

Herbie the Matchmaker, also known as Herbie, The Love Bug, is a short-lived situation comedy that aired on CBS in the spring of 1982. The series is based on Walt Disney Productions' popular Herbie film series, about a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. It was cancelled after five episodes and, for the next fifteen years, would mark Herbie's last new appearance in either television or film; Herbie would next return to television in the 1997 film The Love Bug.
Jim Douglas has pulled his famouse racing car off the track - where is he now? teaching a driving school- with major help from Herbie! Herbie and Jim Get involved in stopping a bank robbery and rescuing the beautiful teller Susan from her hostage situation - as gratitude she signs her daughter up for driving lessons. Jim falls head over heals for Susan only to find out she is temporarily engaged to a Mr. Randy Bigelow.
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Susan leaves Bigelow at the alter only to land Jim into a hostile situation as Randy Bigelow decides Jim needs to be eliminated from the picture - his first idea is to get the bank to loan Jim money to save his driving school- his plan: force him out of buisness.