An animated series is a set of animated television works with a common title, usually related to one another. These episodes should typically share the same main heroes, some different secondary characters and a basic theme. Series can have either a finite number of episodes like a miniseries , a definite end, or be open-ended, without a predetermined number of episodes. They can be broadcast on television, shown in movie theatres, released on the internet or direct-to-video . Like other creative works, animated series can be of a wide variety of genres and can also have different target audiences : both males and females, both children and adults .
41-463: Disney's Jungle Cubs is an American animated series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation for ABC in 1996, serving as the prequel to the 1967 film The Jungle Book as it's set in the youth of the animal characters years before the events of the film. The show was a hit, running for two seasons on ABC from 1996 to 1998 before its syndication in re-runs on the Disney Channel . The show
82-488: A band for an upcoming talent show, but split before the show starts because each of them believes they are the most important instrument in the band. "Old Green Teeth" : Louie suffers a crisis of confidence when the Five Bananas are invited to perform for an old idol of his. "Hair Ball" : Bagheera runs away from the jungle in embarrassment after coughing up a hairball in front of the entire jungle, resulting in him joining
123-518: A child-friendly show, shifted its target group to ages 12 and up, resulting in a darker and more mature storyline. Animated film theatrical series include all early animated series: Animated Weekly (1913), The Newlyweds (1913 — 1915), Travelaughs (1913, 1915 — 1918, 1921 — 1923), Doc Yak (1913 — 1915), Colonel Heeza Liar (1913 — 1917, 1922 — 1924), Kapten Grogg [ sv ] (1916 — 1922), Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés (1917 — 1918),
164-448: A group of Hokas get hold of a copy of The Jungle Book and begin to act it out, enlisting the help of a human boy to play Mowgli. The boy's mother, who is a little bemused to see teddy bears trying to act like wolves, tags along to try to keep him (and the Hokas) out of trouble. The situation is complicated by the arrival of three alien diplomats who just happen to resemble a monkey, a tiger and
205-593: A local station of a television network broadcasts an animated series as a part of its own programming, the time-slot will vary by region. All early animated television series, the first being Crusader Rabbit (1950 — 1959), are comic cartoon series. However, later series include sports ( Speed Racer , Captain Tsubasa , Slam Dunk ), action ( Hajime no Ippo , G.I. Joe ), science fiction ( Mobile Suit Gundam , Tenchi Muyo ), drama ( Neon Genesis Evangelion ), adventure ( Dragon Ball ), martial arts ( Baki
246-492: A sad and depressed Bagheera fakes his death to get even. The Cubs learn of a prophecy that states that Louie will some day be king of the jungle, but Khan wants the role for himself. "Trunks For The Memories" : Hathi's best friend Johar may have to part ways with him when the elephant herd breaks in two due to a food shortage. "Hathi's Makeover" : Hathi tries to become a different kind of animal after he becomes ashamed of being an elephant. "The Five Bananas" : The cubs form
287-455: A set time period in "segments", including several such shorts. When advertising is taken into account, the cartoon itself may be only 15 — 20 minutes of the half hour, although Netflix and many other streaming companies do not show commercials. There are also series with a very short episodes lasting approximately five minutes; they have recently become more common in Japanese animation . If
328-399: A snake. This story appears in the collection Hokas Pokas! (1998) and is also available online. The Third Jungle Book (1992) by Pamela Jekel is a collection of new Mowgli stories in a fairly accurate pastiche of Kipling's style. Hunting Mowgli (2001) by Maxim Antinori is a very short novel which describes a fateful meeting between Mowgli and a human hunter. The Jungle Book: Last of
369-457: A tiger attack, he is adopted by the Wolf Mother, Raksha and Father Wolf , who call him Mowgli (frog) because of his lack of fur and his refusal to sit still. Shere Khan the tiger demands that they give him the baby but the wolves refuse. Mowgli grows up with the pack, hunting with his brother wolves. In the pack, Mowgli learns he is able to stare down any wolf, and his unique ability to remove
410-795: Is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni , Madhya Pradesh , India , who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions , 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters. In
