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Saturday Supercade
Overview
Saturday Supercade is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. It ran for two seasons on CBS beginning in 1983. Each episode is composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the Golden age of video arcade games.
Key Crew
Top Cast
Arthur Burghardt
Borf (voice)
Nancy Cartwright
Kimberly (voice)
Peter Renaday
Space Marshall Vaughn / Legrin (voice)
Sparky Marcus
Dexter (voice)
Jim Piper
Space Ace (voice)
Seasons
Season 1 (1983)
Donkey Kong has escaped from the circus. He is on the loose and Mario and Pauline are chasing the ape.
19 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Mississippi Madness
1983-09-17A lovable ape runs away from the circus, and is pursued by Mario and his niece Pauline.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Gorilla Gangster
Episode 3: Banana Bikers
Episode 4: The Incredible Shrinking Ape
Episode 5: Movie Mania
Episode 6: Gorilla My Dreams
Episode 7: Little Orphan Apey
Episode 8: Circus Daze
Episode 9: The Great Ape Escape
Episode 10: Apey and the Snowbeast
Episode 11: How Much is That Gorilla in the Window?
Episode 12: Private Donkey Kong
Episode 13: Get Along Little Apey
Episode 14: Sir Donkey Kong
Episode 15: The Pale Whale
Episode 16: El Donkey Kong
Episode 17: New Wave Ape
Episode 18: Greenhouse Gorilla
Episode 19: Hairy Parent
Season 2 ()
Donkey Kong Jr. is searching for his father Donkey Kong, who has run away from a circus where Mario is its ringmaster.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Trucknapper Caper
Episode 2: Sheep Rustle Hustle
Episode 3: Rocky Mountain Monkey Business
Episode 4: Magnificent 7-Year Olds
Episode 5: The Ventriloquist Caper
Episode 6: The Great Seal Steal
Episode 7: The Jungle Boy Ploy
Episode 8: Junior Meets Kid Dynamo
Episode 9: Amazing Rollerskate Race
Episode 10: A Christmas Story
Episode 11: Gorilla Ghost
Episode 12: The Teddy Bear Scare
Episode 13: Double or Nothing
Season 3 ()
Frogger is an ace reporter at The Swamp Gazette. He and his friends Shelly and Fanny go out in search of crazy stories to publish in the newspaper.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Ms. Fortune Story
Episode 2: Spaced Out Frogs
Episode 3: The Who-Took-Toadwalker Story
Episode 4: Hydrofoil & Go Seek
Episode 5: The Great Scuba Scoop
Episode 6: The Headline Hunters
Episode 7: The Legs Croaker Story
Episode 8: The Blackboard Bungle
Episode 9: Good Knight, Frogger
Episode 10: Fake Me Out at the Ballgame
Episode 11: I Remember Mummy
Episode 12: Here Today, Pawned Tomorrow
Episode 13: Hop-Along Frogger
Season 4 ()
Pitfall Harry, his niece Rhonda, and their cowardly pet Quickclaw the Mountain Lion explore jungles for hidden treasures, having many different adventures along the way.
7 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Amazon Jungle Bungle
Episode 2: Raiders of the Lost Shark
Episode 3: Tibetan Treasure Trouble
Episode 4: Mass Menace Mess
Episode 5: The Sabertooth Goof
Episode 6: The Pyramid Panic
Episode 7: Pitfall's Panda Puzzle
Season 5 ()
A teenage fur-covered creature named Q*bert, his girlfriend Q*Tee, his brother Q*Bit, and his friends Q*Ball, Q*Val, and Q*Mongus must deal with the resident bullies Coily, Ugg and Wrongway, and Coily's girlfriend Viper.
