Rapperman

Rapperman

September 23, 1987 TV Episode The Street Frogs

Studio
Rankin Bass Productions
Distributor
Lorimar-Telepictures

Synopsis

This was a segment on "The Comic Strip". This show is about a group of Hip-Hoppin frogs who do a lot of dancing and rapping. The name of their style of music was Wrib-Ribbit.

Characters

Doctor Slick, Big Mac, Spider, Honey Love Loretta, Moose the Loose, Snappy

Credits

Producing

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

Writing

Writer
Peter Lawrence (Script Supervisor)

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

Street Frogs featured a black cast of voice actors, and the show featured hip-hop or rap music, which was quite unusual at the time, recalled Peter Bakalian of Rankin/Bass.