The King Kong Show
| The King Kong Show | |||||
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| Also known as | King Kong | ||||
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| Kanji | キングコング⅐親指トム | ||||
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| Genre | Science fiction comedy Kaiju | ||||
| Based on | King Kong by Merian C. Cooper | ||||
| Voices of | Carl Banas Susan Conway John Drainie Billie Mae Richards Alf Scopp Paul Soles Bernard Cowan | ||||
| Theme music composer | Maury Laws | ||||
| Country of origin | United States Canada Japan | ||||
| Original languages | English Japanese | ||||
| No. of seasons | 1 | ||||
| No. of episodes | 25 | ||||
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| Executive producers | Arthur Rankin Jr. Jules Bass | ||||
| Producers | William J. Keenan Larry Roemer | ||||
| Running time | 28 minutes (regular episodes) 56 minutes (special episode) | ||||
| Production companies | Videocraft International Toei Animation | ||||
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| Network | ABC (United States) NET (Japan) | ||||
| Release | September 6, 1966 – March 4, 1967 | ||||
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King Kong (キングコング⅐親指トム, Kingu Kongu 00+1⁄7 Oyayubi Tomu), commonly referred to as The King Kong Show, is an animated television series produced by Videocraft International and Toei Animation. ABC ran the series in the United States on Saturday mornings between September 6, 1966, and March 4, 1967. It is the first animated series produced in Japan for an American company (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop motion productions, which were also animated in Japan).
This series is an animated adaptation of the famous film monster King Kong with character designs by Jack Davis and Rod Willis. It is also the first animated series in the King Kong franchise.