O, Mighty Isis!

 I spent most of the weekend watching this favorite series from my youth. I can still remember being about eleven or twelve years old and getting chills up and down my body when she said, "O Mighty Isis!". And hyperventilating. (I was a sensitive child). Seeing it as an adult was no disappointment. I couldn't stop watching! Basically, it's about a couple of high school teachers who date each other and who solve crimes. These teachers scuba dive, ride horses, and in one episode, walk through residential neighborhoods peeking over fences in search of their lost pet crow. The male teacher drives a VW Thing. The female teacher has an amulet and can turn into Isis. But her boyfriend never figures out that she's both women. As Isis, she has both elemental and animal powers. My favorite episode was about the school mascot, a dog named Lucky, who gets caught in the undertow at the beach and dies. The dogs owner, a little boy, learns how to turn the page when tragedy strikes and ends up at the end of the episode with a new dog to train. Another favorite episode involves a persecuted "hillbilly" student who saves a pond from being drained by cataloging all of the wildlife in the area in a little brown book. The outsider is then allowed to hang out with the cool kids, who embrace him as their own. In one of the last episodes, a singing arab with a turban on his head, helps save the day and doubles as a pop music star who does magic tricks during his act. I also have to mention the episiode where Bigfoot is discovered to be a tall man named Richard who just doesn't want to be around other people because they make fun of him for being so tall, so he lives out in the woods.