Talespin Hindi Intro

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The series was largely developed by writers Jymn Magon and Mark Zaslove, who were also the supervising producers on the series as well as story editors. There were four production teams, each one headed by a producer/director: Robert Taylor, Larry Latham, Jamie Mitchell, and Ed Ghertner.[5]

The series was animated by Walt Disney Animation (Japan) Inc., Hanho Heung-Up Co., Ltd., Jade Animation, Tama Productions, Walt Disney Animation (France) S.A., Sunwoo Entertainment, and Wang Film Productions.[10]

After a preview of TaleSpin aired on The Disney Channel from May 5 to July 15, 1990,[11][12] the series began its syndicated run in September of the same year. The original concept was embodied in the pilot episode and introductory television movie Plunder & Lightning which was the sole nominee for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming More Than One Hour) in 1991.[13][14][15][16] After its premiere on September 7, 1990,[17] Plunder & Lightning was re-edited into four half-hour episodes for reruns. The show was often seen either on its own as a half-hour show, or as part of the two-hour syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon. TaleSpin ended on its 65th episode which aired on August 8, 1991, but reruns continued to be shown on The Disney Afternoon until September 1994. On October 2, 1995, TaleSpin began reruns on The Disney Channel as part of a two-hour programming block called "Block Party" which aired on weekdays in the late-afternoon/early-evening and which also included Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.[18] Later, the show was aired on Toon Disney, where it was first aired from April 1998 until January 2006 (with a hiatus between 2001 and 2002) and later from January 2007 until May 2008. Throughout its broadcast history, the series has been subjected to numerous edits.[19]

TaleSpin is set in the fictional city of Cape Suzette (a pun on the dish Crpe Suzette). The city lies on an unnamed island, in an unspecified body of water, on a large harbor or bay enclosed by a high cliff wall. A single cleft in the wall is the harbor's only means of access. The cleft is guarded by anti-aircraft artillery, preventing flying rabble-rousers or air pirates from entering the city. The characters in the world of TaleSpin are anthropomorphic animals, though normal wild and domestic animals exist as well. The time frame of the series is never specifically addressed, but the helicopter, television, and jet engine are experimental devices. In the episode "Bygones", Baloo comments that "The Great War ended 20 years ago",[20] thus suggesting that the series takes place around 1938. Radio is the primary mass medium and the episode "The Incredible Shrinking Molly" briefly alludes to the characters having never heard of television.[21]

The series centers on the adventures of bush pilot, Baloo the bear, whose air cargo freight business "Baloo's Air Service" is taken up by Rebecca Cunningham who has a young daughter named Molly. Upon his default on delinquent bills with the bank and his perceived irresponsibility in running a business by Rebecca, she takes over the business and renames it "Higher for Hire", making her Baloo's boss. An orphan boy and former air pirate, the ambitious grizzly bear Kit Cloudkicker, attaches to Baloo and becomes his navigator. He sometimes calls Baloo "Papa Bear". Together, they are the crew of Higher for Hire's only aircraft, a 20-year-old modified Conwing L-16 (a fictitious twin-boom cargo plane using elements from the Fairchild C-82 transport, Grumman G-21 Goose amphibian, and a Consolidated PBY-3) named the Sea Duck.[original research?] The series follows the ups and downs of Higher for Hire and its staff, sometimes in the vein of old action-adventure film serials of the 1930s and 1940s, like the Tailspin Tommy films, and contemporary variations, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark.[original research?]

Their adventures often involve encounters with a gang of air pirates led by Don Karnage, as well as with representatives of Thembria, inhabited by anthropomorphic boars), or other, often even stranger obstacles. There is no equivalent of the Nazis in the series, although one story in Disney Adventures Magazine, "The Dogs of War!", had the heroes encounter members of the "Houn" nationality, a menacing militaristic nationality of dogs from "Hounsland" who wear uniforms that are based on German ones and who speak in a mock-German accent.[22]

The relationship between Baloo and Rebecca owes something to the screwball comedy films of the Great Depression. More precisely, according to Jymn Magon (co-creator of the series), the two characters were fashioned after Sam Malone and Rebecca Howe from the then-popular sitcom Cheers.[23]

TaleSpin: Volume 3 received a wide retail DVD release on January 13, 2015,[30][31] and has been seen as a Wal-Mart Exclusive in Canada since October 12, 2014.[32] It was also available in Southeast Asia and in the United States since October 14, 2014.[33]

In Germany, the series of 3-disc sets, starting with Collection 1, was released on December 5, 2012, in Region 2, PAL format. The sets contain the episodes in the same order as the US releases, as well as a Fastplay feature and 6 language tracks: English, Danish, German, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish, but no subtitles have been added. the first collection has only 17 episodes. A second collection, containing 16 episodes, was released on March 7, 2013. A third collection, containing 17 episodes, was released on May 29 of the same year.

A few episodes have been removed from the original list. The 1st collection does not include "From Here To Machinery" and "Vowel Play". The 2nd set excludes "A Touch of Glass", while the 3rd set misses out "Jumping the Guns". There is no confirmation on whether these episodes will be released, along with the final 11 episodes of the series.

