The Snorks

The Snorks
Genre	Animation Comedy Fantasy Adventure Sci-fi
Created by	Nic Broca
Directed by	Carl Urbano (Season 1) Rudy Zamora (Season 2) Alan Zaslove (Season 2) Oscar Dufau (Season 2–4) Don Lusk (Season 2–4) Art Davis (Season 3–4) Charlie Downs (Season 3–4) Bob Goe (Season 3–4) John Kimball (Season 3–4) Paul Sommer (Season 3–4) Ray Patterson (supervising director)
Voices of	Michael Bell B.J. Ward Barry Gordon Frank Welker Nancy Cartwright Brian Cummings Rob Paulsen Roger DeWitt Clive Revill René Auberjonois Fredricka Weber
Theme music composer	Ferry Wienneke (S01, WW version) Hoyt Curtin (S01, U.S. version; Season 2) Chase/Rucker Productions (Season 3–4)
Opening theme	"Snorks" (Season 1) "We're the Snorks" (Season 2) "Come Along with the Snorks" (Season 3–4)
Ending theme	"Snorks" (Instrumental) "We're the Snorks" (Instrumental) "Come Along with the Snorks" (Instrumental)
Composer(s)	Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin	Belgium United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	65 (108 segments plus an unaired pilot) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera Freddy Monnickendam
Producer(s)	Gerard Baldwin (Season 1) Berny Wolf (Season 2–4)
Editor(s)	Gil Iverson Robert Ciaglia (Season 3–4)
Running time	12 minutes per episode 24 minutes per episode (later episodes)
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions SEPP International S.A. 3M France (Season 1 only)
Distributor	Taft Broadcasting (original) Worldvision Enterprises (former) Great American Broadcasting (former) Turner Entertainment (former) Warner Bros. Television (current)
Release
Original network	NBC (1982, 1984–1986) ABC (1987–1988) USA Network (1987–1989)
First shown in	1982 (unaired 3 mins demo pilot)
Original release	September 15, 1984 – May 13, 1989

Snorks is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and ran for a total of four seasons (and 65 episodes) on NBC from September 15, 1984, to May 13, 1989. Although not as popular as its sister Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Smurfs, the program continued to be available in syndication from 1987 to 1989 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera's third season.

In 1977, Freddy Monnickendam, a Belgian businessman and artist, first made contact with the comics industry when he negotiated the rights for The Smurfs comics to Father Abraham. He later became the head of SEPP, the branch of Dupuis, as an editor responsible for the merchandising of Smurfs' comic series. He negotiated the contract between Peyo, NBC and Hanna-Barbera for the creation of a new Smurfs cartoon series. Peyo wanted the cartoon show to be as faithful as possible to his original comics, but Monnickendam wanted the series more mainstream and accessible. These negotiations would later result in a legal dispute between the two men due to the division of the rights and the money involved. As a final result, Monnickendam decided to compete with the Smurfs' success, starting a new series of cartoons.

In June 1981, Nic Broca created the earlier character designs that were made for "Diskies", a very early iteration, made for the comic series Spirou et Fantasio. Soon, the debut Snorks comic book was published in January 1982 by Broca himself.Freddy Monnickendam, after battling with Peyo in court, searched for a series that could rival the success of the Smurfs, as he tried and failed to buy the rights to the Smurfs since 1977. He acquired the Snorks' rights from Nic Broca, and both started a partnership with Hanna-Barbera for the creation of a new cartoon series. After that, a three-minute Snorks pilot episode was then made for NBC, although this episode has not been seen by the public.

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