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|dt            =''The King Kong Show'' (1966-1967)
|dt            =''The King Kong Show'' (1966-1967)
|image        =The Kingu Kongu Show.jpg
|image        =The Kingu Kongu Show.jpg
|producer      =Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass,<br>William J. Keenan, Larry Roemer
|producer      =Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass, et al.
|distributor  =Toei Animation{{sup|[[Japan|JP]]}},<br>Rankin/Bass{{sup|[[United States|US]]}}
|funded        =[[Rankin/Bass|Videocraft International]]
|produced      =[[Toei|Toei Animation]]
|genre        =Animated
|genre        =Animated
|aired        =September 6, [[1966]] (pilot episode){{sup|[[United States|US]]}},<ref name="SciFi Japan"/><br>{{small|September 10, 1966 - March 4, [[1967]]}}{{sup|[[United States|US]]}},<ref name="SciFi Japan"/><br>December 31, 1966 (pilot episode){{sup|[[Japan|JP]]}},<ref name="Wikipedia"/><br>April 5, [[1967]] - October 4, 1967{{sup|[[Japan|JP]]}}<ref name="Wikipedia"/>
 
|channel      =ABC{{sup|[[United States|US]]}}, NET{{sup|[[Japan|JP]]}}
|aired        ={{bl
|September 6, [[1966]] (pilot){{sup|[[United States|U.S.]]}}<ref name="SciFi Japan">{{cite web|url=https://www.scifijapan.com/anime-animation/king-kong-cartoon-series-guide|title=KING KONG Cartoon Series Guide|last=Aiken|first=Keith|date=20 December 2008|work=[[SciFi Japan]]|accessdate=10 April 2022}}</ref><br>
|September 10, 1966 -<br>March 4, [[1967]]{{sup|[[United States|U.S.]]}}<ref name="SciFi Japan"/><br>
|December 31, 1966 (pilot){{sup|[[Japan|JP]]}}<ref name="Wikipedia"/><br>
|April 5, [[1967]] - October 4, 1967{{sup|[[Japan|JP]]}}<ref name="Wikipedia"/>}}
 
|channel      =ABC,{{sup|[[United States|U.S.]]}} NET{{sup|[[Japan|JP]]}}
|episodes      =26 (broadcasts), 50 (overall)
|episodes      =26 (broadcasts), 50 (overall)
}}
}}
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'''''King Kong''''', commonly referred to as '''''The King Kong Show''''', is an animated television series co-produced by Toei Animation of [[Japan]] and [[Rankin/Bass Productions|Videocraft International]] of [[United States|America]]. A 56-minute pilot episode premiered on ABC on September 6, 1966 and subsequently began airing on September 10 alongside the animated spy spoof series ''Tom of T.H.U.M.B.''; each episode consisted of one ''Tom'' story bookended by two ''King Kong'' stories. The show concluded its initial run on March 4, 1967, with its pilot being split in half and aired as the series' 25th and 26th episodes. Reruns continued to be shown on ABC until August 31 of 1969.<ref name="SciFi Japan">{{Cite web|url=http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2008/12/20/king-kong-cartoon-series-guide/|title=KING KONG Cartoon Series Guide|author=Aiken, Keith|date=20 December 2008|work=[[SciFi Japan]]}}</ref>
{{Quote|King Kong. You know the name of King Kong. You know the fame of King Kong. Ten times as big as a man!|Refrain of the show's opening theme song}}
'''''King Kong''''', commonly referred to as '''''The King Kong Show''''' and released to DVD as '''''King Kong: The Animated Series''''', is an animated television series funded by [[Rankin/Bass|Videocraft International]] of [[United States|America]] with animation by [[Toei|Toei Animation]] of [[Japan]]. A 56-minute pilot episode premiered on ABC on September 6, 1966 and the series subsequently began airing on September 10 alongside the animated spy spoof series ''Tom of T.H.U.M.B.''; each episode consisted of one ''Tom'' story bookended by two ''King Kong'' stories. The show concluded its initial run on March 4, 1967, with its pilot being split in half and aired as the series' 25th and 26th episodes, respectively. Reruns continued to be shown on ABC until August 31, 1969.<ref name="SciFi Japan"/>


