  i've heard that a punky brewster dvd has been urlLink released . talk about modern-day miracles! my roommate and i carpool to work each morning, it's roughly a 20 minute commute, and in the car we recounted all of the episodes. by memory alone! how amazing that show must have been. especially because it taught me how to knife-fight, a skill that i thought i knew from watching a westside story, but learned how wrong i was by watching punky. the details of the episode are hazy, but what goes on is that punky is back in the orphanage - probably because henry, that's right, warnimont is in the hospital with an ulcer - and there's a troubled youth in the orphanage with her. he doesn't want to be there, no sir, and so he pulls a knife. punky is rescued by her mentor-turned-teacher who wraps some sort of cloth around his hand to grab the knife from the youth. who knew? and here i thought that knife-fighting was set to music! punky taught me how to just say no, for sure, but even more punky taught me how to protect myself on the mean cruel streets of life.
that show was amazing, everyone remembers the challenger episode, or the time when she went camping and got lost in that cave (a three parter!). or, when cherie gets locked in the refrigerator and we all had to learn basic first aid. um, or the time when punky became brandon and brandon became punky. the lists goes on and on, i can name them all... 
