''The New Adventures of Pinocchio'' is a 1961 syndicated

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produced by

Rankin/Bass Productions Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment (founded and formerly known as Videocraft International, Ltd. and Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.) was an American production company located in New York City, and known for its seasonal television specials, usual ...

in the

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and made by Dentsu Studios in

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. Created by

Arthur Rankin, Jr. Arthur Gardner Rankin Jr. (July 19, 1924 – January 30, 2014) was an American director, producer and writer, who mostly worked in animation. Co-creator of Rankin/Bass Productions with his friend Jules Bass, he created stop-motion animation ...

and his partner

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, it was based on the 1883 book ''

The Adventures of Pinocchio ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' ( ; it, Le avventure di Pinocchio ; commonly shortened to ''Pinocchio'') is a children's fantasy novel by Italian author Carlo Collodi. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocc ...

'' written by Italian author,

Carlo Collodi Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''. Early life Col ...

. The series was Rankin/Bass' first production to be made in "Animagic", a stop motion puppet animation technique which, in association with the company, was done by

Tadahito Mochinaga was a pioneer Japanese stop-motion animator. Having done many stop motion films/shorts in Japan, he is best known as the animator for Rankin/Bass' "Animagic" productions at his MOM Studio in Tokyo throughout the 1960s. He did this work in asso ...

's MOM Productions. A total of 130 five-minute "chapters" were produced in 1960–61. These segments made up a series of five-chapter, 25-minute episodes. The show was deliberately designed to not emulate

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' popular 1940 version of ''

Pinocchio Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...

'' in character design or characterization; the puppet wore a T-shirt and shorts instead of a

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, the Cricket (not

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) had a high-pitched, grating voice, and Geppetto was calm and deliberate, unlike Disney's excitable and absent-minded woodcarver. The series premiered the week of February 6, 1961 on select local stations. During 1963–64, the series was also aired in Japan on

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as part of another stop motion TV series, ''Prince Ciscorn'' (シスコン王子, lit. ''Ciscorn Ōji''), based on the manga by

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and also produced by Tadahito Mochinaga for Studio KAI and Dentsu. Twenty years later, in 1980, Rankin/Bass produced another stop motion adaptation of the novel for the

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, a Christmas special called ''

Pinocchio's Christmas ''Pinocchio's Christmas'' is a 1980 Christmas stop motion television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions that is a holiday adaptation of the 1883 novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi. The special was originally aired on A ...

'', which featured a different voice cast including

George S. Irving George S. Irving (born Irving Shelasky; November 1, 1922 – December 26, 2016) was an American actor known primarily for his character roles on Broadway theatre, Broadway and as the voice of Heat Miser in the American Christmas television spe ...

as Geppetto; Todd Porter as Pinocchio;

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as Maestro Fire-Eater;

Allen Swift Ira Stadlen (January 16, 1924 – April 18, 2010), known professionally as Allen Swift, was an American voice actor, best known for voicing cartoon characters Simon Bar Sinister and Riff-Raff on the ''Underdog'' cartoon show. He took his pr ...

as the Fox; Pat Bright as the Cat; and Diane Leslie as Lady Azura.

Summary

An old

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Geppetto Geppetto ( , ), also known as Mister Geppetto, is an Italian fictional character in the 1883 novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi. Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Pinocchio ...

narrates the series, explaining on how he made a magically living

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named

, who can walk, jump, run and do other things without strings. In addition, he is also known to have his nose grow whenever he tell lies on anything be it right or wrong. Displeased with the need to continue living as a puppet, Pinocchio sets off on a journey with his friend

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to find the

Blue Fairy The Fairy with Turquoise Hair ( it, La Fata dai Capelli Turchini; often simply referred to as The Blue Fairy, ''La Fata Turchina'') is a fictional character in the 1883 Italian book ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi, repeatedly appea ...

, hoping that she can transform him into a real boy (in other words, a human) with her magic. But along the way, Pinocchio and Cricket encounter the two anthropomorphic animal

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, Foxy Q. Fibble and Cool S. Cat, as well as the greatest adventures, mishaps, danger and excitement than they would ever imagine.

Character voices

* Stan Francis - Geppetto *

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- Foxy Q. Fibble *

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- Cool S. Cat *

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- Cricket * Claude Ray * Joan Fowler * Jack Mather

Production staff

*Writers/Producers/Directors -

*Animation Director -

(uncredited) *Puppet Makers - Ichiro Komuro, Kyoko Kita,

Reiko Yamagata Reiko (れいこ,　レイコ,　麗子, 怜子, 伶子, 玲子, 令子, 礼子, 禮子, 冷子) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese women's basketball player *Reiko Aylesworth (born 1972), an Ameri ...

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(all uncredited) *Animation - Hiroshi Tabata, Koichi Oikawa, Fumiko Magari,

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(all uncredited)

Episodes

# It's No Joke Picnic # Ring・a・ding・ding・ding # Sprinkle Sprinkle Little Star # Ten Cents a Glance # Pretty Pussycat Nips # Rocket to Fame # Short Circuit # It's Cool in the Cooler # Back Stage Life # All Down Hill # Too Many Ghosts # Horse Sense # One Little Indian # Cattle Rattle # By Hook or By Crook # Not So Private Eye # Cash and Carry Harry # Dognet # The Gold Brick Trick # Simoro's Last Chance # Romin' in the Glomin' # Flying Bagpipes # Hide and Seek # Stop Gap Sap # Feud for All # Glockenspiel # Peanut Butter Battle # Upside Down Town # Robot Rhapsody # Big Bomb Cake # Back Track # Hot Rod Hobo # Duck Luck # Danny the Boon # Dynamite Bright # O'Lafferty the Magnificent # Lock Stock and Crock # Hup Two Three Four # No Banks Thanks # The Crick Trick # Grab Bag # Pick a Pocket # Kangaroo Capers # Paunchy Pouch # Kangaroo Caught # Havin' a Ball # A Choice of Voice # The Pale Inhale # Down the Hatch # Cricket High # Detour for Sure # Once Around Please # The Vast Mast # The Treasure Measure # Not So Hot Knot # The Big Top Stop # Monkey See # Big Shot # A Ticklish Situation # Clowning Around # Stroll Around the Pole # The Bear Facts # Something's Fishy # Fast Talk # Snow Use # The Highway Man # To Track a Thief # Sleep Watcher # A Dog's Best Friend # Thrown by the Throne # The Cast Offs # Mutiny on the Clipper # Floundering Around # The Litterbugs # Atlantis City # Steed Stallion # Chief Big Cheese # The Water Boy # The Little Train Robbery # Simon Says # Sky Spy # Glockenspiel's Spiel # The Gas Man Cometh # The Impatient Patient # The Astronuts # Special Delivery # Go Fly a Kite # Marooned # The Foot Print # Homeward Bound # Wish Wish and Away # Lead of Leprechaun # Westward Whoa # TV Time # Baby Big # Follow That Horse # Stage West # Draw Pardner # The Race # The Gold Bug # Away with the Wind # The Hard Sell # The Witch Switch # Sky High # Romeo Fibble # Wanted # Going Down # Underground Found # The Gold Bird # The Big Heist # Willy Wiggly # Substitute # Borschtville # A Fair Trail # The Rescue Rock # Writers in the Sky # The Zany Zombies # Sleep Head # The Boss Who Came to Dinner # Witch Switch # Witching You Well # Candy Land # Aw Fudge # The Phoney Fairy # The Fastest Wind # Willy Nilly # Hog Bellows # An Ace in the Hole # Roscoe Romp # Lady Barber

References

External links

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