In Japan, the series' pilot premiered on NET (presently TV Asahi) as '''''King of the World: The King Kong Show''''' {{Nihongo|世界の王者 キングコング大会|Sekai no Ōja Kingu Kongu Taikai}} on December 31, 1966. Like in America, the show was packaged with ''Tom of T.H.U.M.B.'', and aired from April 5 to October 4 of 1967 under the title of simply '''''King Kong''''' {{Nihongo|キングコング|Kingu Kongu}}. Rebroadcasts followed into the early 1970s.<ref name="Wikipedia">{{cite web|url=https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/キングコング#アニメ作品|title=King Kong (キングコング)|work=ja.wikipedia.org|accessdate=28 August 2020}}</ref>
In Japan, the series' pilot premiered on NET (presently TV Asahi) as '''''King of the World: The King Kong Show''''' {{Nihongo|世界の王者 キングコング大会|Sekai no Ōja Kingu Kongu Taikai}} on December 31, 1966. The show was packaged with ''Tom of T.H.U.M.B.'' as in the U.S., and aired from April 5 to October 4 of 1967 under the title of simply '''''King Kong''''' {{Nihongo|キングコング|Kingu Kongu}}. Rebroadcasts followed into the early 1970s.<ref name="Wikipedia">{{cite web|url=https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/キングコング#アニメ作品|title=King Kong (キングコング)|work=ja.wikipedia.org|accessdate=28 August 2020}}</ref>
{{TOC}}
{{TOC}}
==Plot==
==Plot==
In this series, [[King Kong]] befriends the Bond family, with whom he goes on various adventures, saving the world from monsters, robots, aliens, mad scientists, and other threats.
{{stub|section}}
In this TV series, [[King Kong]] befriends the Bond family and Captain [[Englehorn]], with whom he goes on various adventures saving the world from monsters, robots, aliens, mad scientists and other threats.
 
