The Comic Strip (partially found Rankin/Bass animated TV series; 1987)

Title card for the series.

Status: Partially Found

The Comic Strip is a 1987 American action-comedy children's animated anthology television series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It is that studio's final cartoon T.V. series. During the 1987 season, it ran for an hour and a half in first-run syndication.^[1] There is one season with 65 episodes, each episode containing two segments, totaling up to 130 segments.

Premise

Each episode is split into two ten-minute segments. The segments are alternated from episode to episode.^[2] There are four cartoon segments: Karate Kat, Tiger Sharks, The Mini-Monsters, and Street Frogs. Karate Kat centers on a crime-fighting, anthropomorphic cat who works for a detective agency and uses his martial arts skills to defend his city from evil-doers; Tiger Sharks follows a super team of human/marine animal hybrids who have underwater adventures while fending off villains along the way; The Mini-Monsters features two human kids and siblings who go to summer camp where they meet an unusual bunch of fellow campers who are based on mostly movie monsters, and Street Frogs revolves around a crew of rapping amphibians.

Status

A limited number of episodes are available and tend to differ from one video streaming site to another. Some websites have compiled all four cartoon segment series, each including three segments. These compilations have been taken from VHS compilations released by Lorimar Home Video and are found on Dailymotion and YouTube. On YouTube, segments from various series are on individually, including Spanish dubs of Karate Kat and The Mini-Monsters on the same site. Another compilation on YouTube has three segments, one from each series: Karate Kat, The Mini-Monsters, and Street Frogs. On the Internet Archive, there are seven segments of The Mini-Monsters, three of them in Greek, whereas some of the Tiger Sharks segments are on there as well, but they vary from being in English, Spanish, and Greek, and a couple are incomplete. Most of Street Frogs is unavailable, save for three segments. Karate Kat isn't there at all, other than the theme song. The entire series in English has yet to be available on any streaming site.

Editing

Episode List

#	Title	Segment	Availability
1	Voyage to Water-O	TigerSharks	Lost
2	SARK to the Rescue	TigerSharks	Lost
3	Save the SARK	TigerSharks	Lost
4	The Deep Fryer	TigerSharks	Lost
5	Bowfin	TigerSharks	Lost
6	Pappagallo's Present	TigerSharks	Lost
7	The Lighthouse	TigerSharks	Lost
8	Go with the Flow	TigerSharks	Lost
9	Termagant	TigerSharks	Lost
10	The Terror of Dragonstein	TigerSharks	Lost
11	The Search for Redfin	TigerSharks	Lost
12	The Kraken	TigerSharks	Lost
13	Stowaway	TigerSharks	Lost
14	Iced	TigerSharks	Lost
15	The Volcano	TigerSharks	Lost
16	A Question of Age	TigerSharks	Lost
17	Eye of the Storm	TigerSharks	Lost
18	Departure	TigerSharks	Lost
19	Murky Waters	TigerSharks	Lost
20	Spellbinder	TigerSharks	Lost
21	The Waterscope	TigerSharks	Lost
22	The Point of No Return	TigerSharks	Lost
23	The Scavenger Hunt	TigerSharks	Lost
24	Paradise Island	TigerSharks	Lost
25	The Treasure Map	TigerSharks	Lost
26	Redfin Returns	TigerSharks	Lost
27	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
28	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
29	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
30	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
31	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
32	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
33	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
34	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
35	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
36	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
37	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
38	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
39	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
40	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
41	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
42	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
43	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
44	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
45	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
46	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
47	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
48	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
49	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
50	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
51	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
52	TBA	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
53	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
54	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
55	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
56	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
57	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
58	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
59	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
60	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
61	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
62	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
63	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
64	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
65	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
66	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
67	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
68	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
69	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
70	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
71	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
72	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
73	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
74	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
75	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
76	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
77	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
78	TBA	Street Frogs	Lost
79	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
80	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
81	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
82	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
83	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
84	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
85	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
86	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
87	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
88	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
89	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
90	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
91	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
92	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
93	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
94	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
95	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
96	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
97	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
98	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
99	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
100	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
101	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
102	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
103	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
104	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
105	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
106	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
107	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
108	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
109	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
110	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
111	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
112	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
113	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
114	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
115	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
116	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
117	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
118	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
119	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
120	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
121	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
122	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
123	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
124	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
125	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
126	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
127	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
128	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
129	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost
130	TBA	Karate Kat	Lost

Footage

episodes with commercials

series intro

episodes 1-3

References

↑ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-1538103739.
↑ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 208–210. ISBN 978-1476665993.

External Links

[1] Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-1538103739.

[2] Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 208–210. ISBN 978-1476665993.

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