Shirt Tales (TV series)

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Shirt Tales
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First season title card.
Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Distributor Worldvision Enterprises
Original release September 25, 1982November 5, 1983
Starring Ronnie Schell
Steve Schatzberg
Patricia Parris
Robert Allen Ogle
Fred Travalena
Nancy Cartwright
Herbert Vigran
William Herbson
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Kay Wright
Iwao Takamoto
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Bob Ogle
Director(s) George Gordon
Bob Hathcock
Carl Urbano
Rudy Zamora
Oscar Dufau
John Walker
Gordon Hunt (voices)
Second title card
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Second season title card.

Shirt Tales is an American animated fantasy-comedy television series produced Hanna-Barbera for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran from 1982 to 1983, airing 23 episodes spanning two seasons. It was based on the Hallmark greeting cards created by Janet Elizabeth Manco in 1980.

Small anthropomorphic talking animals fight crime in Mid City. They are distinguished by their color-coded t-shirts, their only clothing, hence their group name of Shirt Tales. Although while at home in Oak Tree Park, they spend their personal time teasing the park custodian, Mr. Dinkel.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Production

Development

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as the musical director, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Episodes

Title Original air date
1x01 September 18, 1982
1x02 September 25, 1982
1x03 October 2, 1982
1x04 October 9, 1982
1x05 October 16, 1982
1x06 October 23, 1982
1x07 October 30, 1982
1x08 November 6, 1982
1x09 November 13, 1982
1x10 November 20, 1982
1x11 November 27, 1982
1x12 December 4, 1982
1x13 December 11, 1982
2x01 September 17, 1983
2x02 September 24, 1983
2x03 October 1, 1983
2x04 October 8, 1983
2x05 October 15, 1983
2x06 October 22, 1983
2x07 October 29, 1983
2x08 November 5, 1983
2x09 November 12, 1983
2x10 November 19, 1983

Cast

Merchandise

Home media

In 1986, World Vision Home Video, under their Kids Klassics line, released a VHS of Shirt Tales, containing the episodes, "Bogey Goes Ape" and "The Rain, the Park and the Robot," both of which make up the first episode of season two.

In 2014, Warner Archive Collection released Shirt Tales: The Complete Series on DVD.

Reading material

Toys

References