1993 in animation
Events in 1993 in animation.
Events
January
- January 1: The first episode of The Adventures of Blinky Bill is broadcast.[1]
- January 6: The first episode of The Animals of Farthing Wood is broadcast.[2]
- January 14: The Simpsons episode Marge vs. the Monorail is first broadcast, with Leonard Nimoy as special guest voice.[3]
- January 21: The Simpsons episode Selma's Choice is first broadcast.
February
- February 4: The Simpsons episode Brother from the Same Planet is first broadcast.
- February 11: The Simpsons episode I Love Lisa is first broadcast.
- February 16: Count Duckula airs its final episode.
- February 18: The Simpsons episode Duffless is first broadcast.
- February 28: The first episode of Bonkers, produced by the Walt Disney Studios, is broadcast.[4]
March
- March 8: The first episode of Beavis and Butt-Head as a series is broadcast and quickly becomes a cult series.[5]
- March 11: The Simpsons episode Last Exit to Springfield is first broadcast and features the special guest voice of Dr. Joyce Brothers.[6]
- March 16: The first episode of Albert the 5th Musketeer is broadcast.[7]
- March 29: 65th Academy Awards:
- Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase by Joan C. Gratz wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[8]
- A Whole New World from Aladdin by Tim Rice and Alan Menken wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song while the soundtrack from the same film wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score.[8]
April
- April 1: The Simpsons episode So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show is first broadcast. It is the first episode to feature clips from previous episodes.
- April 15: The Simpsons episode The Front is first broadcast.
- April 29: The Simpsons episode Whacking Day is first broadcast. It features Barry White as special guest voice and the debut of Superintendent Chalmers.[9]
May
- May 6: The Simpsons episode Marge in Chains is first broadcast and features the special guest voice of David Crosby.
- May 13: The Simpsons fourth season finale Krusty Gets Kancelled features the most celebrity guest voices the show has had up to that point in one episode, among them Johnny Carson, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, Barry White, Luke Perry and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.[10]
June
- June 18: The film Once Upon a Forest premiers, but flops at the box office.[11]
September
- September 5: The first episode of 2 Stupid Dogs is broadcast.[12]
- September 6: The first episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is broadcast
- September 13: The first episode of Animaniacs is broadcast.[13]
- September 18:
- The first episode of Biker Mice from Mars is broadcast.[14]
- The first episode of Rocko's Modern Life is broadcast.[15]
- September 23: The Thief and the Cobbler by Richard Williams is finally released after being in production for a record-breaking three decades.[16]
- September 30: In The Simpsons episode Homer's Barbershop Quartet, the first of the fifth season, former Beatle George Harrison and David Crosby are special guest voices.[17]
October
- October 7: The Simpsons episode Cape Feare is first broadcast.[18]
- October 10: A five-year-old boy, Austin Matthews, sets fire to his mother's mobile home in Moraine, Ohio, killing his two-year-old sister Jessica. The mother claims that her son got the idea from watching Beavis and Butt-head.[19] Although it is later revealed that the family didn't own cable television and was therefore unable to watch the show, the controversy leads to Beavis and Butt-head being rescheduled later in the evenings and omitting all references to fire.[20]
- October 21:
- During a U.S. Senate hearing, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Ernest Fritz Hollings, argues that TV broadcasters have to be pressured to curb violent or otherwise offensive shows, making direct reference to Beavis and Butt-head. However, he is ridiculed by everybody for mispronouncing the characters' names as Buffcoat and Beaver and admitting that he never even watched the show.[21]
- In The Simpsons episode Rosebud The Ramones are special guest voices.
- October 29: Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas is released.[22]
November
- November 24: Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells's We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is released.[23]
December
- December 17: Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit cartoon The Wrong Trousers is released.[24]
- December 21: The first episode of VeggieTales is broadcast.[25]
- December 22: Tex Avery's Magical Maestro is added to the National Film Registry.[26][27]
- December 25: The film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is first released.[28]
Specific date unknown
- Digital Domain is founded.
