The Biskitts
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The Biskitts | |
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Network | ABC |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera |
Distributor | Taft Broadcasting |
Original release | September 17―December 10, 1983 |
Run time | 22 minutes |
Starring | Darryl Hickman Kathleen Helppie Jerry Houser B.J. Ward Bob Holt Henry Gibson Jennifer Darling Dick Beals Marshall Efron |
Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Producer(s) | Art Scott |
Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
Writer(s) | Duane Poole Tom Swale |
Director(s) | Oscar Dufau George Gordon Carl Urbano John Walker Rudy Zamora Gordon Hunt (voices) |
The Biskitts is an American animated fantasy-comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera (H-B) for ABC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1983, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season. based on the Japanese line of dolls released by Sekiguchi Corporation, who licensed them to Mattel to be released in the United States. It was originally packaged as part of The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show, but it was short-lived due to low ratings.
The entire series has been released on DVD.
Production
Development
Casting
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.
Episodes
Title | Number | Air date |
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"As the Worm Turns" / "Trouble in the Tunnel" | 1x01 | September 17, 1983 |
"The Moonpond" / "Fly Me to the Goon" | 1x02 | September 24, 1983 |
"Spinner's Surprise" / "Two Leagues Under the Pond" | 1x03 | October 1, 1983 |
"Dogfoot" / "Up to His Old Tricks" | 1x04 | October 8, 1983 |
"Turnaround Hound" / "A Dark and Stormy Knight" | 1x05 | October 15, 1983 |
"Belling the Wild Cat" / "King Max's War" | 1x06 | October 22, 1983 |
"Moving Day" / "A Biskitt Halloween" | 1x07 | October 29, 1983 |
"Around the Swamp in a Daze" / "Rogue Biskitt" | 1x08 | November 5, 1983 |
"The Golden Biskitt" / "The Bone in the Stone" | 1x09 | November 12, 1983 |
"The Trojan Biskitt" / "Snatched from Scratch" | 1x10 | November 19, 1983 |
"The Biskitt Who Cried Wolf" / "Shecky's Last Laugh" | 1x11 | November 26, 1983 |
"Raiders of the Lost Bark" / "The Princess and the Plea" | 1x12 | December 3, 1983 |
"The Swamp Monster" / "May the Best Biskitt Win" | 1x13 | December 10, 1983 |
Cast
- Darryl Hickman as Waggs
- Kathleen Helppie as Sweets
- Jerry Houser as Shiner
- B.J. Ward as Lady
- Bob Holt as Bump and Spinner
- Henry Gibson as Downer
- Jennifer Darling as Wiggle
- Dick Beals as Scat
- Marshall Efron as Mooch
Legacy
- In the 2021 HBO Max series Jellystone!, the Biskitts make cameos on juice boxes that come from their Biskitt Farms.