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Gary Richards (music executive)
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Gary Richards, known by his stage name Destructo, is an American music executive, concert promoter, and DJ. He is the founder and CEO of HARD Events, a brand that has put on popular music festivals since 2007. He has performed professionally as a DJ under the name Destructo for more than 20 years and he is credited with being a leader in the Electronic music business in North America, and through his events, has helped bring artists like Deadmau5 and Justice into the mainstream. Richards is included on Rolling Stones 50 Most Important People in EDM list, Billboards EDM Power Players lists in 2014 and 2015, as Destructo, he has released three EPs titled Technology, Higher, and West Coast respectively. Richards was born in Washington, D. C. growing up in the industry with a father who worked in radio. By age 10, he was already attending concerts by the likes of Led Zeppelin and his family moved to New Orleans, LA, and then to Myrtle Beach, SC, where he worked as an on-air Radio Personality. The family then moved to Los Angeles, CA, where by age 18 he was booking his first shows and he organized his first major music event titled Magical Mickeys Holy Water Adventure at Wild Rivers in Irvine, CA in 1991. For the next two years, Richards produced monthly events including what would become the first two Electric Daisy Carnivals in 1991 and 1992. After being asked by promoter Pasquale Rotella to use the name Electric Daisy Carnival for a series of festivals that he was producing. The Electric Daisy Carnival or EDC is now arguably the largest electronic music festival in North America and he followed Electric Daisy Carnival with presenting RaveAmerica at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA on New Years Eve,1993. In the mid 1990s, Gary Richards began performing as a DJ under the name Destructo and he is quoted as saying that the Destructo name derives from My goal to play the hardest and most gnarly techno out there. Id blow up the system and the mixer at clubs if I could. I wasnt only into Kraftwerk and Daft Punk, I loved Metallica, so when I performed, it was aggressive and had to be banging. He has released remixes for Warren G, Depeche Mode, Major Lazer, YG, White Zombie, Digitalism, in 2012 he released his debut EP titled Technology. He has performed around the world for more than a decade, destructos second EP titled Higher was released on June 10,2013 via OWSLA/Boysnoize Records and features remixes by Tommy Trash and Brodinski. The music video for the EPs title track was directed by Agata Alexander, on November 24,2014, Destructo released the West Coast EP on Interscope Records which featured appearances by YG, Problem, Ty Dolla Sign, Kurupt, Too Short, and Warren G. As the music continued to change at the turn of the century, Richards returned to his roots as a concert promoter. It is estimated that HARD Events draw an audience of more than 100,000 people per year to its events
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Ken Pontac
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Ken Pontac is an American writer who has written for childrens shows like ToddWorld and LazyTown. He also writes for the dark humor cartoon Happy Tree Friends, Pontac also was a co-creator of Bump in the Night. Pontac began his career in 1981 in the effects houses of Hollywood, directing film graphics for commercials. His commercial work included spots for Coca-Cola, Disneyland, Norelco and his feature effects were seen in films such as Never Say Never Again, Moonstruck, and Douglas Trumbulls groundbreaking Showscan film New Magic. In 1989, Pontac returned to Hollywood to create and produce a television pilot that aired on ABC TV. He spent a year on the Warner Brothers lot working in development with various writers and producers, then returned to Northern California to create his own company, Danger Productions. Danger Productions employed a staff of one hundred artists and animators who created content for television, video games, the company produced twenty-six half-hours of the ABC TV animated program Bump in the Night, which Pontac created, produced, wrote and directed. From 1990 to the present Pontac has written scripts for animated television episodes that have translated into a dozen languages. During that time he has worked as a director for the UPN prime time animated program Gary & Mike. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his work on the Discovery Kids series ToddWorld, Pontac is now a writer and story-editor for Mondo Medias very popular show Happy Tree Friends. Pontac has also co-written the stories for the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series with Warren Graff, Pontac currently lives in Sausalito with his wife, Susan Linton, and his dog, Whistle. His dog, Whistle even provided the effects of the snarls, growls. His earliest memory of seeing his mother catch on fire while making breakfast inspired the episode Whos to Flame, the Secret Show Growing Up Creepie Happy Tree Friends LazyTown Krypto the Superdog Pet Alien Toddworld Howdi Gaudi MadWorld ¡Mucha Lucha
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Jim Cummings
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James Jonah Jim Cummings is an American voice actor and singer, who has appeared in almost 400 roles. He is known for voicing the character from Darkwing Duck, Dr. Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog. His other characters include Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and the Tasmanian Devil and he has performed in numerous Disney and DreamWorks animations including Aladdin, The Lion King, Balto, Antz, The Road to El Dorado, Shrek, and The Princess and the Frog. He attended Immaculate Conception and St. Columba grade schools as well as Ursuline High School and he later married and moved to Anaheim, California, where he managed a video store in the early 1980s, before launching his voice-acting career in late 1984. Cummings has two daughters with Stephanie Cummings, as well as two children from a previous marriage. Some of Cummings earliest vocal work was at Disney, where he replaced Hal Smith as the voice of Winnie-the-Pooh in 1988 and he began voicing Tigger in 1990, taking over for Paul Winchell after Winchell died in 2005. In 1991, he ventured to Warner Bros, animation and began voicing Tasmanian Devil on the animated series Taz-Mania. When actor Jeremy Irons, the voice of Scar in The Lion King, developed vocal problems during recording of the song Be Prepared, bobcat, Lucky Piquel, Other Characters Boo to You Too. Additional Voices Fish Hooks, Scientist #2 Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, frosty, Houngan, Sumo Santa Clive Barkers Jericho, Arnold Leach Crash Twinsanity, Skunk Disneys Dinosaur, Bruton Dr. B
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Elizabeth Daily
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Elizabeth Ann Guttman, known professionally as Elizabeth Daily and E. G. Daily, is an American actress and singer and she is known for voicing Tommy Pickles in Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up. Buttercup in The Powerpuff Girls, Rudy Tabootie in ChalkZone, and Private Isabel Dizzy Flores in Roughnecks, Daily also provided the voice of the title role in the live action feature film Babe, Pig in the City, replacing her Rugrats co-star Christine Cavanaugh. She also played the role of Dottie in the film Pee-wees Big Adventure, in 1997, she also played alongside Lisa Kudrow in an episode of Friends, The One With Phoebes Ex Singing Partner. She has voiced television characters such as Tommy Pickles in Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up, Buttercup in The Powerpuff Girls, Rudy Tabootie in ChalkZone, and Freefall / Roxy Spaulding in the film Gen¹³ and Private Isabel Dizzy Flores in Roughnecks, Starship Troopers Chronicles. She provided the voice for the role in the live action feature film Babe, Pig in the City. More recently in 2013 she began doing the voice of Julius Jr. on the self-titled Nick Jr. television show, in a 2000 article from LA Weekly, in reference to how she portrays Buttercup on The Powerpuff Girls, Daily says, Spicy Buttercup is feisty. Shes passionate about things, and a bit aggressive I get to rage out every now. You have to be pretty contained a lot of the time, besides doing voice-overs, Daily has acted in film and on TV. She played Sandy Burns on the PBS series The Righteous Apples from 1980 to 1981, in 1985, she starred as Dottie in the cult classic Pee-wees Big Adventure as well as Loryn in Valley Girl and as a singer in the cult comedy Better Off Dead. She also appeared on shows as Laverne & Shirley, CHiPs, Fame. She was also in the video for Rod Stewarts song Young Turks as Patti and she has been cast in several Rob Zombie films, most recently in 2015 as Sex-Head in Rob Zombies 31, the woman on the side of Torsten Voges, who plays Death-Head. Daily created and performed a one-woman stand-up comedy tour about the ups and downs of her career, Daily signed with A&M Records in 1985, working with Madonnas frequent collaborators John Jellybean Benitez and Stephen Bray. In 1986, that released the R&B/Rock single Say It. The song made it to No.70 on the Billboard Hot 100, and her songs Shake It Up and Im Hot Tonight were included in the soundtrack to the film Scarface. Those same songs were included in the lineup of fictional radio station Flashback 95.6 FM in the Grand Theft Auto III video game. They were also included in the Scarface, The World Is Yours video game and her hit Love in the Shadows was featured in the films Thief of Hearts and Circuit. Also in 1985, she provided vocals for The Human League front-man Philip Oakeys debut solo album
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Rob Paulsen
