| Mad Jack the Pirate | |
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| Genre | Comedy Adventure Fantasy |
| Created by | Bill Kopp |
| Written by | Bill Kopp Martin Olson Steve Ochs |
| Directed by | Jeff DeGrandis |
| Starring | Bill Kopp Billy West Jess Harnell Tom Kenny Brad Garrett Cam Clarke Sandy Fox Charlie Adler Jocelyn Blue Sherman Howard Joyce Lang Kevin Meaney Steve Ochs Valery Pappas Jay Robinson April Winchell |
| Composers | Shuki Levy Kussa Mahchi |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (20 segments) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Bill Kopp Eric S. Rollman |
| Producer | Jeff DeGrandis |
| Production company | Saban Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fox Kids |
| Release | September 12, 1998 – February 27, 1999 |
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Mad Jack the Pirate is an American animated comedy-adventure television series. The show was created by Bill Kopp and was directed by Jeff DeGrandis (who previously worked together on Toonsylvania). On American television, the show was broadcast on Fox Kids.[1]
The show is about the rather unsuccessful and quite cowardly Pirate Jack (voiced by Bill Kopp), who despite his repeated failures never doubts his own excellence, and his dim-witted anthropomorphic rat sidekick Snuk (voiced by Billy West) as they sail the seas on their ship the Sea Chicken.[2]
Critics have noted that the clear inspiration for the show is the 1983-1989 BBC comedy series Blackadder.[3] Jack bears a striking resemblance to Edmund Blackadder and Snuk to Baldrick. There is even some dialogue taken straight from the BBC series. Jack's arch-enemy Flash resembles Blackadder's Lord Flashheart, and Angus is almost identical to Blackadder's Lord Angus.[4]
The series has been released on DVD in Romania (under the title Piratul Jack cel Teribil), and on VCD in Turkey (under the title Çılgın Korsan Jack). Also in Turkey, the cartoon was shown on Jetix Play and in Poland on Fox Kids.
Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment.[5][6][7][8]
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 374–375. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Markstein, Don. "Mad Jack the Pirate". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 518–519. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ Markstein, Don. "Mad Jack the Pirate". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
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- ^ Saban (July 23, 2001). "News Corp. and Haim Saban Reach Agreement to Sell Fox Family Worldwide to Disney for $5.3 Billion". Archived from the original on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
As part of the transaction, Disney will acquire the Fox Family Channel, a fully distributed cable channel reaching 81 million U.S. homes; Saban Entertainment Inc., a production, distribution and merchandising company with one of the world's largest libraries of children's programs at over 6,500 half hours
- ^ "Disney+ and Missing Saban Entertainment & Fox Kids-Jetix Worldwide Library - StreamClues". 14 September 2022. Archived from the original on 26 December 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.