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Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is a cable television channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing animated programming. It premiered on October 1, 1992 in the United States, and September 17, 1993 in the United Kingdom. Cartoon Network - History. Cartoon Network - USA. By the end of the 1980s, Ted Turner's cable TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film library (which included the older catalog of Warner Bros. cartoons), and its cable channel Turner Network Television had ga ...

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Cartoon Network - History

Cartoon Network - Special programming blocks

Cartoon Network - Live-action programming

Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia II - Cartoon Network - History Cartoon Network - USA. By the end of the 1980s, Ted Turner's cable TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film library (which included the older catalog of Warner Bros. cartoons), and its cable channel Turner Network Television had gained an audience with its film library. In 1991, they purchased animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions and acquired its large library. The Cartoon Network channel was created as an outlet for Turner's considerable library of animation, and the initial programming on the channel consisted exclusively of re-runs of classic Warner Bros. and MGM cartoons, with many Hann ...

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Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Zorak

Zorak is a cartoon villain who first appeared in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost. Zorak appeared as a large, green mantis and was a foe of the show's titular hero. When Cartoon Network revived the Space Ghost character for Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Zorak was also revived. On the new show, Space Ghost had released Zorak from prison but forced him to act as Space Ghost's bandleader. Zorak's villainous mentality remained, and he would heckle his new boss in most episodes. He was initialy refered to by Space G ...

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Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Atom Ant

Atom Ant is a cartoon ant and superhero, created by Hanna-Barbera in 1965. His name may have been derived from adamant, which gives indication towards his great strength (exceeding the "50 times his own weight" lifting capacity ants are often said to have). Atom costarred in The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (sharing top billing with Secret Squirrel). Atom operated out of an anthill in the countryside, where he possessed such things as a mainframe computer and exercise equipment. His powers mostly consisted of the ability to fly, superspeed, and amazing strength. Atom's catchphrase ...

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Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Cow and Chicken

Cow and Chicken is a cartoon series, created by David Feiss, first broadcast on the Cartoon Network from 1997 to 2001. The series tells of the adventure of a sister Cow and her brother Chicken, who are often tormented by The Red Guy, a usually naked devil-like character who poses as various characters to scam them. Usually the Red Guy's pseudonyms are puns off of his naked appearance (i.e. Dr. Hiney Bottoms, Officer Pantsoffski, Ben Panced, Mrs. Bare-Derrier). Like Dexter's Laboratory, the original pilot appear ...

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Cow and Chicken - Cow and Chicken in other languages

Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Cn

CN or cn may stand for: Canadian National Railway (AAR reporting mark CN) and the CN Tower Calcineurin (CN) Canadian Northern Railway Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee Cartoon Network Chief of Navy China (People's Republic), ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code Collegiate Network Comoros, FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram credit note Province of Cuneo (Italy) Cyanide (the chemical formula CN) C

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Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Battle of Mon Calamari

The Battle of Mon Calamari is a fictional battle in the Star Wars saga, taking place four months after the Battle of Geonosis. This battle is first shown in the Cartoon Network animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars. The battle occurred when Count Dooku persuaded the Quarren Isolation League leader on Mon Calamari to side with the Separatists. Following the Quarren's alliance with the Confederacy, Jedi Master Kit Fisto led a strike team of aquatic clone troopers and Mon Calamari Knights in an underwater assualt on ...

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Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment. It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with headquarters in Burbank, California, U.S.A.. Warner Brothers includes several subsidiary companies, among them Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, WB Television, Warner Home Video, Castle Rock Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Dark Castle Entertainment, DC Comics, and Cartoon Network Studios - formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Including:

Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Underdog

Underdog was an animated superhero TV show that debuted on October 3, 1964, on the NBC network and continued until 1973 for a run of approximately 120 episodes. In 1960, handling the General Mills account as an account executive with the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York, W. Watts Biggers teamed with Chet Stover, Tread Covington and artist Joe Harris in the creation of television cartoon shows to sell breakfast cereals for General Mills. The shows introduced such characters as King Leonardo, Tenness ...

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Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia - Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo was a children's program which aired weekday mornings on the United States television network CBS from 1955 until 1984, then moved to PBS to air syndicated reruns of past episodes in 1992. The show was produced and the title character played by the late Bob Keeshan, who based the show on "the warm relationship between grandparents and children." It had a very loose structure, built around life in the "Treasure House" where the Captain (whose name came from the big pockets in his coat) would tell stories, ...

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Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia II - Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons

Hanna-Barbera was the first animation studio to successfully produce animated cartoons especially for television; until then, cartoons on television consisted primarily of rebroadcasts of theatrical cartoons. Other Hanna-Barbera works included a theatrical cartoon series, Loopy De Loop, for Columbia Pictures from 1959 to 1965; and the opening credits to the ABC/Screen Gems television show Bewitched. Later, H-B would use the Bew ...

Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia II - Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound

The state of the field of animation changed during the 1980s, thanks to competitors' syndicated cartoon series based upon popular toys and action figures, including Filmation's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Rankin-Bass' Thundercats. The Hanna-Barbera studio fell behind, as a new wave of animators and production studios introduced variety into the market for TV cartoons in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout the '80s, Hanna-Barbera churned out shows based on familiar licensed properties like The Smurfs, See also:

Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia II - Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound

The state of the field of animation changed during the 1980s, thanks to competitors' syndicated cartoon series based upon popular toys and action figures, including Filmation's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Rankin-Bass' Thundercats. The Hanna-Barbera studio fell behind, as a new wave of animators and production studios introduced variety into the market for TV cartoons in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout the '80s, Hanna-Barbera churned out shows based on familiar licensed properties like The Smurfs, See also:

Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network Studios - Founding, Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons, Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy, Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound, Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1970s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1980s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1990s, Cartoon Network Studios - 2000s, Cartoon Network Studios - Closing logo history

Cartoon Network: Encyclopedia II - Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy

The Hanna-Barbera studio has been accused of contributing to the decrease in quality of animation and TV cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s. This relates to their being one of the first studios to do animated cartoons for television and dealing with constrained budgets. The perception of cartoons as a "kid's medium" made them a low priority for television executives. For example, one 22-minute (30 minutes with commercials) episode of Josie and the Pussycats in 1970 had the same budget--$45,000--as one 8-minute Tom and Jerry short from the late-1940s. Suc ...

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