A follow-up to Little David's Adventure, Original Top Ten is a great improvement over its predecessor. The story has Petey, Mary Anne, and Osborne heading into the land of the Kingdom Chums after Osbourne "borrowed" a record from the music library and when Mary Ann said he broke one of the original top ten, it makes the bully interested in taking those as well.
So, this special drops the live action actors in favor of having all characters animated, and unlike Little David's Adventure, this one does not recreate a Bible story sanitized for kids. Instead, this is an original story, and is all about the original top ten, The Ten Commandments. Christopher, Mose, and Little David return (with Mose going from Magical Mose to Marvelous Mose due to criticism with the character using magic), and are joined by two female Chums a cat named Essie (who was planned to be in a sequel based on the story of Ester) and a bear named Little Miriam. Also, the voice cast is great, with actors and singers like Tony Orlando, Billy Preston, and Scott Menville. The special is more of a musical, as it involves original songs, ten of them being themed around one of the Ten Commandments.
So, this special drops the live action actors in favor of having all characters animated, and unlike Little David's Adventure, this one does not recreate a Bible story sanitized for kids. Instead, this is an original story, and is all about the original top ten, The Ten Commandments. Christopher, Mose, and Little David return (with Mose going from Magical Mose to Marvelous Mose due to criticism with the character using magic), and are joined by two female Chums a cat named Essie (who was planned to be in a sequel based on the story of Ester) and a bear named Little Miriam. Also, the voice cast is great, with actors and singers like Tony Orlando, Billy Preston, and Scott Menville. The special is more of a musical, as it involves original songs, ten of them being themed around one of the Ten Commandments.
