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This thread is dedicated to characters and shows who made their debut and swansong at the same time.
The first of these one-time wonders is Mouser, who made hisfirstever TV appearance on the last episode of CBS' Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (1987). The episode began with the end of a theater performance. While Hello Kitty and the cast were cleaning up backstage, they were subjected to a series of bizarre instances which led the gang to conclude that the theater was haunted. At the short's end, the 'ghost' is revealed to be a practical joking mouse named Mouser, who says that he was pulling all these pranks as a sort of audition; he always wanted to be an actor and joins the troupe. In the last shot, Hello Kitty turns to the audience and declares "I can see we're going to have some wild times with Mouser." Unfortunately for them, these wild times never came. Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater was never renewed for a second season.
Another example of star-crossed stars were James Swinnerton's comic strip stars the Canyon Kiddies, who made their big-screen debut in 1940 in a Chuck Jones directed Warner Bros. short entitled "Mighty Hunters". This was supposed to be the first of a series of shorts starring the Canyon Kiddies, but they never returned to Warners' beyond this one short.
A show which started and stopped on the same evening was what would've been Nick at Nite's first ever original animated prime time series, Tattertown (December 10, 1995). Created by Ralph Bakshi and based on a concept he conceived some 30 years earlier, a young girl named Debbie chases her doll to a fantasy world where everything is alive. The series' pilot doubled as its' Christmas episode. But the deal apparently fell through; what was intended to be a series turned out to be a special, one episode only.
Some more noteworthy one-timers:
Chimp and Zee (1968)- a latter day Warner Bros. short directed by Alex Lovy. It featured a non-speaking duo of a small jungle boy and his blue-tailed monkey companion, who were being pursued by a bumbling safari hunter, who was after the rare monkey. This short had all the eye marks of becoming a series, but it remained a one-shot.
Amazing Shellfish-episode five of the Japanimated masterpiece Marine Boy (1966) ("It's Marine Boy, brave and free, fighting evil beneath the sea..."). This episode marked the only appearance of Lint, Marine Boy's mother.
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]Another week long one-shot: Pretty Piggies-an animated four part syndicated miniseries pilot about a quartet of prissy pigs and their would-be suitors, the Screamin' Wheelers (Hunk, Hog, Headbanger and Horatio). Never became a series,and was never seen beyond the pilot. [/FONT]
Hello, goodbye.
The first of these one-time wonders is Mouser, who made hisfirstever TV appearance on the last episode of CBS' Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (1987). The episode began with the end of a theater performance. While Hello Kitty and the cast were cleaning up backstage, they were subjected to a series of bizarre instances which led the gang to conclude that the theater was haunted. At the short's end, the 'ghost' is revealed to be a practical joking mouse named Mouser, who says that he was pulling all these pranks as a sort of audition; he always wanted to be an actor and joins the troupe. In the last shot, Hello Kitty turns to the audience and declares "I can see we're going to have some wild times with Mouser." Unfortunately for them, these wild times never came. Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater was never renewed for a second season.
Another example of star-crossed stars were James Swinnerton's comic strip stars the Canyon Kiddies, who made their big-screen debut in 1940 in a Chuck Jones directed Warner Bros. short entitled "Mighty Hunters". This was supposed to be the first of a series of shorts starring the Canyon Kiddies, but they never returned to Warners' beyond this one short.
A show which started and stopped on the same evening was what would've been Nick at Nite's first ever original animated prime time series, Tattertown (December 10, 1995). Created by Ralph Bakshi and based on a concept he conceived some 30 years earlier, a young girl named Debbie chases her doll to a fantasy world where everything is alive. The series' pilot doubled as its' Christmas episode. But the deal apparently fell through; what was intended to be a series turned out to be a special, one episode only.
Some more noteworthy one-timers:
Chimp and Zee (1968)- a latter day Warner Bros. short directed by Alex Lovy. It featured a non-speaking duo of a small jungle boy and his blue-tailed monkey companion, who were being pursued by a bumbling safari hunter, who was after the rare monkey. This short had all the eye marks of becoming a series, but it remained a one-shot.
Amazing Shellfish-episode five of the Japanimated masterpiece Marine Boy (1966) ("It's Marine Boy, brave and free, fighting evil beneath the sea..."). This episode marked the only appearance of Lint, Marine Boy's mother.
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]Another week long one-shot: Pretty Piggies-an animated four part syndicated miniseries pilot about a quartet of prissy pigs and their would-be suitors, the Screamin' Wheelers (Hunk, Hog, Headbanger and Horatio). Never became a series,and was never seen beyond the pilot. [/FONT]
Hello, goodbye.
tweety: & :sylvester), and originally Chuck was reluctant to do it, so in a sense these characters were almost never made, as he explains: