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	Notes
1	Voyage to Water-O	TigerSharks	Found
2	SARK to the Rescue	TigerSharks	Found
3	Save the SARK	TigerSharks	Found
4	The Deep Fryer	TigerSharks	Found
5	Bowfin	TigerSharks	Found
6	Pappagallo's Present	TigerSharks	Found
7	The Lighthouse	TigerSharks	Partially Found	First Part is Greek Dubbed
8	Go with the Flow	TigerSharks	Partially Found	First Part is Greek Dubbed
9	Termagant	TigerSharks	Partially Found	First Part is Greek Dubbed
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	Partially Found	Only Last 10 Minutes of Episode
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	Partially Found	Basque Dubbed
20	Spellbinder	TigerSharks	Found
21	The Waterscope	TigerSharks	Partially Found	Basque Dubbed
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
1	Camp Mini-Mon - The First Day	The Mini-Monsters	Found
2	The Belly Ache	The Mini-Monsters	Found
3	Alien	The Mini-Monsters	Found
4	Practical Joke Day	The Mini-Monsters	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
5	Parent's Day	The Mini-Monsters	Found
6	Melissa's Magic Painting	The Mini-Monsters	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
7	They're Not Monsters	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
8	The Big Fight	The Mini-Monsters	Found
9	The Swim Meet	The Mini-Monsters	Found
10	Cawfield Blows His Cool	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
11	The Magic Feather	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
12	The Switch	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
13	Wolfie's Bet	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
14	La Goon in Love	The Mini-Monsters	Found
15	Mini-Mon's Horse	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
16	Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Claws	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
17	Ghosts in the Night	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
18	House for Sale	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
19	Camp Goody Twoshoe	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
20	Franklin Builds a Friend	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
21	Mumm-O's Birthday	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
22	Home Movies	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
23	The Inspection	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
24	A Visit From Ooze	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
25	Phantom of the Mess Hall	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
26	Dracky's Bat	The Mini-Monsters	Lost
1	The Hop Line	Street Frogs	Found
2	The Crate	Street Frogs	Found
3	Typhoon Takeoff	Street Frogs	Found
4	The Drop Out	Street Frogs	Lost
5	Loretta Goes to Hollywood	Street Frogs	Found
6	Rapperman	Street Frogs	Found
7	Fiddling Around	Street Frogs	Lost
8	The Super	Street Frogs	Lost
9	The Babysitters	Street Frogs	Lost
10	Frog TV	Street Frogs	Lost
11	Surprise Fights	Street Frogs	Lost
12	Take Out	Street Frogs	Lost
13	Moose's Ride	Street Frogs	Lost
14	The Car Show	Street Frogs	Lost
15	Bye Bye Toad	Street Frogs	Lost
16	High Fashion Frogs	Street Frogs	Lost
17	Fleet Frogs	Street Frogs	Lost
18	The Derby	Street Frogs	Lost
19	The Night Job	Street Frogs	Lost
20	The Hairdo	Street Frogs	Lost
21	Misty Marvelous	Street Frogs	Lost
22	The Street Fair	Street Frogs	Lost
23	Wilfred Returns	Street Frogs	Lost
24	When I Grow Up	Street Frogs	Lost
25	The Phone Call	Street Frogs	Lost
1	The Katzenheimer Kaper	Karate Kat	Found
2	The Sardine Turnover Kaper	Karate Kat	Found
3	The Mousemobile Kaper	Karate Kat	Found
4	The Crow Key Kaper	Karate Kat	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
5	The Kata Hari Kaper	Karate Kat	Found
6	The Picat-So Kaper	Karate Kat	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
7	Ticktocking Along	Karate Kat	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
8	The Koffee Kup Kaper	Karate Kat	Found
9	The Kitten Klub Kaper	Karate Kat	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
10	Kat Tracks	Karate Kat	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
11	The Bank Heist	Karate Kat	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
12	The Tabby Tire Tracker	Karate Kat	Partially Found	Greek Dubbed
13	The Pink Sphinx	Karate Kat	Lost
14	Cats Ahoy	Karate Kat	Lost
15	The Cousin Kaper	Karate Kat	Lost
16	The Bathtub Bandits	Karate Kat	Partially Found	Missing Beginning
17	Pretty Kitty Kaper	Karate Kat	Lost
18	The Kattensniffer Kaper	Karate Kat	Lost
19	The Cats 'N Bats Kaper	Karate Kat	Lost
20	The Tabby Telemann Kaper	Karate Kat	Lost
21	Cat Goes Ape	Karate Kat	Lost
22	The Ghost of Legs Larue	Karate Kat	Lost
23	Kat's Paw	Karate Kat	Lost
24	The Twin Brother Kaper	Karate Kat	Lost
25	The Amnesia Kaper	Karate Kat	Lost
26	The Lonley Hearts Kaper	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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