Cartoon Resource entry #266 - Bonkers (1993)

BONKERS

ORIGINAL AIRDATES: Feb 28, 1993-June 6, 1993 on Disney Channel and Sept 6, 1993-Sept 10, 1995 in syndication
LATER AIRDATES: 1995-1997 on Disney Channel, Apr 1998-2004 on Toon Disney, Nov 12, 2019-present on Disney+
EPISODES: 65
ANIMATION BY: Walt Disney Television Animation
DISTRIBUTED and OWNED BY: Walt Disney Television

SUMMARY: 

Bonkers is a cartoon bob-cat who loses his job at his Hollywood studio and becomes a cop, partnered with the straight faced human Lucky Piquel.  Bonkers first appeared as part of Disney’s Raw Toonage series.  In the first few episodes, Bonkers was actually partnered with a female cop, Miranda Wright.  These episodes were produced and aired first but story-wise, take place after the ones where Bonkers is partnered with Lucky.  Lucky had left to take a job with the FBI.    There were also four episodes that were compliation footage of Bonkers shorts from Disney’s Raw Toonage

EPISODE GUIDE – In production and story order

‘Lucky’ episodes – all premiered in syndication:

#24 Going Bonkers (09.04.1993) - Pilot Part 1
#36 Gone Bonkers (09.04.1993) - Pilot Part 2
#01 In the Bag (09.06.1993)
#02 Is Toon Fur Really Warm? (09.09.1993)
#03 A Cheap Sheep Sweep (09.17.1993)
#04 Hear No Bonkers, See No Bonkers (09.07.1993)
#05 Calling All Cars (09.10.1993)
#06 Tune Pig (10.01.1993)
#07 Fall Apart Bomb Squad (09.13.1993)
#08 Out of Sight, Out of Toon (09.08.1993)
#09 Basic Spraining (09.22.1993)
#10 Hamster Houseguest (09.16.1993)
#11 I Oughta Be in Toons (11.02.1993)
#12 Color Me Piquel (11.11.1993)
#13 Once in a Blue Toon (09.23.1993)
#14 In Toons We Trust (09.14.1993)
#15 The Final Review (11.22.1993)
#16 Luna-Toons (09.24.1993)
#17 The Day the Toon Stood Still (09.20.1993)
#18 The Rubber Room Song: Ski Patrol, Bonkers In Space, Draining Cats and Dogs (09.30.1993)
#19 Fall-Apart Land (02.09.1994)
#20 A Wooly Bully (11.04.1993)
#21 Weather or Not (09.21.1993)
#22 Stay Tooned (11.05.1993)
#23 Hand Over the Dough (09.29.1993)
#25 The Dimming (11.17.1993)
#26 Imagine That (02.14.1994)
#27 The Good, the Bad, and the Kanifky (11.01.1993)
#28 Stand-In Dad (11.12.1993)
#29 Never Cry Pig (09.15.1993)
#30 Cereal Surreal (11.15.1993)
#31 Time Wounds All Heels (09.27.1993)
#32 Poltertoon (09.28.1993)
#33 The Greatest Story Never Told (02.07.1994)
#34 Goldijitters and the Three Bobcats: Quest For Firewood, Gobble Gobble Bonkers (11.24.1993)
#35 Toon With No Name (11.18.1993)
#37 Frame That Toon (11.03.1993)
#38 Seems Like Old Toons (11.26.1993)
#39 Stressed To Kill (02.23.1994)
#40 O Cartoon! My Cartoon!: Get Me a Pizza, Spatula Party, Sheerluck Bonkers (11.10.1993)
#41 Get Wacky (11.19.1993)
#42 A Fine Kettle of Toons (02.17.1994)
#43 The Comeback Kid (11.29.1993)
#44 Miracle At the 34th Precinct (11.27.1993) 

‘Miranda’ episodes – DC ones premiered on the Disney Channel first:

#45 New Partners on the Block (10.04.1993)  
#46 If: Petal to the Metal, Dogzapoppin, Trail Mix Brothers & the Pony Express (11.16.1993)
#47 Love Stuck (10.19.1993)
#48 Witless for the Prosecution (10.05.1993) 
#49 The Stork Exchange (03.14.1993 DC)
#50 Toon For a Day (06.06.1993 DC)      
#51 Trains, Toons, and Toon Trains (02.28.1993 DC)
#52 Of Mice and Menace (10.21.1993)
#53 Tokyo Bonkers (03.07.1993 DC)
#54 Springtime for the Iguana (10.14.1993)
#55 The Toon That Ate Hollywood (04.04.1993 DC)
#56 Dog Day Aftertoon (10.26.1993)
#57 Quibbling Rivalry (10.12.1993)
#58 The 29th Page (10.28.1993)
#59 Do Toons Dream of Animated Sheep? (10.08.1993)
#60 Fistful of Anvils (04.18.1993 DC)
#61 What You Read Is What You Get (04.25.1993 DC)
#62 Casa-bonkers (10.15.1993)
#63 Cartoon Cornered (10.29.1993)
#64 When the Spirit Moves You (04.11.1993 DC)
#65 Bobcat Fever (03.21.1993 DC) 

VOICE ACTORS

Joe Alaskey (1952-2016) as Flaps the Elephant

Jack Angel (1930-2021) as Max Coody and Scribble

Jeff Bennett (1962) as Jitters A. Dog

Gregg Berger (1950) as Mr. Corkscrew, Mr. Skunk and Pelican

Earl Boen (1945) as Police Chief Leonard Kanifky

Corey Burton (1955) as Prof. Ludwig Von Drake

Nancy Cartwright (1957) as Fawn Deer

Jim Cummings (1952) as Bonkers and Detective Lucky Piquel

Karla DeVito (1953) as Officer Miranda Wright

Dana Hill (1964-1996) as Timmy

Maurice LaMarche (1958) as Aloysius ‘Al’ Vermin, Mr. Blackenblue

Sherry Lynn (1952) as Marilyn Piquel

Stuart Pankin (1946) as Mammoth Mammoth and Pops Klock

Ron Perlman (1950) as Sergeant Francis Q. Grating

Chick Vennera (1947-2021) as Moe and Toon Rooster

Frank Welker (1946) as Fall-Apart Rabbit

April Winchell (1960) as Dyl Piquel

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