==Episodes==
==Episodes==
===United States===
<tabs style="color:black; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
<tab name="United States" block>
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="width:auto%; text-align:center;<!-- font-size:small;-->"
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|-
|-
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|                                | 15
|                                | 15
|                                | "The Trojan Horse"
|                                | "The Trojan Horse"
|                                | "The Man from K.O.N.G."
|                                | "[[The Man From K.O.N.G.|The Man from K.O.N.G.]]"
|                                | 1966/12/17
|                                | 1966/12/17
|-
|-
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|                                | 17
|                                | 17
|                                | "The Great Sun Spots"
|                                | "The Great Sun Spots"
|                                | "Kong is Missing"
|                                | "Kong Is Missing"
|                                | 1966/12/31
|                                | 1966/12/31
|-
|-
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|                                | 1967/03/04
|                                | 1967/03/04
|}
|}
===Japan===
</tab>
<tab name="Japan" block>
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="width:auto%; text-align:center;<!-- font-size:small;-->"
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|                                | 1967/10/04
|                                | 1967/10/04
|}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>
==Staff==
==Staff==
{{Staffs
{{Staffs
|Written by|Lew Lewis, Bernard Cowan, Ron Levy
|Written by|Lew Lewis, Bernard Cowan, Ron Levy
|Produced by|Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass, William J. Keenan, Larry Roemer
|Executive producers|Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass
|Produced by|[[William J. Keenan]]
|Associate producer|Larry Roemer
|Character designs by|Jack Davis, Rod Willis
|Character designs by|Jack Davis, Rod Willis
|Animators|Sakei Kitamasa, Osamu Kobayashi, Norio Fukumoto, Tsutomu Shibayama, Midori Kusube, Takao Kasai, Yasuo Maeda, Yuji Mori
|Animators|Sakei Kitamasa, Osamu Kobayashi, Norio Fukumoto, Tsutomu Shibayama, Midori Kusube, Takao Kasai, Yasuo Maeda, Yuji Mori
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|Billie Mae Richards|Bobby Bond
|Billie Mae Richards|Bobby Bond
|Susan Conway|Susan Bond
|Susan Conway|Susan Bond
|John Drainie, Alf Scopp, Paul Soles|Additional voices
|John Drainie, Alf Scopp, Paul Soles|additional voices
}}
}}
===Japanese dub===
===Japanese dub===
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}}
}}
==Appearances==
==Appearances==
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===Characters===
===Characters===
[[File:01-Bond.png|thumb|right|200px|The Bond family]]
*Professor Bond
*Professor Bond
*Susan Bond
*Susan Bond
*Bobby Bond
*Bobby Bond
*[[Captain Englehorn]]
*Captain [[Englehorn]]
*[[Dr. Who]]
*[[Dr. Who]]
*Vestus
*Von Kramer
*Dr. Bone
===Monsters===
===Monsters===
{{Disclaimer|As many later episodes of the series never received proper re-airings since their initial broadcasts and the series as a whole has never been fully released to home video, details are scarce. The following list was compiled from external sources, and as such, may be incomplete.}}
*[[King Kong]]
*[[King Kong]]
*''[[Pteranodon]]'' (from "A Friend In Need")
*Mondo Island armadillo
*''[[Stegosaurus]]'' (from "A Friend in Need," "The Electric Circle", and "The Hunter")
*''[[Pteranodon]]''
*''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' (from "A Friend In Need", "The Hunter", and “King Kong’s House”)
*''[[Stegosaurus]]''
*[[Kraken]] (from "The Key to the City")
*''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]''
*African Bee swarm (from "The African Bees")
*[[Kraken]]
*Carnivorous plants of Mondo Island (from "The African Bees")
*African bee swarm
*''[[Brontosaurus]]'' (from "The Hunter")
*Carnivorous plants of Mondo Island
*[[Giant Snake|Giant snake]] (from "The Hunter" and "The Greeneyed Monster")
*''[[Brontosaurus]]''
*Unidentified dinosaur (from "The Hunter")
*[[Giant Snake|Giant snake]]
*Killer ''[[Triceratops]]'' (from "The Hunter" and "The Electric Circle")
*Unidentified dinosaur
*Space Men (from "The Space Men")
*''[[Triceratops]]''
*[[Robot Sphinx]] (from "The Jinx of the Sphinx")
*[[Robot Sphinx]]
*Giant Mondo Island bird (from "The Greeneyed Monster")
*Giant Mondo Island bird
*Saber-toothed tigers (from "Tiger Tiger")
*Icthyok
*[[Mechani-Kong]] (from "MechaniKong")
*Mondo Island sharks
*Giant sloths (from "The Giant Sloths")
*Saber-toothed tigers
*The Loch Ness Monster (from "The Legend of Loch Ness")
*[[Mechani-Kong#The King Kong Show|Mechani-Kong]]
*Abominable Snowman (from "No Man's Snowman")
*Giant ground sloths
*Statue of Liberty Robot (from "Statue of Liberty Play")<ref>https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0#%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/crazieorcus/status/845473200905502720</ref>
*[[Nessie|Loch Ness Monster]]
*The Great Gargoyle of Paris (from "The Thousand Year Knockout")
*Statue of Liberty Robot
*Giant eagle (from "Eagle Squadron")
*Great Gargoyle of Paris
*Moby Dick (from "The Mad Whale")
*Giant eagle
*Cyclops (from "Great Gold Strike")
*[[Moby Dick]]
*Giant electrical angler-fish (from "Anchors Away")
*Great Cyclops of Ulysses
*[[List of minor monsters#Giant Jellyfish|Giant Jellyfish]] (from "Anchors Away")
*Giant electrical angler-fish
*Angry sea monster (from a coloring book tie-in)
*[[List of minor monsters#Giant Jellyfish|Giant jellyfish]]<!--
*Angry sea monster (from a tie-in coloring book)
 
Other original monsters that are currently unconfirmed as appearing in the series include a giant one-horned dragon; a fire-breathing panther; an orange bipedal dinosaur-like monster (exclusive to a Japanese notebook cover); a green ''insect-lizard'' (exclusive to the artwork seen on a Magic Slate border); a subterranean dinosaur heavily resembling Telesdon from ''Ultraman'' (from an unknown Japanese picture book); a burrowing scorpion-like monster (also from a Japanese picture book); a green-colored ''Android Kong'', possibly an off-model version of Mechani-Kong (from a Japanese children's book); a big-eared, red and yellow colored humanoid robot and a swarm of giant ants (both originating from a Japanese spin-off manga).-->
{{col-2}}
===Weapons, vehicles and races===
*[[Venture|Captain Englehorn's ship]]
*Military tanks
*Fighter jets
*Volcanians
*Dr. Who's helicopters
*Dr. Who's ship
*Dr. Who's rocket
*Von Kramer's laser gun
*Space Men
*Space Men's UFO
*Destroyer
*Meltifier
*Electric Circle
*Mirror of Destruction
===Locations===
*[[Mondo Island]] / "Skull Island"
*[[United States]]
**[[New York City|New York]], New York
**Anchorage, Alaska
**San Francisco, California
**Washington, D.C. (mentioned)
*Egypt
**Cairo
*New Guinea
*France
**Paris
{{col-end}}


