Ruby Spears
| Private | |
| Industry |
Animation Live-action |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Founder |
Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Defunct | 1996 |
| Headquarters |
Burbank, California, USA Rome, Italy |
| Products |
Television shows Theatrical films Television specials Direct-to-video films Television films Television commercials |
| Parent |
Time Warner (library only) Taft Broadcasting |
Ruby-Spears Productions (also known as Ruby-Spears Enterprises) was a Burbank, California-based American entertainment production company that specialized in animation; with another branch in Rome, Italy. The firm was founded in 1977 by veteran writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.
Both Ruby and Spears started out as sound editors at Hanna-Barbera, and later branched out into writing stories for such programs as Space Ghost and The Herculoids. In 1969, they were assigned the task of developing a mystery-based cartoon series for Saturday mornings, the result of which was Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. They were also writers and producers for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, particularly for The Barkleys and The Houndcats.
Ruby-Spears Productions was founded in 1977 while Ruby and Spears were network executives at ABC supervising the Saturday morning programing. ABC Entertainment president Fred Silverman wanted to create competition for Hanna-Barbera, which was providing a bulk of the Saturday morning content for all three major networks and concerns of quality began to arise. The company's credits include the animated series Fangface, Goldie Gold and Action Jack, The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show, Thundarr the Barbarian, Rubik, the Amazing Cube, the 1983 version of the Alvin and the Chipmunks series, Mister T, Sectaurs, The Centurions, the 1988 Superman series, the Police Academy animated series and the American Mega Man cartoon series.
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