Plots typically centered on them encountering crime with the villains conning the slow-witted Donkey Kong into doing their work and Mario and Pauline exposing the truth. As with the original game, Donkey Kong will often grab Pauline and Mario has to save her. He is on the lam and Mario (voiced by Peter Cullen) and Pauline (voiced by Judy Strangis) are chasing the ape. "Hop-Along Frogger" (December 10, 1983) -ĭonkey Kong (voiced by Soupy Sales) has escaped from the circus."Here Today, Pawned Tomorrow" (December 3, 1983)."I Remember Mummy" (November 26, 1983)."Fake Me Out at the Ballgame" (November 19, 1983).
As in the game, he often has an encounter with an alligator or gets flattened by a passing car. Frogger also has to deal with his gruff boss and editor-in-chief Tex Toadwalker (voiced by Ted Field, Sr.). Ward) go out in search of crazy stories (sometimes about human behavior) to publish in the newspaper. He and his friends Shellshock "Shelly" Turtle (voiced by Marvin Kaplan) and Fanny Frog (voiced by B.J. Space Ace with Space Ace/Dexter (depending on his form), Kimberly, and Borf (from the Space Ace arcade game).įrogger (voiced by Bob Sarlatte) is an ace reporter of the swamp who works at The Swamp Gazette.Kangaroo with friends and the "Monkey Business Gang" (from the Kangaroo arcade game).segments were replaced by shorts featuring: Pitfall! and Q*bert rotated weekly while the other three were weekly.ĭuring the second season, Q*bert (now weekly) and Donkey Kong remained while the Frogger, Pitfall! and Donkey Kong Jr.
The cartoon was simply called "Pitfall!". Pitfall Harry with his pet mountain lion Quickclaw and his niece Rhonda (unlike the others which are arcade games, this segment is from the home console game Pitfall!).Q*bert with Coily, Ugg, Wrongway, Slick and Sam (from the Q*bert arcade game).Donkey Kong with Mario and Pauline (from the Donkey Kong arcade game).Tom also starred on stage in Fathers and Sons (Public Theatre NY and Los Angeles), Salt Lake City Skyline (Public Theatre NY), Say Goodnight Gracie (Off-Broadway) and Holiday (Los Angeles).Each episode is composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the golden age of arcade video games. He later produced theatre productions including a play called Period of Adjustment which ran at the Almeida Theatre in London, UK in 2006. The Warriors was the only movie that Tom appeared in but he did some stage acting until 1981 before he went on to become a photojournalist specialising in news and sport. He has appeared at Cafe La Mama, Actors Studio, the New York Shakespeare Festival and HB Playwrights Foundation as well as playing a continuing role in NBC-TV’s For Richer, For Poorer. Returning to New York, Tom intermittently worked as a Settlement House volunteer and taxi driver while studying acting and singing. After receiving a BA from Amherst College he hitch-hiked around the US and Europe and then worked on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Tom was born in Cleveland and raised in the suburbs of New York.
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