19 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Disc Derby Fiasco
Coily challenges Q*Bert to a Flying Disc race and whoever wins gets to go to a rock concert.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: The Great Q*Tee Contest
Episode 3: Q*Bowl Rigamarole
Episode 4: Crazy Camp Creature
Episode 5: Thanksgiving for the Memories
Episode 6: Dog Day Dilemma
Episode 7: Take Me Out to the Q*Game
Episode 8: Noser P.I
Episode 9: Hook, Line and Mermaid
Episode 10: Q*Historic Daze
Episode 11: Q*Bert's Monster Mix-Up
Episode 12: Game Show Woe
Episode 13: The Wacky Q*Bot
Episode 14: Q*Beat It
Episode 15: Q*Urf's Up
Episode 16: Little Green Noser
Episode 17: Rebel Without a Q*Ause
Episode 18: Looking for Miss Q*Right
Episode 19: The Goofy Ghostgetters
Season 6 (1984)
Joey Kangaroo, his mother "K.O." Katy Kangaroo, and Sidney Squirrel must stop the Monkeybiz Gang, four meddlesome monkeys who are known from making trouble at the local zoo run by Mr. Friendly.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Trunkfull of Trouble
1984-09-08Episode 2: Zoo for Hire
Episode 3: Bat's Incredible
Episode 4: The White Squirrel of Dover
Episode 5: The Birthday Party
Episode 6: Having a Ball
Episode 7: The Tail of the Cowardly Lion
Episode 8: It's Carnival Time
Episode 9: Lost and Found
Episode 10: Joey and the Beanstalk
Episode 11: Zoo's Who?
Episode 12: The Egg and Us
Episode 13: The Runaway Panda
Season 7 (1984)
Space Ace is the always smiling self-confident champion of the "Space Command", whereas when always "wimping out" to Dexter after being hit by the Infanto-Ray, he becomes clumsy and weak. With officer Kimberly, he works for Space Marshall Vaughn to keep the peace in the universe.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Cute Groots
1984-09-08Borf's direct attack on the Moon Colony masks his true plan, which involves using the Infanto Ray on his Groots and getting Trader Ed to sell them to the unsuspecting colonists.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Cosmic Camp Catastrophe
1984-09-15Space Ace and Kimberly are stuck chaperoning a bunch of space scouts on a campout, including Vaughn's nephew. Borf tries to capture the nephew to blackmail the head of Space Command.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 3: Dangerous Decoy
1984-09-22Space Ace and his girlfriend, Kimberly, must face down against the evil Commander Borf.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: Moon Missile Madness
1984-09-29Ace and Kimberly infiltrate a space biker gang in an effort to keep Borf from blasting the Earth with a top secret missle.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: Perilous Partners
1984-10-06Commander Parch tries to steal all Earth's water to bring the world to its knees. Since the conquest of Earth is a pleasure reserved only for him, Borf joins forces with Space Ace to capture Parch.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: Frozen in Fear
1984-10-13Space Ace and his girlfriend, Kimberly, must face down against the evil Commander Borf.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Age Ray Riot
1984-10-20Kimberly might have found a cure for Space Ace, a device called the Age Ray. Borf has accidentally been affected by his own Infanto Ray, and sets out to get the Age Ray for himself, and the two sides race for the ray.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 8: Wanted: Dexter
1984-10-27Vaughn sends Ace and Kimberly to a frontier planet to assist the local authorities. The crook that's giving 'em such a rough time just happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to Dexter...
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 9: Phantom Shuttle
1984-11-03Space Ace and Kimberly discover a derelict spaceship, which just happens to be the hideout of a mad scientist who wants to use Space Ace's powerful life energy to bring his monster to life.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 10: Spoiled Sports
1984-11-10Kimberly gets stuck with guard duty at Space Command HQ while Ace competes in the Galaxy Games. Naturally, Borf tries to capitalize on this situation.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 11: Calamity Kimmie
1984-11-17Space Ace and his girlfriend, Kimberly, must face down against the evil Commander Borf.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 12: Three Ring Rampage
1984-11-24Borf and his henchmen pretend to be a troupe of circus performers to capture the visiting leaders of several planets.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 13: Infanto Fury
1984-12-01Borf takes over Earth's moon base and use it to turn the population of Earth into babies with his Infanto Ray. This happens to include the leaders of the Space Command mission to stop him, meaning Space Ace has to babysit them and find a way to save the day at the same time!
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Saturday Supercade on CBS promo 1983