Other original monsters that are currently unconfirmed as appearing in the show include a giant one-horned dragon; a fire-breathing panther; an orange bipedal dinosaur-like monster, exclusive to a Japanese notebook cover; a green ''insect-lizard'', exclusive to the artwork seen on a Magic Slate border; a subterranean dinosaur, heavily resembling Telesdon from ''Ultraman'', from an unknown Japanese picture book; a burrowing scorpion-like beast, also from a Japanese picture book; a green-colored ''Android Kong'', possibly an off-model Mechani-Kong, from a Japanese children's book; a big-eared, red and yellow colored robot humanoid and a horde of giant ants, both originating from a Japanese spin-off manga.
==Video releases==
==DVD Releases==
'''[[Classic Media]]''' DVD (''King Kong: The Animated Series Vol. 1'')
'''Classic Media''' DVD (Vol. 1)
*'''Region:''' 1
*Region: 1
*'''Discs:''' 1
*Discs: 1
*'''Audio:''' English (2.0 Mono)
*Audio: English (2.0 Mono)
*'''Special features:''' None
*Special features: None
*'''Notes:''' Includes episodes 1-4 and 25, plus four episodes of ''Tom of T.H.U.M.B.''
*Notes: Includes episodes 1-4 and 25.
'''Classic Media''' DVD (''King Kong: The Animated Series Vol. 2'')
'''Classic Media''' DVD (Vol. 2)
*'''Region:''' 1
*Region: 1
*'''Discs:''' 1
*Discs: 1
*'''Audio:''' English (2.0 Mono)
*Audio: English (2.0 Mono)
*'''Special features:''' None
*Special features: None
*'''Notes:''' Includes episodes 5-8 and 26, plus four episodes of ''Tom of T.H.U.M.B.''
*Notes: Includes episodes 5-8 and 26.
'''[[Madman Entertainment|Madman]]''' DVD (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mightyape.com.au/product/king-kong-1966-2-disc-set-dvd/1515349|title=King Kong (1966) (2 Disc Set)|work=Mighty Ape|accessdate=10 April 2022}}</ref>
'''Madman''' DVD
*'''Region:''' 4
*Region: 4
*'''Discs:''' 2
*Discs: 2
*'''Audio:''' English (2.0 Mono)
*Audio: English (2.0 Mono)
*'''Special features:''' An extended version of the pilot episode
*Special features: None
*'''Notes:''' Includes episodes 1-8 and 25-26, plus eight episodes of ''Tom of T.H.U.M.B.''
*Notes: Includes episodes 1-9, 19, and 25-26.
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
===Releases===
===Video releases===
<gallery widths="120" position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small">
<gallery widths="120" position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small">
King Kong Show.jpg|''The King Kong Show'' Volume 1 DVD cover
King Kong Show.jpg|''King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 1'' U.S. DVD cover
61Z630A6XBL. SY445 .jpg|''The King Kong Show'' Volume 2 DVD cover
61Z630A6XBL. SY445 .jpg|''King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 2'' U.S. DVD cover
</gallery>
</gallery>
===Merchandise===
===Merchandise===
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KingKongKraken2014October01.jpg
KingKongKraken2014October01.jpg
</gallery>
</gallery>
==Videos==
===Segments unavailable on DVD===
{{videos|
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">zGXmBQl3QKo</youtube>|"King Kong's House"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">JUAenNcsSrA</youtube>|"MechaniKong"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">Fxnhah6I0O8</youtube>|"The Giant Sloths" (Spanish)}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">dr4Qps12Nhg</youtube>|"Dr. Bone" (Portuguese, incomplete)}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">MhhIvQwk1Mk</youtube>|"No Man's Snowman" (Spanish)}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">rNFzL4ZncH4</youtube>|"Commander Performance" (incomplete)}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">R36QqcbtUl8</youtube>|"Perilous Porpoise" (Italian)}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">cgruRBqnGLQ</youtube>|"The Trojan Horse" (Spanish)}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">CDrxR-IuCzI</youtube>|"The Man from K.O.N.G."}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">e842-yjNGC0</youtube>|"Caribbean Cruise"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">97ErrfIQtBQ</youtube>|"The Great Sun Spots"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">_dQAqRHB1FQ</youtube>|"Thousand Year Knockout"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">ORbmOySdMiQ</youtube>|"Desert City"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">C8XqHTVFgD4</youtube>|"Kong of Stone"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">9X4kDIjR9vA</youtube>|"Murderer's Maze"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">ptpfxpd1STQ</youtube>|"Great Gold Strike"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">cMc_8OEJbZo</youtube>|"Mad Whale"}}
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">X9QgmginXYo</youtube>|"King Kong Diamond"}}
}}
==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*"A Friend in Need" and "The Key to the City" were originally aired as a one-hour pilot episode.
*''The King Kong Show'' was the first anime series produced in Japan for [[United States|U.S.]] broadcast (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop-motion Christmas TV specials, which were also animated in Japan).
*''The King Kong Show'' was the first anime series produced in Japan for American broadcast (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop-motion specials, also animated in Japan).
*This series was successful enough for Rankin/Bass to extend the Kong franchise to another Japanese film company, [[Toho]] (who had already produced the hit film ''[[King Kong vs. Godzilla]]'' in [[1962]]). This resulted in ''[[Ebirah, Horror of the Deep]]'' (originally intended as a Kong film named ''[[Operation Robinson Crusoe: King Kong vs. Ebirah]]'') and ''[[King Kong Escapes]]'', the latter of which was loosely based on ''The King Kong Show''. [[Dr. Who]] and [[Mechani-Kong]] both appeared as villains in the latter film, while Susan Bond's first name was given to one of the film's protagonists, Lieutenant [[Susan Watson]]. Kong's home of [[Mondo Island]] was carried over into the film as well.
*This series was successful enough for Rankin/Bass to extend the Kong franchise to another Japanese company, [[Toho]] (which already produced the hit ''[[King Kong vs. Godzilla]]'' in [[1962]]). This resulted in ''[[Ebirah, Horror of the Deep]]'' (originally intended as a Kong film named ''[[Operation Robinson Crusoe: King Kong vs. Ebirah]]'') and ''[[King Kong Escapes]]'', which was based on ''The King Kong Show''. [[Dr. Who]] and [[Mechani-Kong]] both appeared as villains in the latter film, while Susan Bond's first name was given to one of the film's protagonists, [[Susan Watson]]. Kong's home of [[Mondo Island]] was carried over into the film as well.
 
