Jungle Cubs
| Jungle Cubs | |
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Disney's Jungle Cubs title card from Season 1
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| Genre |
Adventure Family Comedy |
| Created by | Mark S. Bernthal |
| Written by | Sam Graham Chris Hubbell Tedd Anasti Patsy Cameron Lesa Kite Roger Reitzel Peter K. Hirsch David Weimers Scott Gray |
| Directed by | Chris Bartleman Joe Horne Kenny Thompkins Blair Peters Mircea Mantta |
| Voices of |
Jim Cummings Pamela Adlon Jason Marsden Elizabeth Daily Stephen Furst Rob Paulsen Dee Bradley Baker Michael McKean Cree Summer David L. Lander |
| Theme music composer | Lou Rawls |
| Opening theme | "The Bare Necessities" |
| Ending theme | "The Bare Necessities" (instrumental) |
| Composer(s) | Stephen James Taylor |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 21 (34 segments) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Tedd Anasti Patsy Cameron |
| Producer(s) | Chris Bartleman Kenny Thompkins Blair Peters Mircea Mantta |
| Editor(s) | Peter Lonsdale Robert S. Birchard Carol Lewis John Royer |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Walt Disney Television Animation Walt Disney Animation (Australia) Pty. Limited Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. Thai Wang Film Productions Toon City Animation, Inc. Summin Image Pictures Co., Ltd. |
| Distributor | Buena Vista Television |
| Release | |
| Original network |
ABC Disney Junior Disney Channel Toon Disney |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Surround |
| Original release | October 5, 1996 – January 10, 1998 |
Jungle Cubs is an American animated series produced by Disney for ABC in 1996. It was is an television series based on the their 1967 film The Jungle Book, but set in the youth of the animal characters. The show was a hit, running for two seasons in syndication before its re-runs to the Disney Channel. The show was broadcast on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in 2001. Re-runs aired on Disney Junior in the US from 2012 to 2013. The show did air in the United Kingdom on Disney Cinemagic and in Latin America until it was removed. The show's theme song is a hip-hop version of the classic song, "The Bare Necessities" performed by Lou Rawls. As of May 31, 2016, every episode of the series is available for purchase on the iTunes Store.
The animal stars of Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book were regressed to cubs for this syndicated animated series. Jungle Cubs suggested that when they were younger, both the good and antagonistic animals lived together in relative peace.
Each of the characters were given distinct characteristics which reflected their future personalities as seen in The Jungle Book; this creative idea further tied the show in with its film predecessor. Uptight Bagheera, free-spirited Baloo, headstrong Shere Khan, wild Prince Louie, neurotic Hathi, and hypnotic Kaa all returned from the film, putting aside their differences to live and learn together. The show gave a female elephant named Winifred a prominent role; she was (Colonel) Hathi's wife in The Jungle Book.
The cubs brave a variety of jungle dangers, often matching wits with sneaky vultures Cecil and Arthur. Living up to new federal regulations for educational television, Jungle Cubs offer lessons on friendship, self-respect, and other healthy traits, crafted for an audience of young children.
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