The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle

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The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
GenreSuperhero (Mighty Mouse)
Comedy (Heckle & Jeckle)
Slapstick (Heckle & Jeckle)
Dark comedy (Quacula)
Voices ofLou Scheimer
Alan Oppenheimer
Diane Pershing
Frank Welker
Norm Prescott
Erika Scheimer
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes16 (96 segments)
Production
Executive producersNorm Prescott
Lou Scheimer
ProducerDon Christensen
Running time1 hour (shortened to 30 minutes in 1980)
Production companiesFilmation
Viacom Productions
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseSeptember 8, 1979 (1979-09-08) –
April 8, 1980 (1980-04-08)
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The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle is a 1979–1980 television series featuring newly produced Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle cartoons. The series was produced by Filmation, and aired from 1979 to 1980 on CBS with 96 episodes (128 if counting the educational "Nature" and "Homonyms" segments, hosted by Mighty and Heckle and Jeckle respectively) produced.[1] It was the second Mighty Mouse cartoon series, following the original Mighty Mouse Playhouse from 1955 to 1967, and followed by Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which aired from 1987 to 1988.

The show introduced two new characters: a vampire duck named Quacula, and Oil Can Harry's bumbling assistant, Swifty, a fat cat that can still run extremely fast. Quacula was depicted as a pale blue duck with a Daffy Duck-like bill and fangs, dressed in a blue jacket and a black cape with a red lining. He slept by day in a white coffin shaped like an egg, in the basement of a house owned by an anthropomorphic bear named Theodore. Every night Quacula would rise from his coffin and try to terrify Theodore and others, but he would never really succeed; his antics tended to be more comical than frightening. Also, Theodore would come up with one plan after another to rid himself of Quacula, but always fail to do so.[2]

Each hour of The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle consisted of two Mighty Mouse cartoons, two Heckle and Jeckle cartoons, one Quacula cartoon, and one episode of the 16-part science fiction serial The Great Space Chase. Also included was "Mighty Mouse Environmental Bulletins" and Heckle & Jeckle's "Homonyms" (to add a little educational karma). However, cartoonist Scott Shaw filed suit against Filmation due to the fact that he had created a character named Duckula for the comic book Quack! #1 (July 1976), published by Star*Reach. The matter was settled out of court, and after 16 episodes Quacula was dropped from the show. The show was shortened to a half-hour in 1980, and was moved to Sundays in its final season.[2][3] In 1982, The Great Space Chase was re-edited into an 80-minute movie which had a limited release to theaters. It later appeared on home video.

