The Comic Strip | |
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Starring |
Bob McFadden Larry Kenney Maggie Wheeler (credited as Maggie Jakobson) |
Music by | Bernard Hoffer |
Country of origin |
United States Canada |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 65 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass |
Running time | 20 min. |
Production company(s) | Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment |
Distributor |
Lorimar-Telepictures Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
Release | |
Original network | Syndicated |
Original release | September 7 – December 4, 1987 (first run) Fall 1988 (repeats) |
The Comic Strip is an American animated series which features four rotating cartoon segments. The 90-minute series ran in first-run syndication during the 1987 season and was also seen on RPN-9 in the Philippines, and on Rai 2 in Italy.
Despite the show title, the segments have no history in newspaper comic strips.
This was the last TV series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures.
The four segments offered were:
Typically, two segments, each running about 10 minutes, were shown on each broadcast.
VHS releases of certain episodes of The Comic Strip were made available in 1987. These VHS tapes each featured three installments of one particular cartoon. For example, the video "Adventures at Camp Mini-Mon" contained three episodes: "Camp Mini-Mon The First Day", "The Belly Ache" and "Alien."
To date, there have been no DVD or digital releases of this series in the United States.