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Saturday Supercade
Genre	Anthology Comedy
Written by	Buzz Dixon Cliff Ruby David Schwartz David Villaire Don Heckman Duane Poole Elana Lesser Evelyn Gabai Gary Greenfield Gordon Kent Jack Enyart Jack Hanrahan James Diamond Kayte Kuch Maggie Smith Mark Jones Matt Uitz Mel Gilden Michael Brown Michael Maurer Paul Dini Richard Merwin Richard Murphy Rowby Goren Scott Ben-Yashar Sheryl Scarborough Ted Pedersen Tom Dagenais Tom Swale Tony Benedict
Directed by	Charles A. Nichols John Kimball Walt Kubiak Bill Reed Russ Moody
Voices of	Soupy Sales Dick Beals Billy Bowles Bart Braverman Arthur Burghardt Nancy Cartwright Peter Cullen Ted Field Sr. Pat Fraley Marvin Kaplan Robbie Lee Sparky Marcus Kenneth Mars Mea Martineau Julie McWhirter David Mendenhall Noelle North Jim Piper Peter Renaday Robert Ridgely Bob Sarlatte Judy Strangis B.J. Ward Frank Welker
Composers	Haim Saban Shuki Levy Dean Elliott
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	123 (25 missing, 5 incomplete)
Production
Executive producers	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Running time	32–43 minutes (10–13-minute segments)
Production company	Ruby-Spears Enterprises
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 17, 1983 (1983-09-17) – December 1, 1984 (1984-12-01)

Saturday Supercade is an Americananimated television series produced forSaturday mornings byRuby-Spears Productions. It ran for two seasons onCBS.^[1]

The show is ananthology series consisting of four 11-minute segments based on variousvideo games, primarily from thegolden age of arcade video games.^[2] In the first season, these segments includedFrogger,Donkey Kong, andDonkey Kong Jr., with the fourth segment rotating weekly betweenPitfall! andQ*bert. In the second season, the lineup of segments was revised to featureQ*bert,Donkey Kong, and new additionsKangaroo andSpace Ace.

Frogger (voiced byBob Sarlatte) is an acereporter of the swamp who works atThe Swamp Gazette. He and his friends Shellshock "Shelly"Turtle (voiced byMarvin Kaplan) and FannyFrog (voiced byB.J. Ward) go out in search of crazy stories (sometimes about human behavior) to publish in the newspaper. Frogger also has to deal with his gruff boss andeditor-in-chief Tex Toadwalker (voiced byTed Field Sr.). As in the game, he often has an encounter with analligator or gets flattened by a passing car. Unlike the game, Shelly revives Frogger using an ordinary air pump.

Donkey Kong (voiced bySoupy Sales) has escaped from the circus and is on the loose, withMario (voiced byPeter Cullen) andPauline (voiced byJudy Strangis) are chasing the ape. Similar to the original game, Donkey Kong will frequently grab Pauline and Mario has to save her. Plots typically center around the trio encountering crime with the villains conning the slow-witted Donkey Kong into doing their work and Mario and Pauline exposing the truth. After Mario and Pauline reveal the truth to Donkey Kong, the three of them team up to stop the antagonists' plans followed by Donkey Kong evading Mario and Pauline again.

Pitfall Harry (voiced byRobert Ridgely), his niece Rhonda (voiced by Noelle North), and their cowardly pet Quickclaw theMountain Lion (voiced byKenneth Mars) explore jungles for hidden treasures, having many different adventures along the way. Quickclaw and Rhonda later appeared inPitfall II: Lost Caverns andSuper Pitfall.

In a 1950s-inspired world set in the town of Q*Berg, a teenage fur-covered creature namedQ*bert (voiced by Billy Bowles), his girlfriend Q*Tee (voiced by Robbie Lee), his brother Q*Bit (voiced byDick Beals), and his friends Q*Ball (voiced byFrank Welker), Q*Val (voiced by Robbie Lee), and Q*Mongus (voiced by Frank Welker) must deal with the resident bullies Coily, Ugg and Wrongway (all three voiced by Frank Welker), and Coily's girlfriend Viper (voiced byJulie McWhirter). As with thevideo game, the segment features "block-hopping" scenes, "swearing" bubbles, and occasional flying discs from the original game. New to the cartoon was Q*bert's use of "slippy-doos", a black ball projectile which he loaded and fired through his nose, producing an oil slick wherever the balls splattered. Slick and Sam (both voiced by Frank Welker) are also featured.

Donkey Kong Jr. (voiced byFrank Welker) is searching for his fatherDonkey Kong, who has run away from a circus whereMario is its ringmaster. He befriends agreaser nicknamed "Bones" (voiced byBart Braverman), who has a motorcycle and offers to help Junior by finding his dad with him. Donkey Kong Jr.'s catchphrase is "Monkey muscle!", which he tells to himself and Bones to inspire self-confidence. Bones often serves as the voice of reason when Donkey Kong Jr. bites off more than he can chew.

JoeyKangaroo (voiced byDavid Mendenhall), his mother"K.O." Katy Kangaroo (voiced by Mea Martineau), and SidneySquirrel (voiced byMarvin Kaplan) must stop the Monkeybiz Gang members Bingo (voiced byPat Fraley), Bango, Bongo, and Fred (all voiced by Frank Welker), four meddlesomemonkeys who are known from making trouble at the local zoo run by thezookeeper Mr. Friendly (voiced byArthur Burghardt). The Monkeybiz Gang would cause trouble by trying to escape from the zoo and Katy would have to help keep them in line.

Space Ace (voiced by Jim Piper) is the always smiling self-confident champion of the "Space Command", whereas when always "wimping out" to Dexter (voiced bySparky Marcus) after being hit by the Infanto-Ray, he becomes clumsy and weak. With officer Kimberly (voiced byNancy Cartwright), he works for Space Marshall Vaughn (voiced byPeter Renaday) to keep the peace in the universe. They fight the evil alien commander Borf (voiced byArthur Burghardt) and keep him from invading Earth. Ace and Kim try to keep his 'wimping' situation secret and pretend that Dexter is Kim's little brother to Vaughn.

Again, as withDonkey Kong, Ruby-Spears took artistic license; in the video game, Dexter had certain chances to revert to Ace, his full-grown self, whereas in the cartoon the Ace/Dexter phases seemed to happen on their own and often at inconvenient times for the hero.

In the late 1990s, reruns of the show aired late at night onCartoon Network. Segments have also been shown between programs onBoomerang.^{[citation needed]}

TheSpace Ace segments from the show occasionally appeared as filler in between shows onBoomerang andToonami.^{[citation needed]}

The series has become considered partiallylost in recent years due to a lack of rereleases and rebroadcasts. In 2010,Warner Archive announced via their Facebook page thatSaturday Supercade would be released through their made-on-demand DVD program, but some segments may be cut due to rights issues. As of 2025, no further information has been released.^[3]

In November 2015,Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releasedThe Best of Q*Bert on DVD in Region 1. The two-disc collection features 17 of the 19 episodes of the series. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively in the US via Amazon.com and their CreateSpace MOD program.^[4]

• Saturday Supercade atThe Big Cartoon DataBase
• Saturday Supercade atIMDb
• Saturday Supercade podcast at The Retroist

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