Jungle Cubs

Jungle Cubs
Genre
Created byMark S. Bernthal
Based onThe Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
by Larry Clemmons
Ralph Wright
Ken Anderson
Vance Gerry
Bill Peet
Voices of
Theme music composerLou Rawls
Opening theme"The Bare Necessities"
Ending theme"The Bare Necessities" (instrumental)
ComposerStephen James Taylor
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes21 (34 segments) (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producers
  • Tedd Anasti
  • Patsy Cameron
Producers
  • Chris Bartleman
  • Kenny Thompkins
  • Blair Peters
  • Mircea Mantta
Editors
  • Peter Lonsdale
  • Robert S. Birchard
  • Carol Lewis
  • John Royer
Running time22 minutes (11 minutes per segment)
Production companyWalt Disney Television Animation[a]
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseOctober 5, 1996 (1996-10-05) –
January 10, 1998 (1998-01-10)
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Disney's Jungle Cubs is an American animated series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation for ABC in 1996, serving as the prequel to the 1967 film The Jungle Book as it's set in the youth of the animal characters years before the events of the film.[1] The show was a hit, running for two seasons on ABC from 1996 to 1998 before its syndication in re-runs on the Disney Channel. The show was broadcast on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in 2001. Re-runs aired on Disney Junior in the US from 2012 to 2013. The show also aired in the United Kingdom on Disney Cinemagic and in Latin America.

The show's theme song is a hip hop version of the song, "The Bare Necessities" performed by Lou Rawls. Jungle Cubs was animated by Walt Disney Television Animation (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., Thai Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., Toon City Animation, Inc., and Sunmin Image Pictures Co., Ltd., with Studio B Productions, as the animation pre-production studio of the series.


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  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 327. ISBN 978-1538103739.