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Robert Fredrick Rob Paulsen III is an American voice actor and singer who has done many voice roles in various films, television shows, and video games. In total, Paulsen has been the voice of over 250 different animated characters and he continues to play parts in dozens of cartoons as well as characters in animated feature movies. He began his career in 1983 with the mini-series G. I. Joe, A Real American Hero, where he played Snow Job, a few years later, his career launched into more roles such as Cobra Slavemaster and reprising Snow Job and Tripwire on G. I. During the 1980s, Paulsen also explored the field of action films. His first movie was Eyes of Fire in 1983 and he played supporting roles in Body Double, Stewardess School, Warlock, and Mutant on the Bounty. He appeared in television shows during time as well, such as MacGyver. He mentioned in an interview, regarding his role in Body Double, Paulsen became more prevalent in the world of advertising as well. In the 1980s, he had been the announcer for the sitcom Cheers and he appeared as the voice of Mr. He provided the voice of Dog in the Taco Bell kids meal commercials from 1996 to mid-1997, however, Paulsens most famous advertising role was in the original commercial of the now ubiquitous Got Milk. The famous commercial, Who shot Alexander Hamilton in that famous duel, aired in 1993, and launched the Got Milk. Campaign into a successful enterprise. Paulsen continues to be one of the most sought-after commercial voice actors in the industry and he can be currently heard as the voice of singing Mr. Mini-Wheat in the Mini-Wheats commercials in Canada. From 1987 to 1995, Paulsen voiced Raphael and various supporting characters in the original 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, originally starting as a five-part miniseries, the series continued for ten seasons and 193 episodes. It was a success and became an instant pop culture symbol. Paulsen has said that Raphaels voice is similar to his natural voice. He returned to the franchise as Donatello for the new 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series on Nickelodeon, in 1993, he starred as the title character in both Mighty Max and The Mask. Also at this time, he starred in what one of his most popular roles
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April Winchell
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April Winchell Foley is an American voice actress, actress, writer, talk radio host, commentator and comedian. As of 1996 she is the voice of Clarabelle Cow in the Disney franchise. Winchell is the daughter of Paul Winchell, Winchell was born April Terri Winchell in New York City, New York on January 4,1960. Winchells projects include the role of Sylvia in Wander Over Yonder, created by The Powerpuff Girls producers Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust, the show chronicles the adventures of Wander and his trusty steed Sylvia, as they travel the universe. The program premiered on the Disney Channel in September 2013 and she has also voiced roles in numerous films, including Antz, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monsters University and Rob Zombies The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. The commercials caught the attention of Roseanne, who hired her as a writer on her eponymous sitcom and she was also tested for the part of Regan in Тhe Exorcist until she fell ill and was taken out of consideration. And Linda Blair was cast instead, besides her many contributions to radio advertising as a director, writer, and performer, Winchell also hosted a radio talk show program on KFI, a Los Angeles radio station. This weekend program aired for three years, and enjoyed the fastest growing audience in the history of the station. Subsequent to the end of this program in November 2002, she appeared semi-regularly on the Ask Mr. KABC program, on KABC, in 2005, Winchell signed a deal with U. S. pay-TV service HBO to develop and host a show on Sirius Satellite Radio. However, on her website on May 3,2006. On March 16,2007, she returned to semi-regular radio appearances on The Marc Mr. K Germain Show on KTLK-AM and appeared twice a month. During March, Winchell was banned for life from KABC in Los Angeles at the behest of ABC radio host Bill OReilly, as a musical theater actor, she starred as Ado Annie in the Columbia Artists revival of Oklahoma. And also appeared opposite Kevin Spacey in Gypsy, additionally, Winchell wrote and starred as Sheila Sands in her show at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles to sold out crowds. The show was produced by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, who discovered her at Cafe Largo in Hollywood, Winchell reprised the character to open for Brad Garrett at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 2013. She has also been a frequent panelist on the version of Whats My Line at the Acme Comedy Theatre in Hollywood. In 1992, Winchell and her then-husband Mick Kuisel formed Radio Savant Productions, since that time, Winchell has received many awards including Cannes, Clio, The $100,000 Mercury Award and The International Grand Andy – it was the only time the Andy was given for radio. Winchell has provided the award winning radio and television advertising for Big Bear Mountain Resorts since the early 1990s, in 2007, she began appearing in their television ads as a reporter-on-the-scene dealing with a hapless studio anchorman. Winchells official website contains a link to her IMDB biography and library of unusual, prior to 2009, Winchell maintained a personal Web site that, in addition to the music pieces, chronicled the actors activities, which include her professional, personal, and romantic life
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Gilbert Gottfried
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Gilbert Gottfried is an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor. Gottfried was also the voice of the Aflac Duck until 2011, at age 15, Gottfried began doing amateur stand-up in New York City and, after a few years, became known around New York as the comedians comedian. In 1980, Saturday Night Live was being retooled with a new staff and new comedians, Gottfrieds persona in SNL sketches was very different from his later characterization, he rarely spoke in his trademark screeching, obnoxious voice and never squinted. During his 12-episode stint, he was very little airtime. Gottfried recalls a low point was having to play a corpse in a sketch about a sports organist hired to play music at a funeral. Despite this, he had one recurring character and two celebrity impersonations, David A. Stockman and controversial film director Roman Polanski, Gottfried also played accountant Sidney Bernstein in the 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II. Three of his most prominent roles came in 1990,1991, and 1992, when he was cast as the adoption agent Igor Peabody in Problem Child and Problem Child 2, when asked how he prepared for the role, Gottfried said, I did the whole DeNiro thing. Gottfried reprised the role in Aladdin, The Return of Jafar, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Gottfried also voiced Berkely Beetle in 1994s Thumbelina. Gottfried was the host of the Saturday edition of USA Up All Night for its run from 1989 to 1998. On the most recent version of Hollywood Squares, Gottfried was a regular guest and it took seven tries before a contestant finally correctly agreed with him, specifically on a question of smog being a combination of smoke and fog. Gottfried has provided the voice of the duck in the Aflac commercials and Digit in Cyberchase, as well as Mr. Mxyzptlk in Superman and he also voiced a nasty wisecracking criminal genius named Nick-Nack in two episodes of Superboy. On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Gottfried has made regular appearances, in 2004, Comedy Central featured Gottfrieds stand-up material for Shorties Watchin Shorties. Gottfried was part of an advertising campaign for Microsofts Office XP software, showing, in a series of Flash-animated cartoons. In 2006, Gottfried topped the Boston Phoenixs tongue-in-cheek list of the worlds 100 Unsexiest Men, in April 2006, Gottfried performed with the University of Pennsylvanias Mask and Wig Club in their annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival. Also in 2006, he made an appearance on the Lets Make a Deal portion of Gameshow Marathon and he also guest-starred in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Santa Claus in the one-hour Christmas Special. He voiced Rick Platypus in an episode of My Gym Partners a Monkey entitled That Darn Platypus and he appeared as Peters horse in an episode of Family Guy entitled Boys Do Cry. He also guest-starred in Hannah Montana as Barny Bittmen, in January 2009, Gottfried worked again with David Faustino for an episode of Faustinos show Star-ving. In 2013, Gottfried became a member of Team Rachael on the season of Food Networks Rachael vs. Guy
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Brad Garrett
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Brad Garrett is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor and professional poker player. He has appeared in television and film roles. Garrett was initially successful as a comedian in the early 1980s. Taking advantage of that success in the late 1980s, Garrett began appearing in television and film, in minor and his first major role was Robert Barone on the CBS series Everybody Loves Raymond. The series debuted September 13,1996 and ran for nine seasons, hood vs. Evil and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Out of the Shadows. Garrett also played the role of Eddie Stark on the Fox television series Til Death from 2006 to 2010. Garrett has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, with three other nominations and he is still prominent within stand-up comedy and is also a professional poker player. Garrett is recognized for his height of 68, and his deep voice. Garrett was born in Woodland Hills, California and he is the son of Barbara, a homemaker, and Albert Al Gerstenfeld, a hearing aid salesman. He is Jewish, and celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah, Garrett has two older brothers, Jeff and Paul. He attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and graduated from El Camino Real High School, Garrett attended UCLA for less than two months before dropping out to pursue his comedy career. Garrett started out at various clubs in Los Angeles, including The Improv in Hollywood. In 1984, he became the first $100,000 grand champion winner in the category of the TV show Star Search. This led to his first appearance, at age 23, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and his appearance with Carson brought Garrett a lot of national attention, and soon he was appearing as an opening act for such headliners as Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli. He also opened in Las Vegas for Frank Sinatra, David Copperfield, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr. the Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers and Julio Iglesias. After achieving a measure of success with stand-up comedy, Garrett decided to change gears. From 1985-1986, he was the voice of Hulk Hogan for the cartoon series Hulk Hogans Rock n Wrestling, Funny Women Week during November sweeps. He also appeared for a week on the game show Super Password in 1987 and he also appeared on Hollywood Squares including a memorable moment when he impersonated Bill Cosby during a question about Jell-o
