DuckTales
Walt Disney Television Animation began production on "DuckTales" in 1986, with the intention of having it ready for a premiere in 1987, and its episodes airing within a 4-6 p.m. placement, at a time when more children would be watching television, rather than within a morning timeslot. Seeking to create a cartoon with high quality animation, in comparison with other 1980s cartoons which had much lower budgets, the animation was handled by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, having previously been used on two other Disney cartoons in 1985 – "The Wuzzles" and "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" – both of which had demonstrated better quality cartoons on TV than in previous years. Although the Japanese provided them with more available artists for the cartoon, this also increased production costs, due to the currency exchange rates between the yen and the dollar, though Disney intended to invest heavily in its "DuckTales"s production, with plans to recuperate its money by having it syndicated via its syndication unit, Buena Vista Television, with a 2.5/3.5 syndicator/station ad split. While this was a concept that worked well with live-action TV reruns, it had only ever been used with inexpensive cartoon series in the past that either recycled theatrical shorts from decades past or only featured limited, low-budget animation, and thus had never been attempted with a high quality animated series, with the heavy investment considered a risky move.
List of King Leonardo and his Short Subjects episodes
The following cartoons originally aired on "King Leonardo And His Short Subjects":The following cartoons were first aired during the 1963–1964 season on "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales", and are syndicated as part of "Dudley Do-Right and Friends". The "Dudley Do Right And Friends" syndicated episode number follows each title in parentheses."Tooter Turtle" cartoons were repeated on "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales", replacing "The Hunter" at the start of the 1964–1965 season. "Tooter Turtle" later resurfaced on "The Dudley Do-Right Show", which aired Sunday mornings on ABC-TV from April 27, 1969 to September 6, 1970 ("Tooter" does not appear in the syndicated "Dudley Do Right And Friends"). The cartoons are also part of the current U.S. syndicated versions of "King Leonardo And His Short Subjects" and "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales". The number following each cartoon title refers to the syndicated "Tennessee Tuxedo" episode in which that cartoon appears.The following cartoons originally aired on "King Leonardo And His Short Subjects":The following cartoons were first aired during the 1963–1964 season on "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales", and are syndicated as part of "Dudley Do-Right and Friends". The "Dudley Do-Right and Friends" syndicated episode number follows each title in parentheses. ("The Hunter" was featured as a segment on "Tennessee Tuxedo" during the 1963–1964 season. Repeats of "Tooter Turtle" replaced "The Hunter" on "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales" when "The Hunter" moved to "The Underdog Show" in 1964. "Tooter Turtle" and "The Hunter" were also featured on "The Dudley Do-Right Show" on ABC-TV between 1968 and 1970. "The King and Odie" appears in the syndicated "Dudley Do-Right and Friends", but was not part of "The Dudley Do-Right Show".)