451-494: Is a short self published Mexican memoir written in Spanish in which the author details the deep emotional and physical impact Disney's animated version of Mowgli had during his lonely early childhood years as a symbolic " surrogate twin brother " figure and role model after learning about his real twin brother 's death one day after their preterm birth . It also includes an exclusive interview with Diana Santos who voiced
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#1732859184819492-440: Is separated from her family – owned by humans – after a fire in their village, and runs into Hathi. "Mondo Mungo" : Kaa befriends a young mongoose named "Mungo" and the pair strike up a friendship despite being natural enemies. Louie tricks Kaa into believing that Baloo's sleepwalking is the result of his attempts at hypnosis, sending Kaa out after Baloo just as the lethal red dogs return to The Jungle, with only Baloo to save
533-737: The Tom and Jerry cartoon short films released in movie theatres from 1940 to 1967, and many others. Direct-to-video animated series include most Japanese original video animations (OVAs). The first OVA series (and also the first overall OVA) was Dallos (1983 — 1985). Almost all hentai (pornographic) anime series are released as OVAs. Animated web series are designed and produced for streaming services . Examples include Happy Tree Friends (1999 — 2023) and Eddsworld (2003 — present). They can also be released on YouTube , such as Asdfmovie , which debuted in 2008. Mowgli Mowgli ( / ˈ m aʊ ɡ l i / MOW -glee )
574-485: The 'Embarrassment Club', consisting of various animals who unintentionally humiliated themselves in public. "Waiting For Baloo" : Baloo is entrusted with delivering a bunch of bananas to the baboons and the Buffaloes. "Nice Tiger" : Khan tries to convince the other cubs that there's nothing nice about him, but they all think differently. "Sleepless In The Jungle" : Baloo has difficulty sleeping due to his concerns about
615-474: The 1990s, more mature content than those of traditional cartoon series began to appear more widely, extending beyond a primary audience of children. These cartoon series included The Simpsons , South Park , Family Guy , Futurama , The Ren & Stimpy Show , Rocko's Modern Life , Beavis and Butt-Head , King of the Hill , and Duckman . Canadian computer-animated series ReBoot , which began as
656-454: The Grappler ), and other genres. The first animated sitcom was The Flintstones (1960 — 1966), produced by Hanna-Barbera . It was followed by other sitcoms of this studio: Top Cat (1961 — 1962), Jonny Quest (1964 — 1965), The Jetsons (1962 — 1963, 1985, 1987) and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972 — 1974), an adult-oriented animated series in
697-459: The Jungle ". Shere Khan continues to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds a weapon he can use against the tiger – fire. After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli goes to a human village where he is adopted by Messua and her husband , whose own son Nathoo was also taken by a tiger. It is uncertain if Mowgli is actually the returned Nathoo, although it is stated in " Tiger! Tiger! " that
738-456: The Mowgli stories for The Jungle Play in 1899, but the play was never produced on stage. The manuscript was lost for almost a century. It was published in book form in 2000. Only six years after the first publication of The Jungle Book , E. Nesbit 's The Wouldbegoods (1899) included a passage in which some children act out a scene from the book. Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs who created and developed
779-468: The Species (2013) by Mark L. Miller is a series of comic books that tells the story of a female Mowgli who unintentionally started a war between animal tribes after killing Shere Khan to avenge the fallen members of the wolf tribe. Mowgli's Missionary (2017) by James Penrice is a novel which describes Mowgli's unusual encounter with a missionary . Mi Hermano Lobo (My Brother Wolf) (2020) by Rafael Jaime
820-640: The United Kingdom. On September 12, 2003, three DVDs containing eleven episodes of the series was released in Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, the entire series was made available for purchase on digital in the United States through Amazon Instant Video , ITunes , and Google Play . https://archive.org/details/the-jungle-books-jungle-cubs-once-upon-a-vine-1998 Animated series Animated television series are presented daily or on certain days of
861-560: The animation pre-production studio of the series. Attempting to prove his courage after a joke by Louie and Baloo, Shere Khan vows to travel to Pinnacle Rock in the wasteland unaware that the ruthless baboon Mahra and her sons Ned, Jed, and Fred have returned and Mahra wants a new fur blanket. "How the Panther Lost His Roar" : Bagheera's feelings of inadequacy when compared to Khan are worsened when he loses his voice. "Hathi Meets His Match ": A young female elephant named Winifred
