Taz-Mania
| Taz-Mania | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated comedy |
| Created by | Art Vitello |
| Developed by |
Jean MacCurdy Tom Ruegger |
| Presented by | Warner Bros. Animation |
| Voices of |
Jim Cummings Maurice LaMarche Miriam Flynn Debi Derryberry Kellie Martin Rob Paulsen John Astin |
| Theme music composer | Richard Stone |
| Opening theme | "Come to Taz-Mania" by Jess Harnell and Jim Cummings |
| Ending theme | "Come to Taz-Mania" (Instrumental) |
| Composer(s) |
Richard Stone Mark Watters Don Davis Steve Bernstein John Given Carl Johnson Harvey Cohen Jerry Grant |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 65 (102 segments) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Jean MacCurdy Tom Ruegger |
| Producer(s) | Art Vitello |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Warner Bros. Animation |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox (Fox Kids) |
| Original release | September 7, 1991 – May 22, 1995 |
Taz-Mania is an American cartoon sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 1991 to 1995, broadcast in the United States on Fox. The show follows the adventures of the Looney Tunes character Taz (The Tasmanian Devil) in the fictional land of Tazmania (based on Tasmania).
Similar to other Warner Brothers cartoons of its time, such as Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania frequently broke the fourth wall, and often made jokes showing that Taz could actually speak perfectly normally when he wanted to. The intro indicates that, in this rendering of Tasmania, "the sky's always yellow, rain or shine". The title song is performed by Jess Harnell and Jim Cummings.
Episodes are copyright 1991 (1–14), 1992 (15–47), or 1993 (48–65); note that this does not always correspond with when they originally aired.
Five video games based on the show were made, two by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear and three by Sunsoft consisting in one for the SNES and two for the Game Boy.
Three VHS tapes were released in 1993. After the show ceased running on Fox Kids, it was rerun for a short time on TBS in 1996-1997 (after the Time-Warner/Turner merger) as part of their Disaster Area block, and has also been rerun on Cartoon Network.
A DVD containing the first four episodes of the series was released in Europe in April 2010, whilst later released in the UK in 2011 under the title "Taz and Friends" as part of the Kids' WB "Big Faces" series.
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