1992 in animation

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Events in 1992 in animation.

Events

January

• January 9: In The Simpsons episode Radio Bart, pop singer Sting is special guest voice.
• January 27: During a rally of the Republican Party, President George H. W. Bush states that "the American Family (...) needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons."
• January 30: At the start of the very next Simpsons episode a short video is shown in which The Simpsons watch Bush's speech on television, to which Bart Simpson snaps back: "Hey, we're just like The Waltons: we pray for an end to the recession too".

February

• February 20: In The Simpsons episode Homer at the Bat various famous baseball players are special guest voice.

March

• March 7: The first episode of Sailor Moon airs in Japan.
• March 11: Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation premiers.
• March 30: 64th Academy Awards:
  • Beauty and the Beast is the first animated feature film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture during the 64th Academy Awards. It loses to The Silence of the Lambs, but wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
  • Manipulation by Daniel Greaves wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
  • Ray Harryhausen wins the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, aka a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his entire career.

April

• April 10: Bill Kroyer's FernGully: The Last Rainforest premiers.
• April 20: The first episode of Goof Troop airs.

July

• July 10: Ralph Bakshi's Cool World, which mixes live-action with animation, premiers, but flops at the box office.
• July 18: Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso premiers.

August

• August 15: In the Ren & Stimpy episode Powdered Toast Man rock musician Frank Zappa plays the role of the Pope.
• August 20: Friz Freleng receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

September

• September 4: Bill Plympton's The Tune premiers.
• September 5: The first episode of Batman: The Animated Series airs.
• September 11:
  • In the Batman: The Animated Series episode Joker's Favor Harley Quinn makes her debut. She will become so popular that she will be added to the regular cast of the Batman franchise.
  • The first episode of The Little Mermaid is broadcast.
• September 12: The first episode of Eek! The Cat is broadcast.
• September 17: The first episode of Noddy's Toyland Adventures airs.
• September 22: The animated short Frog Baseball first airs on television. It marks the debut of Beavis and Butt-Head, who will receive their own series a year later.

October

• October 1:
  • Cartoon Network, a channel which shows animated programming, is launched in the United States by Turner Broadcasting System.
  • The Simpsons episode A Streetcar Named Marge is first broadcast
  • The film Tom and Jerry: The Movie premiers.
• October 8: The Simpsons episode Homer the Heretic is first broadcast.
• October 29: The Little Punker premiers.

November

• November 3: In The Simpsons episode Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie Bumblebee Man makes his debut.
• November 5: In The Simpsons episode Marge Gets a Job Tom Jones is special guest voice.
• November 12: In The Simpsons episode New Kid on the Block Captain Horatio McCallister makes his debut.
• November 19: The Simpsons episode Mr. Plow is first broadcast.
• November 25: Aladdin by Ron Clements and John Musker, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.

December

• December 3: In The Simpsons episode Lisa's First Word Elizabeth Taylor voices Maggie Simpson.
• December 7: What's Opera, Doc? is added to the National Film Registry.
• December 8: Trey Parker and Matt Stone make the animated short Jesus vs. Frosty, which features embryonal versions of the characters they'll later use in South Park.

Specific date unknown

• Film Roman takes over production of The Simpsons from Klasky Csupo.
• Jan Švankmajer's Food is first released.
• The Spanish film The Legend of the North Wind premiers.
• The first episode of Cococinel is broadcast.

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 1992

Television series debuts

Main article: List of animated television series of 1992

Date	Title	Channel	Year
January 31	Capitol Critters	ABC	1992
February 28	Fish Police	CBS
August 2	My Little Pony Tales	The Disney Channel
September 5	Batman: The Animated Series	Fox Kids	1992–95
	Goof Troop	The Disney Channel, Syndication, ABC	1992
September 8	Saban's Gulliver's Travels	Syndication	1992–93
September 11	The Little Mermaid	CBS	1992–94
September 12	Fievel's American Tails		1992
	The Addams Family (1992)	ABC	1992–93
	Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
	Eek! The Cat	Fox Kids	1992–97
	Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire		1992–93
September 13	King Arthur and the Knights of Justice	Syndication
	Conan the Adventurer (1992)
September 19	Raw Toonage	CBS	1992
	The Plucky Duck Show	Fox Kids
September 26	Dog City		1992–94
September 28	Stunt Dawgs	Syndication	1992–93
October 31	X-Men	Fox Kids	1992–97
November 2	Mickey's Mouse Tracks	The Disney Channel	1992–95
November 13	Saban's Around the World in Eighty Dreams	Syndication	1992–93

