| The King Kong Show | |
|---|---|
 Title card | |
| Genre | Science fiction comedy Kaiju |
| Voices of | Carl Banas Susan Conway John Drainie Billie Mae Richards Alf Scopp Paul Soles Bernard Cowan |
| Theme music composer | Maury Laws |
| Country of origin | United States Japan |
| Original languages | English Japanese |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Arthur Rankin Jr. Jules Bass |
| Producers | William J. Keenan Larry Roemer |
| Running time | 28 minutes (regular episodes) 56 minutes (special episode) |
| Production companies | Videocraft International Toei Animation |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC (United States) NET (Japan) |
| Release | September 10, 1966 – August 31, 1969 |
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King Kong (キングコング００１⁄７親指トム, Kingu Kongu 001⁄7 Oyayubi Tomu), commonly referred to as The King Kong Show, is an animated television series produced by Videocraft International and Toei Animation. ABC ran the series in the United States on Saturday mornings between September 10, 1966, and August 31, 1969.[1] It is the first anime-based series produced in Japan for an American company (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop motion productions, which were also animated in Japan).[2]
This series is an animated adaptation of the famous film monster King Kong with character designs by Jack Davis and Rod Willis. In this series, the giant ape befriends the Bond family, with whom he goes on various adventures, fighting monsters, robots, aliens, mad scientists and other threats.[3] Unlike King Kong's destructive roles in his films, the cartoon turned him into a protector of humanity.[4]
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