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Title card for the series.

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The Comic Strip is a 1987 American action-comedy children's animated anthology television series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. 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.^[1] 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.^[2] There are four cartoon 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 super team 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

A limited number of episodes are available and tend to differ from one video streaming site to another. Some websites have compiled all four cartoon segment series, each including three segments. These compilations have been taken from VHS compilations released by Lorimar Home Video and are found on Dailymotion and YouTube. On YouTube, segments from various series are on individually, including Spanish dubs 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 the 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, and 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 in English has yet to be available on any streaming site.

Editing

Episode List

#	Title	Segment	Availability
1	Voyage to Water-O	TigerSharks	Lost
2	SARK to the Rescue	TigerSharks	Lost
3	Save the SARK	TigerSharks	Lost
4	The Deep Fryer	TigerSharks	Lost
5	Bowfin	TigerSharks	Lost
6	Pappagallo's Present	TigerSharks	Lost
7	The Lighthouse	TigerSharks	Lost
8	Go with the Flow	TigerSharks	Lost
9	Termagant	TigerSharks	Lost
10	The Terror of Dragonstein	TigerSharks	Lost
11	The Search for Redfin	TigerSharks	Lost
12	The Kraken	TigerSharks	Lost
13	Stowaway	TigerSharks	Lost
14	Iced	TigerSharks	Lost
15	The Volcano	TigerSharks	Lost
16	A Question of Age	TigerSharks	Lost
17	Eye of the Storm	TigerSharks	Lost
18	Departure	TigerSharks	Lost
19	Murky Waters	TigerSharks	Lost
20	Spellbinder	TigerSharks	Lost
21	The Waterscope	TigerSharks	Lost
22	The Point of No Return	TigerSharks	Lost
23	The Scavenger Hunt	TigerSharks	Lost
24	Paradise Island	TigerSharks	Lost
25	The Treasure Map	TigerSharks	Lost
26	Redfin Returns	TigerSharks	Lost
27	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
28	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
29	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
30	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
31	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
32	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
33	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
34	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
35	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
36	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
37	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
38	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
39	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
40	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
41	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
42	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
43	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
44	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
45	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
46	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
47	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
48	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
49	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
50	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
51	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
52	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
53	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
54	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
55	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
56	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
57	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
58	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
59	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
60	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
61	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
62	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
63	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
64	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
65	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost

Footage

episodes with commercials

series intro

episodes 1-3

References

↑ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-1538103739.
↑ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 208–210. ISBN 978-1476665993.

External Links

[1] Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-1538103739.

[2] Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 208–210. ISBN 978-1476665993.

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+'''The Comic Strip''' is a 1987 American action-comedy children's animated anthology television series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. 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.<ref>Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-1538103739.</ref> There is one season with 65 episodes, each episode containing two segments, totaling up to 130 segments.
-'''The Comic Strip''' is a 1987 American action-comedy children's animated anthology 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.
+Each episode is split into two ten-minute segments. The segments are alternated from episode to episode.<ref>Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 208–210. ISBN 978-1476665993.</ref> There are four cartoon 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 super team 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 available episodes 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 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 the 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, and 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.
+A limited number of episodes are available and tend to differ from one video streaming site to another. Some websites have compiled all four cartoon segment series, each including three segments. These compilations have been taken from VHS compilations released by Lorimar Home Video and are found on Dailymotion and YouTube. On YouTube, segments from various series are on individually, including Spanish dubs 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 the 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, and 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 in English has yet to be available on any streaming site.
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