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Cheech Marin
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He has also voiced characters in several Disney productions, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, Its Tough to Be a Bug. Cars, Cars 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, marins trademark is his characters strong Mexican accents. Marin was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Marin, a policeman in the LAPD, and his wife Elsa, Marin was born with a cleft lip, which was repaired. He speaks some Spanish and uses it in his movies, marins nickname Cheech is short for chicharron, a fried pork skin that is a popular snack and an ingredient in Mexican cuisine. Looks like a little chicharrón, you know, Marin graduated from Bishop Alemany High School, and then studied at San Fernando Valley State College, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. Marin auditioned to sing for Frank Zappa in 1967, but he moved to Vancouver, Marin met his future comedic partner, Tommy Chong, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As a part of the successful comedy duo Cheech & Chong, Marin participated in a number of comedy albums. Tommy Chong directed four of their films, while co-writing and starring in all seven with Marin, after Cheech & Chong disbanded in 1985, Marin starred in a number of films as a solo actor, most notably Born in East L. A. The Shrimp on the Barbie, Tin Cup, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico and he made a cameo appearance as a dockworker in Ghostbusters II. In recent years he has active in playing supporting roles in films. After appearing in a role in Judging Amy, playing an independently wealthy landscape designer, Marin starred in the CBS sitcom Rob. He provided his voice for several Disney animated films, most notably Tito the Chihuahua in Oliver & Company, Banzai the hyena in The Lion King and he reprised the Banzai role in the video game Kingdom Hearts II. In July 2007, the book Cheech the School Bus Driver was released, written by Marin, illustrated by Orlando L. Ramirez, in 2005, Marin lent his voice to the animated childrens series Dora the Explorer. He appeared in the episode A Crown for King Bobo, as the Puerto Rican folk hero Juan Bobo, in late 2006, Marin participated in Simon Cowells Celebrity Duets, having sung with Peter Frampton, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Aaron Neville, and Al Jarreau. He was the fourth to be eliminated, in that same year, he voiced as Gaspar Gomez in Scarface, The World Is Yours. Marin had a role in the hit television series Lost, playing David Reyes. He was a co-host for WWE Raw on March 1,2010 with his comedy partner Tommy Chong, Marin also sings on the hidden track Earache My Eye on Korns album Follow the Leader. In 2009, he appeared in the Hallmark Channel movie Expecting a Miracle, on March 18,2010, Marin beat journalist Anderson Cooper and actress Aisha Tyler on Celebrity Jeopardy. s Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational
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DIC Entertainment
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DiC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. The company was known as The Incredible World of DiC, DiC Audiovisuel, DiC Enterprises, DIC Animation City. In 2008, DIC was acquired by the Cookie Jar Group and was folded into it, most of the DIC library is currently owned by DHX Media after DHX acquired the Cookie Jar Group in October 2012. In addition to animated and live-action television shows such as Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff, Dennis the Menace, The Real Ghostbusters, diffusion, Information Communications was formed in 1971 by Jean Chalopin as the production division of Radio Television Luxembourg, a long existing media company. DICs American arm was founded in April 1982 in Burbank, California by Andy Heyward, for some in the industry, DIC stood for Do It Cheap. With director Bruno Bianchi, Chalopin and Heyward were able to make DIC an effective, soon after joining DIC, Heyward developed Inspector Gadget, which became a successful production out of the American office. DIC partnered with toy makers and greeting card companies for character based product lines that could be made into animated series, thus DIC productions came with built in advertisers and some time financiers. Between Inspector Gadget and The Littles, the company became profitable, as the only non-union animation firm, in 1984 DIC faced a unionization effort which failed. In 1985, DIC opened its own Japan-based animation facility for production on their shows in order to bypass overseas animation subcontractors. In April 1986, DIC launched a block called Kideo TV with LBS Communications. After the buyout, Chalopin, Bianchi and producer Tetsuo Katayama left the company to be replaced by Robby London, after selling his shares in DIC, Chalopin formed the company C&D in 1987 and continued to make animated shows during the late 1980s and the 1990s. After the buyout, DIC was heavily in debt and the rights to the DIC library were sold in 1987 to Saban Productions. At the time, Heyward considered Chalopin an enemy because of the purchase, DIC sued Saban for damages, in 1991, both companies reached a settlement. By 1987, DIC Enterprises parent company was known as DiC Animation City, DIC also entered the toy industry with the development of the Old MacDonald talking toyline. In December, DIC arranged a deal to merge with Computer Memories Inc. a former computer component manufacturer, a dissident Computer Memories shareholder scuttled the deal in February 1988. In 1987, DIC moved production of Dennis the Menace to a Canadian animation firm for grants, the company started moving some work to Korea and Taiwan. By the 1987-1988 season, DIC had shows on all three major networks Saturday mornings, six half-hours of shows and 50 half-hours per week in syndication, prudential Insurance Co. purchased additional equity of DiC Animation City in August 1989 while increasing DICs debt capacity. For the 1989-1990 season, DIC provided 30% of the networks Saturday morning schedule with a total 60 hours per week on networks, local stations, four new programs debuted that season on cable and syndication
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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Stop motion
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Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own. The object is moved in increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a fast sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or clay-mation, not all stop motion requires figures or models, many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect. Stop motion using objects is sometimes referred to as object animation, the term stop motion, related to the animation technique, is often spelled with a hyphen, stop-motion. Stop motion is often confused with the time lapse technique, where photographs of a live surrounding are taken at regular intervals. Time lapse is a technique whereby the frequency at which frames are captured is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When played at speed, time appears to be moving faster. Stop motion animation has a history in film. It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic, in 1902, the film Fun in a Bakery Shop used the stop trick technique in the lightning sculpting sequence. In 1907, The Haunted Hotel is a new stop motion film by J. Stuart Blackton, segundo de Chomón, from Spain, released El Hotel Eléctrico later that same year, and used similar techniques as the Blackton film. In 1908, A Sculptors Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released, as was The Sculptors Nightmare, italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation tour-de-force, The Automatic Moving Company in 1912. The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz, who animated The Beautiful Lukanida, The Battle of the Stag Beetles, The Ant, one of the earliest clay animation films was Modelling Extraordinary, which impressed audiences in 1912. December 1916 brought the first of Willie Hopkins 54 episodes of Miracles in Mud to the big screen, also in December 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She would release her first film in 1917, an adaptation of William Shakespeares Romeo, in the turn of the century, there was another well known animator known as Willis O Brien. His work on The Lost World is well known, but he is most admired for his work on King Kong, oBriens protege and eventual successor in Hollywood was Ray Harryhausen. After learning under OBrien on the film Mighty Joe Young, Harryhausen would go on to create the effects for a string of successful and memorable films over the next three decades. These included The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Jason, in a 1940 promotional film, Autolite, an automotive parts supplier, featured stop motion animation of its products marching past Autolite factories to the tune of Franz Schuberts Military March
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Comic foil
