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6.4/10 TV First episode date 10 September 1983 Number of episodes 13 | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Animation Opening theme Menudo Final episode date 1 September 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Tom DagenaisJanis DiamondJack EnyartGary GreenfieldMark JonesGordon KentNorman MaurerRichard Merwin Directed by John KimballRudy LarrivaNorm McCabe Voices of Ron PalilloMichael SaucedoJennifer FajardoMichael BellÁngela Moya Network American Broadcasting Company Cast Similar The Puppy's Further A, The Plastic Man Comedy, Turbo Teen, Pac‑Man, Heathcliff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rubik the amazing cube rubik s first christmas with commercial breaks
Rubik, the Amazing Cube is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series based on the puzzle created by Ernő Rubik, produced by Ruby-Spears Enterprises and broadcast as part of The Pac-Man/Rubik, the Amazing Cube Hour block on ABC from September 10, 1983 to September 1, 1984. The program featured a magic Rubik’s Cube named Rubik who could fly through the air and had other special powers. Rubik could only come alive when the colored squares on his sides had been matched up.
Contents
- Rubik the amazing cube rubik s first christmas with commercial breaks
- Rubik the amazing cube cartoon theme song intro opening
- Premise
- Cast
- Theme music
- References
Rubik the amazing cube cartoon theme song intro opening
Premise
Rubik had fallen out of the stagecoach of an evil magician, who became the main villain of the series. Rubik helped 3 siblings—Carlos, Lisa, and Reynaldo Rodriguez—in foiling the magician’s attempts to recover Rubik. Once, Rubik was recovered by a detective who was a relative of the magician, but then decided the children should keep Rubik as the magician would use him for evil and selfish purposes.
Outside of the evil magician, episodes usually dealt with more normal adversaries, such as when the eldest son had run afoul of a bully who had thwarted his efforts to gain a potential girlfriend, while at the same time the bully was making himself appear decent to the girl. Rubik worked in secret to expose the bully’s true brutal personality in front of the girl.
For dramatic purposes, the cube was easily fully scrambled (such as by being dropped or grabbed by the family dog) and usually solved quickly by the Rodriguez children, although in stressful circumstances it took them longer.
Cast
Additional voices: Jack DeLeon, Alan Dinehart, Laurie Faso, Takayo Fischer, Bob Holt, Tress MacNeille, Tysun McMullan, Neil Ross, John Stephenson, Janet Waldo, Alan Young
Theme music
In keeping with the Hispanic flavor of the show, the theme song was done by Puerto Rican boy band Menudo.