Under The Volcano
- Studio
- Rankin Bass Productions, Videocraft International, Tôei Company Ltd.
- Animation studio
- Tôei Company Ltd.
- Distributor
- Videocraft International
Synopsis
While exploring a long dormant volcano on a neighboring island, the Bond family is captured by the inhabitants of an underground kingdom. Kong races to the rescue, but the villains have prepared a trap for him as well.
Characters
King Kong, Professor Bond, Bobby Bond, 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
- Translations
- Noboshiro Ueno
Voices
- Voice
- Bernard Cowan (Professor Bond, Kong), Susan Conway (Susan Bond), Billie Richards (Bobby Bond), John Drainie, Carl Banas, Alf Scopp, Paul Soles
Music
- Music
- Maury Laws, Jules Bass
- Lyrics
- Maury Laws, Jules Bass
Animation
Crew
- Animation Continuity
- Don Duga
- Characters Designer
- Jack Davis, Rod Willis
- Story Editor
- Cherney Berg
- Animation
- Japan
- Recording Supervision
- Bernard Cowan
- Sound
- Bill Dowding, Bill Giles, Stephen Trohock
- Sound Effects
- Freddie Tudor
- Japanese Translator
- Toshio Shino
Companies and other credits
- Animation: Toei Studios
Production notes
This series premiered with a special which aired on September 6, 1966, while the series aired from September 10, 1966 to August 31, 1969.
Twenty-four thirty-minute episodes were produced, each with two eight-minute King Kong episodes paired with a single eight-minute Tom Thumb, 001/7. The one-hour special was split into two 20-minute shows, making the whole series run twenty-six episodes.
Alternate U.S. title: "King Kong Ruler of the World."
Toei funded part of the series itself, and this show did air in Japan under the title: Sekai no Osha King Kong Daikai. However, designs, scripts, storyboards and voice track were supplied ready-made from the United States.
To get the rights (from the owners of the property, RKO General, Inc.) to use the name King Kong for television, executive producer Arthur Rankin, Jr. had to promise to make a feature film. This resulted in Rankin producing and directing his first non-animated movie, "King Kong Escapes," for RKO.
Twenty-four thirty-minute episodes were produced, each with two eight-minute King Kong episodes paired with a single eight-minute Tom Thumb, 001/7. The one-hour special was split into two 20-minute shows, making the whole series run twenty-six episodes.
Alternate U.S. title: "King Kong Ruler of the World."
Toei funded part of the series itself, and this show did air in Japan under the title: Sekai no Osha King Kong Daikai. However, designs, scripts, storyboards and voice track were supplied ready-made from the United States.
To get the rights (from the owners of the property, RKO General, Inc.) to use the name King Kong for television, executive producer Arthur Rankin, Jr. had to promise to make a feature film. This resulted in Rankin producing and directing his first non-animated movie, "King Kong Escapes," for RKO.
Reviews
King Kong (Series)
A very hard series to find, Episodes; A Friend In Need, Key To The City are 20 minutes each. I believe these are the "Hour Special" that kick off the series. Fun old Anime, with the look of "Astro Boy" in the style of animation. Saturday Morning Gold.