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If the audience identifies primarily with one character, the other will often be referred to as a comic foil. The term feed comes from the way a man is wont to set up jokes. Despite the names given to the roles, the straight man need not be humorless. Where the straight man serves no personal comic purpose but acts as a device to make the comic look good and this is sometimes considered a derogatory term. Most often, however, the humor in a double act comes from the way the two personalities play off other, rather than from the individuals themselves. In many successful acts the roles are interchangeable, the template for the modern double act began in the British music halls and the American vaudeville scene of the late nineteenth century. Here, the man was a necessity, as he would repeat the lines of the comic. This was done simply because the audience would be noisy, soon the dynamic developed so that the straight man became a more integral part of the act, setting up jokes to which the comic could then deliver the punchline. At various stages, acts such as George Burns and Gracie Allen, Abbott and Costello, Flanagan and Allen, Gallagher and Shean, the dynamic continued to develop, with Abbott and Costello using a modern and recognizable formula in routines such as Whos On First. In the 1930s and Flanagan and Allen using cross talking, by the 1920s, double acts were beginning to attract worldwide fame more readily through the silent era. However, because of the restrictions, the comedy was not derived from cross talk or clever verbal exchanges but through slapstick routines. The first double act to gain fame through film was Laurel. Before meeting, the pair had never worked together on stage, though both had worked in vaudeville—Stan Laurel with Charlie Chaplin as part of Fred Karnos Army and Oliver Hardy as a singer. Laurel could loosely be described as the comic, though the pair were one of the first not to fit the mold in the way that many double acts do, the pair first worked together as a double act in the 1927 film Duck Soup. The first Laurel and Hardy film was called Putting Pants on Philip though their characters had not yet been established. The first film both appeared in was Lucky Dog in 1917. Indeed, they were one of the few silent acts who made a successful transition to spoken word pictures in the 1930s. The year 1940 saw the release of Laurel and Hardys Saps at Sea, their film for long-term producer
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School's Out (song)
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Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song when answering the question, Whats the greatest three minutes of your life. Cooper said, Theres two times during the year, one is Christmas morning, when youre just getting ready to open the presents. The greed factor is right there, the next one is the last three minutes of the last day of school when youre sitting there and its like a slow fuse burning. I said, If we can catch that three minutes in a song, its going to be so big, Cooper has also said it was inspired by a line from a Bowery Boys movie. On his radio show, Nights with Alice Cooper, he joked that the riff of the song was inspired by a song by Miles Davis. Cooper said that guitarist Glen Buxton created the opening riff. The lyrics of Schools Out indicate that not only is the year ended for summer vacation, but ended forever. It incorporates the childhood rhyme, No more pencils, no more books and it also featured children contributing some of the vocals. Innocence in the lyric. and we got no innocence is frequently changed in concert to intelligence, the song appropriately ends with a school bell sound that fades out. Later performances saw Alice Cooper incorporate parts of the first verse in Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2, a song by Pink Floyd into Schools Out. Schools Out became Alice Coopers first major hit single, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, Billboard ranked it as the No.75 song for 1972. In Canada, the single went to #3 on the RPM Top Singles Chart following the album reaching #1, in Britain, the song went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in August 1972. It also marked the first time that Alice Cooper became regarded as more than just a novelty act. Some radio stations banned the song from their airwaves, stating that the song gave the students a negative impression of rebelliousness against childhood education. Teachers, parents, principals, counselors, and psychologists also shunned that song, in 2004, Schools Out was ranked #319 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2009 it was named the 35th best hard rock song of all time by VH1, the Guardian placed it as number 3 on its list of The 20 best glam-rock songs of all time. The song has been used in movies including Scream, Dazed and Confused, Rock n Roll High School and I Love You, in 2004, the song was also used in a Staples television commercial for the back to school retail period in which Alice appeared as himself. A young girl with black hair, obviously disappointed that school is starting soon, says, Alice replies, No, no, no. the song goes, Schools out for summer
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Alice Cooper
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Alice Cooper is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over five decades. He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre, the band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. Furnier adopted the name as his own name in the 1970s. In 2011, he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare, his 19th album as a solo artist, in 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the worlds most beloved heavy metal entertainer. Away from music, Cooper is an actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004. Cooper was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Ella Mae and his father was a preacher in The Church of Jesus Christ headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He has English, Huguenot French, Irish, Scottish, and he was named after his uncle, Vincent Collier Furnier, and the writer Damon Runyon. His paternal grandfather, Thurman Sylvester Furnier, was an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ, Cooper was active in his church at the ages of 11 and 12. While growing up in Detroit, Cooper attended Washington Elementary School, in 1964, 16-year-old Furnier was eager to participate in the local annual Lettermans talent show, so he gathered fellow cross-country teammates to form a group for the show. Because they did not know how to play any instruments at the time, they dressed up like the Beatles and mimed their performance to Beatles songs. As a result of winning the talent show and loving the experience of being onstage and they soon renamed themselves The Spiders, featuring Furnier on vocals, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, John Tatum on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and John Speer on drums. Musically, the group was inspired by such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Doors. For the next year the band performed regularly around the Phoenix area with a huge black spiders web as their backdrop, in 1965, the Spiders recorded their first single, Why Dont You Love Me, with Furnier learning the harmonica for the song. The singles B-side track was the Marvin Gaye Tamla Records hit Hitch Hike, the single was recorded at Copper State Recording Studio and issued by local micro-imprint Santa Cruz Records. By 1967, the band had begun to make regular trips to Los Angeles to play shows. They soon renamed themselves Nazz and released the single Wonder Whos Lovin Her Now, backed with future Alice Cooper track Lay Down and Die, around this time, drummer John Speer was replaced by Neal Smith. By the end of the year, the band had relocated to Los Angeles, in 1968, the band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called Nazz, and found themselves in need of another stage name
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Iron Man (song)
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Iron Man is a song by British rock band Black Sabbath. It is taken from their studio album, Paranoid, released in 1970. Upon hearing the guitar riff for the first time, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne remarked that it sounded like a big iron bloke walking about. The title became Iron Man, with Geezer Butler writing the lyrics around the title, Butler wrote the lyrics as the story of a man who time travels into the future, and sees the apocalypse. In the process of returning to the present, he is turned into steel by a magnetic field and he is rendered mute, unable verbally to warn people of his time in the future and of the impending destruction. His attempts to communicate are ignored and mocked and this causes Iron Man to become angry, and drives his revenge on mankind, causing the destruction seen in his vision. The song won spot number 317 in Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the song peaked at number 52 on The Billboard Hot 100 in 1972. Ozzy Osbourne – vocals Tony Iommi – guitar Geezer Butler – bass guitar Bill Ward – drums Kanye West samples the song on his song Hell of a Life on his album, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Black Sabbath
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The band experienced multiple line-up changes, with Iommi being the only constant member throughout its history. Originally formed as a rock band, the group soon adopted the Black Sabbath moniker and began incorporating occult themes with horror-inspired lyrics. They also composed songs about social instability, political corruption and drugs, Osbournes regular use of alcohol and other drugs led to his dismissal from the band in 1979. He was replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, in 1992, Iommi and Butler rejoined Dio and drummer Vinny Appice to record Dehumanizer. The original line-up reunited with Osbourne in 1997 and released a live album Reunion, Black Sabbaths final studio album and nineteenth overall,13, features all of the original members but Ward. A year after embarking on a tour, the band played their final concert in their home city of Birmingham on 4 February 2017. Iommi has stated, however, that he has not ruled out the possibility of new material or one-off shows under the Black Sabbath name, Black Sabbath are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath, Paranoid and they were ranked by MTV as the Greatest Metal Band of all time, and placed second in VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock list. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them number 85 in their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and they have sold over 70 million records worldwide. Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and they have also won two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance. Following the break-up of their previous band Mythology in 1968, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward sought to form a blues rock band in Aston. The new group was named the Polka Tulk Blues Band, the name taken either from a brand of talcum powder or an Indian/Pakistani clothing shop. The Polka Tulk Blues Band featured slide guitarist Jimmy Phillips, a friend of Osbournes. After shortening the name to Polka Tulk, the band changed their name to Earth and continued as a four-piece without Phillips. Iommi became concerned that Phillips and Clarke lacked the dedication and were not taking the band seriously. Rather than asking them to leave, they decided to break up. While the band was performing under the Earth title, they recorded several demos written by Norman Haines such as The Rebel, Song for Jim, the demo titled Song for Jim was in reference to Jim Simpson. Jim Simpson was a manager for the bands Bakerloo Blues Line, Simpson was also a trumpet player for the group Locomotive
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Veterans Day
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Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that honors military veterans, that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. The United States previously observed Armistice Day, the U. S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day. Weeks led the first national celebration in 1947 in Alabama and annually until his death in 1985, President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the briefing for President Reagan, determined Weeks as the Father of Veterans Day, representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, also from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May 26,1954 and it had been eight and a half years since Weeks held his first Armistice Day celebration for all veterans. Congress amended the bill on June 1,1954, replacing Armistice with Veterans, the National Veterans Award was also created in 1954. Congressman Rees of Kansas received the first National Veterans Award in Birmingham, although originally scheduled for celebration on November 11 of every year, starting in 1971 in accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday of October. In 1978, it was moved back to its original celebration on November 11, because it is a federal holiday, some American workers and many students have Veterans Day off from work or school. When Veterans Day falls on a Saturday then either Saturday or the preceding Friday may be designated as the holiday, a Society for Human Resource Management poll in 2010 found that 21 percent of employers planned to observe the holiday in 2011. Non-essential federal government offices are closed, all federal workers are paid for the holiday, those who are required to work on the holiday sometimes receive holiday pay for that day in addition to their wages. In his Armistice Day address to Congress, Wilson was sensitive to the toll of the lean War years, Hunger does not breed reform, it breeds madness. As Veterans Day and the birthday of the United States Marine Corps are only one day apart, several commentators have noted the irony of Election Day being a regular working day, while Veterans Day, which typically falls the following week, is a federal holiday. Many people have called for the holidays to be merged, so citizens can have a day off to vote and this would be seen as a way to honor voting by exercising democratic rights. Official Website United States Department of Veterans Affairs 5 U. S. C. §6103
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Voice acting
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Voice acting is the art of doing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user. Voice acting is also done for small handheld audio games, performers are called voice actors or actresses, voice artists, or voice talent. Their roles may also involve singing, although a voice actor is sometimes cast as the characters singing voice. Voice acting is recognised in Britain as a specialized dramatic profession, Voice artists are also used to record the individual sample fragments played back by a computer in an automated announcement. The voices for animated characters are provided by voice actors, for live action productions, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs, radio dispatchers, or other characters who never actually appear on screen. With a radio drama or CD drama, there is freedom in voice acting, because there is no need to match a dub to the original actors. In the context of voice acting, narration is the use of commentary to convey a story to an audience. A narrator is a character or a non-personal voice that the creator of the story develops to deliver information to the audience. The voice actor who plays the narrator is responsible for performing the lines assigned to the narrator. In traditional literary narratives, narration is a story element, in other types of narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games. One of the most common uses for voice acting is within commercial advertising, the voice actor is hired to voice a message associated with the advertisement. This has different subgenres, television, radio, cinema, the subgenres are all different styles in their own right. Voiceover used in commercial adverts also is the area of voice acting where de-breathing is used. De-breathing means artificially removing breaths from the recorded voice and this is done to stop the audience being distracted in any way from the commercial message that is being put across. Dub localization is a type of voice-over and it is the practice of voice-over translation altering a foreign language film, art film or television series by voice actors. Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation technique, in which, unlike in Dub localization, actor voices are recorded over the audio track. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees, automated dialogue replacement is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes. ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, in the UK, it is also called post-synchronization or post-sync
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Shout! Factory
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Factory is an American home video and music company founded in 2003. Its video releases include previously released films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music. Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records, Factory was founded in 2003 by Bob Emmer, Garson Foos, and Richard Foos, three principals from Rhino Records. After selling Rhino to Warner Bros. the three set out to launch a new pop culture label. Their first releases included blues and jazz CDs from the Biograph label, with the release of Freaks & Geeks in 2004, Shout. hit its stride and shifted towards a reputable and celebrated TV on DVD company. That same year, they released a brand-new CD with actor William Shatner, in 2004, Shout. got the rights to Cartoon Network staple Home Movies and released each season set, and ultimately a complete series box. 1, Sweet himself was also added as a solo artist. Still earning a reputation for classic TV, Shout. acquired the rights to Americas Funniest Home Videos, That Girl, Punky Brewster, Factory obtained the rights to Herb Alperts catalog, launching the Herb Alpert Signature Series of CDs. These included The Lonely Bull, South of the Border, Lost Treasures, Whipped Cream & Other Delights and others. They also got the rights to show host Dick Cavetts library and started releasing theme sets focused on rock icons, Ray Charles, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. They also jumped into childrens animation with a deal with DiC Entertainment, the Animated Series and Heathcliff And the Catillac Cats were the first releases from that deal. On the sports side, they entered into a deal with Major League Baseball, releasing themed. By 2007, classic TV on DVD was a focus, with season sets of McHales Navy, Ironside, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Meanwhile, they started releasing Mickey Harts catalogs. In 2008, Shout. bought the Hightone Records catalog and added artists Tom Russell, Joe Ely, at the same time, the company was ramping up its place as a childrens animation destination and continuing with a TV on DVD schedule. It took over the Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD series and released a 20th Anniversary set and have continued to put out box sets of episodes never before released on DVD. In 2009, Shout. reached another milestone when it struck a deal with childrens TV producers Hasbro, releasing the original Transformers and that same year, it released the first My Little Pony DVD, My Little Pony, Twinkle Wish Collection. Continues to release several Hasbro properties, including the series My Little Pony, in 2012, Shout. started releasing titles by both Saban and Marvel
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Mill Creek Entertainment
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Mill Creek Entertainment is an American home video company founded in 2002 by Ian Warfield, Robert Zakheim and Scott Moss in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The companys licensing partnerships with major studios include Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, NBCUniversal, the company is known for its multi-film DVD collections, which draw heavily from material in the public domain in the United States. Mill Creek acquired the library of Crown International Pictures from now defunct Navarre Corporation subsidiary BCI Home Entertainment, cannell Productions LionHeart FilmWorks The Program Exchange Saban Brands Shout. Factory, Best-of collections of various Shout, factory licensed series Sonar Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment Sony Pictures Television Vivendi Entertainment Warner Bros. Animation Official website Mill Creek Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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TV.com
