Alvin and the Chipmunks (TV series)
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Alvin and the Chipmunks was the second American animated television series to feature the singing characters The Chipmunks, produced by Bagdasarian Productions, Ruby-Spears Productions, and Lorimar-Telepictures. The outline of the show closely paralleled The Alvin Show, and aired from 1983 to 1991 on NBC. In the first season, the show introduced The Chipettes, three female versions of the Chipmunks with their own human counterpart (who joined the cast in 1986), the myopic Miss Beatrice Miller. Many fans consider this the moment when the show jumped the shark. After 1987, the show was renamed just The Chipmunks to indicate that there were now two groups of them.
In 1987, during the fifth season of the show on television, the Chipmunks had their first (and thus far, only) animated feature film, The Chipmunk Adventure, directed by Janice Karman and released to theatres by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. The film featured The Chipmunks and The Chipettes in a contest traveling around the world. Other than improved production values, the movie was more of an extended and enhanced episode of the series.
For the eighth and final season, the show switched production companies to DiC Entertainment and switched titles again: The Chipmunks Go to the Movies. Each episode in this season was a spoof of a Hollywood film like Back to the Future or King Kong. In additional, several television specials featuring the characters were also released. At the conclusion of the eighth season, the show was cancelled again.
In 1990, a documentary was produced about the show entitled Alvin and the Chipmunks: Five Decades with the Chipmunks. In that year, the Chipmunks also teamed up with other contemporary cartoons (such as Bugs Bunny, Garfield, etc.) for the drug abuse-prevention special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
Voice actors and their characters
- Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. - Alvin, Simon, David Seville
- Janice Karman - Theodore, Brittany, Eleanor, Jeanette
- Dody Goodman - Miss Beatrice Miller
Episodes
For a complete listing of episodes, see List of Alvin and the Chipmunks episodes.See also
Trivia
- In episode 100, "Big Dreams", the Chipmunks and Chipettes use a Time Machine Simon made to see what would happen if Alvin took $500. Apparently each Chipmunk were married to their Chipette counterparts...
- * Alvin and Brittany were married with two kids and live in a mansion.
- * Simon and Jeanette were married as they both got Nobel Prizes.
- * Theodore and Eleanor were married owning a restaurant/nightclub.
- In "Just One of The Girls" & "Miss Miller's Big Gamble", we learn Miss Miller does have a first name, Beatrice.
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