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#1732859184819902-433: The character Tarzan . Mowgli was also an influence for a number of other "wild boy" characters . Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson used the Mowgli stories as the basis for their humorous 1957 science fiction short story "Full Pack (Hokas Wild)". This is one of a series featuring a teddy bear-like race called Hokas who enjoy human literature but cannot quite grasp the distinction between fact and fiction. In this story,
943-535: The character in the Latin American Spanish dub of the 1967 film . An audiobook version narrated by the author was uploaded on YouTube in September 2021. It is similar in tone to the 2016 documentary Life, Animated . Feral Dreams: Mowgli and his Mothers (2020) by Stephen Alter is a novel which describes Mowgli's harrowing process in trying to adapt to civilization and his coming of age within
984-404: The characters as adults, as they recall events from their childhood through the series' episodes. In these segments, Baloo is voiced by Ed Gilbert , Bagheera, Hathi, Kaa and Louie are voiced by Jim Cummings and Shere Khan is voiced by Tony Jay . Gilbert, Cummings and Jay reprised their roles from TaleSpin . On September 8, 2003, one DVD containing three episodes of the series was released in
1025-479: The day. Kaa accidentally hypnotizes the vultures, turning them into competent hunters totally obedient to his commands. "Hulla Baloo" : Louie becomes jealous when Baloo begins to spend more time with another bear after he saved his life. When a shrew tells the animals about the long-lost 'Treasure of the Middle Jungle', the group - minus Bagheera and Hathi - set out to find it, only to come face-to-face with
1066-610: The first volume of Sleeman's Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude in 1848-1850 (1858) and reprinted in 1852 as An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, by an Indian Official and in The Zoologist (1888 12 (135): 87-98). The Mowgli stories, including "In the Rukh", were first collected in chronological order in one volume as The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book (1907) (Volume VIII of this series contained
1107-491: The forestry service. Muller, the head of the Department of Woods and Forests of India as well as Gisborne's boss, meets Mowgli, checks his elbows and knees, noting the callouses and scars, and figures Mowgli is not using magic or demons, having seen a similar case in 30 years of service. Muller also invites Mowgli to join the service, to which Mowgli agrees. Later, Gisborne learns the reason for Mowgli's almost superhuman talents; he
1148-458: The massive Cobra Whitehood. "Feather Brains" : Cecil falls in love with a female vulture named Clarice and kicks Arthur out of the nest. Arthur then, unsuccessfully, tries to bond with Khan. "Trouble on the Waterfront" : The Cubs break out into violent arguments when a drought destroys almost their entire water supply. "Fool Me Once..." : After a particularly harsh prank by Baloo and Louie,
1189-612: The non-Mowgli stories from the Jungle Books), and subsequently in All the Mowgli Stories (1933). "In the Rukh" describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in the Pench area in Seoni at the time of the British Raj , discovers a young man named Mowgli, who has extraordinary skills in hunting, tracking, and driving wild animals (with the help of his wolf brothers). He asks him to join
1230-463: The painful thorns from the paws of his brothers is deeply appreciated as well. Bagheera , the black panther, befriends Mowgli because both he and Mowgli have parallel childhood experiences; as Bagheera often mentions, he was "raised in the King's cages at Oodeypore " from a cub, and thus knows the ways of man. Baloo the bear , teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in " The Law of
1271-447: The potential water shortage. Two VHS releases containing 6 episodes of the series were released in the United States. Three VHS releases containing 11 episodes of the series were released in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. These international releases included newly-animated wraparounds set at unspecified points during the original film with Mowgli (voiced by Tyler Mullen) interacting with
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1312-459: The stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "bald", describing his lack of fur. Kipling later said "Mowgli is a name I made up. It does not mean 'frog' in any language that I know of." Part of Kipling's inspiration for the story of Mowgli is believed to have been William Henry Sleeman 's account of six cases in India in which wild children had been raised by wolves. That account was first published in
