''C Bear and Jamal'' is an German-American animated musical comedy children's television series that originally aired on the

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programming block from 1996 to 1997. It centers on an elementary school-aged boy named Jamal, whose constant companion was "C Bear", an orange hip-hop teddy bear who raps.

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co-produced the show.

Characters

* Jamal Harrison Wingo (Arthur Reggie III) - Jamal is a trustful, 9-year-old (later 10-year-old) African-American boy who always seems to be in a mission, but has C Bear to help him when he's in trouble. * C-Bear (

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) - C Bear is a wise rapping teddy bear with a hip-hop look. He comes back to life when Jamal is around and is always ready to give him advice. He has the power to take with Jamal on wacky adventures. * Hawthorne Wingo ( George L. Wallace) - Hawthorne is the father of Jamal, who is always in desire and often questions Jamal on why he still keeps C Bear. It's unknown what happened to Hawthorne's wife. * Grandma (

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) - Jamal's grandmother, who cooks the food for her family and is very nice to everyone. * Grandpa ( Darryl Sivad) - Jamal's grandfather, who is bald and almost never leaves his chair. * Maya (

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) - Jamal's love interest, who is very loud but dislikes it when she is corrected on that. She is also very smart. * Big Chill ( Aries Spears) - Jamal's fat friend, who is always hungry and sounds like he has a cold. Whenever he's coming in a room he'll say "the b-i-g c-h-i double l is in the hizzouse". He's also been held back a few times. * Kwame (Aries Spears) Jamal's best friend, who is dressed in African clothes and believes in "power to the people" and often calls things "conspiracies by 'The Man'" when he is displeased. * Chipster (Jeannie Elias) - Jamal's Caucasian friend, who likes to make his friends laugh and never thinks of himself as weird. * Kim (

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) - Jamal's Asian friend, who is always with Maya and hates to see her friends being chosen on. * Javier ( Paul Rodríguez) - Jamal's Latino friend, who doesn't tend to say mean things.

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (1996)

Season 2 (1996–97)

Credits

* Executive Producers: Tone Loc, Phil Roman, Margaret Loesch * Producer: Bob Richardson * Story Editors: L. Rice, Al Sonya * Voice Director: Debbie Allen * Executives in Charge of Production: Bill Schultz, Anne Luiting * Studio Production Manager: Lolee Aries * Manager of Foreign Production: Kenneth T. Ito * Casting: Eileen Mack Knight * Director of Creative Development: Guy Vasilovich * Directors: David Brain, Vincent Davis, Brian Hogan, Emory Myrick * Music by: Kurt Farquhar * Main Title Song Written and Performed by: Tone Loc * Character Design: Bruce W. Smith * Layout Design: Charles Payne, Cliff Vorhees * Prop Design: Gary Hoffman, Jim Schumann * Painting: Deborah Mark, Belle Norman, Elizabeth Reed, Cookie Tricarico * Art Director: Brad Landreth * Backgrounds: Nathan Chew * Layouts: Nathan Chew * Color Key Supervisor: Phyllis Craig * Storyboards: Robert Boyle, Sandra Frame, Gary Hoffman, Brian Hogan, Chris Hubbard, Jay Lender, Scott Shaw! * Picture Editors: Don Barrozo, Lee Harting * Post Production Sound Services: Advantage Audio, Inc. * Sound Recording Mixers: Melissa Gentry-Ellis, Ray Leonard, Jim Hodson * Sound Effects Design: Michael Warner * Music Editor: Fil Brown * Track Department: Peter Aries * Creative Producer: Swinton O. Scott III * Creative Consultants: Earl Richey Jones, Todd R. Jones, Bruce W. Smith * Creative Concepts: Frankyln Ajaye, Barry Douglas * Executive in Charge of Production for Fox Kids: Barney Gilmore * Production Accountant: Kyle C. Hammans * Production Managers: Barbara Cordova, Stephanie Elliott * Assistant Film Editor: Kurtis Kunsak * Negative Cutting: D and A Negative Cutting, Inc., Tim Heyen * Telecine: Editel, Complete Post, Inc., Sunset Post * Operator: Larry Field * Post Production Director: Barbara Beck * Post Production Supervisor: Noel Quinn-Roman * Overseas Supervisor: Russell Crispin

Home video releases

Xenon Entertainment Group released every episode of the show on VHS and DVD in 2000. Since January 2022, ''C Bear and Jamal'' released on

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References

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