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TV. com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. Australia and UK versions of the website are available, at au. tv. com and uk. tv. com. CNET originally acquired the name in the mid-1990s to host a website for the companys technology-related TV shows. One of these shows was titled TV. com, the program, highlighting the best of the Internet for new and casual computer users, aired in U. S. syndication. CNET then acquired TV Tome, a television database. TV. com was launched a few months after that acquisition on June 1,2005, many of the features and content from the original TV Tome site were maintained in the new TV. com site. On May 15,2008, CBS formally announced its purchase of CNET Networks, TV. com continually looked at innovating the television-viewing experience by incorporating it with technology, as seen with the creation of WatchList. This service offered personalized TV listings influenced by user actions and social media, TV Tome was an American website devoted to documenting English-language television shows and their production. It was run by volunteer editors, with the assistance of user contributions, the site was founded by John Nestoriak III. The site had over 2,500 complete television series guides, over 3,500 developing television series guides, in addition to the television series guides, TV Tome had a forum for each television series, with information regarding episodes, their interpretation, and general discussions. A spin-off site, Movie Tome, was established in August 2003, a video game tome and a music tome were originally planned as well, but such plans were abandoned with the purchase of TV Tome and Movie Tome by CNET. On April 22,2005, TV Tome officially announced its acquisition by CNET, CNET reportedly bought TV Tome for US $5 million in January 2005. CNET announced plans to relocate the site to its TV. com domain, a preliminary version of the new site launched on June 1,2005 and on June 13,2005, the site was permanently redirected to TV. com with an entirely new layout. TV. com provides show descriptions, cast and crew listings, full episodes, clip length videos, discussion forums, episode guides may include synopsis information, a recap, credits, notes, trivia, quotes, and images provided by the networks. All textual information in the guides is user-generated, after a user earns a certain number of points, s/he becomes an editor for the guide and can moderate user submissions. The site provides actor guides that include actor bios, credits, trivia, like show pages, users can become editors for these guides after earning points by providing sourced content. The sites mobile application allows users to video content, including clips and full length episodes
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is the eighth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. Following the shows first season, much of Hanna-Barberas production staff, including Tom Ruegger, left the studio, animation studio, beginning with Tiny Toon Adventures. The new format followed the trend of the babyfication of older characters, reducing the original Scooby-Doo. This resulted in a wackier, more extremely comic version of Scooby-Doo that satirized the conventions of the previous incarnations. It was not uncommon for the characters to do wild Tex Avery/Bob Clampett-esque takes when they ran into ghosts, animation director and overseas supervisor Glen Kennedy animated many of the wild-take sequences personally. The ghosts and monsters themselves were more comedic, such as a creature made out of molten cheese, a monster in the form of a giant hamburger. The series also features Scooby and Shaggy as their favorite superhero duo, Adventures, The Mystery Map, that featured traits similar to that of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. Shaggy was exactly like his older incarnation and he ate a lot and used the terms Like and Zoinks. He sometimes agrees with other members of the gang, considering the ghost, phantom, Scooby-Doo behaved like the older version of the character as well. Daphne was a young girl who was quite skeptical and sarcastic. Being born into money, she called to her butler, Jenkins, for help, usually for incredibly silly reasons, something she does not do while older. She often accused the wrong person who did the crime, only by her intuition and she also had a deep infatuation with the color pink, preferring most of her clothes and personal possessions in said color, and treats fashion as life and death. She also hates getting dirty, and absolutely refuses to believe in the supernatural despite the fact she, Fred was an outspoken young boy who always jumps to the wrong conclusion. However, he can get the point at times, Velma was mostly the same as her older incarnation— intelligent and soft-spoken with thick eyeglasses. The most evident change to her character was that she owned a mobile computer that could determine who the criminal was in any particular episode. Velma also owned an oversized fan-propelled skateboard with a scheme similar to the Mystery Machine. Fred and Velma were the returning characters to speak in the flashback. The Mystery Begins establishes the team meeting in their teens, however, it can be seen as a prequel to the theatrical films
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Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
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Disneys Adventures of the Gummi Bears is a Disney animated television series that first aired in the United States from 1985 to 1991. The series premiered on NBC on September 14,1985, the series moved to ABC for one season from 1989 to 1990, and concluded on September 6,1991 as part of the Disney Afternoon television syndication package. Of the series 65 shows,30 were double-features, consisting of two 11-minute cartoons, thereby bringing the total to 94 distinct episodes overall. The series was later rebroadcast on the syndicated Disney Afternoon block, in later years, it was shown on The Disney Channel, and later on Toon Disney, with its most recent televised airing occurring on December 28,2001. Seasons 1 to 3 of the series were released on DVD on November 14,2006 featuring commentary from producers Eric Wong and Daniel Weinstein. Gummi Bears are a group of anthropomorphic bears who have a long and rich history. The Gummi-Glen Gummis are a group of Gummis who live in a tree known as Gummi Glen that is the base for a vast complex of underground tunnels. They harvest the Gummiberries that grow wild around them in the forest and they try to hide from humans as much as possible, with the exception of friends Cavin, a page, and Princess Calla. In later episodes the Gummis have chance encounters with other friendly humans and it is never explained how they are related to each other, although the episode Up, Up, and Away suggests that they are the last remaining ones in Gummi-Glen, and at risk of extinction. Gruffi Gummi (voiced by, Bill Scott, Corey Burton is a bear who prefers to do things the Gummi way. An extremely skilled craftsman and mechanic, he is the one often fixes the old Gummi technology and trap doors, as well as building traps around the Glen to deal with humans. In the first episode, he was distrustful of Cavin, but later on in the same episode, when it comes to building and using tools, Gruffi is a perfectionist, which can be his undoing at times. However, at times he is respected as the voice of stability. He is forgetful and clumsy, mis-speaking often with spoonerisms, and he also has a fear of heights. Grammi Gummi is another old bear who is the matriarch of Gummi-Glen and she acts as the groups mother, who cooks, cleans, and is the Gummi who prepares the Gummiberry Juice. She holds the secret recipe, and wants to pass it down to Sunni when she is of age and she has an intense rivalry with Gruffi Gummi, and tends to bicker with him over what has to be done. Her cooking is implied to be disliked by the others, with the exception of Tummi. Tummi Gummi is an overweight Gummi, stated to be around or a younger than Gusto, who enjoys a good meal
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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
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It has been released on VHS and DVD. The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh first aired in January 1988 on The Disney Channel, the show moved to ABC in September of that same year. For the 1989-90 season, it was paired with Disneys Adventures of the Gummi Bears as the Gummi Bears-Winnie the Pooh Hour, after the final regular episode was shown in October 1991, reruns continued to air on ABC until September 4,1993. On December 9,1995, before Disney took over ABCs Saturday Morning programming, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was brought back in reruns, the Disney Channel began reruns of the series on October 3,1994, which continued to air until September 1,2006. The show also aired on Playhouse Disney from 1999 to 2006, in the UK, the program aired from 2000 to 2011 on Playhouse Disney. Although the series is set in Ashdown Forest/Hartfield in East Sussex, in some countries, this show had been a part of The Disney Afternoon lineup. The show featured a number of songs, including Here We Go Floating from the episode Balloonatics. From 1989 into the 1990s, various VHS tapes were released in the United States each containing 2 to 4 episodes, several more were later released in the 2000s. Other countries had their own exclusive VHS releases, there were 10 volumes under the title The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, released in the United States between 1989 and 1991 through Walt Disney Home Video. This list is for VHS releases in the UK, Australia, the following were released under the title Winnie the Pooh, Learning. The following were released under the title Winnie the Pooh, Playtime, the following were released under the title Winnie the Pooh, Friendship. Region 1, Between 2002 and 2010, several episodes of the series were released on DVD, between 2005 and 2006, four DVDs were released as part of the Growing Up with Winnie the Pooh series. Each DVD would feature 4 episodes, and sometimes it would include a double-length episode and these DVDs were targeted for preschoolers. The episodes Magic Earmuffs and The Wishing Bear were made available as Bonus Shorts on the 10th Anniversary DVD release of Winnie the Pooh, Seasons of Giving. Region 2, In addition to, Winnie the Pooh, A Very Merry Pooh Year, Winnie the Pooh, Spookable Fun and Boo to You, Too. Winnie the Pooh, Seasons of Giving, and Winnie the Pooh, Un-Valentines Day and A Valentine for You eight DVDs were released as part of the The Magical World of Winnie the Pooh series
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The Real Ghostbusters
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The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series, a spinoff of the 1984 comedy movie Ghostbusters. The series ran from September 13,1986 to October 5,1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television, DiC Enterprises, J. Michael Straczynski was story editor, and wrote episodes for every season except four and seven. The Real was added to the title after a dispute with Filmation, the series continues the adventures of paranormal investigators Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, their secretary Janine Melnitz and their mascot ghost Slimer. At the start of the season in 1988, the show was retitled to Slimer. It aired in a time slot, which the show began doing under its original name earlier that same year in January. In addition to the regular thirty-minute Real Ghostbusters episode, a half-hour Slimer sub-series was added that included 2–3 short animated segments focusing on the character Slimer, cartoons was handled by Wang Film Productions. At the end of its run,147 episodes had aired, including the syndicated episodes and 13 episodes of Slimer. Slimer is shown to haunt the Sedgewick Hotel as its recurring pest, van Huego and her dog Fred, odd-job worker Rudy. Slimer had an antagonist named Professor Norman Dweeb, a mad scientist usually accompanied by a sidekick pink poodle named Elizabeth. Dweeb wants to capture Slimer to experiment on him and to gain personal glory, Dweeb also made three appearances in the main series, one a clip show from the last two seasons. Other enemies of Slimer include a cat named Manx, a dog named Bruiser, a tough woman named Mrs. Stone. One of the ghosts from the Slimer cartoons, the Sleaze, a short pilot episode was produced, but never aired in full. The full four-minute promo was released on Time Lifes DVD set in 2008, scenes of the pilot can be seen in TV promos that aired prior to the beginning of the series. When he auditioned for the voice of Egon Spengler, Maurice LaMarche noted that while he was asked not to impersonate Harold Ramis, he did so anyway and eventually got the part. Ernie Hudson was the actor from the films who auditioned to play his character in the series, however. At the same time The Real Ghostbusters was being created, Filmation was making a cartoon known simply as Ghostbusters, the character designs by Jim McDermott were dramatically redesigned from the way the same characters looked in the movie. Although the Ghostbusters concept was tinkered with, the show does feature many tie-ins from the films. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man made numerous appearances, during the third season, Walter Peck, the Environmental Protection Agency antagonist from the original film, reappeared
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Beetlejuice (TV series)
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Beetlejuice is an Canadian animated television series which ran from September 9,1989, to October 26,1991, on ABC and, on Fox from September 9,1991, to December 6,1991. Loosely based on the American 1988 film of the name, it was developed and executive-produced by the films director. The series focus on the life of Goth girl Lydia Deetz and her undead friend Beetlejuice as they explore The Neitherworld, danny Elfmans theme for the film was arranged for the cartoon by Elfman himself. Occasionally, there are effects from that chant, such as Lydias room changing to a gothic castle. In only a few episodes is Lydia not present, those being wholly escapades of Beetlejuice in the Neitherworld. The series humor relied heavily on sight gags, wordplay, many episodes, especially towards the end of the run, were parodies of famous films, books, and TV shows. The episode Brides of Funkenstein was based on an idea submitted by a then-teenage girl, the series was a breakout hit for ABC in its initial season, and later became one of the first animated series to air on Foxs weekday afternoon childrens lineup. Beetlejuice has aired in re-runs on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, and aired on Warner Bros. the series aired on Teletoon Retro in Canada from fall 2009 until June 2011, but came back in April 2013. Beetlejuice - A ghost and the main and title character of the show and he enjoys eating bugs and is known throughout the Neitherworld as a prankster. He is the oldest son of Gnat and Bee Juice, and he has a disgustingly cheerful younger brother, called Donny Juice, Beetlejuice takes more after his mother in looks, and inherits his crooked teeth from his father. Beetlejuices usual attire consists of a suit with vertical black-&-white stripes, a magenta-colored shirt and a black tie. At times, he must pause to think of exactly how to use his powers to escape a precarious situation unscathed. His name derives from the star, Betelgeuse, which – coincidentally, given Beetlejuices love of foul odors and armpit music – is the armpit of the constellation Orion. Due to what is described in the series as his juice, whenever Beetlejuice utters aloud a figure of speech. Almost all of his transformations maintain the black-and-white striped pattern he wears on his suit, which caused him to break into several pieces, which his enemies then stole and scattered to different places in the Neitherworld rendering him helpless. Also, if all of his parts are not reassembled by sundown. Thankfully, with Lydias help, he gathered all of his body parts and was able to pull himself together. Sometimes Beetlejuice will mix up one of his transformations, due to homophone-based confusion, at times, various of his body parts manifested minds of their own, independent of Beetlejuices control, with his brain and even his entire skeletal system having abandoning him once
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The Wizard of Oz (TV series)
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The Wizard of Oz is an animated television series produced by DIC Entertainment in 1990 to capitalize on the 51th anniversary of the 1939 film version. The series featured thirteen episodes and premiered on ABC, starting on September 8,1990 and it also aired on YTV from 1990 to 1995 in Canada. Reruns aired on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2002, Dorothy has decided to return to Oz with Toto using the ruby slippers that showed up on her doorstep. The Wizard is in his hot air balloon, which is under a spell that causes it to be blown around by an evil wind. Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion set out to him and defeat the Wicked Witch once. Author Jeff Lenburg mentioned an aspect of the series wherein Dorothy has to learn to believe in oneself. To combat the idea that the slippers would provide Dorothy with ultimate power against the Witch and they often didnt do exactly as she asked, acting unpredictably. In the second episode, she clicks her heels four times to correct the Witchs damage to the Emerald City, glinda often told her to only use them as a last resort. Similarly, the Wicked Witchs crystal ball was unpredictable, often only working once a day, the Wicked Witch does manage to get the slippers once in the series. However, Truckle manages to steal them from her, and she is unable to use their power to their full advantage, the Cowardly Lion also gets to wear them briefly. The series incorporated elements from the 1939 film version, including the Scarecrows diploma. In addition, the series incorporated music from the original film, Toto, as in the film, also seems to be able to smell the Wicked Witch or her spellwork, even when shes in disguise. A reversal of the archetype from the film was that Dorothy got herself from Kansas to Oz by clicking her heels in her slippers, while the series is mostly based on the 1939 film, there are some issues with the canon of it. In the film, it is implied that Oz was a head-trauma-induced delirium, instead of a real place. The only sequel that depicts Oz as a dream is the 1974 animated film Journey Back to Oz, where Dorothy once again has a head injury before finding herself back in Oz. The program could only be a spinoff, partly because it violates the rule of the ruby slippers, adaptations of The Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz at the Internet Movie Database The Wizard of Oz at TV. com
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Darkwing Duck
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It featured the eponymous anthropomorphic duck superhero whose alter ego is suburban father Drake Mallard. On April 2,2015, a rumor surfaced that Disney would be rebooting the series for a 2018 premiere and this has since been debunked, instead it has returned as a comic book published by Joe Books, which premiered on April 27,2016. Though originally believed by fans to be a spin-off of DuckTales. Darkwing Duck tells the adventures of the superhero, aided by his sidekick. In his secret identity of Drake Mallard, he lives in a suburban house with his adopted daughter Gosalyn. Darkwing struggles to balance his egotistical craving for fame and attention against his desire to be a father to Gosalyn. Most episodes put these two aspects of Darkwings character in conflict, though Darkwings better nature usually prevails. The show was the first Disney Afternoon series to emphasize rather than adventure. While conflict with villains was routine in earlier Disney Afternoon shows, Darkwing Duck was also the first Disney Afternoon property that was produced completely as a genre parody. Prior shows would contain elements of parody in certain episodes, but would otherwise be straight-faced adventure concepts, by contrast, every episode of Darkwing Duck is laden with references to superhero, pulp adventure, or super-spy fiction. Darkwing Duck himself is a satirical character, the fictional city of St. Canard is a direct parody of Gotham City. Darkwing Duck was developed as a replacement for a proposed reboot of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The show was a spin-off of the successful series DuckTales. Darkwing Duck entered production one year after DuckTales ended. The name The Masked Mallard became an often used in the new show to refer to Darkwing himself. It turned out that the title Double-O Duck could not be used as the Broccoli family owned the double-o title, a new name was selected, Darkwing Duck. Thus, Stones designed a new character for the lead, Drake Mallard and this name would result in a new look. Other elements of the show, such as Darkwings habit of coining new catchphrases every time he announced himself, where most prior Disney Afternoon series included at least some characters from classic Disney animation, Darkwing Duck featured a completely original cast
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The Pirates of Dark Water
