Wrong Way Kid is a 1983 TV film

Television movie

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 starring Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke

Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke, and father of Barry Van Dyke...

, Keith Coogan

Keith Coogan

Keith Coogan is an American actor. He is a grandson of actor Jackie Coogan.-Biography:Coogan was born Keith Eric Mitchell in Palm Springs, California, the son of Leslie Diane Coogan Mitchell, an actress...

, Derek Barton, June Foray

June Foray

June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters...

, Stan Freberg

Stan Freberg

Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer, and advertising creative director whose career began in 1944...

, Melanie Gaffin, Joan Gerber

Joan Gerber

Joan Gerber is an American voice actress for a variety of cartoons.- Filmography :* 1959: Matty's Funday Funnies : Additional Voices...

, Wayne Hall, Don Messick

Don Messick

Donald Earl "Don" Messick was an American voice actor best known for his work for Hanna-Barbera. Perhaps his most well-known voice creations include Scooby-Doo, Papa Smurf, and Dr. Benton Quest....

, Jason Naylor and Arnold Stang

Arnold Stang

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. This TV film is about an insecure boy who, after an encounter with a 203-year-old bookworm

Bookworm

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, begins developing his self-confidence

Self-confidence

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; he does things the wrong way: backwards, frontwards, upside down, inside out, etc.. It was written by George Arthur Bloom

George Arthur Bloom

George Arthur Bloom is an American screenwriter known for his work on Nelvana television titles such as The Magic School Bus and Cyberchase. He also wrote the pilot for The Transformers. In 1980, he was a scriptwriter for Disney's The Last Flight of Noah's Ark...

 and directed by Lawrence Levy and Sam Weiss. It aired on Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

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External links

• Wrong Way Kid - Overview on MSN.com