The Dimming
- Studio
- Walt Disney Television Animation
- Animation studio
- Moving Images International
- Distributor
- Buena Vista Television
Synopsis
Lucky wants to be a horror novelist. So Bonkers sets him up as caretaker of a remote ski lodge in the mountains. But the lodge just might be haunted.
Characters
Bonkers D. Bobcat, Lucky Piquel, Fall-Apart Rabbit, Toots, Police Chief Kanifky
Credits
Directing
- Director
- David Block, Saburo Hashimoto
Producing
- Producer
- Robert Taylor
Writing
- Writer
- Dean Stefan
- Story Editor
- Bruce Talkington
Voices
- Voice
- Jim Cummings (Bonkers, Lucky Piquel), Frank Welker (Fall-Apart Rabbit, Toots), Earl Boen (Police Chief Kanifky), Tress MacNeille, S. Scott Bullock, Greg Berger
Music
- Music
- Mark Watters
- Title Theme By
- Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn
Animation
- Animation Directors
- William Houchins, Bob Shellhorn
- Animation Supervisor
- Shigeru Yamamoto
- Supervising Animation Director
- Karen Peterson
- Timing Director
- Richard Trueblood
- Layout Development
- J. Michael Spooner
- Animation and Animation Direction
- Animal House
Art Department
- Storyboard
- David Prince, Rich Chidlaw
- Character Design
- Kevin Wurzer, Alex Mann, Shawn Keller, J. Tom Owes, Jr.
- Backgrounds
- Animal House
- Key Background Stylists
- Derek Carter, Tom Foxmarnick, Jim Schlenker, Colette Van Mierlo, Greg Battes, Brooks Campbell
- Background Development
- Gary Eggleston
- Color Key Stylist
- Britt Teegarden
- Prop Design
- Tom Foxmarnick
- Storyboard Revisions
- Stark Howell
Editing
- Editor
- Sam Horta
Sound
- Sound Editors
- Michael Geisler, Thomas Jaeger, Michael A. Gollom, Rick Freeman, Greg LaPlante, Kenneth Young, Timoth Garrity
- Track Reading
- Skip Craig
- Post Production Sound Supervisor
- Timothy J. Borquez
- Supervision Sound Editor
- John O. Robinson III
- Dialogue Editors
- Craig Paulsen, Jennifer Mertens
- Sound Dubbing Supervisor
- Christopher Keith
Music Department
- Supervising Music Editor
- Brian F. Mars
- Music Editors
- Alex Wilkinson, William Griggs
- Associate Producer Music
- Bambi Moe
Casting
- Voice Director
- Ginny McSwain
Production Management
- Continuity Coordinators
- Vonnie Batson, Jim Finch, Kathrin Victor
- Post Production Manager
- Cheryl Murphy
- Post Production Supervisor
- Jeffrey Arthur
- Talent Coordinator
- Jamie Thomason
- Production Assistants
- Nanci Battelle, Richard Salazar, Johanne Beaudoin, Yolanda Saylor, Connie Gombert, Karen Silva, Anita Lish, Craig Simpson, John Royer, Steve Werner
Crew
- Assistant Producer
- Larry Smith
Companies and other credits
- Animation Production by: Walt Disney Animation (Japan) Inc
- Additional Production Facility: Morning-Sun Studio
- © 1993 Walt Disney Company
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Production notes
Life used to be golden for Bonkers D. Bobcat. Back in his Raw Toonage days, the zany bobcat was a cartoon star, appearing in regular "Here's Bonkers" segments with sidekick Jitters A. Dogg, lovely Fawn Deer, and arch-enemy Grumbles Grizzly. Bonkers was a Toon Town icon, but fame is a fickle beast. By the time Bonkers moved from Raw Toonage supporting segments to his own, self-titled series, the former star was out of work.
The new Bonkers! series took a page from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, teaming Bonkers with "real-life" police officers to solve crimes in Tinseltown. Starting as a down-on-his-luck "former 'toon star," Bonkers turned his life around by inadvertently saving the life of world-renowned cartoon actor Donald Duck. Police Chief Kanifky, looking for some political support from Toon Town, gave Bonkers a spot on the force.
In the first season of Bonkers episodes, the manic spotted feline was teamed with Sergeant Francis Grating and Sergeant Miranda Wright. He was later partnered with Detective Lucky Piquel, a gruff, lantern-jawed straight arrow (Curiously, this second series of episodes was placed chronologically first, meaning Sgt. Piquel had actually been Bonkers' original partner). Since Grating, Wright, and Piquel were all "humans," they weren't able to take the same level of abuse as their wacky partner, but this never stopped Bonkers from repeatedly getting them in sticky situations.
Also like Roger Rabbit, the characters on Bonkers often ran into familiar residents of Toon Town, including Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter, the brooms from Fantasia, and even Mickey Mouse himself. Some of these famous toons were being hunted and kidnapped by Bonkers' new nemesis, the Collector.
After splitting from the Raw Toonage package in early 1993, Bonkers first ran on the Disney Channel. That fall, the show moved into syndication as part of The Disney Afternoon block. In all, 65 episodes of the show were produced, running two full seasons of unbridled wackiness.
The new Bonkers! series took a page from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, teaming Bonkers with "real-life" police officers to solve crimes in Tinseltown. Starting as a down-on-his-luck "former 'toon star," Bonkers turned his life around by inadvertently saving the life of world-renowned cartoon actor Donald Duck. Police Chief Kanifky, looking for some political support from Toon Town, gave Bonkers a spot on the force.
In the first season of Bonkers episodes, the manic spotted feline was teamed with Sergeant Francis Grating and Sergeant Miranda Wright. He was later partnered with Detective Lucky Piquel, a gruff, lantern-jawed straight arrow (Curiously, this second series of episodes was placed chronologically first, meaning Sgt. Piquel had actually been Bonkers' original partner). Since Grating, Wright, and Piquel were all "humans," they weren't able to take the same level of abuse as their wacky partner, but this never stopped Bonkers from repeatedly getting them in sticky situations.
Also like Roger Rabbit, the characters on Bonkers often ran into familiar residents of Toon Town, including Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter, the brooms from Fantasia, and even Mickey Mouse himself. Some of these famous toons were being hunted and kidnapped by Bonkers' new nemesis, the Collector.
After splitting from the Raw Toonage package in early 1993, Bonkers first ran on the Disney Channel. That fall, the show moved into syndication as part of The Disney Afternoon block. In all, 65 episodes of the show were produced, running two full seasons of unbridled wackiness.