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The Pirates of Dark Water is an American fantasy animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and created by David Kirschner and first aired in 1991. It was later aired on Fox Kids and Boomeraction, the alien world of Mer is being devoured by an evil substance known as Dark Water. Only Ren, a prince, can stop it by finding the lost Thirteen Treasures of Rule. His loyal crew of misfits that help in his journey are an ecomancer, a monkey-bird, the evil pirate lord, Bloth, will stop at nothing to get the treasures for himself and provides many obstacles for Ren and his crew. The show first premiered on Fox Kids in early 1991 as a five-part mini-series titled Dark Water, following a number of animation tweaks and other changes by Hanna-Barbera, those episodes were rebroadcast later in 1991 as the first five episodes of the regular series. Most notably, the original mini-series featured the voice of Roddy McDowall as Niddler, whereas in the revised version, the first season aired on ABC, while the second season aired in first-run syndication as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. The series was never completed, ending abruptly after 21 episodes with eight of the thirteen treasures collected. Ren – The prince of the kingdom of Octopon and the main protagonist of the series. Ren was raised by a keeper in the outskirts of his homeland, unaware of his destiny. He wields the sword that belonged to his father in its whole form. By the beginning of the season, he freed one half of the planet from the Dark Water. Niddler – A monkey-bird who once belonged to Bloth, until he escaped by aiding Rens own escape from the pirate captain and he hails from the island of Pandawa. He is usually depicted as a greedy and constantly ravenous for food, his favorite food being minga melons, but he likes Ren. Tula – She is an ecomancer with the ability to control the elements and biological life and she is headstrong and often flusters Ioz. She is introduced as being a barmaid, but she stows aboard Ren and Iozs ship. Its soon revealed that shes a character with many secrets, Ioz – A rogue and pirate, he joins up with Ren initially for the promise of treasure. However, he continues his attempts at getting rich quickly but is mostly unsuccessful. Ioz also has a sister named Solia, who appears in the series
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Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
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Wild West C. O. W. -Boys of Moo Mesa is an American animated television series created by comic book artist Ryan Brown, known for his work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It aired as part of ABCs Saturday morning lineup, first broadcast on September 12,1992, the show ran for two seasons of thirteen episodes each. It also aired on YTV from 1992 to 1999 in Canada, the series was featured in reruns on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2001. Like many cartoons during its time, Wild West C. O. W. -Boys of Moo Mesa dealt with a mutation of some kind, in this case, an irradiated comet struck the late 19th century Western plains creating a miles high mesa shrouded in clouds. Everything trapped on top of the mesa was cow-metized by the light from the cow-met, inspired by old tales of the Wild West, this new bovine community developed to the point where they emulated that eras way of life, including the requisite ruffians and corrupt sheriffs. However, their knowledge of Wild West living was limited, and as such, the concepts of steampunk and Weird West were utilized throughout its run. The series focuses on trying to keep justice in the frontier territory, the lawbreakers were too much for the corrupt regulators of Cowtown to handle by themselves. Helping them out, whether they wanted it or not, were a group of known as C. O. W. -Boys. Led by Marshal Moo Montana, the C. O. W. -Boys also included the Dakota Dude, Marshal Moo Montana and his deputies had their hands full with various ruffians and outlaw gangs that plagued the otherwise peaceful town. Marshal Moo Montana - Leader of the C. O. W. -Boys, courageous and quick on his hooves, Moo Montana battles the bad guys and makes the West a safer place to graze. Lives by the Code of the West, which he seems to make up as he goes along and he has a gun that shoots star-badges. The Dakota Dude - The soft-spoken muscle of Montanas posse, Dakota possesses a temperament and rarely gets mad. Dakota agreed to marry Cowlamity Kate in Wedding Bull Blues to save her fathers inheritance, Cowlorado Kid - A Holstein cattle who is the youngest of the group and a self-proclaimed ladies man with a good singing voice, regardless of his skill with the lasso and guitar. In Stolen on the River, he tries to prove hes worthy of being a deputy by catching Five Card Cud only to get in trouble and be rescued by Dakota, Lily Bovine - A bartender, former showgirl, and owner of the local saloon called The Tumbleweed. Lily is Moo Montanas love interest and her best friend is Cowlamity Kate. Cody Calf - Nicknamed Calf-Pint by Moo and his posse, he idolizes the marshall and he is apparently related to Lily Bovine in some way and lives with her, though he does not appear to be her son. Like everyone else, he refers to her as Miss Lily, though well-meaning, he often gets himself into serious trouble trying to help the lawcows, but has been a useful asset on several occasions. Cowlamity Kate Cudster - A tomboyish rancher and operator of the highly profitable Golden Cud Mine, shes as hard-working and hard-riding as any bull, and has enough skill with a lasso to put Cowlorado to shame
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Goof Troop
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Disneys Goof Troop is an animated comedy television series from The Walt Disney Company featuring Goofy as a father figure and bonding with his son Max, and Pete, as his neighbor. Created by Peter Montgomery, the series of 65 episodes ran in syndication from 1992 to 1993 on The Disney Afternoon. One Christmas special was produced, which ran in syndication on 1 November 1992. Goof Troop bears similarity to several early-1950s Goofy cartoon shorts which depicted Goofy as a father to a mischievous red-haired son, Goofy, a single father, moves back to his hometown of Spoonerville with his son, Max. J. and younger daughter Pistol. Max and P. J. become best friends and do everything together. A large portion of humor comes from the relatively normal Maxs personality sharply contrasting with his father, Goof Troop was originally previewed on The Disney Channel from April 20,1992 into July 12 of that year. Reruns of the series aired on The Disney Channel. Reruns were shown on Toon Disney until January 2005, the program made a return from September 2006 until August 2008, and the Christmas special still aired on Christmas in the United States. Goof Troop was adapted into the feature film A Goofy Movie and its sequel, A Goofy Movie 2. Both films are spin-offs of the series and take place a few years after the series, the two movies featured Bill Farmer, Rob Paulsen and Jim Cummings reprising their character roles from Goof Troop in these two movies, with Jason Marsden providing the voice of a now-teenager Max. Dana Hill, who provided the voice of Max, died on July 15,1996 at the age of 32, Petes wife Peg is a play on Peg Leg Pete, one of Petes names in the classic Disney shorts. Likewise, his daughter Pistol is a play on another such name, the town of Spoonerville is named after layout artist J. Michael Spooner, who designed many of the background layouts for the series. In Axed by Addition, Max uses the Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine and this line was from the Three Stooges short, Men in Black. Goofy is the father of Max Goof. This is mentioned briefly in one episode, where its said that Maxs mother is up there amongst the stars and it is a direct implication that she died in an undisclosed time. He and his son, Max, move next door to the Petes from their home in the city. Goofys biggest weaknesses are his short span, scatterbrain. He often drives his neighbor Pete up the wall, Goofy is very calm, lovable, and many times will turn the other cheek when Pete insults him, though occasionally, he does get angry and gets back at him when the offense goes too far
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The Addams Family (1992 animated series)
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The Addams Family is an American animated series based on the eponymous comic strip characters by Charles Addams and is the second cartoon show to feature the Addams. It ran from September 12,1992 to November 6,1993 on ABC and was produced by Hanna-Barbera, the series development began in the wake of the 1991 Addams Family feature film. Geared towards children, much of the macabre nature was toned down. Unlike in the action series Uncle Fester loves explosives and blowing himself up. At the end of episodes, when the conflict was resolved. The first suggestion for the dance was usually thrown out because of some weird requirement, Uncle Fester is usually the one to point out the reason the first suggestion should not be accepted albeit sometimes Gomez and Uncle Fester found themselves in a role reversal. The second suggestion was accepted and there was usually a requirement for that dance too, new artistic models of the characters were used for this series, though still having a passing resemblance to the original comics. Lurch, for instance, has blue skin in the animated series, the Addams Family Theme, re-recorded with a basso profondo lead vocal, was reused as the theme for the series. Gomez Addams - The patriarch of the family and the brother of Uncle Fester. He is a caring and enthusiastic father and is deeply in love with his wife and he usually spends his time with unusual activities in the home, mostly accompanied by Uncle Fester. Unlike the other versions, Gomez is usually wearing a pink suit. Morticia Frump Addams - The matriarch of the family, like her husband, she is very much involved with the raising of her children, and returns the amorous attention she receives from her husband. Her hobbies include art and taking care of the plants and she can be described as a vamp and is commonly seen wearing black gothic dresses. Gomezs nickname for Morticia is Tish, Morticias catch phrase is, Oh, Gomez. Wednesday Addams - The intelligent daughter of Gomez and Morticia and the sister of Pugsley. She can be described as a girl with low enthusiasm and enjoys torturing her brother with dangerous objects, unlike its other versions, she is the tallest of the two children. Wednesday is trademarked by her pigtails and blue dress, and often carries her headless doll Marie with her, in Happyester Fester Maries name was Juliet. Pugsley Addams - The son of Gomez and Morticia and the big brother of Wednesday and he is an overweight boy with blond hair who can be described as slightly dimwitted
