Herbie, the Love Bug

Herbie, the Love Bug also known as Herbie the Matchmaker, is a short-lived tv series that aired in 1982. The series is based on Walt Disney Productions popular Herbie film series, about a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own.

It was cancelled after five episodes and for the next fifteen years would mark Herbie's last new appearance in either television or film; Herbie would next return to television in the 1997 film The Love Bug

Synopsis
Jim Douglas and Herbie have retired from racing and now works as instructors at a driving school. They stumble upon a bank robbery in progress. They manage to thwart the crime and rescue a young divorcée named Susan MacLane, who works at the bank and is a mother of three: Julie, Robbie, and Matthew. Jim and Susan soon begin to fall in love, much to the consternation of her ex-boyfriend Randy Bigelow. Randy's attempts to break them up are in vain; Jim and Susan get married in the forth episode.