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Country of origin
  
United States Canada

No. of episodes
  
65

First episode date
  
7 September 1987

Number of seasons
  
1

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Music by
  
Bernard Hoffer

No. of seasons
  
1

Running time
  
20 min.

Final episode date
  
4 December 1987

Number of episodes
  
65

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Starring
  
Bob McFadden Larry Kenney Maggie Wheeler (credited as Maggie Jakobson)

Cast
  
Larry Kenney, Bob McFadden

Executive producers
  
Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass

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:

  • The Mini-Monsters: Normal human siblings Sherman and Melissa find themselves in for a surprise when they are sent to summer camp for one year. Camp Mini-Mon turns out to be run by an organ playing shadowy camp director (Peter Newman), and attended by monster kids who are offspring of usually famous monsters, a witch and Merlin. They are Dracky (Dracula's son), Franky (Frankenstein's son), Wolfie (The Wolf Man's son), Gill (the son of The Creature from the Black Lagoon), Mummo (The Mummy's son), Blanko (the Invisible Man's son), Klutz (who may or may not be Godzilla's son), Winifred (a.k.a. Jinx), a witch's daughter (Maggie Wheeler), and Melvin (the son of the wizard Merlin) accompanied by Cawfield, the talking crow (Earl Hammond).
  • Street Frogs: Depicting the typical teen-aged hijinks of a gang of street-smart frogs named Big Max, Spider, Moose The Loose, "Honey Love" Loretta and Dr. Slick. Each episode contains a musical number. Apart from Rankin-Bass regular Bob McFadden, this segment featured an African-American cast including Ron Taylor.
  • Karate Kat: Starring a crime-fighting cat. Similar to Hong Kong Phooey and long before SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, this show takes place in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic cats.
  • TigerSharks: About a group of powered up human/marine hybrids who became involved in underwater adventures. Each episode consisted of two parts.

    • 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.

    References

    The Comic Strip (TV series) Wikipedia
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