Zucchini

Zucchini

April 27, 1985 TV Episode CBS Storybreak

Studio
Southern Star Productions, Hanna-Barbera Australia, CBS Entertainment Production
Distributor
Columbia Broadcasting System

Synopsis

Zucchini, a rare black-footed ferret, escapes from the zoo he was born in to look for his real home on the prairie.

Credits

Directing

Director
Gordon Kent, Chris Cuddington

Producing

Producer
Steve Lumley, Allan Stevens
Supervising Producer
Buzz Potamkin
Executive Producer
Paul Bogrow

Writing

Writer
Barbara Dana (Book)

Editing

Editor
Robert Ciaglia

Crew

Graphic Designer
C. David Pina
Title Designers
Tom Burton, Ken Leonard

Production notes

This Saturday morning anthology series adapted children's literature into cartoons to encourage youngsters to read.

The show was hosted by Bob Keeshan until 1988. Malcolm Jamal-Warner hosted the program when it returned to the air (in reruns) in 1993; it last aired in 1994.

The series received Daytime Emmy nominations in 1986 for Outstanding Animated Program, Outstanding Film Editing, and Outstanding Graphics and Title Design, and in 1988 for Outstanding Animated Program.

CBS' first in-house cartoon series since Terrytoons.

Awards

Nominee, Humanitas Prize, Children's Animation Category, Paul Haggis, 1985