1353-1038: The style of All in the Family . The Alvin Show from Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and Beany and Cecil from Bob Clampett are also sitcoms. The 1980s and 1990s were a renaissance of the animated children and adult television series. Various broadcast networks and media companies began creating television channels and formats designed specifically for airing cartoon and anime series. Companies that already had these types of formats in place began to revamp their existing models during this time. Most of this animations were American-based or Japanese anime. Listed below are examples of television networks and channels that include animated programs. American British Japanese Canadian Australian Examples of animation-focused networks and channels are listed below; but some of them aired live-action programs occasionally. American South Korean Canadian Japanese During
1394-488: The tiger who carried off Messua's son was similar to the one that attacked Mowgli's parents. Messua would like to believe that her son has returned, but she herself realises that this is unlikely. While herding buffalo for the village, Mowgli learns that the tiger is still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves, he traps Shere Khan in a ravine where the buffalo trample him. The tiger dies and Mowgli sets to skin him. After being accused of witchcraft and cast out of
1435-537: The village and its fields to the ground. Later, Mowgli finds and then discards an ancient treasure ("The King's Ankus "), not realising it is so valuable that men would kill to own it. With the aid of Kaa the python, he leads the wolves in a war against the dhole ( "Red Dog" ). Finally, Mowgli stumbles across the village where his adopted human mother (Messua) is now living, which forces him to come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans in " The Spring Running ". Rudyard Kipling adapted
1476-497: The village, Mowgli returns to the jungle with Shere Khan's hide and reunites with his wolf family, but it is mentioned that he later becomes married and goes back to the man village. In later stories in The Jungle Book' s sequel, The Second Jungle Book , Mowgli learns that the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband for harboring him. He rescues them and sends elephants, water buffaloes, and other animals to trample
1517-462: The walls of an orphanage located in the Gangetic Plain and run by Miss Cranston, an American missionary who christens him Daniel. At the same time, Mowgli recalls some of his adventures in the jungle prior to his abduction and desperately yearns for his freedom. In this story Mowgli is raised by an elephant matriarch. Mowgli has been played by many actors. In the 1942 film adaptation , Mowgli
1558-430: The week during a prescribed time slot , including for example saturday-morning cartoons , prime time cartoons , late night anime , and weekday cartoons ; series broadcast only on weekends. The duration of an episode also varies. Traditionally, they are produced as complete half-hour or nearly half-hour programs; however, many are presented as animated shorts of 10 — 11 minutes, which can be combined for filling
1599-754: Was broadcast on Toon Disney , but was taken off the schedule in 2001. Re-runs aired on Disney Junior in the US from 2012 to 2013. The show also aired in the United Kingdom on Disney Cinemagic and in Latin America. The show's theme song is a hip hop version of the song, " The Bare Necessities " performed by Lou Rawls . Jungle Cubs was animated by Walt Disney Television Animation (Australia) Pty. Ltd. , Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. , Thai Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. , Toon City Animation, Inc. , and Sunmin Image Pictures Co., Ltd., with Studio B Productions , as
1640-429: Was played by Sabu Dastagir . In the 1994 film adaptation , he was played by Sean Naegeli as a child, and later throughout the film he was played by Jason Scott Lee . In The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo , he was played by Jamie Williams. In The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story , he was played by Brandon Baker , Ryan Taylor and off-screen by Fred Savage . Mowgli was played by Neel Sethi and by Kendrick Reyes as
1681-518: Was raised by a pack of wolves in the jungle (explaining the scars on his elbows and knees from going on all fours). Mowgli marries the daughter of Gisborne's butler, Abdul Gafur, and conceives a son with her. Kipling then proceeded to write the stories of Mowgli's childhood in detail in The Jungle Book , which serves as a prequel to In the Rukh . Lost by his parents as a baby in the Indian jungle during