The King Kong Show

King Kong
Original title card for the series
Voices of	Carl Banas Susan Conway John Drainie Billie Mae Richards Alf Scopp Paul Soles Bernard Cowan
Theme music composer	Maury Laws
Country of origin	United States Japan
Original language(s)	English, Japanese
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	25
Production
Executive producer(s)	Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass
Producer(s)	William J. Keenan Larry Roemer
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Videocraft Toei Animation
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Mono
Original release	September 10, 1966 – August 31, 1969

The King Kong Show (Japanese: キングコング・００１／７親指トム) is an American/Japanese anime series produced by Videocraft of the United States, and Toei Animation of Japan. It is the first anime series produced in Japan for an American company (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop motion productions, also animated in Japan). ABC ran the series in the US between September 10, 1966, and August 31, 1969.

This series is an animated adaptation of the famous movie monster King Kong with character designs by Jack Davis and Rod Willis. In this series, the giant ape befriends the Bond Family, with whom he goes on various adventures, saving the world from monsters, robots, aliens, mad scientists and other threats.

Included is a comical cartoon show called Tom Of T.H.U.M.B., about a three inch tall secret agent for T.H.U.M.B.("The Tiny Human Underground Military Bureau") named Tom and his equally tiny Asian "sidekick" Swinging Jack, who are sent out in a variety of miniature vehicles by their bad-tempered boss, Chief Homer J. Chief, to foil the fiendish plots of M.A.D.(Maladjusted, Antisocial and Darn mean), an evil organization made up of black-cloaked scientists out to destroy the world. (Neither Tom's nor Swinging Jack's full names are ever revealed in any of the Tom Of T.H.U.M.B. installments.)

In Japan, the first two episodes were combined into a 56-minute special, titled King of the World: The King Kong Show (世界の王者　キングコング大会, Sekai no Ôja: Kingu Kongu Taikai^?), and was broadcast on NET (now TV Asahi) on December 31, 1966. The rest of the series, with the inclusion of Tom of T.H.U.M.B., was broadcast on NET as King Kong & 001/7 Tom Thumb (Kingu Kongu * 001/7 Oyayubi Tomu - キングコング・001/7親指トム), and aired on April 5 to October 4, 1967, with a total of 26 episodes.