The Adventures of T-Rex
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The Adventures of T-Rex was a co-production between Japan
ese and American
animated series that aired in syndication from 1992 to 1993 in North America. The show featured five musical Tyrannosaurus brothers who played to sold-out crowds as a vaudeville group for the Dragon company owned by the beautiful and wealthy Myrna while also secretly fighting crime as "T-REX," masterminded by Professor Edison. The show, an American/Japan
ese coproduction between DIC
and well-known anime
producer Kitty Film (Urusei Yatsura
, Ranma 1/2, Yawara!,Kishin Douji Zenki ) lasted only one season.
Set in a world of anthropomophic dinosaurs, brothers Bernie (blue), Bruno (pink), Bubba (green), Buck (yellow) and Bugsy (purple) were born with special powers to help fight crime. Each brother's special power was related to a specific part of their anatomy; Bernie's legs, Bruno's arms, Bubba's tail, Buck's mouth and teeth, and Bugsy's telekinetic eyes. The group rode out on their Rexmobile to battle “Big Boss” Graves, crime kingpin of Rep City (the show's setting), and his evil organization, The Corporation. Kid sister Ginger was part of the singing group, but didn’t know about her brothers’ secret identities.
One of the show’s other noteworthy elements was giving the T-Rexes imitation celebrity voices: Jack Benny
, Art Carney
, Bing Crosby
, Humphrey Bogart
and Jimmy Durante
.
Their major contribution to the Anthropomorphic Heroes genre was a sense of wit, as their transformation sequence required the use of the catchphrase, "T-Rex is the name and crimebusting's our game" (in practice, however, each of the brothers would replace "our game" with a context-sensitive witicism).
Developed by:
Original Character Designs by:
Executive Producers:
Co-Executive Producer:
Producers:
Creative Consultant:
Teleplay by:
Story Editor:
Directed by:
Voice Direction:
Talent Coordinator:
Liaison to Kitty:
Overseas Production Supervisor:
Art Director:
Characters and Props:
Background Designers:
Storyboards:
Storyboard Review:
Color Background Artists:
Color Key Artists:
Associate Producers:
Production Coordinators:
Production Secretary:
Animation Production:
Animation Supervisors:
Layouts:
Animation Studios:
Animation Producer:
Editiorial Services:
Slugging & Sheet Direction:
Original Music by:
Music Editor:
Sound Effects & Mix by:
Post Production Supervisor:
Audio Supervisor:
Video Supervisor:
Post Production Coordinators:
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese and American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
animated series that aired in syndication from 1992 to 1993 in North America. The show featured five musical Tyrannosaurus brothers who played to sold-out crowds as a vaudeville group for the Dragon company owned by the beautiful and wealthy Myrna while also secretly fighting crime as "T-REX," masterminded by Professor Edison. The show, an American/Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese coproduction between DIC
DIC
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and well-known anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
producer Kitty Film (Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura
is a comedic manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi that premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1978 and ran until its conclusion in 1987. Its 374 individual chapters were collected and published in 34 tankōbon volumes. The series tells the story of Ataru Moroboshi, and the alien...
, Ranma 1/2, Yawara!,Kishin Douji Zenki ) lasted only one season.
Set in a world of anthropomophic dinosaurs, brothers Bernie (blue), Bruno (pink), Bubba (green), Buck (yellow) and Bugsy (purple) were born with special powers to help fight crime. Each brother's special power was related to a specific part of their anatomy; Bernie's legs, Bruno's arms, Bubba's tail, Buck's mouth and teeth, and Bugsy's telekinetic eyes. The group rode out on their Rexmobile to battle “Big Boss” Graves, crime kingpin of Rep City (the show's setting), and his evil organization, The Corporation. Kid sister Ginger was part of the singing group, but didn’t know about her brothers’ secret identities.
One of the show’s other noteworthy elements was giving the T-Rexes imitation celebrity voices: Jack Benny
Jack Benny
Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...
, Art Carney
Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners....
, Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
, Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
and Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...
.
Their major contribution to the Anthropomorphic Heroes genre was a sense of wit, as their transformation sequence required the use of the catchphrase, "T-Rex is the name and crimebusting's our game" (in practice, however, each of the brothers would replace "our game" with a context-sensitive witicism).
Voice cast
- Ian James CorlettIan James CorlettIan James Corlett is a Canadian animation voice artist, writer, and musician. He is the creator of Studio B Productions' animated series Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon....
. . . . (Bugsy / Waldo Winch) - Kathleen BarrKathleen BarrKathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is also the sister of Professor Mark Lyle Barr at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.-Filmography:...
. . . . (Flo / Myrna / Black Widow) - Scott McNeilScott McNeilScott McNeil is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
. . . . (Bubba / Adder) - Robert O. SmithRobert O. SmithRobert O. Smith was a voice actor whose roles include Kaijinbo in InuYasha and Genma Saotome in Ranma ½.-Roles:* Hulk - soldiers and guards* InuYasha - Kaijinbo...
. . . . (Bernie / Buck / Cuddles / Dr. Death) - Venus TerzoVenus TerzoVenus Terzo is a Canadian actress best noted for her role as Detective Angela Kosmo in Da Vinci's Inquest and its spinoff, Da Vinci's City Hall. She was nominated in 2002 for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in that same role...
. . . . (Ginger / Mae) - Michael DonovanMichael DonovanMichael David Donovan is a voice actor for many TV shows and anime. He is most known for his voice on the series ReBoot for his voices of Phong, Mike the TV, Cecil, and Al. He has also provided the voice of Sabretooth for X-Men: Evolution and Carnage for Spider-Man Unlimited. He played the lead...
. . . . (Professor Edison / Shooter / Big Dinosaur) - Dale Wilson . . . . (Big Boss Graves / Bissell)
- Michael Beattie . . . . (Buck / Delaney)
- Gary ChalkGary Chalk (actor)Gary Chalk is an English-born Canadian actor, tri-national US-Canadian-UK citizen and voice artist. He has lend hit voice in over 30 animated television series and has been in films such as The Fly II and Freddy vs. Jason....
. . . . (Bruno / Madder / Mayor Maynot) - Phil Hayes . . . . (Little Boss / Axe)
- Jennifer Copping
- Brian DobsonBrian DobsonBrian Dobson is the third of three brothers, the others being Paul and Michael, who are well known for their talent as voice actors.- Anime Roles :*.hack//Roots - AI Harald...
- Janyse JaudJanyse JaudJanyse Aldis Jaud is a Canadian actress, dancer and singer/songwriter. She is of Icelandic-French descent....
- Alessandro JulianiAlessandro JulianiAlessandro Juliani is a Canadian actor, singer, and voice actor. He is notable for playing Tactical Officer Lieutenant Felix Gaeta on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica, and Emil Hamilton in Smallville...
