King Koopa's Kool Kartoons
King Koopa's Kool Kartoons is a local, American live-action children's television show broadcast in Southern California during the Autumn of 1989. The show was produced by DIC Entertainment in association with Fox Television Studios for the Fox television station KTTV - 11 Los Angeles by Gerry Pass – who developed and rolled out the Fox Kids Club – and DIC Animation City, in association with Nintendo. It was a live-action spin-off to The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, a popular animated show based on the Super Mario video games. The show was discontinued after 65 episodes.
| King Koopa's Kool Kartoons | |
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| Genre | Variety Comedy Sketch comedy |
| Created by | Gerry Pass |
| Based on | |
| Written by | Christopher Brough
Jack Hanrahan Eleanor Burian-Mohr |
| Directed by | Stephen J. Abramson |
| Starring | Christopher Collins Patrick Pinney |
| Theme music composer | Haim Saban |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Andy Heyward |
| Producer | Christopher Brough |
| Production companies | DIC Enterprises Nintendo of America |
| Original release | |
| Network | KTTV |
| Release | September 11 – November 20, 1989 |
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The show stars King Koopa, based on an animated version of Bowser, the central arch-villain from the Mario video game series. The 30-minute wrap around program was originally broadcast during late afternoon time slots, normally around 4:30pm to 5:30pm on the Los Angeles-based television channel KTTV Fox 11.