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The King Kong Show
King Kong (キングコング⅐親指トム, Kingu Kongu 00+1⁄7 Oyayubi Tomu), commonly referred to as The King Kong Show, is an American anime-based animated television series produced by Videocraft International and Toei Animation. ABC ran the series in the United States on Saturday mornings between September 6, 1966, and March 4, 1967. It is the first animated series produced in Japan for an American company (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop motion productions, which were also animated in Japan), making it an example of an anime-based work.
This series is an animated adaptation of the famous film monster King Kong with character designs by Jack Davis and Rod Willis. It is also the first animated series in the King Kong franchise.
In this segment, the giant ape named Kong befriends the Bond family, with whom he goes on various adventures, fighting monsters, robots, aliens, mad scientists like Doctor Who, and other threats. Unlike his counterpart from the original 1933 film, Kong is a protector of humanity.
A parody of spy films of the 1960s called Tom of T.H.U.M.B. (based on the character in English folklore 'Tom Thumb'), about a secret agent for T.H.U.M.B. (short for Tiny Human Underground Military Bureau) named Tom and his Asian sidekick Swinging Jack, who are accidentally reduced by a shrinking laser ray gun to 3 in (76 mm) tall. The pair are sent out in a variety of miniature vehicles by their bad-tempered boss Chief Homer J. Chief to foil the fiendish plots of M.A.D. (short for Maladjusted, Anti-social and Darn mean), an evil organization made up of black-hatted and black-cloaked scientists "bent on destroying the world for their own gains".
Starting with the second episode, each episode begins with a six-minute King Kong segment, followed by a six-minute Tom of T.H.U.M.B. segment, and then a second six-minute King Kong segment.
The theme music for the series was recorded in London, England, in 1965, using primarily British studio musicians. Canadian conductor, vocalist and former Kitchener-Waterloo Record entertainment columnist Harry Currie provided vocal talent on the recording.
In Japan, the first two episodes were combined into a 56-minute special, titled King of the World: The King Kong Show (世界の王者 キングコング大会, Sekai no Ōja: Kingu Kongu Taikai), and was broadcast on NET (now TV Asahi) on December 31, 1966. The rest of the series, with the inclusion of Tom of T.H.U.M.B., was broadcast on NET as King Kong & 00+1⁄7 Tom Thumb (キングコング00+1⁄7親指トム, Kingu Kongu 00+1⁄7 Oyayubi Tomu), and aired from April 5 to October 4, 1967, with a total of 25 episodes.
On November 15, 2005, Sony Wonder released the first eight episodes (two King Kong cartoons separated by a Tom of T.H.U.M.B. cartoon) on two DVD releases titled King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 1 and King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 2. The pilot episode was included, in its two parts for American syndication, between the two DVDs.
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The King Kong Show
King Kong (キングコング⅐親指トム, Kingu Kongu 00+1⁄7 Oyayubi Tomu), commonly referred to as The King Kong Show, is an American anime-based animated television series produced by Videocraft International and Toei Animation. ABC ran the series in the United States on Saturday mornings between September 6, 1966, and March 4, 1967. It is the first animated series produced in Japan for an American company (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop motion productions, which were also animated in Japan), making it an example of an anime-based work.
This series is an animated adaptation of the famous film monster King Kong with character designs by Jack Davis and Rod Willis. It is also the first animated series in the King Kong franchise.
In this segment, the giant ape named Kong befriends the Bond family, with whom he goes on various adventures, fighting monsters, robots, aliens, mad scientists like Doctor Who, and other threats. Unlike his counterpart from the original 1933 film, Kong is a protector of humanity.
A parody of spy films of the 1960s called Tom of T.H.U.M.B. (based on the character in English folklore 'Tom Thumb'), about a secret agent for T.H.U.M.B. (short for Tiny Human Underground Military Bureau) named Tom and his Asian sidekick Swinging Jack, who are accidentally reduced by a shrinking laser ray gun to 3 in (76 mm) tall. The pair are sent out in a variety of miniature vehicles by their bad-tempered boss Chief Homer J. Chief to foil the fiendish plots of M.A.D. (short for Maladjusted, Anti-social and Darn mean), an evil organization made up of black-hatted and black-cloaked scientists "bent on destroying the world for their own gains".
Starting with the second episode, each episode begins with a six-minute King Kong segment, followed by a six-minute Tom of T.H.U.M.B. segment, and then a second six-minute King Kong segment.
The theme music for the series was recorded in London, England, in 1965, using primarily British studio musicians. Canadian conductor, vocalist and former Kitchener-Waterloo Record entertainment columnist Harry Currie provided vocal talent on the recording.
In Japan, the first two episodes were combined into a 56-minute special, titled King of the World: The King Kong Show (世界の王者 キングコング大会, Sekai no Ōja: Kingu Kongu Taikai), and was broadcast on NET (now TV Asahi) on December 31, 1966. The rest of the series, with the inclusion of Tom of T.H.U.M.B., was broadcast on NET as King Kong & 00+1⁄7 Tom Thumb (キングコング00+1⁄7親指トム, Kingu Kongu 00+1⁄7 Oyayubi Tomu), and aired from April 5 to October 4, 1967, with a total of 25 episodes.
On November 15, 2005, Sony Wonder released the first eight episodes (two King Kong cartoons separated by a Tom of T.H.U.M.B. cartoon) on two DVD releases titled King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 1 and King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 2. The pilot episode was included, in its two parts for American syndication, between the two DVDs.