Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater

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Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
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Title card.
Genre Saturday morning cartoon
Developed by DIC Entertainment
Directed by Michael Maliani
Voices of (English Dubbing)
Carl Banas
Mairon Bennett
Len Carlson
Elizabeth Hanna
Kyōko Hikami
Denise Pidgeon
Tara Charandoff
Cree Summer Francks
Noam Zylberman
Country of origin  Japan
 United States
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13 (half-hour episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Andy Heyward
Producer(s) Michael Maliani
Running time 30 min.
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Original run September 19, 1987 – December 12, 1987

Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater is an Japanese-American co-produced animated series based on the popular Japanese character, Hello Kitty. The series involved her and her friends doing their own version of popular fairy tales and stories. Each of the 13 half-hour episodes consisted of two 11-minute cartoons, for a total of 26 “shows”; each show was a spoof of a well-known fairy tale or movie.

Contents

[edit] Characters and voices

[edit] Format

Each cartoon opens with the theater filling up with patrons, and usually a look at some comical goings-on backstage. The play then begins (with Hello Kitty saying “Once upon a meow”) and the stage transforms into whatever setting the story calls for (outer space, the American Old West, et cetera). Each show is a lighthearted takeoff of a children’s story or a popular movie; subjects include Frankenstein, Crocodile Dundee, “Goldilocks,” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” At the end, the stage returns to normal, and the actors take their bow.

One exception to this format is the cartoon “The Phantom of the Theater,” which begins after the actors have finished a show; all the action in this story takes place backstage.

[edit] Episode list

Ep. Cartoon Spoof of:
1 The Wizard of Paws The Wizard of Oz
Pinocchio Penguin Pinocchio
2 Cinderkitty Cinderella
The Pawed Piper The Pied Piper of Hamelin
3 KT — The Kitty Terrestrial E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Peter Penguin Peter Pan
4 Kittylocks and the Three Bears Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Paws — The Great White Dog Shark Jaws
5 Cat Wars Star Wars
Tar-Sam of the Jungle Tarzan of the Apes
6 Sleeping Kitty Sleeping Beauty
Kitty and the Kong King Kong
7 Kitty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast
Little Red Bunny Hood Little Red Riding Hood
8 Snow White Kitty and the One Dwarf Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Frankencat Frankenstein
9 Catula Dracula
Paws of the Round Table The Sword in the Stone
10 Rumpeldogskin Rumpelstiltskin
Robin Penguin Robin Hood
11 Hello Mother Goose Various nursery rhymes
Crocodile Penguin Crocodile Dundee
12 Grinder Genie and the Magic Lamp Aladdin
The Ugly Quackling The Ugly Duckling
13 How Scrinchip Stole Christmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Phantom of the Theater The Phantom of the Opera

[edit] Availability

Two VHS videocassettes were released, each containing four cartoon shorts, as well as the opening and closing sequences.

In 2003, five DVDs were released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, each containing five cartoon shorts; the only one of the 26 not to be included was “How Scrinchip Stole Christmas.” The opening and closing sequences are not included.

[edit] Home video

  • Hello Kitty (TV Series): Kitty and the Beast (also includes “Grinder Genie and the Magic Lamp,” “Hello Mother Goose,” and “Little Red Bunny Hood”)
  • Hello Kitty: Wizard of Paws (also includes “Snow White Kitty,” “Sleeping Kitty,” and “Peter Penguin”)
  • In 1989, episodes from Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater" were in a video called "Hello Kitty and Friends Get Along from Burbank Video.

[edit] DVD list

  • Hello Kitty Becomes a Princess
  • Hello Kitty Goes to the Movies
  • Hello Kitty Plays Pretend
  • Hello Kitty Saves the Day
  • Hello Kitty Tells Fairy Tales

[edit] iTunes

In 2008, all thirteen episodes were made available to download on iTunes for $1.99 an episode or $21.99 for the entire series. To promote the series, iTunes offered the episodes "Wizard of Paws and Pinocchio Penguin" as a free download for a limited time.

[edit] Hulu

In 2010, all thirteen episodes were made available to watch on hulu.

[edit] External links
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