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3A SaturdayMorningCartoon from 1981, this was Creator/RubySpears' attempt to follow the lead of then-upcoming film ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' (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.
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5The 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 ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' 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 Creator/HannaBarbera.
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7The show ran for a single series of 13 episodes on Creator/{{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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9As a side note, Creator/JackKirby did the character designs, and Creator/SteveGerber served as the show's story editor. (as well writing the first episode, "Night of the Crystal Skull". [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull Goldie Gold walked so Indiana Jones could run]].)
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11!!This show has examples of:
12* ActionAdventureSeries: The eponymous duo go around the world stopping evildoers.
13* AlliterativeName: Goldie Gold.
14* {{Balloonacy}}: A variation but with a gadget instead of helium balloons; one episode had Goldie use a gadget called a balloon buckle to save herself, Jack and another from hanging off a cliff. The balloon buckle inflated big enough to carry all three characters to safely land at a nearby airfield after Goldie manually deflates the buckle.
15* BattleButler: "Action" Jack Travis... since Goldie [[FauxActionGirl wasn't particularly actiony]] herself.
16* BigFancyHouse: And we mean big. The hallways make up an UnnecessarilyLargeInterior.
17%%* BondVillainStupidity:
18* BusmansHoliday: "Curse of the Snake People" starts with Goldie and Jack sightseeing in India, then having to save the world from a snake-worshiping cult when an escapee literally runs into them.
19* CanineCompanion: Nugget, who is also the TeamPet.
20* ConspicuousConsumption: Every other thing Goldie owned was, well, gold. From the simple things like jewelry all the way up to, oh, ''the building her newspaper was headquartered in''.
21* ConveyorBeltODoom: In a few episodes the bad guys tied the heroes to these to try to kill them.
22* CoolCar: Goldie drives her own limo, the appropriately named "Goldster".
23* CrimefightingWithCash: Goldie had people hired to make gadgets she could use, though it was more to get a scoop than save the world (which it could still do).
24* CrystalSkull: The villain of the first episode disguised himself using one of these.
25* DamselInDistress: Goldie, something even shown in the opening as she stares in awe at all the times she's shown being tied up by the bad guys.
26* DeadpanSnarker: Jack got to spout a lot of the show's one-liners.
27* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: There are three different episodes to have "Doom" in the title: "Red Dust of Doom", "Prophet of Doom", and "Night of the Walking Doom".
28* DramaticUnmask: Happened in a couple episodes. [[Creator/RubySpears Remember who made this show.]]
29* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Goldie uses her pearl necklace as a replacement seal for a magic box.
30%%* FakeMemories: "The Goddess of the Black Pearl".
31* FanService: The shot of Goldie and Jack at the pool, with ''far'' more emphasis on Goldie's rather skimpy (for the timeslot) bikini. In other clothes, Goldie's curvy figure is still shown off by her FormFittingWardrobe.
32* {{Fiction 500}}: Goldie is the "world's richest girl". Which means she can apparently afford hover bikes, indoor weather machines, and even a space shuttle and a ''space mansion''. All coated in gold, of course.
33* FlyingCar: Goldie's limo can turn into one.
34* GemEncrusted: Goldie has a few items laid with jewels, just for the hell of it, like a nail clipper.
35%%* GentlemanAdventurer: Action Jack.
36* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: The heroine's name, and all the gold things she owns.
37* HypnotizeTheCaptive: "The Goddess of the Black Pearl", Goldie is kidnapped, and special herbs put her in a trance so that she thinks she's an aloof goddess.
38* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Great-grandmother]]: Caroletta Gold is Goldie's ancestor from the 19th century.
39* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Goldie's fur coat stands up to anything.
40* InfiniteSupplies: Goldie Gold's gadgets and vehicles.
41* IntrepidReporter: Jack. Goldie doesn't count because she owns the paper.
42* JamesBondage: Never mind, sometimes she has to bail him out, too.
