Masae Ohno -- Matenro no Hero（摩天楼のヒーロー）

I didn't know of any comedy-adventure programs with kids on the telly back in the day. With movies, though, there were "The Goonies" and "Stand By Me".

In the same decade that those two Hollywood films came out, there was a 1987 program on Fuji TV called "Omoikkiri Tanteidan Haado Gumi"（おもいっきり探偵団 覇悪怒組...The Utmost Detective Group ~ Haado Tribe） featuring some schoolkids. Never saw it before but from what I could figure from the title and the above trailer, it was about an amateur pre-teen sleuthing society helping out the folks in the neighbourhood with some mysterious assistance by a fellow who looks like he predated "V for Vendetta" by a couple of years at least.

Anyways, I was taken by the opening theme song, "Matenro no Hero" (The Hero of the Skyscraper) because of that Andrews Sisters boogie-woogie jazz melody. The song was written and performed by Masae Ohno（大野方栄）, so I gather that the Hero of the Skyscraper met The Queen of Commercial Songs. Takanori Arisawa（有澤孝紀）, who would later come up with the soundtrack for the "Sailor Moon"（セーラームーン）anime, composed the catchy tune which pretty much hints that the Haado Gumi would come out of each episode with no problem. Considering that both Ohno and Arisawa have expertise in jingles, it is no wonder that they were able to meet and collaborate

Not sure whether "Matenro no Hero" refers to the masked fellow or actually the intrepid kid detectives. In any case, that danchi area must have been an interesting place to live in back in the late 1980s.