Around the World in 80 Days is an animated television series that lasted one season of sixteen episodes, broadcast during the 1972–1973 season by NBC. It was the first Australian-produced cartoon to be shown on American network television. Leif Gram directed all sixteen episodes, and the stories were loosely adapted by Chester "Chet" Stover from the novel by Jules Verne.
Plot[]
More comedic in tone than Verne's novel, the motives of Phileas Fogg (Alistair Duncan) differed somewhat from those of his literary forerunner.
Fogg was passionately in love with Belinda Maze (Janet Waldo), whose uncle, Lord Maze (Owen Weingott), sternly disapproved of the commoner Fogg marrying his niece. Fogg proposed a wager: if he could travel around the world in eighty days, then Lord Maze would give him Belinda's hand in marriage; if Fogg failed, he would abandon her. The two men also made a side bet of ₤20,000.
Fogg was accompanied by his manservant, Jean Passepartout (Ross Higgins), and Passepartout's pet monkey, Toto. They employed all the methods of transportation available in the late 19th Century–balloons, trains, elephants, and steam ships–in the course of their journey. Fogg and Passepartout dispensed geographical knowledge to the audience at each of their stops.
Lord Maze hires a saboteur, Mr. Fix (Max Osbiston), to interfere with Fogg and Passepartout's journey. Unlike his counterpart in Verne's novel, Fix was not a Scotland Yard detective attempting to arrest Fogg on suspicion of bank robbery.
Fogg managed to complete his journey by the end of the programme's single-season run, winning Belinda's hand with little time to spare.
TV Song Intro[]
Sound Effects Used[]
- H-B CARTOON - CARTOON FIGHT COLLECTION, CRASH
- H-B FALL, CARTOON - HOYT'S LONG FALL 01
- H-B HIT, CARTOON - SMALL BONK 01
- H-B POP, CARTOON - SHORT CORK SQUEAK AND POP
- H-B SPIN, CARTOON - WACKY SPIN WITH DRUM
- Hollywoodedge, Boing Box Bing CRT2010806 (High Pitched, heard once in London episode)
- RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 08
- RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 09
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - BIG, LONG BOING
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - BOINK AND WIGGLE
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - GONG BOING
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S BOING (Heard once in "Don't Jump to Conclusions.")
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S LONG RISE
- Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - BOINK 01 (Heard once in "Keep Our World Neat.")
- Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - TIMP DOINK (Heard once in "Keep Our World Neat.")
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - DIVE AND SQUISH INTO TIGHT PLACE, RUN
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - FAST HITS, FIGHT
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - FRED AND BARNEY FIGHT
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - FRED AND BARNEY RUCKUS, FIGHT
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - FRED AND WILMA FIGHT
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - FRED'S CRAZY FAINT
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - LONG FIGHT COLLECTION
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, TWANG - WOODEN TWANG
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON - VARIOUS HITS AND SCRAPES
- Sound Ideas, COMEDY - MONTAGE OF VARIOUS COMEDY EFFECTS 01 (High Pitched, heard once in "Don't Jump to Conclusions.")
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - BIG METAL CRASH
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - CRAZY BASS DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION, 02
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - KEN'S BASS, DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - SOLID BASS, DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION 01
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - TONY'S BASS, DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION
- Sound Ideas, FALL, CARTOON - TRIP AND FALL 01
- Sound Ideas, HEAD SHAKE, CARTOON - XYLO HEAD SHAKE
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG HEAD BONK (Heard once in "Don't Jump to Conclusions.")
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG HEAD HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG SMASH AGAINST WALL
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG SWING AND HEAVY HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BRAKE DRUM AND BULB HORN HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT BONK
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT PEEONG 01
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT PEEONG 02
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - HEAVY TIMP RISE
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - KABONG
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - LID ON MANHOLE HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - METAL PAN ON HEAD
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - SMASH AGAINST WALL
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - SOLID TIMP RISE
- Sound Ideas, HOP, CARTOON - DOUG'S FUNNY HOP, SHORT
- Sound Ideas, PLUCK, CARTOON - VAROOP (Heard once in "Keep Our World Neat.")
- Sound Ideas, POP, CARTOON - CORK SQUEAK AND POP
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 01 (Heard once in "Keep Our World Neat.")
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 02
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 07
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SHOT AND WHINE
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SLICK RICCO 01 (Heard once in "Keep Our World Neat.")
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SLICK RICCO 02 (Heard once in "Keep Our World Neat.")
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - FAST RUN, LONG
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - TEMPLE BLOCK RIOT, LONG
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - WIND WHISTLE SCAT
- Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - BIG LONG CAR SKID,
- Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - BROKEN SKID
- Sound Ideas, SQUEAK, CARTOON - LITTLE WHISTLE UP
- Sound Ideas, SQUEAK, CARTOON - LITTLE ZABORK
- Sound Ideas, SQUISH, CARTOON - LITTLE SQUISH
- Sound Ideas, SWISH, CARTOON - FAST TWIRLING SWISH, LONG
- Sound Ideas, TAKE, CARTOON - FUNNY RUN UP TAKE
- Sound Ideas, THUD, CARTOON - DULL THUDS, MEDIUM SLOW, LONG, RUN
- Sound Ideas, TWANG, CARTOON - FAST TWANGS, SHORT
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - BIG WHISTLE ZING OUT (Heard once in "Keep Our World Neat.")
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - SHARP ZIP
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - TAKE ZIP
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP IN (Heard once in "Don't Jump to Conclusions" and "Keep Our World Neat.")
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP OUT, HIGH
- Tod Dockstader "Boi-oi-oi-oing" Sound (Normal & High Pitched)