Fievel's American Tails

Fievel's American Tails
Format	Animated series
Created by	David Kirschner
Directed by	Larry Jacobs
Voices of	Phillip Glasser Dom DeLuise Susan Silo Lloyd Battista Cathy Cavadini Dan Castellaneta Gerrit Graham Kenneth Mars
Country of origin	United States Canada
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	30 minutes per episode
Production company(s)	Amblin Television Amblimation Nelvana Universal Cartoon Studios
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 12, 1992 (1992-09-12) – December 5, 1992 (1992-12-05)

Fievel's American Tails is an American/Canadian animated television series, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios. It aired for one season in 1992, and continued Fievel's adventures from the film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991). The series was universally panned by critics and fans alike, resulting in low ratings which ultimately led to the show's cancellation

In 1993 and 1994, MCA/Universal Home Video released eight episodes on four VHS video-cassettes and two Laserdisc volumes. These have been the only home video release of the cartoon, at least in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the 12-episode series was released on six video-cassettes in 1995. Episodes have been released on DVD in France, Germany, and Italy. Universal currently has no plans to release the show on DVD in the United States, as of November 19, 2009.

In Russia, the cartoon, dubbed in Russian but retaining the original English titles and names, was broadcast on First Channel Russian Television (Russian: ОРТ) in summer 1996 with Woody Woodpecker. Repeat airings were broadcast in Spring 2002 and Winter 2005.

Don Bluth, the director of the original American Tail film, had no involvement with the series. Phillip Glasser and Dom DeLuise were the only two actors from the original film to reprise their roles, as Fievel and Tiger respectively. Cathy Cavadini, however, did reprise the role as Tanya, whom she voiced in the second film, taking over the role from Amy Green.

Episode list

13 half-hour episodes were produced: season 1

1. Fievel, the Lonesome Ranger
2. Law and Disorder
3. Little Mouse on the Prairie
4. The Gift
5. A Case of the Hiccups
6. The Legend of Mouse Hollow
7. Babysitting Blues
8. The Lost Mother Lode
9. A Mouse Known as Zorrowitz
10. Mail Order Mayhem
11. Aunt Sophie's Visit
12. That's What Friends Are For
13. Bell the Cats

Notes

• Gerrit Graham previously worked with David Kirschner on Child's Play 2 and Steven Spielberg on Used Cars.

Characters

• Fievel Mousekewitz: A little mouse.
• Tanya Mousekewitz: Fievel's older sister.
• Yasha Mousekewitz: Fievel's baby sister.
• Papa Mousekewitz: Fievel's father
• Mama Mousekewitz: Fievel's mother
• Cat R. Waul: Fievel's arch-nemesis.
• Sweet William: One of Cat R. Waul's cronies, and CAt R waul is always at odds w him. sometimes Sweet William goes off on his own.
• Slim and Feloneous: Sweet Williams two dim-whitted ally cat sidekicks.
• Chula the Tarantula: Fievel's other arch-nemesis, and Cat R. Waul's sidekick. A caricature of Butch Cassidy.
• Jack: One of Fievel's school mates. Most likely from Australia.
• Jorge: Another one of Fievel's school mates.
• Tiger: The only cat friend of the Jewish-Russian mouse family
• Mr. J. M. Schimmel: The rat who owns the mouse sized general store in Green River.
• Clint Mousewood: One of Fievel's heroes. – from "Mail Order Mayhem" A caricature of Clint Eastwood.
• Hambone: The dog guard on the train. – from "The Gift"
• Sidney: One of Fievel's more spoiled classmate. First appears in Law and Disorder.
• Aunt Sophie: A relative of the Mousekewitz family. – from "Aunt Sophie's Visit"
• Dr. Travis T. Hiprocates: A traveling doctor that gave away hiccup sweets. – from "A Case of the Hiccups". A caricature of Sigmond Freud.
• Miss Kitty: Tiger's girlfriend. – from "Law and Disorder". A caricature of Dorothy Gibson.
• Mr. Ironside: The school teacher, probably a mole.
• Dog: The dog who guards the jail house.
• Lorna Holcombe: A girl in Fievel's class.
• Patty Paris: The baker. A caricature of Ona Munson's Belle Watling from Gone with the Wind.

Cast

• Phillip Glasser as Fievel
• Dom DeLuise as Tiger
• Susan Silo as Mama
• Lloyd Battista as Papa
• Cathy Cavadini as Tanya and Yasha
• Dan Castellaneta as Chula and Mr. Schimmel
• Gerrit Graham as Cat R. Waul
• Kenneth Mars as Sweet William
• Hal Rayle as Clint Mousewood
• Arthur Burghardt as Hambone
• Cynthia Ferrer as Miss Kitty
• Patricia Parris as Aunt Sophie
• Akemi Okamura as Fievel (Japanese version)
• Mayuko Aoki as Tanya (Japanese version)
• Taeko Kawata as Yasha (Japanese version)

Credits

Executive Producer	Steven Spielberg
Production Executives	Frank Marshall Kathleen Kennedy
Executive Production Consultant	David Kirschner
Created by	David Kirschner
Executive Story Editors	Hank Saroyan J.R. Young
Story Editors	Sam Graham Chris Hubbell
Produced by	Michael Hirsh Patrick Loubert Clive A. Smith
Supervising Producer	Stephen Hodgins
Line Producer	Peter Hudecki
Directed by	Lawrence Zelig Jacobs
Assistant Director	Paul Riley
Voice Director	Kelly Ward
Casting	Maria Estrada
Production Supervisor	Steve Chadwick
Production Manager	Ruta Cube
Unit Director	Claude Chiasson
Production Coordinators	Jocelyn Hamilton Mike DeMonna Martina Moody
Designers	Frank Nissen Charles E. Bastien Chuck Gammage Ross Campbell Joe Goesslin Robert Walton Patrick Rowsome Blayne Burnside Steven K. Manning Stephen Wood
Posers	Lynn Reist David Boudreau Alan Knappett
Design Coordinator	Patty Beausoleil
Layout Supervisor	Tony Tarantini
Layouts	Dale DesRochers Ron Wilson Chris Minz Rob Sadler Chad Hicks Frank Ramirez Brad Markewitz Michel Daze
Storyboard	Bob Smith Raymond Jafelice John Yee John Flagg Vince Natali Andrea Robbins
Storyboard Cleanup Supervisor	Dave Quensnelle
Color Designer	Rebecca Barclay
Paint Supervisor	Mary Bertoia
Backgrounds	Kellie Jobson
Theme Song Written and Performed by	Hank Saroyan Robert Irving
Music by	Milan Kymlicka
Supervising Editor	Rob Kirkpatrick
Post Production Manager	Lan Lamon
Supervising Sound Editor	Steve Cole
Picture Editors	Richard Bond Karen Saunders Evan Landis Peter Riley
Supervising Pre-Production Editor	Darrell MacDonald
Supervising Breakdown Editor	Rick Dubiel
Recording and Transfer Technians	Mike Reid Richard Stobiel
Additional Production Facilities	Wang Film Production Co. Ltd. [Bardel Animation Ltd. The Hollywood Cartoon Company
Negative Cutting Services	Catherine Rankin Productions
Laboratory Services	Command Post and Transfer Corporation Access Post Production Audio Inc. The Filmhouse Group

External links

• Fievel's American Tails at the Internet Movie Database
• Fievel's American Tails at TV.com