''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 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 ''The Mouse of Tomorro ...
and
Heckle & Jeckle 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 ...
, 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 Entertainm ...
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'' 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) ...
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
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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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Mighty Mouse
Mighty Mouse is an American animated 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 ''The Mouse of Tomorro ...
, Oil Can Harry, Swifty, Narrator, Additional Voices
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Diane Pershing – Pearl Pureheart, Additional Voices
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Frank Welker – Heckle & Jeckle, Quacula, Additional Voices
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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 Bosto ...
– Theodore H. Bear, Additional Voices
Episodes
Home media and Video Releases
References
External links
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Television series by Filmation
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