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Creepy Crawlers | |
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Genre | Science fiction Adventure Comedy |
Based on | "Creepy Crawlers" by Mattel |
Voices of | Steve Bulen Joey Camen Cam Clarke Art Kimbro Johnny K. Lamb Heidi Lenhart Tony Pope Jan Rabson O.R. Yarbles |
Music by | Shuki Levy Kussa Mahchi |
Country of origin | United States France |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 23 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Joel Andryc Eric S. Rollman |
Producer | Sam Ewing |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Saban Entertainment Saban International Paris (seasons 2) Abrams/Gentile Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | Syndication |
Release | October 4, 1994 – March 30, 1996 |
Creepy Crawlers is an animated television series from 1994, produced by Saban Entertainment, that aired in syndication in the United States. [1]
Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment. [2] [3] [4]
The show is about Chris Carter, a self-described "normal kid" who is interested in magic. While working at the Magic Shop of bitter discredited stage illusionist Professor Googengrime, Chris designed and built a device he called "The Magic Maker", ostensibly for use in some unspecified magic trick. A particular once-every-thousand-years planetary alignment, the Magical Millennium Moment, rained down cosmic energies on the shop one fateful night, which somehow made the Magic Maker capable of creating strange, man-sized bug/magic trick composite mutant creatures.
The three creatures formed that night, Hocus Locust, Volt Jolt and T-3 (dubbed "Goop-Mandos" by Googengrime), despite looking bizarre, turned out to be friendly, and joined forces with Chris, but Googengrime kept the Magic Maker when Chris and the Goop-Mandos escaped from the shop. Each episode thereafter concerned Googengrime's latest attempt to gain power and conquer the world with a Magic Maker-created "Crime Grime" monster, and Chris and The Goop-Mandos' efforts to stop him, and retrieve the Magic Maker from his evil clutches.
As the series went on, more Goop-Mandos were created. In addition, a young girl named "Sammy" Reynolds became a close ally of the group.
Some sitcom style humor was derived by the concept that the Goop-Mandos were required to recharge after missions by hanging upside-down in the large closet in Chris' room. This concept was derived from a small oozing hourglass-like device housed in the lower torso of each Goop-Mando Action Figure. Although the Carter parents never made an appearance on the show (their voices were heard off-screen in a few episodes), Chris' older brother Todd, a vain and surly "valley dude", was constantly suspicious of the extracurricular goings-on around the house. Furthermore, when the Goop-Mandos needed transportation to a battle site, they would often confiscate Todd's custom dune buggy, using doses of "Goop" to transform it temporarily into the Goozooka "Crawler Cruiser" assault Vehicle. The villains used a similar vehicle called the Bug-Eyed Bomber.
At the Opening of Season Two, Professor Googengrime created a formula, Super Goop, to try to destroy the Goop-Mandos, but it backfired, furthering their mutations. The Goop-Mandos changed colors, gained new abilities and became much stronger.
The Creepy Crawlers TV Show was based on ToyMax's Creepy Crawlers Activity toy. A line of 12 action figures were made by ToyMax in conjunction with the show, as well as the Goozooka Assault vehicle. A "Creepy Crawlers Action Figure Playset" was depicted in the 1994 ToyMax toy booklet, but was apparently not produced. Each figure came with a metal mold for use with the Creepy Crawlers toy oven, to make custom accessories for the figure using Plasti-Goop.
The Creepy Crawlers TV show debuted in first-run syndication in the Fall of 1994. The show was produced by Saban Entertainment, known for their Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and other live-action adventure programs. Creepy Crawlers was sponsored heavily by several ToyMax products, including Incredible Edibles and DollyMaker, and other Saban programs such as VR Troopers . The show aired sporadically on weekends through the spring of 1996, airing a total of 23 episodes during its two-year run.
