The Legends of Treasure Island

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The Legends Of Treasure Island is a UK cel animation cartoon from 1992. It had two seasons of 13 episodes each and each episode runs for 30 minuets (26 X 30).

producers: FilmFair / Central Animation for Carlton UK Productions

director: Dino Athanassiou

producer: Peter Lewis

The main storyline of the series although loyal to the main idea of the original Robert Louis Stevenson's story "Treasure Island", deviates from the original plot in the book, which gives the series a more mysterious and dark look, it also shows a lot of magic and new characters. In fact, you will not find most of the characters and stories in the original story; not to mention that those present are anthromorphical animals plus some new characters, but it's only for the better for those who can appreciate a new angle and imagination. The first episode is the one episode that most of all, is similar to the original story.

It happens to be that as much as this cartoon was nicely done (despite the lack of care on the shows' continuity), most people did not see it, it was broadcast in the UK, Mexico, Australia, Israel and a few European and Latin American countries. The series had a few VHS tapes and one DVD released at 1997, the DVD consists of four episodes (episodes 1, 2, 3 and 13 respectively) from the series put together onto an 86 minutes animated film.

Contents

1 Characters
2 Voice Talents
3 Episode list
4 Trivia
5 Credits
6 External links

Characters

This cartoon, unlike other Treasure Island cartoons and movies, featured the main characters as animals:

Jim Hawkins: Dog

Ben: Dog

Long John Silver: Fox

Dr. Livesey: Dog

Captain Smollett: Dog

Squire Trelawney: Pigeon

Pew: Rat

Jane One of the exclusive characters for this Treasure Island incarnation. Jane is an anthropomorphic vixen (but there are still some who consider her to be a cat) that was kidnapped by Silver and since her parents did not want her back she got stuck with him, already on the first episode she turn sides and teams up with Jim, to whom she appears to have feelings.

Subsidiary recurring characters included the pirates Morgan (a hog), Nebbich (a hyena), and Rat (who was, ostensibly enough, a rat). These characters featured mainly in the first season and only made minor appearances at the beginning of the second before disappearing altogether.

Voice Talents

Voices: Dawn French (Jim - season 1), Juliet Stevenson (Jane), Richard E Grant (Long John Silver), Robert Powell (Dr Livesey), Hugh Laurie (Squire Trelawney), Chris Barrie (Captain Smollett / Ben Gunn), John Hasler (Jim - season 2), Gary Martin, Carla Mendorca.

Episode list

Season One:

1. The Quest Begins - First aired: 9/10/1993

2. Memories Are Made Of This - First aired: 9/17/1993

3. The Watch Tower - First aired: 9/24/1993

4. Now You See Me - First aired: 10/1/1993

5. Flint's Return - First aired: 10/8/1993

6. The Cave Of Babel - First aired: 10/15/1993

7. The Labyrinth - First aired: 10/22/1993

8. The Merman Prince - First aired: 10/29/1993

9. The Fountain Of Truth - First aired: 11/5/1993

10. The Pool Of Prophercy - First aired: 11/12/1993

11. Return To Sender - First aired: 11/19/1993

12. Tails We Win - First aired: 11/26/1993

13. The Beginning Of The End - First aired: 12/3/1993

Season Two:

14. Consequence - First aired: 4/4/1995

15. Reunion - First aired: 4/11/1995

16. Silver In The Island's Underworld - First aired: 4/18/1995

17. Silver's Bond - First aired: 4/25/1995

18. Emily - First aired: 5/2/1995

19. Forest Of Darkness - First aired: 5/9/1995

20. City In The Sky - First aired: 5/16/1995

21. Antidote - First aired: 5/23/1995

22. Dragon - First aired: 5/30/1995

23. Allegiance - First aired: 6/6/1995

24. The Oracle - First aired: 6/13/1995

25. Double Cross - First aired: 6/20/1995

26. One For All - First aired: 6/27/1995

Trivia

So far, Jane's surname remains a mystery; this and the lack of detail on her past make her such an enigmatic character, but not as much like that of the "autistic" Rei Ayanami-like type since Jane has a fiery and tomboyish behaviour.

Jane seems to be used to wearing male clothes.

