Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Genre	Animation Comedy
Based on	Characters created by John DeBello J. Stephen Peace Costa Dillon
Developed by	Richard Mueller
Written by	Richard Mueller Jack Enyart Ted Pedersen
Directed by	Karen Peterson
Starring	John Astin Thom Bray S. Scott Bullock Cam Clarke Kath Soucie Christian Guzek Maurice LaMarche
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	21
Production
Executive producer(s)	John De Bello J. Stephen Peace Joe Taritero
Producer(s)	Boyd Kirkland (Season 1) Richard Trueblood (Season 2)
Running time	23 minutes
Production company(s)	Marvel Productions Fox Children's Productions
Distributor	BVS Entertainment
Release
Original network	Fox Kids Network
Original release	September 8, 1990 – November 23, 1991

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is an American animated television series based on the movies Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (from 1978) and Return of the Killer Tomatoes (from 1988). It aired on Fox Kids from September 8, 1990 to November 23, 1991. Repeats continued to air until September 5, 1992. Three or four years later, repeats were aired on Fox from April 20, 1996 to August 31, 1996. It was also shown on October 26, 1996. In addition, repeats were aired on Fox Family from 1998 to 2000.

The original film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was released by Four Square Productions in 1978. A parody of the giant menace movies of the 1950s, it became a cult hit and predated the movie-spoofing disaster film Airplane! by two years. The Killer Tomatoes might have remained in that genre had it not been for an unlikely intervention from an equally unlikely source. During the 1986-1987 season of Muppet Babies, there was a segment in the episode "The Weirdo Zone" upon which Baby Fozzie deals with how he once faced an 'Attack of the Silly Tomatoes'. The segment used clips from the movie and concluded with Baby Fozzie using a giant-sized ketchup bottle to capture the Silly Tomatoes (he told bad jokes and the large tomatoes launched themselves at him, only to be caught inside the bottle when he ducked out of the way). It became one of the higher-rated episodes of the season, so much that New World Pictures (the owner of Marvel Productions, which made Muppet Babies) approached Four Square about making a sequel to Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes. Four Square had never intended to make a sequel but when New World approached them with a two-million dollar budget towards filming a potential sequel, John De Bello, Costa Dillon and Stephen Peace got to work on crafting a script. The resulting film, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, was a surprise success. New World was pleased with the results, and the company decided to duplicate the results of the film with an animated series aimed at a younger audience. Tweaking various characters and ideas from both Attack and Return, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Series was born and debuted as one of the first Saturday morning cartoons on the Fox Children's Network in the fall of 1990.

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