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
January 20	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1989)	Syndication	1989–92	Cancelled
March 2	James Bond Jr.		1991–92
March 13	Fish Police	CBS	1992
March 14	Capitol Critters	ABC
November 2	Donald Duck Presents	The Disney Channel	1983–92	Ended
November 28	Good Morning, Mickey!
November 30	Young Robin Hood	Syndication	1991–92	Cancelled
December 5	Fievel's American Tails	CBS	1992
	Raw Toonage
	Goof Troop	The Disney Channel, Syndication, ABC
December 6	Tiny Toon Adventures	Syndication	1990–92
December 12	The Plucky Duck Show	Fox Kids	1992
	Darkwing Duck	The Disney Channel, Syndication, ABC	1991–92
December 19	Widget	Syndication	1990–92
December 25	My Little Pony Tales	The Disney Channel	1992
December 26	Back to the Future	CBS	1991–92
Unknown	Mother Goose and Grimm
	Camp Candy	NBC, Syndication	1989–92

Births

October

• October 13: Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor (voice of Alphonse Eric in Fullmetal Alchemist).

Deaths

January

• January 9: Claude Coats, American painter and animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 78.
• January 15: Walter Clinton, American animator and comics artist (worked for Tex Avery, Hanna-Barbera), died at age 85.

February

• February 4: John Dehner, American animator (Walt Disney Studios) and actor, dies at age 76.
• February 9: Jack Kinney, American animator, animation director and producer (Walt Disney Company, Kinney-Adelquist Productions, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 82.
• February 14: Alex Lovy, American animator, animated director and comics artist (worked for Van Beuren, Walter Lantz, Columbia Pictures and Hanna-Barbera), passes away at age 78.
• February 20: Dick York, American actor (played Darrin in The Flintstones episode Samantha), dies at age 63.

March

• March 4: Art Babbitt, American animator (creator of Goofy, worked for Terrytoons, Walt Disney Company and UPA), dies at age 84.
• March 13: Boris Dyozhkin, Russian animated film director, caricaturist and animator (Cipollino, Fitil), passes away at age 77.
• March 17: Grace Stafford, American voice actress (voice of Woody Woodpecker between 1950 and 1991) and wife of Walter Lantz, dies of spinal cancer at age 88.
• March 24: Campbell Grant, American actor (voice of Angus MacBadger in The Wind in the Willows segment in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), character designer and animation writer (the Night on Bald Mountain/ Ave Maria segment in Fantasia), dies at age 82.

April

• April 16: Andy Russell, American-Mexican singer and actor (sang the segment Without You in Make Mine Music), dies at age 72.

May

• May 5: Michael J. O'Connor, American animator (worked on The Simpsons), dies at age 54.

June

• June 15: Chuck Menville, American animator and writer (Hanna-Barbera, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series), dies at age 52.

July

• July 17: Larry Roberts, American actor (voice of the Tramp in Lady and the Tramp), dies at age 65
• July 18: Rudolph Ising, American cartoon animator (co-founder of Warner Bros. Cartoons and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio), dies at age 79.

August

• August 8: Lynn Karp, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company), passes away at age 82.
• August 23: Charles August Nichols, American animator and animation film and TV director (Walt Disney Company, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 81.
• August 26: Sammy Timberg, American composer (wrote the soundtrack of various animated shorts by the Fleischer Brothers), dies at age 89.
• August 27: Ferdinand Diehl, German animator and film director (The Seven Ravens, Mecki), dies at age 91.

September

• September 5: Yasuji Mori, Japanese animator (Toei Animation) and director (The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon), dies at age 67.
• September 25: Leslie Denison, British actor (voice of the judge and a weasel in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, the narrator in Donald's Diary, dies at age 87.
• September 27: Zhang Leping, Chinese comics artist and animator (Sanmao), dies at the age of 91.
• September 29: John Reed, American animated film director (Walt Disney Company, Animal Farm), dies at age 84.

October

• October 6: Denholm Elliott, British actor (voice of Cowslip in Watership Down), dies at age 70
• October 25: Roger Miller, American singer and actor (voice of Alan-a-Dale the rooster in Robin Hood), dies at age 56.

November

• November 22: Sterling Holloway, American actor (voice of Mr. Stork in Dumbo, Flower (as an adult) in Bambi, Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, Winnie the Pooh, Kaa in The Jungle Book, Roquefort in The Aristocats), dies at age 87.

December

• December 10: Joan Gardner, American voice actress (voice of Spunky in The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole, Mrs. Wetworth in Snorks), dies at age 66.
• December 17: Horst von Möllendorff, German comics artist, cartoonist and animator (Verwitterte Melodie, Der Schneemann, Hochzeit im Korallenmeer), dies at age 86.
• December 24: Peyo, Belgian comics artist and animation film director (directed The Smurfs and the Magic Flute), dies at age 64.
• December 31: Dianne Jackson, British animation film director (The Snowman), dies at age 51.

Specific date unknown

• Fred Abranz, American comics artist and animator (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 81 or 82.
• Wan Chaochen, Chinese animated film director and producer (Wan Brothers), dies at age 85 or 86.
• Pierre Chivot, French animator and comics artist, dies at age 63 or 64.

See also

• 1992 in anime

External links

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb