Wee Pals is an American syndicated comic strip about a diverse group of children, created and produced by Morrie Turner.
[6] After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the number of papers carrying the strip grew either to 60[6] or to more than 100 dailies[7] (sources differ).
[11] During the same 1972–73 television season, Wee Pals on the Go was aired by KGO-TV, the ABC owned-and-operated station in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This live-action Sunday morning show featured child actors who portrayed the main characters of Turner's comic strip, Nipper, Randy, Sybil, Connie, and Oliver.
[citation needed] In 1981, Turner collaborated with writer Ole Kittleson and musician Norman Boaz on a musical version of the strip, also called Wee Pals, described as "A Full-Length Play for Ten Boys, Four Girls, Fourteen Women, and One Dog (real or child in costume)," intended to be performed for school plays and childrens' theater productions.