Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines (1985) (V)

Writer:

Flint Dille (writer)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Family | Thriller

Plot:

Originally serialized in the syndicated _Super Week_, which began this serial with the tug-of-war scene 17 minutes in...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Toy

Cast

Susan Blu	...	Jennifer / Red / Redder (voice)
Wally Burr	...	Close McCall (voice)
Peter Cullen	...	Arthur Ravenscroft (voice)
Pat Fraley	...	(voice)
Jerry Houser	...	(voice)
Vince Howard	...	(voice)
Chris Latta	...	Adrian Ravenscroft / Ernie Slye (voice)
Lance LeGault	...	Yank Justice (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Ravenscroft's Chauffeur (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arthur Burghardt	...	Professor D. (voice) (uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Flint Dille		writer

Produced by
Joe Bacal	....	executive producer
Nick Bosustow	....	producer
Flint Dille	....	associate producer
Tom Griffin	....	executive producer
Don Jurwich	....	producer
Margaret Loesch	....	executive producer
Roger Slifer	....	associate producer
Sam Weiss	....	producer

Original Music by
Robert J. Walsh

Art Direction by
Bill DuBay

Production Management
Jim Graziano	....	director of production
Stephanie Graziano	....	production manager (as Stephanie Burt)
Lee Gunther	....	executive in charge of production
Sean Sullivan	....	post-production supervisor
Carole Weitzman	....	production manager

Art Department
Gregg Davidson	....	storyboard director (as Greg Davidson)
Jim Janes	....	storyboard director
Keith Tucker	....	storyboard director
Alan Wright	....	storyboard director

Sound Department
Richard C. Allen	....	sound effects editor (as Richard Allen)
Jim Blodgett	....	sound effects editor
Michael L. DePatie	....	sound effects editor
John Detra	....	sound effects editor
Karen Doulac	....	sound effects editor
Ron Fedele	....	sound effects editor
Jerry Jacobson	....	sound effects editor
Michael Tomack	....	sound effects editor

Animation Department
Lee Go	....	model designer
Adrian Gonzales	....	layout artist
Adrian Gonzales	....	model designer
Jim Janes	....	layout artist
Jim Janes	....	model designer
Robert Schaefer	....	background designer (as Bob Schaffer)
Dennis Venizelos	....	background designer

Editorial Department
Steven C. Brown	....	supervising editor
Sarah Swiskow	....	telecine supervisor

Music Department
Anne Bryant	....	composer: title song (as Bryant)
Peter Collier	....	music editor
Ford Kinder	....	composer: title song (as Kinder)
Mark Shiney	....	music editor
Robert J. Walsh	....	conductor

Other crew
Jay Bacal	....	creative director
Warren Batchelder	....	sequence director
Wally Burr	....	voice director
Brad Case	....	sequence director
Joan Case	....	sequence director
Gerry Chiniquy	....	sequence director
Bill Exter	....	sequence director
John Gibbs	....	supervising director
Michael Charles Hill	....	production associate
Bob Kirk	....	sequence director
Al Kouzel	....	sequence director
Ray Lee	....	supervising director
Terry Lennon	....	supervising director (as T.C. Lennon)
Bob Matz	....	sequence director
Norm McCabe	....	sequence director
Margaret Nichols	....	sequence director (as M. Flores Nichols)
Karen Peterson	....	sequence director
Tom Ray	....	sequence director
Robert Shellhorn	....	sequence director
Bob Treat	....	sequence director
Keith Tucker	....	main title creator

Production Companies

• Sunbow Productions
• Marvel Productions
• Hasbro

Distributors

• Hi-Tops Video (1986) (USA) (VHS)
• Sunbow Productions

Runtime:

USA:53 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Sunbow Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: Either identical twins Red and Redder keep switching clothes with one-another when no one else is changing, or the animators forgot which one was which, as their names and personalities switch back and forth.

Movie Connections:

Edited from "Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines" (1985)

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"Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines" was one of those 80s cartoons, part of a seemingly endless stream from the US, that pitted a group of superheroes against a scene-chewing bad guy. Based on a toy by Hasbro, the crime fighting team here were Yank Justice and his giant machine 'Bigfoot', alongside a pair of foxy red-headed twins, and the silver-haired Prof D. In the UK video version (presumably a amalgamation of a few episodes) they help out with preventing billionaire Mr. Big getting his hands on the fountain of youth.

It's all rather predictable, but makes a change from the usual space setting by having humans battling humans, and Yank Justice's sadistic streak is a bonus, "Are we gonna talk? Or munch knuckle?!". The animation is shoddy though, and it's all a bit tedious after Bigfoot has got out of each predicament by driving over everything in sight. Probably better in bitesize episodes rather than this 50 minute marathon.