Synopsis

This two-hour series was a marathon of four first-run cartoons in one episodic adventure each week. The four shows were: "Karate Kat," "Mini-Monsters," "The Street Frogs" and "Tigersharks."

Characters

Karate Kat, Meow-Baby, "Big Mama" Katie McClaw, Katmandu, Cat Gut, Dracky, Wolfie, Mumm-O, Franklin, Blank-O, Sherman, Melissa, Gary the counselor, Lagoon the lifeguard, Caw, Melvin, Jinx, The Phantom, Clutz, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Doctor Slick, Big Mac, Spider, Honey Love Loretta, Moose the Loose, Snappy, Dolph, Doc Walro, Lorca, Mako, Spike Marlin, Bronc, T-Ray, Walleye, Lump, Dragonstein, Carper, Grunt, Captain Bizarrly, Hydra, Gobi

Credits

Producing

Producer: Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass (Executive Producers)
Supervising Producer: Lee Dannacher

Writing

Writer: Peter Lawrence (Script Supervisor)

Voices

Voice: Robert McFadden, Earl Hammond, Maggie Jacobson, Larry Kenney, Gerrianne Raphael, Jim Meskimen, Seth Green, Jim Brownold, Josh Blake, Danielle DuClos, Peter Newman, Gordy Owens, Gary V. Brown, Tanya Willoughby, Ron Taylor, Carmen De Lavallade, Daniel Wooten, Donald Acree, Larry Kenney (Dolph)

Music

Music: Bernard Hoffer

Crew

Character Designer: Nancy Beiman
Project Planning: Leisure Concept
Character Design: Michael Germakian, Bob Camp, Pepe Moreno
In Charge of Production: Masaki Iizuka
Psychiatric Consultants: Dr. Robert Kuisis, Dr. Patricia M. Carey

Companies and other credits

Animator: Pacific Animation Corporation
Project Planning: Inc

Production notes

Stations had the option of running each of the cartoons individually to form a 30-minute daily series, although they could also run them together as a weekly two-hour series, typically on a Saturday.

The common weekly format was:

Monday: TigerSharks (Part 1) and Street Frogs
Tuesday: Mini-Monsters and TigerSharks (Part 2)
Wednesday: Karate Kat and Street Frogs
Thursday: TigerSharks (Part 1) and Mini-Monsters
Friday: Karate Kat and TigerSharks (Part 2)

Reviews

The Comic Strip

jasun10October 18, 2002

The comic strip was without question one of the most unique cartoon experiences of my youth. It was one thing to enjoy a good cartoon in the golden mid-late eighties cartoon era, but to have four pretty well animated, very funny, and very entertaining shows in the same place, was something my brother and I would savor morning after morning during our bowl of cereal or eggos. At that time, cartoons often had a very similar bad guy shows up, beat the bad guy, change the setting but not really the plot kind of theme. The comic strip offered it's versatility and unique stature through an incredible group of heroes and action with the tiger-sharks, a humorous and hip bunch with the street frogs, fun and adventure through the very light-hearted clumsiness of karate kat, and an incredibly warm, easy to relate to for kids, summer of fun and companionship with my personal favorite... the mini monsters. Kind of gave me that "Wonder Years" feeling if you know what I mean. In short, the comic strip was a huge hit for me and my bro before school. I always wished for more episodes and better popularity with the series as it seemed to apparently disappear all of a sudden. If you ever get a chance to see it, first let me know where you you found it, and then try to enjoy it yourself like we did over 15 years ago.