| Busytown | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Richard Scarry |
| Original work | Best Word Book Ever (1963) |
| Years | 1963–present |
| Print publications | |
| Book(s) | Best Ever series |
| Films and television | |
| Animated series |
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| Direct-to-video | Richard Scarry's Best Videos Ever! (1989–1994) |
| Games | |
| Video game(s) | Richard Scarry's Busytown (1993/1999)* |
| * The latter year refers to when the game was remade. | |
Busytown is a fictional town depicted in several books by American children's author Richard Scarry. Busytown is inhabited by an assortment of anthropomorphic animals, including Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Mr. Frumble, police Sergeant Murphy, Mr. Fixit, Bananas Gorilla and Hilda Hippo.[1]
Busytown also refers to the media franchise that spawned from Scarry's books. From 1989 to 1994, Random House Home Video and Jumbo Pictures produced the first basic educational learning animated series called Richard Scarry's Best Videos Ever! on home video. In the early 1990s, Cinar produced the animated series The Busy World of Richard Scarry, featuring the inhabitants of Busytown. The series originally aired on Showtime in the United States.[2] A board game and a computer game based on Busytown were also produced in the 1990s. Another animated series centered on Busytown, Busytown Mysteries, ran in the late 2000s.