Adding more onto Disney's fame of stealing ideas from less mainstream works; it is rumored that Amelia the character from their animated film "Treasure Planet" is a rip off out of Jane. They are both physically and psychologically alike.

Besides having a larger life span on this version, Pew seems to be a sorcerer.

The Spanish Latin American version was dubbed in Chile.

In Mexico only the first season has aired back on time period of 1994-1995, after that; reruns of the first season kept airing until around 1996 or 1997 on the back then animation cable channel ZAZ.

Credits

Based on the Novel by: Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted by: Jimmy Hibbert
Music: Barrington Pheloung
Story Editor: Barbara Slade
Writers: Barbara Slade, Marty Isenberg and Robert N. Skir, Matthew Malach, Frank Kerr, Jules Dennis and Richard Mueller, Jimmy Hibbert, Chris Trengrove
Animation Director: Carlos Alfonso
Storyline: Chris Randall
Storyboard Design: Gordon Harrison, Sheila Dixon, Ron Edwards, Wayne Thomas, Vince James, Ted Stephens, Roger Stennett, Richard Fawdry, Peter See, Harold Whitaker, Dave Elvin, Chris Randall
Color Models: Marty Martin, Gerald Emanuel, Valerie Solis
Art Director: Neil B. Mahoney
Backgrounds: Carol A. Hughes
Supervising Cleanup Artist: Jean-Louis Garcia
Key Layout: Chris Fenna, Sam Blakeslee, Monica Brutton, Willard Kitchen, Dave Unwin, Barry Macey, Tanya Molodova, Anne Marriott, Kenneth Hayes, Laurent Grisel, Neil Graham, John Riley-Cooper, Tom Bailey
Paint Supervisor: Stella Reyes
Director of Animation: Phil Robinson
Animation Checking: Zaldy Zuno, Nory Jamling, Adrian Barber
Animation Supervisor: Luc Chamberland
Layout Assistants: George Jackson, Sam Dixon, Alastair Fell, Mike Whaite
Animation: Rosemary Welch, Arthur Humberstone, Lizzie A. Scarborough, Anthony Iacobelli, Les Brooksbank, Art Graham, Marc Eoche-Duval, Kay Widdowson, Brad Kirkpatrick, Robert Nissan, Jodie Kellie, Edward Sasu, Alexander Acayean, Chris Wallace, Rick Corrigan
Painting: Barbara Bago, Karen Brumell, Simon White, Frank Koller, Ron Erickson, Austin Wilson, Claire Armstrong, Ted Pettengel, Larry Schulz, Norman McCartney, Ray Werkstarke, Jennie Langley, Dave Livesey, Sue Halliwell, Chris Shout, Larry Nicholas, Andrew Peters, Clive Dawson, Rachel Smith, Richard Adams
Layout Director: John Stevenson
Layout Supervisor: Kinjo Estioko
Background Supervisor: Andy Roper
Color Stylists: Marie Turner, Candy Alejandrino Chaves
Head of Animation: Jocelyn Smith
Timing Directors:
Key Production Staff: Oliver Cronin, Duncan Harris, Rosanne Bunang
Dubbing Editor: John Wood
Dubbing Mix: David Humphries
Special Effects: Mel Kutbay, Nigel Senior
Videotape Editors: Phil Atack, Eva Moreno, Marilyn Graf
In Betweening Department: Ron Crawley
Production Secretaries: Elizabeth Pederson, Susan Sabarra, Jeanette Watson
Production Assistants: Helen Stroud, Mike Tarpley, Patrick Rogers, Louie Jhocson, Scott Heasmer
Associate Producer: James Costello
Dialogue Editors: Darren Cox, Simon Hall
Camera: Raul Salgado, Elias Macute, Gary Knowelden
Post Production: FLIX
Production Coordinator:
Editing: Patrick Haggerty, Suzette Bristow, Jan Needle, Stephen Perry, Hillary Downs
Production Supervisor: Nick Coleman
Assistant Directors: Jacqueline Wynter, Anne Moran, Rob Dunbar
Executive Producers: James Driscoll, Graham Clutterbuck
For Central TV: Lewis Rudd
Produced by: Peter Lewis
Directed by: Dino Athanassiou

External links

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