Escape From Orb!
- Studio
- Nelvana Limited
- Animation studio
- Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd
Characters
Screaming Meeme, Horn Head, Aargh, Skull Face, Dusty, Freakella, Sandy, Slobulus, Bruise Brother, Freaky Fallback, Occulus Orbus, Bash Brain
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Laura Shepherd
Producing
- Producer
- Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith (as Clive A. Smith (as A. Clive Smith))
- Supervising Producer
- Lenora Hume
- Associate Producers
- Jack Chojnacki, Harvey Levin
Writing
- Writer
- Heather MacGillvray, John De Klein
- Story Editor
- Peter Saunder
Voices
- Voice
- Geoffrey Bowes (Screaming Meeme), Jeri Craden (Dusty), Cree Summer Francks (Freakella), Keith Hampshire (Horn Head), Alyson Court (Sandy), Don Franks (Wolf Breath), Dan Hennessey (Slobulus, Bruise Brother, Freaky Fallback), John Stocker (Aargh, Skull Face), Christopher Ward (Skip)
Music
- Music
- Trish Cullon
Editing
- Editor
- Evan Landis, Phil Stilman, Mac Holyoke
Crew
- Character Developement Direction
- Ralph Shaffer, SHelley Lulow, George Chanter, Linda Edwards
- Character Developement
- Jim Elliot, Kim Hammeron, Mark Spangler, Tom Jacobs, Penne Bender
- Voice Director
- Ron Kirkpatrick
- Casting
- Arlene Berman
- Assistant Supervising Producr
- Heather Walker
- Line Producer
- Steve Hodgins
- Production Supervisor
- Dale Cox
- 2nd Unit
- Richard Pimm, Julie Eberley, Dale Schott, Scott Glynn, David Marshall, Lynn Yamazaki
- Storyboard Director
- Raymond Jafelice
- Animation Director
- Larry Jacobs
- Layout Director
- Arna Selznick
- Art Director
- Gabe Csakany
- Storyboard Artists
- An\lan Bunce, Tom Nesbitt
- Design
- Alan Bunce, Ross Campbell, Anthony Van Bruggen, Victor Glaska, Eric Chu
- Background Styling
- Clive Powsey
- Color Design
- Mary Eklund, Tom King, Weronika Kapelanska
- Graphics
- Kim Cleary
- Production Manager
- Karyn Booth-Chadwick
- Storyboard Co-ordinator
- Jean Steel Moffatt
- Layout Co-ordinator
- Lisa Rathe
- Posing Co-ordinator
- Willy Ashworth
- Casting/Recording Co-ordinator
- Deborah Patz
- Xerography
- Paul Hogarth
- Production Assistants
- Steve Chadwick, Don Christen, Atui Ros, Brenda Bradshaw, Nancy Sheston
- "Dizzy Miss Lizzie" By
- Larry Williams
- "Great Balls Of Fire" By
- Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer
- Score
- Trish Cullon
- Music Producer
- Dave Greene
- Post Production Supervisor
- Rob Kirkpatrick
- Post Production Manager
- Steve Fraser
- Picture Editors
- Evan Landis, Phil Stilman, Mac Holyoke
- Dialogue Editors
- Sheila Murray, Stephanie Crawford, Keith Traver
- Music Editor
- Gordon Kidd
- Sound Effects Editors
- Mac Holyoke, John Baktis, Eric Hurlburt
- Recording Technician
- Mike Reid
- Assistant Editors
- Glenn Borna, Peter Bronton
- Negative Cutter
- Catherine Rankin
- Addiitonal Synth FX
- Peter Goodale
- Crew
- Telefilm Canada
Companies and other credits
- Animation Production: Wang Film Productions Co. Ltd
- A Nelvana Production in association with
- Global Television Network
- and Hip-Tops Video
- a division of
- Heron Communications
- Inc
- Copyright © 1986 Those Characters From Cleveland
- Inc
- All Rights Reserved
- Canadian Copyright © 1986 Nelvana Limited
Production notes
A toyline that was later turned into a short-lived television series. Only two episodes were made. The Madballs are a zany animated rock band who rock and roll their way across the galaxy. Music is illegal on their home planet so they make a break for it on Earth.
One armchair reviewer describes Madballs as "the worst cartoon in history," adding that it consists of "punchline after punchline of some of the absolute worst jokes you'll ever hear in your life."
One armchair reviewer describes Madballs as "the worst cartoon in history," adding that it consists of "punchline after punchline of some of the absolute worst jokes you'll ever hear in your life."
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Reviews
Awesome!
I gotta say I thought this cartoon would suck as I love the old 80's Madballs still to this day. Much to my suprise It captures the toy line amazingly well and I would recommend to ANYONE who was a kid in the 80's as this will bring back some great memories. The animation and writing are on par for the 80's cartoons of the day. I just wish more had been produced............This actually made me go buy the 2 known episodes (This One & "GROSS JOKES") on VHS off of ebay.