Saturday Supercade is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. It ran for two seasons on CBS beginning in 1983. Each episode is composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the golden age of video arcade games.
The debut characters included:
- Frogger (from the Frogger arcade game)
- Donkey Kong with Mario and Pauline (from the Donkey Kong game)
- Donkey Kong Jr. (from the Donkey Kong Jr. game)
- Q*bert with Coily, Ugg, Wrongway, Slick and Sam (from the Q*bert arcade game)
- Pitfall Harry with his pet mountain lion Quickclaw and his niece Rhonda (unlike others, which are arcade games, this is from home console games, which are Pitfall! and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns) The cartoon was simply called "Pitfall!".
Pitfall and Q*bert rotated weekly while the other three were weekly.
During the second season, Q*bert (now weekly) and Donkey Kong remained while the Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr. and Pitfall Harry segments were replaced by shorts featuring:
Space Ace with Space Ace/Dexter (depending on his form), Kimberly, and Borf (from the Space Ace arcade game). Kangaroo with friends and the "Monkey Business Gang". (from the Kangaroo arcade game).
Cast[]
| Image | Character | USA | Mex |
|---|---|---|---|
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Frogger | Bob Sarlatte | |
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Shellshock "Shelly" Turtle | Marvin Kaplan | |
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Fanny Frog | B.J. Ward | |
|
Tex Toadwalker | ||
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Donkey Kong | Soupy Sales | Rubén Cerda |
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Mario | Peter Cullen | Francisco Reséndez |
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Pauline | Judy Strangis | Rommy Mendoza |
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Donkey Kong Jr. | Frank Welker | Alfonso Obregón |
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Bones | Bart Braverman | Javier Rivero |
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Q*Bert | Billy Bowles | |
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Q*Tee | Robbie Lee | |
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Q*Ball | Frank Welker | |
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Title | N/A |