Picks and Pans Review: The Smurfs Springtime Special

UPDATED 04/12/1982 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 04/12/1982 at 01:00 AM EST

NBC (8-8:30 p.m. ET)

In an animated special suitable only for undiscriminating tots, the Smurfs—a nation, it seems, of stiff-jointed gnomes—face difficulties when an enemy discovers that boiling them with lead produces gold.