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://king-kong.fansforum.info/t193-THE-KING-KONG-SHOW.htm?start=15 Scans of a 10-page comic in ''America's Best TV Comics'']
*[http://king-kong.fansforum.info/t193-THE-KING-KONG-SHOW.htm?start=15 Scans of a 10-page comic in ''America's Best TV Comics'']
==References==
==References==
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Producer(s) Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass, et al.
Funded by Videocraft International
Production company Toei Animation
Channel(s) ABC,U.S. NETJP
Genre(s) Animated
Episodes 26 (broadcasts), 50 (overall)
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“
King Kong. You know the name of King Kong. You know the fame of King Kong. Ten times as big as a man!
„ 

— Refrain of the show's opening theme song

King Kong, commonly referred to as The King Kong Show and released to DVD as King Kong: The Animated Series, is an animated television series funded by Videocraft International of America with animation by Toei Animation of Japan. A 56-minute pilot episode premiered on ABC on September 6, 1966 and the series subsequently began airing on September 10 alongside the animated spy spoof series Tom of T.H.U.M.B.; each episode consisted of one Tom story bookended by two King Kong stories. The show concluded its initial run on March 4, 1967, with its pilot being split in half and aired as the series' 25th and 26th episodes, respectively. Reruns continued to be shown on ABC until August 31, 1969.[1]