The United Kingdom had only two releases, each containing 3 discs per set, the sets do skip over episodes that were present on the North American sets. The first collection came out on February 11, 2013 and the second collection was released on May 20 of the same year.

The sets from Germany and the United Kingdom have also been released in Australia. The first collection came out on August 17, 2012. The second collection was released on March 15, 2013, followed by the third on October 11 of the same year.

In India, TaleSpin was dubbed in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu for TV broadcast in the 90s along with DuckTales. In 2012, 63 Hindi dubbed episodes out of the total 65 episodes were released by Disney India on 21 DVD volumes in PAL format.[34] These discs support DVD Region 2, Region 4 and Region 5, but due to limited number of copies, they quickly went out of stock. Each DVD contained only 3 episodes.

Although issue #8 of the monthly comic series never made it to print, the end of issue #7 included a preview for it: "Spies in Cape Suzette?! There are some mighty mysterious folk sniffing around Shere Khan Industries. When Special Agent Booker shows up to handle the problem he finds that battling foreign agents is easier than dealing with Baloo as an assistant in... THE SPY WHO BUGGED ME!"

Three different TaleSpin video games were produced. One game was a scrolling shooting game published by Capcom for the NES and Game Boy. The other two were platform games; one developed by Sega for the Genesis and Game Gear, and the other by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16.[42] Rebecca, Kit, Baloo, Don Karnage and Shere Khan from Talespin also appeared on cards in the 1993 puzzle game Mickey's Memory Challenge, released for Amiga and MS-DOS compatible operating systems, developed by Infogrames.

A number of aircraft in the game appear to be inspired by those in the original show. Players start with the "Nimble" biplane seaplane fighter, and progress to more advanced aircraft by shooting down or getting "assists" on shooting down enemy aircraft, until reaching the mighty "Sly Duck" seaplane (which closely resembles the Sea Duck from the show). The game also includes a "Bear" pilot icon resembling Baloo and a "Fox" pilot icon. Every aircraft in the event besides the "Nimble" is from TaleSpin or heavily based on one seen in the show.

Disney has beenno stranger to editing shows out (The animated film Alice inWonderland on CBC Canada comes to mind.); however, no DisneyTelevision Animation show outside of Gargoyles has ever been editedas servely as TaleSpin has. I'm producing a list of edits from theshow and using this as a message to Disney that this is simply wrong.So far; this is just a partial list. If anyone has any additionaledits from the TaleSpin (not shown here) ; E-Mail me at:gwe...@eastlink.caAnd if youhave any comments about the TaleSpin editing; don't be afraid toe-mail me at the same e-mail address above.I don't list stuff that is considered forbidden that is notedited for fear that post-production will edit it out in the end. (Amoot point now since the DVD sets are second run syndication.)

Editor's Note: All episodes have been restored uncut for theDVD release. Twenty-four of those episodes were known to be edited byToon Disney. It should be noted that the DVD release of Plunder andLightning uses the 1990 Syndication version and not the 1995 DisneyChannel version. Same thing for the episodes themselves. The *indicates that there might be additional edits from episodes now thatDisney has decided to allow the content in their DVD releases. The **indicates that the skipped episode Flying Dupes is now on theTaleSpin Volume 3 DVD set. That only applies to televisionbroadcasts.

- Just afterSeptember, 2001; all episodes of TaleSpin which ran on Toon Disney atthe time were removed from boardcast until September 2002. There havebeen two theories on this; the first one was that a lawsuit wasbrought by the estate of Louis Prima to prevent Jim Cummings fromusing Louis Prima's type voice in future Disney production and tocollect royalities unpaid from Disney is series that used the Louievoice. The lawsuit was settled with the House of Mouse changing KingLouie to King Larry and King Louie being removed from the Jungle Book2 movie. However; TaleSpin's Louie was unaltered even to this day;which means that Disney has agreed to pay royalities on futureappearances on the character if the character appeared in olderproductions such as TaleSpin. Jungle Cubs is unaffected becauseLouie's voice is completely different in mannerisms. The secondtheory is the one that is the most accepted one is that the show waspulled because of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. Itdoes make some sense because the Air Pirates in TaleSpin were knownfor terrorism and hijacking cargo planes. Disney probably did it toprevent a huge "lack of empathy for the audience; most so in ahigh population market like New York City." backlash that wouldhave been spawned as a result of doing nothing. It also doesn't helpthat Time Waits For No Bear, Baloo Thunder, Flight SchoolConfidential and the fourth part of Plunder and Lightning featuredvarious characters crashing helicopters and planes into buildings.However; more than a 1/3 of the episodes had no terrorism themes inthem which made the move to pull the show completely seem unjustifedoverall. Thankfully the show returned to air a year later andapparently; suffered some small snips and speeding up tape forcommerical time. It should be noted that Louie is still voiced by JimCummings in the DVD release of TaleSpin along with DisneyChannel/Toon Disney versions when the show returned to broadcast from2002; thus indicating that 9/11 may have been the original reason andnot the lawsuit.

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