Cartoon Resource entry #086 - Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (1989)

CHIP 'N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS

ORIGINAL AIRDATES: Mar 5-May 21, 1989 on Disney Channel,
Sep 18, 1989-Sep 3, 1993 in syndication
RERUNS: Sep 6, 1993-Jun 6, 1997 on Disney Channel,
Apr 1998-Nov 1, 2004 on Toon Disney
EPISODES: 65
ANIMATION BY: TMS Entertainment
DISTRIBUTED and OWNED BY: Walt Disney Television



SUMMARY:

At one point, Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers was the #1 rated syndicated animated series, beating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The villains mainly used in the series are Professor Nimbul and Fat Cat.

Fat Cat and his gang's height varies episode to episode.  Sometimes they are just a bit higher than the Rescue Rangers, or able to hold them in their hands.

Gadget gets her inventing skills from her late father.

Monterey Jack is obsessed with cheese and will go to great lenghts to get it.


EPISODE GUIDE
(in airdate order - second number is production number)
1st Season (1989 on Disney Channel)

#01-09 Catteries Not Included (08.27.1988)
#02-08 Piratsy Under the Seas (03.04.1989)
#03-23 Dale Beside Himself (03.12.1989)
#04-42 Flash the Wonder Dog (03.19.1989)
#05-10 Out To Launch (03.26.1989)
#06-13 Kiwi's Big Adventure (04.02.1989)
#07-40 Adventures In Squirrelsitting (04.09.1989)
#08-08 The Pound of the Baskervilles (04.16.1989)
#09-46 Risky Beesness (04.23.1989)
#10-06 Three Men and a Booby (04.30.1989)
#11-22 The Carpetsnaggers (05.07.1989)
#12-11 Bearing Up Baby (05.14.1989)
#13-12 Parental Discretion Retired (05.21.1989)


2nd Season (Sep 11, 1989-1990 in syndication) 

5-part mini-series introduces the characters
#14-01 Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Part 1 (9.15.1989)
#15-02 Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Part 2 (9.15.1989)
#16-03 Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Part 3 (9.15.1989)
#17-04 Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Part 4 (9.15.1989)
#18-05 Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Part 5 (9.15.1989)

#19-24 A Lad In a Lamp (10.03.1989)
#20-14 The Luck Stops Here (10.06.1989)
#21-18 Battle of the Bulge (10.09.1989)
#22-29 Ghost of a Chance (10.10.1989)
#23-16 An Elephant Never Suspects (10.11.1989)
#24-31 Fake Me To Your Leader (10.12.1989)
#25-50 Last Train to Cashville (10.13.1989)
#26-17 A Case of Stage Blight (10.16.1989)
#27-19 The Case of the Cola Cult (10.17.1989)
#28-26 Throw Mummy From the Train (10.18.1989)
#29-39 A Wolf In Cheap Clothing (10.19.1989)
#30-33 Robocat (10.20.1989)
#31-28 Does Pavlov Ring a Bell? (11.02.1989)
#32-38 Prehysterical Pet (11.03.1989)
#33-25 A Creep In the Deep (11.13.1989)
#34-20 Normie's Science Project (11.14.1989)
#35-63 Seer No Evil (11.15.1989)
#36-32 Chipwrecked Skipmunks (11.16.1989)
#37-54 When Mice Were Men (11.17.1989)
#38-34 Chocolate Chips (11.20.1989)
#39-30 The Last Leprechaun (11.21.1989)
#40-55 Weather Or Not (11.22.1989)
#41-53 One-Upsman-Chip (11.23.1989)
#42-62 Shell Shocked (11.24.1989)
#43-57 Love Is a Many Splintered Thing (12.18.1989)
#44-44 Song of the Night 'n' Dale (12.19.1989)
#45-36 Double O'Chipmunk (12.20.1989)
#46-35 Gadget Goes Hawaiian (12.21.1989)
#47-52 It's a Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale! (12.22.1989)
#48-51 Short Order Crooks (02.05.1990)
#49-41 Mind Your Cheese and Q's (02.06.1990)
#50-60 Out of Scale (02.08.1990)
#51-48 Dirty Rotten Diapers (02.19.1990)
#52-47 Good Times, Bat Times (02.21.1990)
#53-56 Pie In the Sky (02.22.1990)
#54-58 Le Purrfect Crime (03.19.1990)
#55-59 When You Fish Upon a Star (03.21.1990)
#56-64 Rest Home Rangers (03.22.1990)
#57-65 A Lean On the Property (04.16.1990)
#58-15 The Pied Piper Power Play (04.23.1990)
#59-37 Gorilla, My Dreams (05.01.1990)
#60-21 The S.S. Drainpipe (05.20.1990)

3rd Season (Sep 10, 1990-1991)

#61-49 Zipper, Come Home (09.10.1990)
#62-27 Puffed Rangers (09.18.1990)
#63-45 A Fly In the Ointment (09.26.1990)
#64-43 A Chorus Crime (11.05.1990)
#65-61 They Shoot Dogs, Don't They? (11.19.1990)

VOICE ACTORS

Corey Burton (1955) as Dale
Peter Cullen (1941) as Monterey Jack (Season 1)
Jim Cummings (1952) as Monterey Jack (Seasons 2-3), Fat Cat and Professor Norton Nimbul
Danny Gans (1956-2009) as Pigeon, Moose, Fry
Tress MacNeille (1951) as Chip, Gadget and Zipper
Sindy McKay (1954) as Desiree D'Allure
Alan Oppenheimer (1930) as Plato, Aldrin Klordane, Captain Kernel
Rob Paulsen (1956) as Donald Drake, Percy, Shaka-Baka
Peter Schrum (1934-2003) as Hubba-Hubba, Francis, El Emenopeo
Deborah Walley (1941-2001) as Foxglove, Buffy Ratskiwatski, Lahwhinie

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