Cartoon Resource entry #181 - Saturday Supercade (1983)

SATURDAY SUPERCADE

ORIGINAL AIRDATES: Sep 17, 1983-Aug 24, 1985 on CBS
RERUNS: Space Ace segments re-aired 1995-1997 on Cartoon Network’s ‘Super Adventures’ block
EPISODES: 26 half-hours
ANIMATION BY: Ruby-Spears
DISTRIBUTED and OWNED BY:  Warner Bros./Turner Entertainment, Nintendo and other various video game companies

SUMMARY
This video game all-star cast featured Donkey Kong & Mario, Frogger, Q*bert, Pitfall and Donkey Kong Jr.  Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr. and Pitfall replaced with Kangaroo and Space Ace in the second season. The Space Ace segments turned up on Cartoon Network in the mid 1990s.

EPISODE GUIDE 
1st Season (1983-1984)

#01 (09.17.1983)
FROGGER: The Ms. Fortune Story
DONKEY KONG: Mississipi Madness
PITFALL: Pitfall’s Panda Puzzle
DONKEY KONG JR.: Trucknapper Caper

#02 (09.24.1993)
FROGGER: Spaced Out Frogs
DONKEY KONG: Gorilla Gangster
PITFALL: Amazon Jungle Bungle
DONKEY KONG JR.: Sheep Rustle Hustle

#03 (10.01.1983)
FROGGER: The Who-Took-Toadwalker Story
DONKEY KONG: Banana Bikers
Q*BERT: Disc Derby Fiasco
DONKEY KONG JR.: Rocky Mountain Monkey Business

#04 (10.08.1983)
FROGGER: Hydrofoil & Go Seek
DONKEY KONG: The Incredible Shrinking Ape
PITFALL: Raiders of the Lost Shark
DONKEY KONG JR.: Magnificent 7-Year Olds

#05 (10.15.1983)
FROGGER: The Great Scuba Scoop
DONKEY KONG: Movie Mania
Q*BERT: The Great Q-Tee Contest
DONKEY KONG JR.: The Ventriloquist Caper

#06 (10.22.1983)
FROGGER: The Headline Hunters
DONKEY KONG: Gorilla My Dreams
PITFALL: Tibetan Treasure Trouble
DONKEY KONG JR.: The Great Seal Seal

#07 (10.29.1983)
FROGGER: The Legs Croaker Story
DONKEY KONG: Little Oprhan Apey
Q*BERT: Q-Bowl Rigamarole
DONKEY KONG JR.: The Jungle Boy Ploy

#08 (11.05.1983)
FROGGER: The Blackboard Bungle
DONKEY KONG: Circus Daze
PITFALL: Mass Menace Mess
DONKEY KONG JR.: Junior Meets Kid Dynamo

#09 (11.12.1983)
FROGGER: Good Knight, Frogger
DONKEY KONG: The Great Ape Escape
Q*BERT: Crazy Camp Creature
DONKEY KONG JR.: Amazing Rollerskate Race

#10 (11.19.1983)
FROGGER: Fake Me Out At the Ballgame
DONKEY KONG: Apey and the Snowbeast
PITFALL: The Sabretooth Goof
DONKEY KONG JR.: A Christmas Story

#11 (11.26.1983)
FROGGER: I Remember Mummy
DONKEY KONG: How Much Is That Gorilla In the Window
Q*BERT: Thanksgiving For the Memories
DONKEY KONG JR.: Gorilla Ghost

#12 (12.03.1983)
FROGGER: Here Today, Pawned Tomorrow
DONKEY KONG: Private Donkey Kong
PITFALL: The Pyramid Panic
DONKEY KONG JR.: The Teddy Bear Scare

#13 (12.10.1983)
FROGGER: Hop-A-Long Frogger
DONKEY KONG: Get Along Little Apey
Q*BERT: Dog Day Dilemma
DONKEY KONG JR.: Double Or Nothing


2nd Season (1984-1985)

