were inevitable, though despite many jokes about the sort of things Goldie could buy, the focus was more on the action and adventure while the gadgets simply appeared to keep the plot moving. The show also tended to follow some fairly familiar tropes of contemporary series, particularly shows on which Joe Ruby and Ken Spears had worked for [[Hanna
The show ran for a single series of 13 episodes on [[ABC]], reran until September 1982, then faded into relative obscurity as Ruby-Spears quickly shifted to selling shows based on licensed properties.
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* [[Canine Companion]]: Nugget
* [[Conspicuous Consumption]]: ''Everything'' Goldie owned was, well, gold. Be this simple things like jewelry all the way up to, oh, ''the building her newspaper was headquartered in''.
* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]
* [[Cool Car]]: Goldie drove the appropriately named "Goldster".
* [[Crimefighting With Cash]]: Goldie, though it was more to get a scoop than save the world.
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* [[Dramatic Unmask]]: Happened in a couple episodes. [[Ruby Spears|Remember who made this show.]]
* [[The Eighties]]: The series was made in this decade.
* [[
* [[Fake Memories]]: "The Goddess of the Black Pearl"
* [[Fan Service]]: The shot of Goldie and Jack at the pool, with ''far'' more emphasis on Goldie's rather skimpy (for the timeslot) bikini.
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* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Goldie's fur coat stands up to anything.
* [[Infinite Supplies]]: Goldie Gold's gadgets and vehicles.
* [[Instant Plunder, Just Add Pirates]]:
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Jack. Goldie doesn't count because she owns the paper.
* [[Jack Kirby]]: He did the character designs.
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* [[Lady of Adventure]]: Goldie
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Understandable with Jack, but all that money and Goldie has just five outfits. She has her ensemble with the gold pants and fur coat, her swimsuit, her evening dress, her winter gear with the ermine parka, and her safari gear. Everything else is just disguises or costumes.
* [[Non
* [[Ojou]]: Goldie Gold is the western version.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Goldie's white fur coat and her ermine-trimmed parka.
* [[Right
* [[
* [[Sky Pirate]]: "Pirate of the Airways".
* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: Goldie gets this a few times.
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* [[Uncle Pennybags|Auntie Pennybags]]: Goldie Gold
* [[UST]]: Goldie Gold and Jack Travis
* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?|Where Does She Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]: The audience will frequently wonder this. Especially when the space mansion shows up. Strangely, it's rare for anyone in the actual stories to comment on the insane level of technology Goldie apparently has at her disposal. Not even the space mansion.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Despite not being much of an [[Action Girl]], Goldie is naturally the one that tries to actually ''hit'' the Countess in "Menace of the Medallion".
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: They don't.
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