Holy christ, I'm glad I grew up in the 80s instead of the 70s. We got GIJoe and Thundercats, they got Rick Springfield's Adventures in Time and Space and about a billion Scooby-Doo ripoffs.
I remember this as a syndicated cartoon, but I don't recall anything the RL Rick Springfield did in the 1970s that would have made kids know who he was. What did he do?
It's actually pretty close to The Magic School Bus, really. Crazy magic redhead teacher takes a diverse group of retarded kids on adventures in time and space. Except with Rick Springfield instead of a schoolbus and with more overt drug imagery.