Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars @ The Cartoon Scrapbook

Prod. Notes:

September 1992 - December 1992, syndicated

Sunbow, Continuity Comics, IDDH, Marvel

Cast:

Bucky O'Hare .......................................................................... Doug Parker

Willy DuWit ............................................................................. Shane Meier

Fredy the toad .................................................................................. Evan M

Voices .............................................................................. Long John Baldry

Voices ........................................................................................ Jay Brazeau

Voices ............................................................................................ Gary Chalk

Voices ............................................................................................ Doc Harris

Voices ..................................................................................... Simon Kendall

Voices ............................................................................................. Sam Kouth

Voices ...................................................................................... Terry Klassen

Voices ....................................................................................... Scott McNeil

Voices ...................................................................................... Jason Michas

Voices ................................................................................ Richard Newman

Voices .................................................................................... Margot Pindvic

Voices ........................................................................................ David Steele

Voices .......................................................................................... Dale Wilson

Synopsis:

Larry Hama and Michael Golden’s all-animal space saga Bucky O’Hare debuted as a graphic novel, Echo of Futurepast, in 1984. The comic’s hero was a green anthropomorphic rabbit named Bucky O’Hare, captain of the space ship “Righteous Indignation.” O’Hare’s crew consisted of a “witchcat” named Jenny, sharpshooting and foul-tempered Deadeye Duck, a big ape named Bruiser, and a one-eyed android named Blinky. Together, the crew patrolled the Aniverse, an alternate world devoid of human beings, keeping the skies safe from the evil amphibians of the planet Genus and their android toad leader, Komplex.

The graphic novel was elaborate and often very violent, not exactly what cartoon executives had in mind for series development. But the phenomenal worldwide success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (another cult comic book adaptation) changed the animated landscape. Marvel and Sunbow commissioned thirteen episodes of Bucky O’Hare and the Toad Wars, airing them in syndication in 1991.

The show included a human regular, a bespectacled boy named Willy DuWitt, a budding genius whose photon accelerator opened a passage between the human universe and the Aniverse. The animated series carried on the complex storylines of the graphic novel, but it proved too much for younger viewers. The thirteen original episodes were the only ones ever produced.

Episodes:

War of the Warts

A Fistful of Simoleans

The Good, the Bad, and the Worty

Home, Swampy, Home

On the Blink

The Kreation Konspiracy

The Komplex Caper

The Search for Bruce

The Corsair Canards

The Artificers of Aldeberan

The Warriors

Bye Bye Berserker Baboon

The Taking of Pilot Jenny

Opening Lyrics:

"In another dimension, another time and space,

A parallel universe was fallin' on its face

When out of the chaos, who else could it be

But the animal adventurers from S.P.A.C.E.

Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!

Mutants and aliens and toads beware!

You're looking for adventure? Well, this is it,

With Jenny, Deadeye, Blinky, and Willy DuWitt

I said Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!

“And now, an update on Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!”

In the battle of the Aniverse, you don't know what's next,

You only know amphibians have made it KOMPLEX!

When you check out your scanner and the evil that it bodes,

There's only one course of action: Let's croak us some toads!

Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!

He goes where no ordinary rabbit would dare!

If your Righteous Indignation has suffered a hit

And your photon accelerator's broken a bit

And you're losing your mind, and you're having a fit

Get the funky fresh rabbit who can take care of it!

Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!

You say Bucky? I said Bucky!

Bucky O'Hare!

Let's croak us some toads!"