Wake, Rattle, and Roll | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by | David Kirschner |
Written by | Laren Bright Brady Connell Don Dougherty David Kirschner Ken Knox Linda Krause Earl Kress Kristina Luckey Bill Matheny David Schwartz Carl Swenson Marlowe Weisman |
Directed by | Doug Rogers Steven J. Santos |
Creative director | Rick Schneider-Calabash |
Starring |
R.J. Williams Avery Schreiber Ebonie Smith Terri Ivens |
Voices of |
Charlie Adler Greg Burson Tim Curry Dick Gautier Marvin Kaplan John Mariano Allan Melvin Don Messick Pat Musick Rob Paulsen Neil Ross Arnold Stang John Stephenson Shadoe Stevens Jean Vander Pyl Janet Waldo Frank Welker Paul Winchell Jonathan Winters Patric Zimmerman |
Theme music composer | Joe Curiale |
Composers | Joe Curiale (Fender Bender 500 segments) Udi Harpaz Bob Mithoff Michael Tavera (Monster Tails segments) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 50 ( list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Shukri Ghalayini David Kirschner Ron Ziskin Cartoon segments: William Hanna Joseph Barbera Paul Sabella |
Producers | Cosmo Anzilotti David Casci Jim Crum Jeffrey Hilton Jeffrey Scott Kelly Ward Kay Wright |
Editor | Terry Moore |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies |
Hanna-Barbera Productions Four Point Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | Syndication |
Release | September 17, 1990 January 18, 1991 | –
Related | |
Monster Tails Fender Bender 500 |
Wake, Rattle, and Roll (retitled Jump, Rattle, and Roll when it aired on The Disney Channel on weekday afternoons in 1991 [1] [2]) is an American live-action/animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Four Point Entertainment that premiered in the fall of 1990. As the show's title suggests, Hanna-Barbera intended the show to air on its affiliated stations in a morning timeslot before school. The show's title was inspired by the song " Shake, Rattle and Roll". After its single season on the air in syndication, Wake, Rattle, and Roll moved exclusively to The Disney Channel under the title Jump, Rattle, and Roll, with the title adjustment due to its repeats not being confined to mornings. [3]
Jump, Rattle, and Roll ran on The Disney Channel from October 7, 1991 to 1994, becoming the only Hanna-Barbera animated series ever to air on that network. [2] [4] [5] It has also been screened on Network Ten in Australia, TV1 in Malaysia, Channel 2 in New Zealand, M-Net in South Africa, Channel 5 in Singapore and TV5 in the Philippines while the animated segments were broadcast on ITV in the UK as part of the short running Saturday morning children's programme TV Mayhem, becoming the first series to debut on ITV during TV Mayhem.
The series was about a boy named Sam Baxter (played by R. J. Williams) and his robot D.E.C.K.S. (voiced by Rob Paulsen; built from old audio/video equipment and a Sony U-Matic videotape head; the name was an acronym for Digital Electronic Cassette-Headed Kinetic System) and their adventures in the basement, which has a time machine that can bring back historical figures. In some cases, Sam and D.E.C.K.S. occasionally have remote fights in which they each have a remote control and start pressing buttons changing each other from Hanna-Barbera stars to famous movie stars.
Sam's grandpa Dr. Lester T. Quirk (played by Avery Schreiber) is a brilliant inventor and is constantly supplying Sam and DECKS with sci-fi technology to add to their basement bedroom:
After a short live-action skit, D.E.C.K.S. would turn on the television screen on his torso and display an animated short. There are two new Hanna-Barbera series made exclusively for this program.
Monster Tails is about a group of pets who live in a castle in Transylvania with their guardian Igor Jr. (voiced by Charlie Adler), the son of Igor (Iggy for short). Each of them had a similar personality to their masters who are in Hollywood making movies:
Monster Tails was also shown in the U.K., on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast in 1993.
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This was a spin-off of Wacky Races for the 1990s, in which classic Hanna-Barbera characters drove monster trucks made for racing. Each vehicle had a different theme, specific to its drivers; e.g., Yogi & Boo Boo's monster truck was a motorized giant picnic basket with gigantic wheels, while Winsome Witch's monster truck was a wheeled cauldron with a sentient skeleton named Axel on it. Game show announcer from The New Hollywood Squares and disc jockey Shadoe Stevens provided the voice of the race announcer. Since they were in the aforementioned series, Dick Dastardly and Muttley reappeared in this segment, reprising their roles as cheaters with their own monster truck called the Dirty Truckster, which was basically their Mean Machine on a monster truck chassis. Although technically not a series of its own, this was the fourth all-star sports show from Hanna-Barbera.
Axel had a cameo appearance in the Jellystone! episode "Face of the Town".
Competitors (listed by numeral order, as in their race numbers) included:
Due to the Disney Channel airing the program without any commercial breaks due to being a premium service at the time, an additional animated segment aired after the last live-action scene. These consisted of two shorts from the H-B archive: a " Dino and Cavemouse" segment from The Flintstone Comedy Show and an "Undercover Elephant" segment from CB Bears.