- Rita Street establishes the organisation Women in Animation.[29][30]
Films released
Television series debuts
| Date | Title | Channel | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 28 | Bonkers | The Disney Channel, CBS, Syndication | 1993–94 |
| March 8 | Beavis and Butt-Head | MTV | 1993–97; 2011 |
| June 23 | Family Dog | CBS | 1993 |
| September 1 | The Bots Master | Syndication | 1993–94 |
| September 5 | 2 Stupid Dogs | TBS, Syndication | 1993–95 |
| September 6 | Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog | Syndication | 1993–96 |
| September 11 | Droopy, Master Detective | Fox Kids | 1993 |
| SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron | TBS | 1993–95 | |
| The Pink Panther | Syndication | ||
| September 12 | Hurricanes | 1993–97 | |
| Double Dragon | 1993–94 | ||
| Madeline | The Family Channel, ABC, Disney Channel | 1993–01 | |
| September 13 | Animaniacs | Fox Kids | 1993–98 |
| September 18 | Biker Mice from Mars | Syndication | 1993–96 |
| Exosquad | 1993–94 | ||
| Cro | ABC | ||
| Sonic the Hedgehog | |||
| Tales from the Cryptkeeper | 1993–99 | ||
| Rocko's Modern Life | Nickelodeon | 1993–96 | |
| All-New Dennis the Menace | CBS | 1993 | |
| Cadillacs and Dinosaurs | 1993–94 | ||
| Marsupilami (1993) | 1993 | ||
| The New Adventures of Speed Racer | Syndication | ||
| October 31 | Problem Child | USA Network | 1993–94 |
| November 26 | The Moxy Show | Cartoon Network | 1993–00 |
| December 5 | Twinkle, the Dream Being | Syndication | 1993–94 |
| December 21 | VeggieTales | DVD, TBN | 1993–2015 |
Television series endings
| Date | Title | Channel | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23 | The Pirates of Dark Water | ABC, Syndication | 1991–93 | Cancelled |
| June 25 | The Legend of Prince Valiant | The Family Channel | ||
| June 28 | Stunt Dawgs | Syndication | 1992–93 | |
| June 29 | Saban's Gulliver's Travels | |||
| July 28 | Family Dog | CBS | 1993 | |
| November 6 | The Addams Family (1992) | ABC | 1992–93 | |
| November 22 | Conan the Adventurer (1992) | Syndication | ||
| Mr. Bogus | 1991–93 | |||
| December 4 | Tom & Jerry Kids | Fox Kids | 1990–93 | |
| Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa | ABC | 1992–92 | ||
| Droopy, Master Detective | Fox Kids | 1993 | ||
| December 11 | Marsupilami (1993) | CBS | 1993 | |
| All-New Dennis the Menace | ||||
| Unknown | Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire | Fox Kids | 1992–93 |
Births
April
- April 15: Madeleine Martin, American television actress/voice actress (Ice Age: The Meltdown)
Deaths
February
- February 7: Nic Broca, Belgian animator and comics artist (Ovide and the Gang, The Snorks), passes away at age 60.[31]
- February 9: Jacques Verbeek, Dutch animator and comics artist (made animated films with Karin Wiertz), passes away at age 46.[32]
- February 21: Harvey Kurtzman, American comics artist, writer, publisher and animation script writer (scripted Mad Monster Party? and animated shorts for Sesame Street), dies at age 68.[33]
March
- March 3: Bill Draut, American comics artist and animator (worked on G.I. Joe), dies at age 71.[34]
- March 10: Vladimir Suteev, Russian children's book novelist, animator and animated film director (China in Flames), dies at age 89.[35]
- March 14: Larz Bourne, American animation writer (Famous Studios, Gene Deitch, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Terrytoons), dies at age 77.[36][37]
April
- April 20: Charles Degotte, Belgian comics artist and animator (worked for Dupuis' animation studio), commits suicide at the age of 59.[38]
May
- May 3: Hermína Týrlová, Czech animator, screenwriter and film director (Vzpoura Hracek ("Revolt of the Toys")), dies at age 93.[39]
- Specific date unknown: Renaud Mader, aka Mad, French comics artist and animator (worked for Gaumont and the French department of the Walt Disney Animation), is found dead at age 26 in a hotel room.[40]
June
- June 25: Arturo Moreno, Spanish comics artist and animator (Garbancito de la Mancha, Alegres vacaciones), passes away at age 84.[41]
July
- July 4: Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Russian animator (Cheburashka), dies at age 72.[42]
- July 26: Marcellite Garner, American voice actress (voiced Minnie Mouse in several cartoons), dies at age 83.
August
- August 1: Claire Du Brey, American actress (model of the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella), dies at age 100.[43]
September
- September 9: David Tendlar, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Terrytoons, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 84.[44]
- September 10: Cal Howard, American animator, cartoon writer (Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Company, Fleischer Brothers, Ub Iwerks, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Screen Gems) and voice actor (voice of Gabby Goat in Get Rich Quick Porky, Prince David in Gulliver's Travels), dies at age 82.[45]
- September 30: Carlo Vinci, American comics artist and animator (Van Beuren Studios, Terrytoons, MGM, Walt Disney Company, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 87.[46]
October
- October 13: Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director (creator of Pingu), dies at age 56 from cancer.[47]
- October 16: Bonnie Poe, American voice actress (continued the voice of Betty Boop), dies at age 81.[48]
- October 25: Vincent Price, American actor (narrator of Vincent, voice of Professor Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective), dies at age 82.[49]
November
- November 15: Evelyn Venable, American actress (voice of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio), dies at age 80.[50]
December
- December 4: Frank Zappa, American rock artist and composer (voice of the Pope in Ren and Stimpy episode Powdered Toast Man, created background music for the first season of Duckman), dies at age 52 from cancer.[51]
- December 10: Roland Davies, British comics artist, animator, animation producer and painter (Roland Davies Films Ltd., animated cartoons based on Come On, Steve), dies at age 89.[52]
- December 13: Ken Anderson, American art director and writer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 84.[53]
- December 30: Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (co-writer of songs for Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and the theme song to The Bugs Bunny Show), dies at age 81.[54]
Specific date unknown
- Nguyễn Xuân Khoát, Vietnamese composer, pianist and animator, dies at age 92 or 93.[55]
See also
Sources
- ^ "The Adventures of Blinky Bill". October 5, 1995. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Animals of Farthing Wood". January 3, 1993. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Marge vs. the Monorail". January 14, 1993. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Bonkers". September 4, 1993. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Beavis and Butt-Head". March 8, 1993. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Last Exit to Springfield". March 11, 1993. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Albert the 5th Musketeer (TV Series 1994–1995) - IMDb". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ a b "The 65th Academy Awards (1993) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on November 9, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
- ^ "Whacking Day". April 29, 1993. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Krusty Gets Kancelled". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Once Upon a Forest". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "2 Stupid Dogs". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Animaniacs". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Biker Mice from Mars". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Rocko's Modern Life". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Thief and the Cobbler". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Homer's Barbershop Quartet". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Cape Feare". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Cartoon On MTV Blamed For Fire". The New York Times. The Associated Press. October 10, 1993. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
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- ^ "The Wrong Trousers". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "VeggieTales". Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
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- ^ "Hermína Týrlová | GREAT WOMEN ANIMATORS". greatwomenanimators.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
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Vincent Price, the suavely menacing star of countless low-budget but often stylish Gothic horror films, died at his home in Los Angeles on Monday. He was 82 years old and died of lung cancer, a personal assistant, Reggie Williams, said. ...
- ^ "Evelyn Venable". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- ^ "Frank Zappa". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- ^ "Roland Davies". lambiek.net. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
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- ^ http://tranquanghai.info/p631-nguyen-xuan-khoat-%281910-1994%29-tieu-su.html Archived 2012-11-17 at the Wayback Machine NGUYỄN XUÂN KHOÁT (1910-1994) tiểu sử
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb