Donkey Kong Country (TV series)
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| Created by |
Shigeru Miyamoto (original Donkey Kong character) Rare Ltd. (Donkey Kong Country video game series) |
| Developed by | Jacques Goldstein Philippe Percebois |
| Directed by | Mike Fallows |
| Voices of |
Richard Yearwood Andrew Sabiston Joy Tanner Aron Tager Ben Campbell Adrian Truss Louise Vallance Donald Burda Len Carlson Damon D'Oliveira Lawrence Bayne Rick Jones Ron Rubin |
| Theme music composer | Pure West |
| Opening theme | "Donkey Kong Country" |
| Ending theme | "Donkey Kong Country" (Instrumental) |
| Composer(s) | Pure West |
| Country of origin | Canada France |
| Original language(s) | English French |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Dale A. Andrews Patrick Loubert Michael Hirsh Clive Smith Gérard Mital (Season 1 only) Jacques Peyrache (Season 1 only) |
| Producer(s) | Maia Tubiana (Season 1) Stephen Hodgins (Season 1; supervising producer, Season 2) Patricia R. Burns (Season 1; supervising producer, Season 2) Pam Lehn (Season 2) |
| Editor(s) | Samuel Lajus |
| Running time | 30 minutes (per episode) |
| Production company(s) |
Nelvana Limited Medialab (season 1) Hong Guang Animation (season 2) WIC Entertainment France 2 Canal + TV Asahi (season 1) Ellipsanime (season 2) Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (season 2) Medianet (season 2) |
| Distributor | Alliance Communications |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Teletoon (Canada) France 2 (France) CBS (United States) (1998) Fox Family (United States) (1998–2000) Fox Kids (1998-1999) (United States) |
| Original release |
France: September 4, 1996 United States: August 15, 1998 – July 7, 2000 |
Donkey Kong Country is a Canadian/French computer-animated television series. It is based on the Nintendo franchise Donkey Kong as portrayed in the Donkey Kong Country video game series by Nintendo and Rare. Donkey Kong Country first aired in France on September 4, 1996; and aired on Teletoon in Canada in 1997. In the United States, it originally aired on CBS for a short time until the Fox Broadcasting Company got exclusive broadcast rights to the series. It was seen on Fox Kids from 1998-1999 for a very short time airing two episodes as specials on December 19 of 1998 and aired a few more episodes during the summer of 1999 before being taken off. It was also one of the first series to be shown on Fox Family, in which the series was broadcast in its entirety from August 15, 1998 (the same day Fox Family was launched) until 2000.
In Japan, Donkey Kong Country took over the TV Tokyo 6:30 p.m. timeslot from Gokudo airing on October 1, 1999, and was later replaced with Hamtaro after ending on June 30, 2000.
Donkey Kong Country was one of the earliest television series to be entirely computer-animated with motion capture, matching the artistic style of the video games. Several elements of the series, such as the crystal coconut, appeared in later Donkey Kong Country video games like Donkey Kong 64, which was released a year after the show began airing on Fox.
These characters all came from Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (mostly the former). However, some of them went through some design changes.
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