DONKEY KONG SEGMENTS:
#14 (09.08.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Sir Donkey Kong
Q*BERT: Take Me Out To the Q-Game
SPACE ACE: Cute Groots
KANGAROO: Trunkfull of Trouble

#15 (09.15.1984)
DONKEY KONG: The Pale Whale
Q*BERT: Noser P.I.
SPACE ACE: Cosmic Camp Catastrophe
KANGAROO: Zoo For Hire

#16 (09.22.1984)
DONKEY KONG: El Donkey Kong
Q*BERT: Hook, Line and Mermaid
SPACE ACE: Dangerous Decoy
KANGAROO: Bat’s Incredible

#17 (09.29.1984)
DONKEY KONG: New Wave Ape
Q*BERT: Q-Historic Daze
SPACE ACE: Moon Missile Madness
KANGAROO: The White Squirrel of Dover

#18 (10.06.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Greenhouse Gorilla
Q*BERT: Q*Bert’s Monster Mix-Up
SPACE ACE: Perilous Partners
KANGAROO: The Birthday Party

#19 (10.13.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Hairy Parent
Q*BERT: Game, Show, Woe
SPACE ACE: Frozen In Fear
KANGAROO: Having a Ball

#20 (10.20.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Rerun
Q*BERT: The Wacky Q-Bot
SPACE ACE: Age Ray Riot
KANGAROO: The Tail of the Cowardly Lion

#21 (10.27.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Rerun
Q*BERT: Q-Beat It
SPACE ACE: Wanted Dexter
KANGAROO: It’s Carnival Time

#22 (11.03.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Rerun
Q*BERT: Q-Urf’s Up
SPACE ACE: The Phantom Shuttle
KANGAROO: Lost and Found

#23 (11.10.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Rerun
Q*BERT: Little Green Nosers
SPACE ACE: Spoiled Sports
KANGAROO: Joey and the Beanstalk

#24 (11.17.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Rerun
Q*BERT: Rebel Without a Q-Ause
SPACE ACE: Calamity Kimmie
KANGAROO: Zoo’s Who?

#25 (11.24.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Rerun
Q*BERT: Looking For Miss Q-Right
SPACE ACE: Three-Ring Rampage
KANGAROO: The Egg and Us

#26 (12.01.1984)
DONKEY KONG: Rerun
Q*BERT: The Goofy Ghostgetters
SPACE ACE: Infanto Fury
KANGAROO: The Runaway Panda

VOICE ACTORS
Billy Bowles (1951) as Q*Bert
Bart Braverman (1946) as Bones
Peter Cullen (1941) as Mario
Dick Beals (1927-2012) as Q*Bit
Arthur Burghardt (1947) as Commander Borf and Mr. Friendly
Nancy Cartwright (1957) as Kimberly
Alan Dinehart (1918-1992) as Mac
Teddy Field III as Tex
Pat Fraley (1949) as Monkey Biz Gang
Marvin Kaplan (1927-2016) as Shellshock and Sidney
Robert Lee (1954) as Q*Tee and Q*Val
Sparky Marcus (1967) as Dexter
Kenneth Mars (1935-2011) as Quickclaw
Mea Martineau as Katy
Julie McWhirter (1947) as Q*Bertha, Q*Mom and Viper
David Mendenhall (1971) as Joey
Noelle North (1949) as Rhonda
Jim Piper as Space Ace
Peter Renaday (1935) as Space Marshall Vaughn
Robert Ridgely (1931-1997) as Pitfall Harry
Soupy Sales (1926-2009) as Donkey ‘Cranky’ Kong Sr.
Bob Sarlatte as Frogger
Judy Strangis (1949) as Pauline
B.J. Ward (1944) as Fanny Frog
Frank Welker (1946) as Coilee Snake, Donkey Kong Jr., Monkey Biz Gang, Q*Ball, Q*Dad, Q*Mungus, Sam Slick, Ugg, Wrongway