Directing Animator / Contributor
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Aug 15, 2003, 1:25 PM
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Anyone heard of "Professor Beethoven"?
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I was originally going to post this in Mystery Cartoon, but since I can identify it by name, I figured it would be more accurate to post it here.
I realize the net is global; we have posters here from Canada, British Columbia, the UK and other places worldwide, so I was wondering if anyone here was familiar with a cartoon series called "The Adventures of Professor Beethoven". I saw it once on HBO as a kid, where they billed it as a "special", but I believe that it was actually a series from some other country. The reason I'm sure that this was a series and not a special is because the opening title sequence featured 3 characters who didn't appear in the story. That's usually a giveaway.
Anyway, from what I remember, the title character was an intelligent scholarly bee (you knew he was really smart because he wore a graduation cap!), who was sort of the prime mover of this forest society of animals: there were a pair of koalas named Ki-Ki and Kookie (not sure if I'm spelling that right), who were twin brother and sister, a neurotic dog named Marvin, who wore a hat and a scarf and kind of resembled Smedley from the Chilly Willy cartoons, an elephant named Snozz and a large tiger who spoke black jive named Big Cat. The 3 characters who did not appear in the story (but were curiously included in the opening animation) were a mother and son pair of kangaroos and a bespectacled owl.
Does anyone elese remember this show, or what country it originated from? It didn't seem to be from the US, and indeed no books on kids' TV that I've ever read mention it all. Thanks in advance.
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Newbie
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May 21, 2010, 4:38 AM
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Re: Anyone heard of "Professor Beethoven"?
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hey , nice to see that someone remembers something so limited in exposure . It was done in the States , and Produced by , and all the Characters were created by , Joseph Oriolo , creator of Casper and producer of Felix the cat for quite some time . The reason I know all this , is because the current owner of the characters and the project has opened the box and is bringing these wonderful characters back to life . Of course with my help . My name is Rich Crankshaw , I am providing a large amount of the voice work . Currently the project is in book form , ebook and we are slowly but surely making audio ebooks . Information about these characters can be found at www.cartoongems.com . The new owner is the Son of Joseph Oriolo's partner from the original project . When this originally aired it was intended to be a massive series . With many spin off shorts as Warner brothers and others did in the past . Shortly after the first episode aired on HBO , Joseph , sadly passed away . The Characters and the whole project was in the hands of Josephs Partner who packed it away in a box and eventually signed it all over to his son , James Rumpf II . Now it is alive and back on the hunt for funding so we can bring it back to animation .
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Apprentice
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Dec 9, 2010, 7:47 PM
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Re: Anyone heard of "Professor Beethoven"?
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Yes, I know that.
(This post was edited by krisAHQ on Dec 23, 2010, 11:04 AM)
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Member
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Dec 23, 2010, 8:00 AM
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Re: Anyone heard of "Professor Beethoven"?
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but I didnt hear about it... =(
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(This post was edited by krisAHQ on Dec 23, 2010, 11:05 AM)
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