"The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin" (1987) TV series 1987-1988

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Creator:

Ken Forsse

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

14 September 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical

Plot:

Illiop Teddy Ruxpin (Illiops being bear-like creatures) leaves his homeland in Rillonia with his friend Grubby...

Plot Keywords:

Bear | Based On Toy | Character Name In Title

Cast

Phil Baron	...	Teddy Ruxpin / ... (32 episodes, 1987)
Will Ryan	...	Grubby (32 episodes, 1987)
John Stocker	...	Newton Gimmick (31 episodes, 1987)
Robert Bockstael	...	L.B. / ... (22 episodes, 1987)
John Koensgen	...	Tweeg (19 episodes, 1987)

Runtime:

22 min (65 episodes)

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-Y

Company:

Alchemy II/Worlds of Wonder Inc.

Trivia:

An episode depicting Tweeg, L.B. and piles of old books was in pre-production at Atkinson Film Arts in Ottawa around Christmas 1986, with scripts trickling slowly into the layout and posing departments. Some bored posers began putting silly and risque titles to the books, expecting they would be deleted later, when the scenes were animated in Korea. A month hence, the Korean rushes returned to Ottawa and the scenes were screened to the sponsors. To everyone's shock and to Atkinson's chagrin, it was clear these inappropriate book titles remained until this point of the product. Korean animators could not understand English and didn't realize these titles were meant as a temporary joke. Atkinson's ate the cost of repairing the scenes, yet portions of the bogus titles remain in the final cut.

Back when cartoons still had a story to tell

It must have been 13-14 years ago when I last saw Teddy Ruxspin as a little kid. After such a long time you tend to forget about most of your favorite childhood cartoons, but the one that always stuck by me was 'The adventures of Teddy Ruxpin'. I vividly remember the great story it had, the many interesting places Teddy used to visit and the strange creatures he met along the way. This cartoon had a real story to tell and an interesting one at that, something you can't say about most modern day cartoons. Perhaps they should air 'The adventures of Teddy Ruxpin' again sometime, not for sentimental reasons, but to see how it would hold up against today's cartoons. I'm sure it would still appeal to the younger generation.