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6.5/10 Country of origin United StatesCanada No. of episodes 65 First episode date 7 September 1987 Number of seasons 1 | 8.1/10 IMDb No. of seasons 1 Running time 20 min. Final episode date 4 December 1987 Number of episodes 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Bob McFaddenLarry KenneyMaggie Wheeler (credited as Maggie Jakobson) Similar SilverHawks, ThunderCats, ALF: The Animated Series, SWAT Kats: The Radical S, What a Cartoon! |
The Comic Strip is an American animated series which features four rotating cartoon segments. The 90-minute series ran in first-run syndication during the 1987 season and was also seen on RPN-9 in the Philippines, and on Rai 2 in Italy.
Contents
Despite the show title, the segments have no history in newspaper comic strips.
This was the last TV series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures.
Segments
The four segments offered were:
Typically, two segments, each running about 10 minutes, were shown on each broadcast.
Video releases
VHS releases of certain episodes of The Comic Strip were made available in 1987. These VHS tapes each featured three installments of one particular cartoon. For example, the video "Adventures at Camp Mini-Mon" contained three episodes: "Camp Mini-Mon The First Day", "The Belly Ache" and "Alien."
To date, there have been no DVD or digital releases of this series in the United States.