Wake, Rattle & Roll

Wake, Rattle, and Roll
Title Card for Wake, Rattle, and Roll.
Genre	Comedy
Created by	David Kirschner
Written by	Laren Bright Brady Connell Don Dougherty David Kirschner Ken Knox Linda Krause Earl Kress Kristina Luckey Bill Matheny David Schwartz Carl Swenson Marlowe Weisman
Directed by	Doug Rogers Steven J. Santos
Creative director(s)	Rick Schneider-Calabash
Starring	R.J. Williams Avery Schreiber Ebonie Smith Terri Ivens
Voices of	Charlie Adler Greg Burson Tim Curry Richard Gautier Marvin Kaplan John Mariano Allan Melvin Don Messick Pat Musick Rob Paulsen Neil Ross Arnold Stang John Stephenson Shadoe Stevens Jean Vander Pyl Janet Waldo Frank Welker Paul Winchell Jonathan Winters Patric Zimmerman
Theme music composer	Joe Curiale
Composer(s)	Joe Curiale (Race segments) Udi Harpaz Bob Mithoff Michael Tavera (Monster Tails)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	50 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Shukri Ghalayini David Kirschner Ron Ziskin Cartoon segments: William Hanna Joseph Barbera Paul Sabella
Producer(s)	Cosmo Anzilotti David Casci Jim Crum Jeffrey Hilton Jeffrey Scott Kelly Ward Kay Wright
Editor(s)	Terry Moore
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions Four Point Entertainment
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	Syndication The Disney Channel
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Stereophonic
Original release	September 17, 1990 (1990-09-17) – 1991 (1991)
Chronology
Related shows	Monster Tails Fender Bender 500

Wake, Rattle, and Roll (retitled Jump, Rattle, and Roll when it aired on The Disney Channel on weekday afternoons in 1991) is a live-action/animated television show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Four Point Entertainment that premiered in the fall of 1990. The show's title was inspired by the song "Shake, Rattle and Roll". After its single season on the air in syndication, Wake, Rattle, and Roll moved exclusively to The Disney Channel under the title Jump, Rattle, and Roll.Jump, Rattle, and Roll ran on The Disney Channel from October 7, 1991 to 1994. It has also been screened on Network Ten in Australia while the animated segments were broadcast on ITV in the UK as part of the short running Saturday morning children's programme TV Mayhem.

The series was about a boy named Sam Baxter (played by R. J. Williams) and his robot D.E.C.K.S. (voiced by Rob Paulsen; built from old audio/video equipment and a Sony U-Matic videotape head; an acronym for Digital Electronic Cassette-Headed Kinetic System) and their adventures in the basement, which has a time machine that can bring back historical figures. In some cases, Sam and D.E.C.K.S. occasionally have remote fights in which they each have a remote control and start pressing buttons changing each other from Hanna-Barbera stars to famous movie stars.

Sam's grandpa Dr. Lester T. Quirk (played by Avery Schreiber) is a brilliant inventor and is constantly supplying Sam and DECKS with sci-fi technology to add to their basement bedroom:

After a short live-action skit, D.E.C.K.S. would turn on the television screen on his torso and display an animated short. There are two new Hanna-Barbera series made exclusively for this program.

Monster Tails is about a group of pets who live in a castle in Transylvania with their guardian Igor Jr. (voiced by Charlie Adler), the son of Igor (Iggy for short). Each of them had a similar personality to their masters, who are in Hollywood making movies:

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