Captain Kong
- Studio
- Rankin Bass Productions, Videocraft International, Tôei Company Ltd.
- Animation studio
- Tôei Company Ltd.
- Distributor
- Videocraft International
Synopsis
The Bond Family, based on Mondo Island in the Java Sea, meet and befriend King Kong. They try to keep him out of the hands of the notorious Dr. Who.
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
- Story Editor
- Cherney Berg
- 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
- Animator
- Sakei Kitamasa, Tsutomu Shibayama, Osamu Kobayashi, Midori Kusube, Yasuo Maeda, Norio Fukuda
- Animation Continuity
- Don Duga
- Animation
- Japan
Art Department
- Characters Designer
- Jack Davis, Rod Willis
Sound
- Sound
- Bill Dowding, Bill Giles, Stephen Trohock
- Sound Effects
- Freddie Tudor
Crew
- Recording Supervision
- Bernard Cowan
- 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.