Shirt Tales (TV series)

This article is about the TV series. For other uses, see Shirt Tales.

Shirt Tales
First season title card.
Network	NBC
Production company	Hanna-Barbera
Distributor	Worldvision Enterprises
Original release	September 25, 1982—November 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
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.

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 "The Case of the Golden Armor" "Crumpling's Circus Caper"	September 18, 1982
1x02 "The Game Masters" "Shirt Napped"	September 25, 1982
1x03 "The Big Foot Incident" "Elephant on the Loose"	October 2, 1982
1x04 "Horsin' Around" "Mission Mutt"	October 9, 1982
1x05 "Vacation for Dinkel" "Wingman"	October 16, 1982
1x06 "The Humboldt Ghost" "Figby, the Spoiled Brat Cat"	October 23, 1982
1x07 "Digger Runs Away" "The Commissioner is Missing"	October 30, 1982
1x08 "Raiders of the Lost Shark" "The Terrible Termites"	November 6, 1982
1x09 "Moving Time" "Back to Nature"	November 13, 1982
1x10 "Save the Park" "Pam-dora's Box"	November 20, 1982
1x11 "Hapless Hound" "The Very Buried Treasure"	November 27, 1982
1x12 "Nearsighted Bear" "The Magical Musical Caper"	December 4, 1982
1x13 "Dinkel's Ark" "The Duke of Dinkel"	December 11, 1982
2x01 "Bogey Goes Ape" "The Rain, the Park and the Robot"	September 17, 1983
2x02 "Digger's Three Wishes" "Digger's Double"	September 24, 1983
2x03 "Kip's Dragon" "Double Exposure"	October 1, 1983
2x04 "Taj Mahal Tyg" "Brass Bogey"	October 8, 1983
2x05 "The Outer Space Connection" "The Forbidden Island"	October 15, 1983
2x06 "Saturday Night Shirt Tales" "Dinkel's Buddy"	October 22, 1983
2x07 "Pleasure Valley" "The Ghost Out West"	October 29, 1983
2x08 "T.J.'s Visit" "The Big Set-up"	November 5, 1983
2x09 "Kip's Big Toy Caper" "Dinkel's Gift"	November 12, 1983
2x10 "Mayhem on the Orient Express" "The Cuckoo Count Caper"	November 19, 1983

Cast

• Ronnie Schell as Rick Raccoon
• Steve Schatzberg as Tyg Tiger
• Patricia Parris as Pammy Panda
• Robert Allen Ogle as Digger Mole
• Fred Travalena as Bogey Orangutan
• Nancy Cartwright as Kip Kangaroo
• Herbert Vigran as Mr. Dinkel
• William Herbson as the Commissioner

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.