Bump in the Night | |
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Created by | Ken Pontac David Bleiman |
Directed by | Ken Pontac David Bleiman Ginny McSwain (voice director) |
Voices of | Jim Cummings Rob Paulsen Gail Matthius |
Narrated by | Jim Cummings (uncredited) Gail Matthius (uncredited) |
Opening theme | Jim Latham |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 (45 segments) + 1 special |
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Executive producers | David Bleiman Ichioka Ken Pontac Patricia Rose Duignan |
Producers | David Bleiman Ichioka Ken Pontac Patricia Rose Duignan |
Editor | Edie Ichioka |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Danger Productions Greengrass Productions DIC Entertainment, L.P. |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | September 10, 1994 – December 2, 1995 |
Bump in the Night is an American stop-motion animated series by Danger Productions and Greengrass Productions. The show was filmed using stop-motion animation and aired on ABC from 1994 to 1995. [1] It was created and directed by Ken Pontac and David Bleiman.
Mr. Bumpy is a small green, purple-warted monster living under the bed of a ten-year-old boy, where he eats dirty socks and dust bunnies as if they were delicacies. His best friends are Squishington, a blue monster that lived in the bathroom's toilet cistern; and Molly Coddle, a Frankenstein's monster-like rag doll belonging to the boy's sister who acts as the straight man to the others' crazy antics.
Other characters include Destructo, the boy's toy robot who sees himself as a cop and persecutes Mr. Bumpy for his actions. There is also the Closet Monster, who's made up of the boy's pile of clothes and chases after Mr. Bumpy.
The show was traditionally split into two major parts per half-hour (occasionally dedicating a full half hour per show, or sometimes splitting into three parts), and had a music video at the end of the episode, starring the three main characters and any minor characters involved in the episode. This musical montage would take clips from the episode itself and reiterate the life lessons learned in the episode.
Performing musicians for the music of the show: Wayne Boone (guitar), Kevin Konklin (guitar), Eric Ferry (drums), and Ray Brinker (drums).
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No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "All You Need Is Glove" "In The Bowl of the Squishy Prince" | September 10, 1994 | |
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2 | 2 | "Party Poopers" | September 17, 1994 | |
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3 | 3 | "A Sneeze in Time" "Hocus Dopus" | September 24, 1994 | |
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4 | 4 | "Adventures in Microbia" "Not a Peep!" | October 1, 1994 | |
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5 | 5 | "Penny for Your Thoughts" "Farewell 2 Arms" | October 8, 1994 | |
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6 | 6 | "I Dream of Silverfish" "Story Problems" | October 15, 1994 | |
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7 | 7 | "Hide and Go Freak" "Better Homes & Garbage" | October 22, 1994 | |
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8 | 8 | "Made in Japan" "Dr. Coddle, M.D." | October 29, 1994 | |
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9 | 9 | "Gum Crazy" "Baby Snail" | November 5, 1994 | |
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10 | 10 | "Not of This Boy's Room" "To Sleep Perchance to Burp" | November 12, 1994 | |
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11 | 11 | "Danger: Unexploded Squishington" "Loss of Face" | November 19, 1994 | |
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12 | 12 | "Sock It to Me" "Comforting the Uncomfortable" | November 26, 1994 | |
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13 | 13 | "Baby Jail" "Night of the Living Bread" | December 3, 1994 | |
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No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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14 | 1 | "Neat and Clean" "Nothing But the Tooth" | September 9, 1995 | |
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15 | 2 | "When the Music Starts" | September 16, 1995 | |
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16 | 3 | "Water Way to Go" "Cold Turkey" | September 23, 1995 | |
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17 | 4 | "Bump and Roll" | September 30, 1995 | |
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18 | 5 | "Made in Japan II" | October 7, 1995 | |
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19 | 6 | "Long Long Day" "Destructo's Flipside" | October 14, 1995 | |
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20 | 7 | "Auntie Matta" "Bumpy the Untrappable" | October 21, 1995 | |
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21 | 8 | "Love Stinks" "Love's Labor Bumped" | October 28, 1995 | |
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22 | 9 | "Not a Leg to Stand On" | November 4, 1995 | |
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23 | 10 | "Comfort Schmumfort" | November 11, 1995 | |
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24 | 11 | "It Came from the Closet" | November 18, 1995 | |
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25 | 12 | "I Got Needs" "Beauty and the Bump" | November 25, 1995 | |
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26 | 13 | "It Sang from Beyond the Stars" "Journey to the Center of the Lungfish" | December 2, 1995 | |
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No. | Title | Original air date | |
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Special | "Twas the Night Before Bumpy" | December 9, 1995 | |
Movie, 64 min: Molly Coddle takes over as a pageant director while Mr. Bumpy and Squishington enter the North Pole. |
The development of the series began as a series of ad bumpers for ABC's Saturday morning lineup in 1993, hence the title Bump in the Night and the character's naming of Mr. Bumpy.[ citation needed ] In 1996, DIC Entertainment, while still in partnership with the ABC network, purchased the show's rights, even though they were never involved in the show’s production.[ citation needed ]. Reruns of Bump in the Night were featured on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2001.
On VHS, the series was released by Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises and later Anchor Bay Entertainment on many VHS volumes:
In September 2003, Sterling Entertainment released a VHS/DVD called Night of the Living Bread, containing 6 segments. 3 additional segments were included on DVD. In April 2010, Shout! Factory released Bump In The Night: The Complete Series on DVD. [3] In February 2016, Mill Creek Entertainment re-released Bump in the Night – The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. [4]
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