TaleSpin @ The Cartoon Scrapbook

Prod. Notes:

September 1990 - August 1991, syndicated

Disney

Cast:

Baloo ............................................................................................... Ed Gilbert

Kit Cloudkicker ...................................................................... R.J. Williams

Rebecca Cunningham ...................................................... Sally Struthers

Wildcat .......................................................................................... Pat Fraley

Molly Cunningham ............................................................ Janna Michaels

Shere Khan ..................................................................................... Tony Jay

Mad Dog ................................................................................. Charles Adler

Dumptruck ............................................................................ Chuck McCann

Spigot .................................................................................... Michael Gough

Don Karnage .......................................................................... Jim Cummings

Louie ........................................................................................ Jim Cummings

Dunder ................................................................................... Lorenzo Music

Synopsis:

The animal inhabitants of Rudyard Kipling's beloved Jungle Book graduated from swinging in the trees to full-time professional careers and complicated emotional lives in the television spin-off Tale Spin.

Part of the appeal of Disney’s Tale Spin was seeing the return of several characters from Disney’s own animated classic The Jungle Book, who were featured along with a handful of new characters in this half-hour television cartoon.

The series took place in the fictional tropical locale of Cape Suzette. Reunited were Baloo the Bear, now a freewheeling ace cargo pilot, Louis the Ape, enjoying life as a nightclub owner, and Shere Khan the Tiger, currently a powerful businessman. Along with his friend and co-pilot, frisky cub Kit Cloudkicker, Baloo was constantly battling a formidable band of pirates. Baloo and Kit got mixed up in a barrage of high-flying adventures as they tried to avoid the barbaric bandits, uncovering mystery, intrigue, and loads of laughs along the way.

When Baloo lost his own business, he signed up to be a cargo pilot with Higher for Hire, owned by the no-nonsense Rebecca Cunningham, a shrewd businesswoman and mother to 5-year-old Molly. Wildcat was Baloo’s goofy but reliable mechanic who kept Baloo’s plane, the Sea Duck, running smoothly. Louie the Ape was always buying into Baloo’s hair-brained money-making schemes, while the thieving Shere Khan tried to complete his monopoly on Cape Suzette's businesses by running Higher for Hire into the ground. Adding even more danger and adventure, Don Karnage and his motley crew of air pirates were forever on Baloo and Kit's tail, trying to steal the bears’ cargo.

Appearing as one quarter of the two-hour Disney Afternoon, Tale Spin joined such other adventure toons as DuckTales and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Fun and freewheeling, the show was also the first Disney series to mix traditional cel animation with computer animation techniques. Tale Spin eventually left the air, but the Jungle Book characters returned in 1996's Jungle Cubs.

Episodes:

From Here To Machinery

It Came From Beneath The Sea Duck

Time Waits For No Bear

Mommy For A Day

I Only Have Ice For You

Molly Coddled

Polly Wants A Treasure

Vowel Play

The Idol Rich

Stormy Weather

Bearly Alive

Her Chance To Dream

All's Whale That Ends Whale

The Golden Sprocket

For A Fuel Dollars More

A Bad Reflection On You, Part 1

A Bad Reflection On You, Part 2

On A Wing And A Bear

A Star Is Torn

A Touch Of Glass

The Bigger They Are The Louder They Oink

A Spy In The Ointment

The Balooest Of The Blue Bloods

A Baloo Switcheroo

Whistlestop Jackson, Legend

Double Or Nothing

Feminine Air

Last Horizons

Flight Of The Snow Duck

Save The Tiger

The Old Man And The Sea Duck

War Of The Weirds

Captains Outrageous

Plunder And Lightning, Part 1

Plunder And Lightning, Part 2

Plunder And Lightning, Part 3

Plunder And Lightning, Part 4

The Time Bandit

For Whom The Bell Klangs, Part 1

For Whom The Bell Klangs, Part 2

Citizen Khan

Gruel And Unusual Punishment

A Jolly Molly Christmas

My Fair Baloo

Waiders Of The Wost Tweasure

Flight School Confidential

Bringing Down Babyface

Jumping The Guns

In Search Of Ancient Blunders

Louie's Last Stand

Sheepskin Deep

Pizza Pie In The Sky

Baloo Thunder

Bullethead Baloo

Destiny Rides Again

Mach One For The Gipper

Stuck On You

The Sound And The Furry

The Ransom Of Red Chimp

The Road To Macadamia

Your Baloo's In The Mail

Paradise Lost

The Incredible Shrinking Molly

Bygones

Flying Dupes

Opening Lyrics:

"(Spin it!)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-oohooh ...

(Let's begin it)

(Bear 'n grin it!)

(Spin it!)

Oh-ee-yeah (Tale Spin)

Oh-ee-yoh (Tale Spin)

Friends for life, through thick and thin

With another tale to spin

Oh-ee-yeah (Tale Spin)

Oh-ee-yoh (Tale Spin)

All the trouble we get in

With another tale to spin

(Spin it!)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ...

(Spin it again!)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ...

Oh-ee-yeah

Oh-ee-yoh

Oh-ee-yeah

Oh-ee-yoh

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Spin it

Let's begin it

Bear 'n grin it

When you're in it

You can win it

In a minute

When you spin it, spin it, spin it!

So spin it!

Tale Spin!

Oh-ee-yeah (Tale Spin)

Oh-ee-yoh (Tale Spin)

Friends for life, through thick and thin

With another tale to spin

Oh-ee-yeah (Tale Spin)

Oh-ee-yoh (Tale Spin)

All the trouble we get in

With another tale to spin

(Spin it!)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ...

(Spin it again!)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ...."