"A Semi-Star is Born" was the series finale of Fraidy Cat, after production was discontinued due to ABC cancelling Uncle Croc's Block.
Fraidy (Alan Oppenheimer) ends up in a home for retired animal stars. Sounds like Oppenheimer & Len Weinrib did all the voices.
While Genndy Tartatovsky was preparing Dial M For Monkey as a back-up feature on Dexter's Laboratory, the folks at Hallmark Entertainment wanted to one-up by creating an entire team of simians as a team of astronauts.
Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys wasn't exactly Star Trek meets "Planet of The Apes", and lasted one season, despite a cast that included Jerry Doyle (Babylon 5) as Captain Simian, and Michael Dorn (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as his nemesis, Lord Nebula. Maurice LaMarche, Frank Welker (coincidentally the voice of Monkey as well), Jeff Bennett, and David Carradine (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues) also contributed.
Let's check a sample episode:
Seeing as how we're experiencing a cold snap here in the Northeast, it'd be appropriate for this Mighty Mouse entry, "Anti-Cats".
Even though this has 1 cat, and it's entirely done in pantomime, it's more about MM doing the "humanitarian" thing for his fellow rodents, who are looking for shelter.....
To today's audiences, "Hollywood Swinging", or, at least, the opening bars, serve as the jingle for New Balance sports shoes, as endorsed by Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani.
"Hollywood" was a single by Kool & The Gang in 1974, which landed the band on The Midnight Special.
You're familiar with Thomas The Tank Engine from British shorts being shown on Shining Time Station and its own stand-alone series. In 2021, Canada's Nelvana was given a license to adapt Britt Allcroft's books into a fully animated series, airing first on Cartoon Network as part of its Cartoonito block before moving to Netflix last year.
With the news that Allcroft has passed away, I thought it might be a good idea to find something to post, and happened across this series, which I was not aware had been on the air until now.
In "Choo-Choo Check-In", Thomas and his, well, girlfriend, Kana, are pushing exhaustion, and it's having an effect on their work.
Six years before the live action "Wizard of Oz", an animated version was produced in Canada. We have no information on voice actors, and we all know the story.....!
Plus: An INA Insurance toonfomercial adapting Rapunzel from 1963, narrated by Edward Everett Horton in the style of Jay Ward's Fractured Fairy Tales:
The following is an excerpt from an episode of Phineas & Ferb.