Voice actors and their characters

Episodes


No. Original air date Title Written by:
1 September 8, 1979 Mouse of the Desert (Mighty Mouse) Sam Simon
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 1
Stop...Pay Troll (Mighty Mouse) Sam Simon
Goldfeather (Heckle & Jeckle) Bill Danch
Star Boars (Quacula) Ted Pedersen
The Golden Egg (Heckle & Jeckle) Dan DiStefano
2 September 15, 1979 Planks a Lot (Mighty Mouse) Sam Simon
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 2
The Exercist (Mighty Mouse) Marc Richards
The Heroes (Heckle & Jeckle) Ron Card
House for Sale (Quacula) Ron Card
Cavebirds (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
3 September 22, 1979 The Star of Cucamonga (Mighty Mouse) Ron Card
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 3
Gypsy Mice (Mighty Mouse) Ted Pedersen
Show Business (Heckle & Jeckle) Bill Danch
Weird Bear (Quacula) Bill Danch & Ted Pedersen
Spurs (Heckle & Jeckle) Ron Card
4 September 29, 1979 Loco Motivations (Mighty Mouse) Dave Bascom
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 4 Buzz Dixon
Cats and Robbers (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
Birds of Paradise (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
Monster Mash (Quacula) Ted Pedersen
The Open Road (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
5 October 6, 1979 Blimp with the Wind (Mighty Mouse) Dave Bascom
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 5
Catula (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
Robot Factory (Heckle & Jeckle) Creighton Barnes
Uncle Ferenc (Quacula) Ron Card
Farmer and the Crows (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
6 October 13, 1979 Mousrace (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 6
The Sun Harnesser (Mighty Mouse) Ron Card
Foreign Legion Birds (Heckle & Jeckle) Dan DiStefano
The Magic Lamp (Quacula) Ron Card
Mail Birds (Heckle & Jeckle) Creighton Barnes
7 October 20, 1979 Movie Mouse (Mighty Mouse) Sam Simon
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 7
Mick Jaguar in Concert (Mighty Mouse) Buzz Dixon
The Malcon-tents (Heckle & Jeckle) Ron Card
Room for Rent (Quacula) Ron Card
Bellhops (Heckle & Jeckle) Nancy Schipper
8 October 27, 1979 Pheline of the Rock Opera (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 8 Buzz Dixon
Captain Nemo-oh-oh (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
Sphinx! (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
Morgana La Duck (Quacula) Paul Dini
Hang Two (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
9 November 3, 1979 Snow Mouse (Mighty Mouse) Ted Pedersen
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 9
Haunted House Mouse (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
Witch Way Outta Here (Heckle & Jeckle) Dan DiStefano
Return of Star Boars (Quacula) Ted Pedersen
C.B. Birds (Heckle & Jeckle) Nancy Schipper
10 November 10, 1979 Cat Ness Monster (Mighty Mouse) Creighton Barnes
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 10 Sam Simon & Buzz Dixon
Rugged Rodent (Mighty Mouse) Buzz Dixon
Shopping Center (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
Time and Before (Quacula) Ted Pedersen
Where There's a Will (Heckle & Jeckle) Ron Card & Bill Danch
11 November 17, 1979 Gorilla My Dreams (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 11
Cattenstein (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
Identity Problem (Heckle & Jeckle) Creighton Barnes
Bungled Burglary (Quacula) Paul Dini
Time Warped (Heckle & Jeckle) Paul Dini
12 November 24, 1979 Cat of the Baskervilles (Mighty Mouse) Sam Simon
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 12
Pearl of the Jungle (Mighty Mouse)
Invisible Birds (Heckle & Jeckle)
Shanghai Salty (Quacula) Ted Pedersen
Marathon Bird (Heckle & Jeckle) Nancy Schipper
13 December 1, 1979 Moby Whale (Mighty Mouse) Buzz Dixon
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 13
Big Top Cat (Mighty Mouse)
Supermarket (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
Pyramid (Quacula) Ron Card & Bill Danch
Flowered Knighthood (Heckle & Jeckle) Ted Pedersen
14 December 8, 1979 The Disorient Express (Mighty Mouse) Sam Simon
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 14
The Maltese Mouse (Mighty Mouse) Buzz Dixon
Astrobirds (Heckle & Jeckle)
Haunted House (Quacula) Ron Card
Apartment Birds (Heckle & Jeckle)
15 December 15, 1979 Beau Jest (Mighty Mouse) Bill Danch
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 15
Curse of the Cat (Mighty Mouse)
The 25th Century (Heckle & Jeckle)
Magic Duck (Quacula) Ron Card
Safari Birds (Heckle & Jeckle) Sam Simon
16 December 22, 1979 Around the World in 80 Ways (Mighty Mouse) Ted Pedersen
The Great Space Chase: Chapter 16
Tugboat Pearl (Mighty Mouse)
Wonderland (Heckle & Jeckle)
The Fantastic 2½ (Quacula) Ted Pedersen
Arabian Nights and Days (Heckle & Jeckle)

References

  1. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 546–549. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  2. ^ a b Scheimer, Lou; Mangels, Andy (2012). Creating the Filmation Generation. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-60549-044-1.
  3. ^ "Duckula Plagiarism". Facebook. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

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