Super Mario World (TV series)
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| Genre | |
| Created by | Shigeru Miyamoto (original characters) |
| Directed by | John Grusd |
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| Theme music composer | Mark Mothersbaugh |
| Opening theme | "Super Mario World" |
| Ending theme | "Super Mario World" (Instrumental) |
| Composer(s) | Michael Tavera |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Andy Heyward |
| Producer(s) | John Grusd |
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| Running time | 10–11 minutes |
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| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Surround 2.0 |
| Original release | September 14 – December 7, 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Captain N & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990) |
Super Mario World is an American animated musical comedy television series loosely based on the Super NES video game of the same name. It is the third animated series based on the Mario video game series, with the other two being The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. Unlike its two predecessors, this series does not feature Toad (though his voice actor, , voices other characters in this show) and takes place in Dinosaur World. It instead features Yoshi. Thirteen episodes of the show were aired, as part of a block with Captain N: The Game Master called Captain N & The New Super Mario World on NBC. Just like The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the show is produced by DIC Entertainment and the Italian studio Reteitalia, S.p.A. in association with Nintendo of America, Inc., who licensed the characters and power-ups from the game to DiC.
The series centers on Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool, now living in Dinosaur Land (sometimes also called Dinosaur World) with Yoshi, who is depicted on the show as a curious childlike dinosaur with a large appetite and several phobias. King Koopa (otherwise known as Bowser) and the Koopalings were also around, having followed the Super Mario Bros. and the Princess to Dinosaur Land.
Unlike in the game, Dinosaur Land was depicted as being populated with cavepeople, including a pre-adolescent caveboy named Oogtar, who replaced the role of Toad (Oogtar even had the same voice actor as Toad, ). Some episodes revolved around Mario trying to introduce a modern invention to the cavepeople in an attempt to make their lives easier, only for the Koopas to twist it into an evil scheme. It is unclear whether the characters had traveled back in time (in the episode "Rock TV", King Koopa mentions "there's no TV here in the Stone Age [because] it hasn't been invented yet"), or if Dinosaur Land was simply a "lost valley"-esque island that the characters had come to (in the flashback episode "Mama Luigi", Luigi simply mentions that he and the others came to Dinosaur Land for a vacation without any mention of time travel).
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