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* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Great-grandmother]]: Caroletta Gold is Goldie's ancestor from the 19th century.

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* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Great-grandmother]]: Caroletta "Lotta" Gold is Goldie's ancestor from the 19th century.century (as seen in "Race Against Time"), and looks and acts just like her.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Jack and Goldie. They're shown hanging out a lot off the clock, but intercontinental beach or horseback riding trips are extremely casual things for Goldie to do because of her absurd wealth. She accompanies Jack on his reporting trips mainly to have a reason to get out of the house, and Jack's boss has to let her because she owns the company.
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As 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".)

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As 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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As a side note, Creator/JackKirby did the character designs.

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As a side note, Creator/JackKirby did the character designs.designs, and Creator/SteveGerber served as the show's story editor. (as well writing the first episode, "Night of the Crystal Skull".)
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* 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.

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* Balloonacy: {{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.
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* 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.
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* TheyFightCrime: Though not actually crime fighters, Goldie and Jack end up doing this anyway.

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* ILoveNuclearPower: 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 blow up like an atomic bomb.


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* 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.]]
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* 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".
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Jack got to spout a lot of the show's one-liners.
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* 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 DidnThinkThisThrough, 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.

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* 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 DidnThinkThisThrough, 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.
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* 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".
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* CrystalSkull: The subject of the first episode involved one of these.

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* CrystalSkull: The subject villain of the first episode involved disguised himself using one of these.
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* 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 DidnThinkThisThrough, 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.
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* ILoveNuclearPower: 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 blow up like an atomic bomb.
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* 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...

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