''The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle'' is a 1979–1980 television series featuring newly produced

Mighty Mouse Mighty Mouse is an American animated Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. The character was originally called Super Mouse, and made his debut in the 1942 short ''Th ...

and

Heckle & Jeckle Heckle and Jeckle are postwar animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox. The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yello ...

cartoons. The series was produced by

Filmation Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television from 1963 until 1989. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1962. Filmation's founders and pr ...

, and aired from 1979 to 1980 on

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainmen ...

with 96 episodes (128 if counting the educational "Nature" and "Homonyms" segments, hosted by Mighty and Heckle and Jeckle respectively) produced. It was the second Mighty Mouse cartoon series, following the original ''

Mighty Mouse Playhouse ''Mighty Mouse Playhouse'' is an American Saturday morning television anthology series featuring animated short films starring Mighty Mouse. The series aired on CBS from 1955 to 1967. The series was credited with both popularizing the Mighty Mouse ...

'' from 1955 to 1967, and followed by '' Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'', which aired from 1987 to 1988. 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 Quacula is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic vampire duck, created by Filmation. He starred in his own segment on ''The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle'' for one season. Plot Quacula (voiced by Frank Welker) wa ...

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). The show was shortened to a half-hour in 1980, and was moved to Sundays in its final season. 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. In this show, Oil Can Harry has a bumbling assistant, Swifty, a fat cat that can still run extremely fast.

Voice actors and their characters

Alan Oppenheimer Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor. He has performed numerous roles on live action television since the 1960s, and he has had an active career doing voice work since the 1970s. Early life Oppenheimer was born in New Yor ...

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, Oil Can Harry, Swifty, Narrator, Additional Voices *

Diane Pershing Diane Pershing (born May 27, 1943) is an American voice actress. She began her singing career as a back-up singer for Johnny Mathis and went on to appear in the show group, The Establishment, on tour and on TV. She also voiced Poison Ivy in th ...

– Pearl Pureheart, Additional Voices *

Frank Welker Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He began his career in the 1960s, and holds over 860 film, television, and video game credits as of 2022, making him one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. With ...

– Heckle & Jeckle, Quacula, Additional Voices *

Norm Prescott Norman Prescott (January 31, 1927 – July 2, 2005) was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Associates, an animation studio he created with veteran animator Lou Scheimer. Life and career Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston ...

– Theodore H. Bear, Additional Voices

Episodes

Home media and Video Releases

References

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