- Annabel Kershaw
- Michael Dobson
Episode list
1. Hijack 2. Hot Shot 3. Rep Side Story 4. Star! 5. Mesmerized Mayor 6. The Big Freeze 7. Vinny and the Brothers 8. Big Time at the Big House 9. Rep City Games 10. Robo Flop 11. Screwloose 12. Radio-Dazed 13. Where's Ed? | 14. The Comeback Kid 15. The Fabulous Brother Boys 16. Play It Again 17. Big Boss Blues 18. Witness Protection 19. Biggest Chill 20. Dance Fever 21. The Contender 22. The Mayor's Egg 23. The Flying Boat 24. Rep City Guru 25. The Kimono Caper 26. Doctor in the House | 27. Crusin' for a Bruisin' 28. Country Cousins 29. The Rexmobile 30. Really Big Foot 31. It's All in the Cards 32. Flo and Ed 33. Fight at the Opera 34. The Rex Stuff 35. Rep City Blues 36. Radio Rip-off 37. Ginger Snaps 38. They Flap by Night 39. The Dough Stops Here | 40. Bungee Bandits 41. The Best Offense 42. My Fair Chain Gang 43. The Grand Science Fair 44. Crime Takes a Holiday 45. The Rep City Rockets 46. It's a Gas 47. The Big Bite 48. Bag of Bones 49. Up the River 50. Weekend in the Country 51. Little Big Boss 52. Super T-Rex |
Credits
Created by:- Michael Wahl, Lee Gunther
Developed by:
- Michael Wahl, Lee Gunther, Jean Chalopin
Original Character Designs by:
- Satoru Tsuda
Executive Producers:
- Michael Wahl, Lee Gunther, Jean Chalopin, Hidenori Taga
Co-Executive Producer:
- Mark Taylor
Producers:
- Rudy J. Zamura, Xavier Picard, Shigekazu Ochiai
Creative Consultant:
- Takashi
Teleplay by:
- Jean Chalopin
Story Editor:
- Peter Lawrence
Directed by:
- Stephane Martinere
Voice Direction:
- Michael Donovan
Talent Coordinator:
- Gail Hackery
Liaison to Kitty:
- Gene Pelc
Overseas Production Supervisor:
- Toshiyuki Hiruma
Art Director:
- Charlie Sansonetti
Characters and Props:
- Francois Capuron, Didier Cassegrain, Laurent Duvault, Pascall Morelli, Michele Perbet
Background Designers:
- Max Braslavsky, Vincent Gassies, Bruno Julier, Florence Nizan, Luc Paulet
Storyboards:
- Remi Brenot, Vic Dal Chele, Richard Danto, Adrian Gonzalez, Georges Grammat, Gordon Harrison, Philippe Landrot, Pascall Morelli, Ruben Negri, Pascal Pinon
Storyboard Review:
- Eric McConnell
Color Background Artists:
- Jean-Claude Bauer, Anne-Cecile de Rumine, Benedicte Fages, Genevieve, Penloup, Vincent Gassies
Color Key Artists:
- Claude Morelli, Isa Python, Genevieve Penloup, Maryann Stewart
Associate Producers:
- Karen Malach, Robert Winthrop
Production Coordinators:
- Monica Arce, Saiid Assefi, Claudia Ellis, Jill Gray, Kazumi Sawaguchi, Gaetano Vaccaro, Frank Weiss
Production Secretary:
- Samia De Jema
Animation Production:
- KK C&D Asia, Shigeru Akagawa, Hiroshi Toita, Hiroshi Saotome, Kitty Film
Animation Supervisors:
- Masanori Miura, Kazuyuki Hirokawa, Masakazu Higuchi, Eiji Okabe
Layouts:
- Group Zen, Anime-Spot Co. Ltd, AD Cosmo Inc., Teleimage Japan Inc.
Animation Studios:
- Mad HouseMadhouse (company)is a Japanese animation studio, founded in 1972 by ex–Mushi Pro animators including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It has created and helped to produce many well known shows, starting with TV anime series Ace o Nerae! in 1973, and including western favourites Ninja...
, Philippe Animation Studio Inc., Mook Company Ltd, Samile Animation Co. Ltd, Hung Long Animation Co. Ltd
Animation Producer:
- Takahiko Tsuchiya
Editiorial Services:
- Broughten-Winicki Inc.
Slugging & Sheet Direction:
- Pretend Production
Original Music by:
- Robert J. Walsh
Music Editor:
- Jeffrey R. King
Sound Effects & Mix by:
- Dick and Rogers Sound Studio Ltd, Fury and Grace
Post Production Supervisor:
- Yannick Heude
Audio Supervisor:
- Jacques Siegel
Video Supervisor:
- Jean-Marc Fonseca
Post Production Coordinators:
- Aban Patel, Suzanne Remiot
External links
- The Adventures of T-Rex at TV.comTV.comTV.com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Japan...
- http://www.nameneko.com/jp/trex.htmlT-REX - Satoru Tsuda's Site