43%%* JustBetweenYouAndMe
44* JustForTheHeliOfIt: Goldie sometimes flies her helicopter in her house, often for a chase scene.
45* JustFriends: Goldie and Jack. Despite all the crazy experiences they share, their relationship always stays platonic.
46* LadyOfAdventure: Goldie is part of an OldMoney family, but they still have a history of members being adventurers.
47* LimitedWardrobe: Understandable with Jack, but all that money and Goldie has just five main 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.
48* LizardFolk: One villain goes back in time and uses a virus to turn all his relatives into these, so he'll be the only one still around to inherit the family fortune. He DidntThinkThisThrough, though, and when he's unmasked he finds out that turning his ancestors into lizards means he's become a lizard too. Luckily for him, [[SaveTheVillain Goldie and Jack develop a cure and turn him back to normal]] along with everyone else.
49* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Whenever she and Jack get put in a deathtrap Goldie usually gets them out of it because she just happens to have an outre gadget that can resolve this situation hidden in her shoes, jewelry, lipstick tube...
50* NonIdleRich: Goldie could have just sat down and let other people run her paper. Instead, she runs around and does her own reporting. In one episode she basically admits she does this for fun.
51* {{Ojou}}: Goldie Gold is the western version.
52* PrettyInMink: Goldie has at least a white fur coat and her ermine-trimmed parka. The latter is worn when it's really cold, if still an extravagant item. The former is worn even in warm weather, so it's just to show off that she can afford to dress expensively while going on adventures.
53* RightHandCat: The eponymous "Pirate of the Airways" had one.
54* SchrodingersGun: Goldie's gadgets are often set up earlier.
55* ScoobyDooHoax: With all the fantastic stuff and outlandish gadgetry that was real in this show, it was more unusual when this situation turned out to be the case. Such as in "Goddess of the Black Pearl".
56* SewerGator: They're menaced by a herd of them in "Prophet of Doom".
57* SimpleYetOpulent: Her red evening dress has no fancy trimmings or accessories, but still wouldn't be something just bought off a regular clothing store.
58* SkyPirate: "Pirate of the Airways" is very clear in its title. Some air pirates are causing trouble, and Goldie and Jack have to stop them.
59* SnakesAreSinister: The villains of one episode are a cult that worship a giant cobra, that can turn people they don't like into mindless cobra-men.
60* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Goldie [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goldie_gold_captive_2332.jpg gets captured this way a few times]].
61* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Goldie's family name.
62* StrappedToARocket: Goldie is shown this way, in a clip, in the opening.
63* StylishProtectionGear: Goldie's winter parka is trimmed with ermine.
64* SwissCheeseSecurity: You'd think that with all of Goldie's cash for crazy inventions and gadgets in her day job, she might spend some of it on security gadgets to stop just any old run-of-the-mill thug from being able to waltz into her home through the front door.
65* TableSpace: Goldie's dinner table is so long, that passing something takes about half a minute. Jack just quips that "the food's already cold".
66* TeamPet: Nugget, Goldie's dog.
67* TimeTravel: In one episode the duo follow a villain back in time, who is trying to harm his own family (at least those not his direct descendants), in the past.
68* TouchOfDeath: One episode involves a crook trying to steal a radioactive meteor, and getting the power to obliterate anything by touching it.
69* [[UnclePennybags Aunt Pennybags]]: Goldie Gold isn't stingy or greedy, despite her wealth.
70%%* {{UST}}: Goldie Gold and Jack Travis
71* WalkingWasteland: One episode's about a thief trying to steal a radioactive meteor and getting the power to melt anything with his touch. He plans to use it to rob everything in Las Vegas, except soon it spreads to the rest of his body and he threatens to [[SuperPowerMeltdown blow up like an atomic bomb.]]
72* [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys Where Does She Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]: 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.
73* WouldntHitAGirl: Despite not being much of an ActionGirl (other than by US cartoon standards at the time), Goldie is naturally the one that tries to actually ''hit'' the Countess in "Menace of the Medallion".

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