Nº | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | "The Night of the Creepy Crawlers" | October 4, 1994 | |
The show's pilot introduces Chris, Professor Googengrime, and the Goop-Mandos, and sets events in motion that will affect the show's entire run. | |||
2 | "Sugar Frosted Crawlers" | October 11, 1994 | |
Googengrime sets up shop in an abandoned cereal factory, and is soon flooding the market with the only breakfast food containing a living prize inside: Squirminators. | |||
3 | "Who's Afraid of Bees?" | October 18, 1994 | |
The Reynolds family moves in next door to the Carters, bringing interesting developments for the new neighbors, and an inadvertent Rumble Bee that is mistaken Sammy for Chris. | |||
4 | "Chris Explains It All" | October 25, 1994 | |
Recaps the action of the previous three episodes. | |||
5 | "Power Play" | November 1, 1994 | |
A supercharged Shockaroach goes on an electricity-consuming rampage, coinciding with brother Todd's heavy metal "Battle of The Bands" competition. | |||
6 | "Vanishing Act" | November 15, 1994 | |
Chris and Sammy's "first date" at the "Razzle & Dazzle" Magic Show, which turns out to be a trap by Googengrime. Meanwhile, across town, the Goop-Mandos literally makes a new friend from the Magic Maker: Sting Ring. | |||
7 | "One Creepy Brother" | November 22, 1994 | |
Todd Carter becomes involved in the struggle between Googengrime and Chris. Unfortunately, it is on the wrong side of the conflict, due to Googengrime's newest creations: the Spider Patrol. | |||
8 | "I Was a Teenage Crawler" | December 6, 1994 | |
A huge chemical explosion at the pesticide factory leaves Chris slowly mutating into a Goop-Mando with grasshopper-like qualities, just in the middle of his first high school prom. | |||
9 | "Mauler Amuck" | December 27, 1994 | |
T-Flea goes missing at a Goop-Mando team training session, while Googengrime loses control of Spooky's first Crime Grime creation: the rampaging 2-Ugly. | |||
10 | "The Glob" | January 24, 1995 | |
After accidentally creating Commantis by inserting a Shogun movie into the Magic Maker, Googengrime uses a film festival of horror flicks to produce a writhing gelatinous slime that devours all forms of entertainment. | |||
11 | "All The Way to China" | January 31, 1995 | |
The new Super Squirminator tunnels to the Earth's core in search of Magma-Goop, wreaking geological disaster, and leading the heroes on a subterranean chase after Sammy's little brother Nick, who has disappeared down the hole. | |||
12 | "Double Trouble" | February 7, 1995 | |
Good and evil agendas clash at the County Museum, as an exhibit of Houdini's Magic Trunk leads to a T-Rex skeleton attack and a high-speed chase on the freeway, as well as 2-Ugly's little brother, 2-Ugly 2. | |||
13 | "Attack of the Fifty Foot Googengrime" | February 14, 1995 | |
Googengrime fires Spooky for his perpetual bungling and then, thanks to a lab accident, grows to be 50-feet tall so he can steal the observatory's telescope lens. | |||
14 | "Return of the Crime Grimes" | February 21, 1995 | |
In this season closer, Colonel Ka-Boom jails Chris for Goop-Mando conspiracy, Googengrime conquers the city with the unleashed aid of every Crime Grime creature at once, and the Magic Maker is recovered by the side of good, in a colossal final battle that sets everything right... or does it? |
Nº | Title | Original air date | |
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15 | "Dawn of the Super Goop" | September 16, 1995 | |
Instead of destroying the Goop-Mandos, Googengrime's new weapon augments their powers and color schemes to uncontrollable levels. Now, they must regain their self-confidence without Chris (due to his injury) to stop a "Super Crime Grime", Frankenfly from draining electricity in the city. | |||
16 | "Deja Goop" | September 23, 1995 | |
Googengrime dabbles in voodoo, placing Hocus Locust under his power, and at odds with the rest of the Goop-Mandos during a visit to an amusement park. | |||
17 | "A Real Numb Skrull" | September 30, 1995 | |
Googengrime builds a better monster and commands the gigantic enforcer, Skrull to destroy his "former" servant, Spooky. | |||
18 | "Camp Nightmare" | November 4, 1995 | |
Chris wins a trip to a summer camp in an R/C plane-flying contest, but Googengrime turns up to shake down the rich campers by holding them for ransom. | |||
19 | "Bugzilla" | November 11, 1995 | |
Chris and the Goop-Mandos must face Googengrime's latest colossal Crime Grime: the rampaging Bugzilla. | |||
20 | "T-4-2" | January 6, 1996 | |
Googengrime plots to gain control of Goop-Mando strongman T-3, but instead winds up creating T-3's younger brother, the four-headed "T-4". | |||
21 | "Cold Snap" | January 13, 1996 | |
When Googengrime releases his cold-weather monster "Ice Scream" on the city, Chris and the Goop-Mandos counteracts with the new heat-infused "Fire Eyes" to help them defeat it. | |||
22 | "Revenge of the Mutant Stink Bugs" | January 20, 1996 | |
Googengrime creates a swarm of giant stink bugs and unleashes them against the town so the heroes would surrender. Then, Chris, Sammy, and the Goop-Mandos mixes up a chemical formula to eliminate the stink bugs' odor. | |||
23 | "The Incredible Shrinking Creepy Crawlers" | March 30, 1996 | |
Googengrime concocts a new miniaturization goop to shrink every building in the city as part of his Monopoly-based scheme, as well as shrinking both Chris and Commantis. |