In Japan, the series' pilot premiered on NET (presently TV Asahi) as King of the World: The King Kong Show (世界の王者 キングコング大会,   Sekai no Ōja Kingu Kongu Taikai) on December 31, 1966. The show was packaged with Tom of T.H.U.M.B. as in the U.S., and aired from April 5 to October 4 of 1967 under the title of simply King Kong (キングコング,   Kingu Kongu). Rebroadcasts followed into the early 1970s.[2]

Plot

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In this TV series, King Kong befriends the Bond family and Captain Englehorn, with whom he goes on various adventures saving the world from monsters, robots, aliens, mad scientists and other threats.

Episodes

Episode no. Title(s) Air date[1]
A part B part
0 "King Kong" 1966/09/06
1 "Under the Volcano" "The Treasure Trap" 1966/09/10
2 "The Horror of Mondo Island" "Dr. Who" 1966/09/17
3 "Rocket Island" "The African Bees" 1966/09/24
4 "The Hunter" "The Space Men" 1966/10/01
5 "The Jinx of the Sphinx" "The Greeneyed Monster" 1966/10/08
6 "The Top of the World" "The Golden Temple" 1966/10/15
7 "The Electric Circle" "Mirror of Destruction" 1966/10/22
8 "Tiger Tiger" "The Vise of Dr. Who" 1966/10/29
9 "King Kong's House" "MechaniKong" 1966/11/05
10 "The Giant Sloths" "The Legend of Loch Ness" 1966/11/12
11 "Dr. Bone" "No Man's Snowman" 1966/11/19
12 "The Desert Pirates" "Command Performance" 1966/11/26
13 "The Sea Surrounds Us" "Show Biz" 1966/12/03
14 "The Wizard of Overlord" "Perilous Porpoise" 1966/12/10
15 "The Trojan Horse" "The Man from K.O.N.G." 1966/12/17
16 "Caribbean Cruise" "Diver's Dilemma" 1966/12/24
17 "The Great Sun Spots" "Kong Is Missing" 1966/12/31
18 "In the Land of the Giant Trees" "Captain Kong" 1967/01/07
19 "Statue of Liberty Play" "Pandora's Box" 1967/01/14
20 "Thousand Year Knockout" "Desert City" 1967/01/21
21 "Eagle Squadron" "Kong of Stone" 1967/01/28
22 "Murderer's Maze" "Great Gold Strike" 1967/02/04
23 "It Wasn't There Again Today" "Mad Whale" 1967/02/11
24 "King Kong Diamond" "Anchors Away" 1967/02/18
25 "A Friend in Need" 1967/02/25
26 "The Key to the City" 1967/03/04
Episode no. Title(s) Air date[2]
A part B part
0 "King of the World: The King Kong Show"
(世界の王者 キングコング大会) 		1966/12/31
1 "Attack of the African Bees"
(アフリカ蜂の襲来) 		"King Kong Captured"
(さらわれたキングコング) 		1967/04/05
2 "The Rocket Island Conspiracy"
(ロケット島の陰謀) 		"The Mysterious Volcano Empire"
(謎の火山帝国) 		1967/04/19
3 "Undersea Expedition"
(海底探検) 		"Crisis on Mondo Island"
(モンド島の危機) 		1967/04/26
4 "Terror of the Laser Gun"
(レーザー銃の恐怖) 		"A Flying Saucer Appears"
(空飛ぶ円盤現わる) 		1967/05/03
5 "Terror of the Sphinx"
(スフィンクスの恐怖) 		"Bobby's Mistake"
(ボビーのあやまち) 		1967/05/10
6 "Robot Kong"
(ロボット・コング) 		"Mirror of Terror"
(恐怖の反射鏡) 		1967/05/17
7 "Mystery of the Flood"
(大洪水の謎) 		"The Golden Temple"
(黄金の神殿) 		1967/05/24
8 "The Atomic Wave Trap"
(原子電波の罠) 		"Dr. Who's Scheme"
(ドクター・フーの陰謀) 		1967/05/31
9 "The Terrible Journey"
(恐怖の探検旅行) 		"The Resurrected Tigers"
(よみがえった虎) 		1967/06/07
10 "The Giant Sloths"
(巨大なナマケモノ) 		"The Desert Pirates"
(砂漠の盗賊) 		1967/06/14
11 "Kaijin Dr. Skull"
(怪人どくろ博士) 		"Mystery of the Snowman"
(雪男の謎) 		1967/06/21
12 "The Loch Ness Monster"
(ネス湖の怪物) 		"Kong's Recital"
(コングの音楽会) 		1967/06/28
13 "Rescue the Submarine"
(潜水艦を救助せよ) 		"Kong the Actor"
(大根役者のコング) 		1967/07/05
14 "The Magic Emperor's Trap"
(魔術大王の罠) 		"Perilous Porpoise"
(危険なイルカ) 		1967/07/12
15 "The Trojan Horse"
(トロイの木馬) 		"Professor Bond Disappeared"
(消えたボンド教授) 		1967/07/19
16 "The Carribean Rebellion"
(カリブ海の叛乱) 		"Search for the Undersea Missile"
(海底のミサイルを探せ) 		1967/07/26
17 "The Mysterious Sunspots"
(謎の太陽黒点) 		"Maiko of the Jungle"
(ジャングルのまい子) 		1967/08/02
18 "The Titan From the Dream"
(夢に見た巨人) 		"Captain Kong"
(キャプテン・コング) 		1967/08/09
19 "The Amazonian Statue of Liberty"
(アマゾンの自由の女神) 		"Pandora's Box"
(パンドラの箱) 		1967/08/16
20 "Delay the Parisian Monster"
(大怪物パリを遅う) 		"The Golden City in the Desert"
(砂漠の黄金都市) 		1967/08/23
21 "King Kong vs. the Giant Eagle"
(キングコング対大鷲) 		"The Southern Conspiracy"
(南国の陰謀) 		1967/08/30
22 "The Maze of Death"
(死を呼ぶ迷路) 		"The One-Eyed Giant"
(一つ目の巨人) 		1967/09/06
23 "Turtle in the Fog"
(霧の中の海亀) 		"The White Whale"
(白い巨鯨) 		1967/09/13
24 "King Kong Diamond"
(キングコングのダイヤモンド) 		"The Anchor is a Weapon"
(武器は錨だ) 		1967/09/20
25 "Our King Kong"
(僕らのキングコング) 		1967/09/27
26 "King Kong in New York"
(ニューヨークのキングコング) 		1967/10/04

Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Written by   Lew Lewis, Bernard Cowan, Ron Levy
  • Executive producers   Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass
  • Produced by   William J. Keenan
  • Associate producer   Larry Roemer
  • Character designs by   Jack Davis, Rod Willis
  • Animators   Sakei Kitamasa, Osamu Kobayashi, Norio Fukumoto, Tsutomu Shibayama, Midori Kusube, Takao Kasai, Yasuo Maeda, Yuji Mori
  • Theme song performed by   Maury Laws, Jules Bass
  • Japanese theme song performed by   Toshiko Fujita, Honey Nights
    • Lyrics and composing by   Asei Kobayashi

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Carl Banas   as   Professor Bond
  • Billie Mae Richards   as   Bobby Bond
  • Susan Conway   as   Susan Bond
  • John Drainie, Alf Scopp, Paul Soles   as   additional voices

Japanese dub

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Goro Naya   as   Professor Bond
  • Toshiko Fujita   as   Bobby Bond
  • Junko Hori   as   Susan Bond

Appearances

Characters

  • Professor Bond
  • Susan Bond
  • Bobby Bond
  • Captain Englehorn
  • Dr. Who
  • Vestus
  • Von Kramer
  • Dr. Bone

Monsters

Weapons, vehicles and races

  • Captain Englehorn's ship
  • Military tanks
  • Fighter jets
  • Volcanians
  • Dr. Who's helicopters
  • Dr. Who's ship
  • Dr. Who's rocket
  • Von Kramer's laser gun
  • Space Men
  • Space Men's UFO
  • Destroyer
  • Meltifier
  • Electric Circle
  • Mirror of Destruction

Locations

  • Mondo Island / "Skull Island"
  • United States
    • New York, New York
    • Anchorage, Alaska
    • San Francisco, California
    • Washington, D.C. (mentioned)
  • Egypt
    • Cairo
  • New Guinea
  • France
    • Paris


Video releases

Classic Media DVD (King Kong: The Animated Series Vol. 1)

  • Region: 1
  • Discs: 1
  • Audio: English (2.0 Mono)
  • Special features: None
  • Notes: Includes episodes 1-4 and 25, plus four episodes of Tom of T.H.U.M.B.