Monster Tails:
Fender Bender 500:
Wake, Rattle, and Roll | |
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![]() Title card | |
Genre | Comedy |
Created by | David Kirschner |
Written by | Laren Bright Brady Connell Don Dougherty David Kirschner Ken Knox Linda Krause Earl Kress Kristina Luckey Bill Matheny David Schwartz Carl Swenson Marlowe Weisman |
Directed by | Doug Rogers Steven J. Santos |
Creative director | Rick Schneider-Calabash |
Starring |
R.J. Williams Avery Schreiber Ebonie Smith Terri Ivens |
Voices of |
Charlie Adler Greg Burson Tim Curry Dick Gautier Marvin Kaplan John Mariano Allan Melvin Don Messick Pat Musick Rob Paulsen Neil Ross Arnold Stang John Stephenson Shadoe Stevens Jean Vander Pyl Janet Waldo Frank Welker Paul Winchell Jonathan Winters Patric Zimmerman |
Theme music composer | Joe Curiale |
Composers | Joe Curiale (Fender Bender 500 segments) Udi Harpaz Bob Mithoff Michael Tavera (Monster Tails segments) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 50 ( list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Shukri Ghalayini David Kirschner Ron Ziskin Cartoon segments: William Hanna Joseph Barbera Paul Sabella |
Producers | Cosmo Anzilotti David Casci Jim Crum Jeffrey Hilton Jeffrey Scott Kelly Ward Kay Wright |
Editor | Terry Moore |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies |
Hanna-Barbera Productions Four Point Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | Syndication |
Release | September 17, 1990 January 18, 1991 | –
Related | |
Monster Tails Fender Bender 500 |
Wake, Rattle, and Roll (retitled Jump, Rattle, and Roll when it aired on The Disney Channel on weekday afternoons in 1991 [1] [2]) is an American live-action/animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Four Point Entertainment that premiered in the fall of 1990. As the show's title suggests, Hanna-Barbera intended the show to air on its affiliated stations in a morning timeslot before school. The show's title was inspired by the song " Shake, Rattle and Roll". After its single season on the air in syndication, Wake, Rattle, and Roll moved exclusively to The Disney Channel under the title Jump, Rattle, and Roll, with the title adjustment due to its repeats not being confined to mornings. [3]
Jump, Rattle, and Roll ran on The Disney Channel from October 7, 1991 to 1994, becoming the only Hanna-Barbera animated series ever to air on that network. [2] [4] [5] It has also been screened on Network Ten in Australia, TV1 in Malaysia, Channel 2 in New Zealand, M-Net in South Africa, Channel 5 in Singapore and TV5 in the Philippines while the animated segments were broadcast on ITV in the UK as part of the short running Saturday morning children's programme TV Mayhem, becoming the first series to debut on ITV during TV Mayhem.
The series was about a boy named Sam Baxter (played by R. J. Williams) and his robot D.E.C.K.S. (voiced by Rob Paulsen; built from old audio/video equipment and a Sony U-Matic videotape head; the name was an acronym for Digital Electronic Cassette-Headed Kinetic System) and their adventures in the basement, which has a time machine that can bring back historical figures. In some cases, Sam and D.E.C.K.S. occasionally have remote fights in which they each have a remote control and start pressing buttons changing each other from Hanna-Barbera stars to famous movie stars.
Sam's grandpa Dr. Lester T. Quirk (played by Avery Schreiber) is a brilliant inventor and is constantly supplying Sam and DECKS with sci-fi technology to add to their basement bedroom:
After a short live-action skit, D.E.C.K.S. would turn on the television screen on his torso and display an animated short. There are two new Hanna-Barbera series made exclusively for this program.
Monster Tails is about a group of pets who live in a castle in Transylvania with their guardian Igor Jr. (voiced by Charlie Adler), the son of Igor (Iggy for short). Each of them had a similar personality to their masters who are in Hollywood making movies:
Monster Tails was also shown in the U.K., on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast in 1993.
![]() | This section needs expansion. You can help by
adding to it. (June 2008) |
This was a spin-off of Wacky Races for the 1990s, in which classic Hanna-Barbera characters drove monster trucks made for racing. Each vehicle had a different theme, specific to its drivers; e.g., Yogi & Boo Boo's monster truck was a motorized giant picnic basket with gigantic wheels, while Winsome Witch's monster truck was a wheeled cauldron with a sentient skeleton named Axel on it. Game show announcer from The New Hollywood Squares and disc jockey Shadoe Stevens provided the voice of the race announcer. Since they were in the aforementioned series, Dick Dastardly and Muttley reappeared in this segment, reprising their roles as cheaters with their own monster truck called the Dirty Truckster, which was basically their Mean Machine on a monster truck chassis. Although technically not a series of its own, this was the fourth all-star sports show from Hanna-Barbera.
Axel had a cameo appearance in the Jellystone! episode "Face of the Town".
Competitors (listed by numeral order, as in their race numbers) included:
Due to the Disney Channel airing the program without any commercial breaks due to being a premium service at the time, an additional animated segment aired after the last live-action scene. These consisted of two shorts from the H-B archive: a " Dino and Cavemouse" segment from The Flintstone Comedy Show and an "Undercover Elephant" segment from CB Bears.
Monster Tails:
Fender Bender 500: