Jungle Cubs

Jungle Cubs is an American animated series produced by Disney for ABC in 1996. It was based on their 1967 feature film The Jungle Book, but set in the youth of the animal characters. The show was a hit, running for two seasons in syndication before moving its re-runs to the Disney Channel. The show was broadcast on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in 2001. Re-runs aired on Disney Junior in the US from 2011 to 2014. The show did air in the United Kingdom on Disney Cinemagic and in Latin America until it was removed. The show's theme song is a hip-hop version of the classic song, "The Bare Necessities" performed by Lou Rawls. As of May 31, 2016, every episode of the series is available for purchase on the iTunes Store.

The animal stars of Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book were regressed to cubs for this syndicated animated series. Jungle Cubs suggested that when they were younger, both the good and antagonistic animals lived together in relative peace.

Each of the characters were given distinct characteristics which reflected their future personalities as seen in The Jungle Book; this creative idea further tied the show in with its film predecessor. Uptight Bagheera, free-spirited Baloo, headstrong Shere Khan, wild Prince Louie, neurotic Hathi, and hypnotic Kaa all returned from the film, putting aside their differences to live and learn together. The show gave a female elephant named Winifred a prominent role; she was (Colonel) Hathi's wife in The Jungle Book.

The cubs brave a variety of jungle dangers, often matching wits with sneaky vultures Cecil and Arthur. Living up to new federal regulations for educational television, Jungle Cubs offer lessons on friendship, self-respect, and other healthy traits, crafted for an audience of young children.

In the second season of the show, all of the cubs become slightly older and more distanced from one another. (Many are also given different voice actors.) And, although they still remain good friends, they are getting more and more busy with their own lives and spending less time at their fort, the Cub House (Louie's future palace). Bagheera becomes more serious and uptight than before and Hathi begins spending more time with Winifred than with the other Cubs. The biggest change, however, is Shere Khan: he spends a lot of time hunting, as Bagheera and Kaa do, and as the series progresses, begins to become more annoyed with the other cubs than before. He even attempts to overthrow Louie at one point, using Kaa (who did not really get a choice in the matter) as a henchman. Kaa, as well as Baloo (with the exception of his friendship with Louie), does not really change much. He still remains sneaky and uses his hypnotism power.

Cast

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Jap	Bra	Ger	Fra	Ita	Pol	Neth	Hun	Swe	Fin	Nor	Den	Gree	Russ	Spa	Por	Egyp
	Baloo	Pamela Adlon	Diana Santos	Chika Sakamoto	Thiago Fagundes	Katrin Fröhlich	MarieCharlotte Leclaire	Giovanna Martinuzzi	Katarzyna Kozak		Berkes Bence	Alexander Lundberg	Petteri Halmela	Eirik EspolinJohnson	Simon Stenspil			Diego Aguirre
	Bagheera	Elizabeth Daily	Kalimba Marichal		Angélica Santos	Carin C. Tietze	Magali Barney	Alessia Amendola	Anna Sroka		Jelinek Márk	Nick Atkinson	Arttu Wiskari	Knut Lundgard	Mikkel Christiansen			Borja Voces
		DeeBradleyBaker
	Prince Louie	JasonMarsden	Rommy Mendoza		Yuri Chesman	Niko Macoulis	Hervé Rey	Tiziana Avarista	Joanna Wizmur		Németh Kriszta	Mariam Wallentin	Tuomas Oksanen	GauteBoris Skjegstad	Mathias Klenske			Nacho Aldeguer
		Cree Summer
	Kaa	Jim Cummings	Eduardo Garza		Eduardo"Dudu" Fevereiro	Kai Taschner	Roger Carel	Marco Mete	Tomasz Steciuk		Szokol Péter	Niclas Wahlgren	Antti Pääkkönen	Magnus Skjegstad	Andreas Hviid			Román Redondo
	Shere Khan	Jason Marsden	Enzo Fortuny	Urara Takano	Vagner Fagundes	ClausPeter Damitz	ChristopheLemoine	Paola Majano	Kacper Kuszewski		Baráth István	Mikael Albertsson	Konsta Hietanen	Erik Skøld	Andreas Nicolet			Luis Cabrera	Tiago Caetano
							Charles Pestel
	Hathi	Rob Paulsen	Rommy Mendoza		Alex Wendel	Jan Odle	Marine Boiron	Gemma Donati	Lucyna Malec		Morvay Gábor	Sofia Caiman	Jimi Lappalainen	Nils-Martin Crawfurd	Mikkel Weyde			Adrián Suárez	Tiago Retrê
		Stephen Furst					Tony Marot
	Winifred	Kath Soucie	MaríaFernanda Morales									Mia Kihl		Unn Vibeke Hol
	Arthur the Vulture	David L. Lander	Ricardo Hill						Sławomir Pacek				Petteri Summanen	Ivar Nørve
	Cecil the Vulture	Michael McKean	Armando Coria				Gilbert Levy					Anders Öjebo	Jukka Rasila	Harald Mæle		Vasilis Kailas		Ángel Egido
	Mahra	Tress MacNeille	Guadalupe Noel										Maija-Liisa Peuhu	Inger Teien
	Titles	N/A	Rubén Moya											Frode Alnæs

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