Classic Media DVD (King Kong: The Animated Series Vol. 2)

  • Region: 1
  • Discs: 1
  • Audio: English (2.0 Mono)
  • Special features: None
  • Notes: Includes episodes 5-8 and 26, plus four episodes of Tom of T.H.U.M.B.

Madman DVD (2006)[3]

  • Region: 4
  • Discs: 2
  • Audio: English (2.0 Mono)
  • Special features: An extended version of the pilot episode
  • Notes: Includes episodes 1-8 and 25-26, plus eight episodes of Tom of T.H.U.M.B.

Gallery

Video releases

  • King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 1 U.S. DVD cover

    King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 1 U.S. DVD cover

  • King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 2 U.S. DVD cover

    King Kong: The Animated Series Volume 2 U.S. DVD cover

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Videos

Segments unavailable on DVD

"King Kong's House"
"MechaniKong"
"The Giant Sloths" (Spanish)
"Dr. Bone" (Portuguese, incomplete)
"No Man's Snowman" (Spanish)
"Commander Performance" (incomplete)
"Perilous Porpoise" (Italian)
"The Trojan Horse" (Spanish)
"The Man from K.O.N.G."
"Caribbean Cruise"
"The Great Sun Spots"
"Thousand Year Knockout"
"Desert City"
"Kong of Stone"
"Murderer's Maze"
"Great Gold Strike"
"Mad Whale"
"King Kong Diamond"

Trivia

  • The King Kong Show was the first anime series produced in Japan for U.S. broadcast (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop-motion Christmas TV specials, which were also animated in Japan).
  • This series was successful enough for Rankin/Bass to extend the Kong franchise to another Japanese film company, Toho (who had already produced the hit film King Kong vs. Godzilla in 1962). This resulted in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (originally intended as a Kong film named Operation Robinson Crusoe: King Kong vs. Ebirah) and King Kong Escapes, the latter of which was loosely based on The King Kong Show. Dr. Who and Mechani-Kong both appeared as villains in the latter film, while Susan Bond's first name was given to one of the film's protagonists, Lieutenant Susan Watson. Kong's home of Mondo Island was carried over into the film as well.

External links

References

This is a list of references for The King Kong Show. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Aiken, Keith (20 December 2008). "KING KONG Cartoon Series Guide". SciFi Japan. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "King Kong (キングコング)". ja.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "King Kong (1966) (2 Disc Set)". Mighty Ape. Retrieved 10 April 2022.

 
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"Under the Volcano" • "The Treasure Trap" • "The Horror of Mondo Island" • "Dr. Who" • "Rocket Island" • "The African Bees" • "The Hunter" • "The Space Man" • "The Jinx of the Sphinx" • "The Greeneyed Monster" • "The Top of the World" • "The Golden Temple" • "The Electric Circle" • "Mirror of Destruction" • "Tiger Tiger" • "The Vise of Dr. Who" • "King Kong's House" • "MechaniKong" • "The Giant Sloths" • "The Legend of Loch Ness" • "Dr. Bone" • "No Man's Snowman" • "The Desert Pirates" • "Command Performance" • "The Sea Surrounds Us" • "Show Biz" • "The Wizard of Overlord" • "Perilous Porpoise" • "The Trojan Horse" • "The Man From K.O.N.G." • "Caribbean Cruise" • "Diver's Dilemma" • "The Great Sun Spots" • "Kong is Missing" • "In the Land of the Giant Trees" • "Captain Kong" • "Statue of Liberty Play" • "Pandora's Box" • "Thousand Year Knockout" • "Desert City" • "Eagle Squadron" • "The Kong of Stone" • "Murderer's Maze" • "The Great Gold Strike" • "It Wasn't There Again Today" • "The Mad Whale" • "King Kong Diamond" • "Anchors Away" • "A Friend in Need" • "The Key to the City"
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