Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
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- "Rescue Rangers" redirects here; for the 70's TV show featuring Lassie, see Lassie's Rescue Rangers.
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers was an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It featured the classic Disney chipmunk characters Chip 'n Dale, with three new friends, as detectives.
The concept began life as a two hour standalone television special, Rescue Rangers: To the Rescue. The series itself began airing on March 5, 1989, often paired in an hour-long show with DuckTales. The last episode aired on November 19, 1990, by which time the series was a part of the then-fledgling Disney Afternoon and continued to air for some time thereafter in its lineup until 1993.
65 episodes were created in total; the opening special To the Rescue was broken up into five half-hour segments and rebroadcast as episodes 14-18.
On November 8, 2005, Disney made their first DVD release of 27 Rescue Rangers episodes (see below).
Characters
Heroes
Chip (Tress MacNeille), the leader of the Rescue Rangers, wears a fedora and a flight jacket, much like Indiana Jones. He spends his free time reading detective fiction, his favorite character being Sureluck Jones, whose name is apparently a play on the names of Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones. He is presented as very dedicated to his duty, and usually tries to act very serious and responsible, sometimes to the point of being humorless.
Dale (Corey Burton) wears a red and yellow Hawaiian shirt, a la Magnum PI. Though also dedicated to duty, he is presented as a fun-loving, mischievous prankster and somewhat irresponsible. He spends his free time reading comic books, playing video games, watching Sci-fi and horror movies, and eating candy.
Monterey Jack or "Monty" (Jim Cummings) is an Australian muscle mouse who has a constant craving for cheese and a pesky fear of cats. Monty first met Chip and Dale on their first case as Rescue Rangers. He joined them along with his companion Zipper and Gadget Hackwrench. Monty is protective over Gadget, having somewhat of a father-daughter relationship with the younger mouse.
Gadget Hackwrench (Tress MacNeille) is a young female mouse and the mechanic and inventor of the team. She is the daughter of deceased inventor and aviator Geegaw Hackwrench, an old friend of Monterey Jack. She first met Chip and Dale on their first case as Rescue Rangers and has joined them along with Monterey Jack and his companion Zipper, since she had nowhere else to go after her father's death. Both Chip and Dale are very attracted to Gadget, but she usually does not notice because she is working on her inventions most of the time.
Zipper appears as Monterey Jack's sidekick and the mascot of the Rescue Rangers. Using his ability to fly, Zipper often handles the little jobs that the rest of the Rescue Rangers cannot do. He speaks in an unintelligble buzzing that only Monty (and, presumably, other insects) can understand. He is occasionally shown as extremely strong for his size.
Villains
Fat Cat, a felonious grey tabby who plays the role of a crime boss. He has four sidekicks: an alley cat named Mepps, a lizard named Wart, a mole named Mole, and a rat named Snout.Professor Norton Nimnul is a mad scientist and also one of the Rescue Rangers' most frequent enemies. He is identifiable by his oddly-shaped skull, his receding red hair, and very thick glasses, as well as his high-pitched laugh. In one episode, Professor Nimnul has "help" from his obnoxious nephew Normie.
Jim Cummings voiced both the Rangers' primary foes; however, they appeared together only in the pilot episode, as the faithful pet and the science officer of a megalomaniacal crime boss.
Episode list and plot summaries
Article: List of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episodes
DVD Sets
- For more information on the DVD sets, see Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers DVD releases.
The DVD sets are unique as they are not, to this point, released in chronological order. Thus, the episodes on the DVD sets do not match the order that the episodes were aired.
Title in other languages
- Czech: Chip a Dale Rychlá rota
- Danish: Chip og Chap Nøddepatruljen
- Dutch: Knabbel en Babbel - Rescue Rangers
- Finnish: Tikun ja Takun pelastuspartio
- French: Tic et Tac - Les Rangers du Risque
- German: Chip und Chap - Die Ritter des Rechts
- Hungarian: [és Dale - Csipet Csapat]
- Italian: [e Ciop agenti speciali]
- Japanese: チップとデールの大作戦 (Chippu to Dēru no Daisakusen)
- Lithuanian: „Čipas ir Deilas skuba į pagalbą“
- Norwegian: Snipp og Snapp Redningspatruljen
- Polish: Chip i Dale - Brygada Ryzykownego Ratunku
- Portuguese: Tico e Teco e os defensores da lei
- Russian: [и Дейл Спешат на Помощь] (Chip i Deil Speshat na pomoshch')
- Slovak: Rýchla rota Chipa a Dalea
- Spanish: Chip y Dale Comando de Rescate, Chip y Dale Al Rescate, Chip y Dale Rescatadores and Chip y Chop Rescatadores
- Swedish: Piff och Puff - Räddningspatrullen
- Chinese: 救難小福星
Spin-offs
A popular eponymous Rescue Rangers platform video game was produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Capcom, followed by a less successful sequel. A third game was made for the PC. The video games featured gameplay that was rather similar to that of Super Mario Bros. 2. Although they did not strictly follow the premise of the TV series, some of the game missions did match episode plots, and included recurring appearances of minor series characters such as a mechanical dog and a robot.
A monthly comic book based on the show was published by Disney Comics in 1990, running for 19 issues. Subsequent comic stories were printed in Disney Adventures from 1990 to 1995, as well as in the Disney Afternoon comic book published by Marvel Comics.
There were plans for a theatrical feature film based on the series (a 1990 issue of Comics Scene gave information on a planned release in 1991), but it never came to fruition, possibly because underperformed at the box office.
In the PlayStation and Game Boy Color game , Chip 'n Dale appear as playable characters, wearing their Rescue Rangers outfits. However, aside from their outfits, the game has practically nothing to do with Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.
External links
- [Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers] at MobyGames
- [Official web page at the Toon Disney Channel]
- [CDRR Portal in English]
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