Bonkers (TV series)

Bonkers, the wily lynx from Hollywood (English: Bonkers ) is an American animated television series The Walt Disney Company from the year 1993.

Bonkers D. Bobcat The main character is a lynx, was a Hollywood star and now works as a police officer. In the series occur sporadically on other characters from Disney series, such as Donald Duck and the Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.

Content

After the Bonkers D. Bobcat Toonluchs from the film studio Wackytoons Studios was released, he begins a career as a police officer. Together with a human partner Lucky Piquel he fights crime in the Toon Division of the Hollywood Police Department. Later, the police officer Miranda Wright is his partner.

Development and production

The idea for the series originated from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988, was involved in the Disney. The figure of Roger Rabbit, however, was not used, although it was well known, probably because Disney was not the sole owner of the rights to the character. To let the idea toon characters and people occur together, but should be implemented in a television series.

1992 Bonkers made ​​her first appearance in the movie Petal to the Metal. There, he performed together with Jitters A. Dog. Both came in the cartoon series Raw Toonage - Kunterbuntes front of the bag of tricks. After the film, an animated series was produced with the Disney character, who had a total of 61 episodes.

Publication

The series was first broadcast on 4 September 1993 to December 21, 1995 on the Disney Channel in the United States. Among the 61 episodes series and the short films from Raw Toonage were broadcast that showed four more episodes.

The German premiere was on RTL; from 1996 to 1999 ran the series on SuperRTL. 1996 published three VHS tapes with six episodes of the series in German.

Kai Taschner lends his voice in the German dubbing Bonkers.

Video Games

The series Bonkers published three video games. The first was released for the Super Nintendo in December 1994. In October 1995, followed by a game for the Sega Mega Drive and later Bonkers Wax Up! for the Sega Game Gear.