The Comic Strip (partially found Rankin/Bass animated TV series; 1987)

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Status: Partially Found

The Comic Strip is a 1987, American, action, comedy, musical, family, children's, anthology, animated, television series. It was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions and it is that studio's final cartoon T.V. series. During the 1987 season, it ran for an hour and a half in first-run syndication. There is one season with 65 episodes, each episode containing two segments, totaling up to 130 segments.

Premise

Each episode is split into two, ten-minute segments. The segments are alternated from episode to episode. There are four cartoon series of segments: Karate Kat, Tiger Sharks, The Mini-Monsters, and Street Frogs. Karate Kat centers on a crime-fighting, anthropomorphic cat who works for a detective agency and uses his martial arts skills to defend his city from evil-doers; Tiger Sharks follows a superteam of human/marine animal hybrids who have underwater adventures while fending off villains along the way; The Mini-Monsters features two human kids and siblings who go to summer camp where they meet an unusual bunch of fellow campers who are based on mostly movie monsters; and Street Frogs revolves around a crew of rapping amphibians.

Status

The few episodes that are available vary from one video streaming site to another. There are compilations of all four of the cartoon segment series, each series containing three segments, which were taken from VHS compilations released by Lorimar Home Video, on Dailymotion and Youtube. Also on Youtube, certain segments from certain series are on it individually. There are Spanish dubs of the very few, particular segments of Karate Kat and The Mini-Monsters on the same site. Another compilation on Youtube has three segments, one from each series: Karate Kat, The Mini-Monsters, and Street Frogs. On Internet Archive, there are seven segments of The Mini-Monsters, three of them in Greek whereas some of the Tiger Sharks segments are on there as well, but they vary from being in English, Spanish, Greek, and a couple are incomplete. Most of Street Frogs is unavailable, save for three segments. Karate Kat isn't there at all, other than the theme song. The entire series, especially in English, has yet to be available on any streaming site currently.

Footage

episodes with commercials

series intro

episodes 1-3

External Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comic_Strip_(TV_series)
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246512/