Robot Kong
- Studio
- Rankin Bass Productions, Videocraft International, Tôei Company Ltd.
- Animation studio
- Tôei Company Ltd.
- Distributor
- Videocraft International
Characters
King Kong, Professor Bond, Bobby Bond, Mecha-Kong, Susan Bond, Captain Englehorne, Dr. Who
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Hiroshi Ikeda
Producing
- Producer
- William J. Keenan
- Executive Producers
- Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass
- Associate Producer
- Larry Roemer
Writing
- Writer
- Lew Lewis, Bernard Cowan, Ron Lewis
- Story Editor
- Cherney Berg
Voices
- Voice
- Toshiko Fujita (Bobby), Junko Hori (Susan), Gorô Naya (Professor Bond), Eizô Tsuda, Saburô Kamei
Music
- Music
- Yasei Kobayashi
Animation
- Animator
- Sakei Kitamasa, Tsutomu Shibayama, Osamu Kobayashi, Midori Kusube, Yasuo Maeda, Norio Fukuda
- Animation Continuity
- Don Duga
- Animation
- Japan
Art Department
- Characters Designer
- Jack Davis, Rod Willis
Sound
- Sound
- Bill Dowding, Bill Giles, Stephen Trohock
- Sound Effects
- Freddie Tudor
Casting
- Dialogue Director
- Bernard Cowan
Crew
- Recording Supervision
- Bernard Cowan
Companies and other credits
- Animation: Toei Studios
Production notes
Forty-eight eight-minute and four ten-minute episodes of this show were produced. These were combined with forty-eight eight-minute episodes of the companion show 001 / 7 Oyayubi Tom.
"Sekai no Osha King Kong Daikai" (also titled "King Kong" and "King Kong Ruler of the World" for US showings) was the first Japanese anime to be produced specifically for the American market. It was commissioned by Rankin-Bass from Videocraft, an American company, which, in turn, farmed out the work to Japan-based Toei.
There were twenty-six shows in the run of the series. The first twenty-four episodes of the show featured one Tom Thumb and two King Kong episodes in the half-hour. The final two shows featured longer King Kong episodes only.
Toei funded part of the series itself, and did also show this series in Japan. However, designs, scripts, storyboards and voice track were supplied ready-made from the United States.
The Bond Family, based on Mondo Island in the Java Sea, meet and befriend King Kong. They try to keep him out of the hands of the notorious Dr. Who.
Some English episode titles:
"Sekai no Osha King Kong Daikai" (also titled "King Kong" and "King Kong Ruler of the World" for US showings) was the first Japanese anime to be produced specifically for the American market. It was commissioned by Rankin-Bass from Videocraft, an American company, which, in turn, farmed out the work to Japan-based Toei.
There were twenty-six shows in the run of the series. The first twenty-four episodes of the show featured one Tom Thumb and two King Kong episodes in the half-hour. The final two shows featured longer King Kong episodes only.
Toei funded part of the series itself, and did also show this series in Japan. However, designs, scripts, storyboards and voice track were supplied ready-made from the United States.
The Bond Family, based on Mondo Island in the Java Sea, meet and befriend King Kong. They try to keep him out of the hands of the notorious Dr. Who.
Some English episode titles:
- The Jinx of the Sphinx
- Green-Eyed Monster
- The Top of the World
- The Golden Temple
- The Electric Circle
- Mirror of Destruction
- Tiger Tiger
- Key to the City
- The Vice of Dr Who
- King Kong's House
- Mechanikong