The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda

1990 animated television series For the 1947 feature film, see The Adventures of Don Coyote (film).

The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda

Genre	Adventure Comedy
Written by	Cliff Roberts Sam Graham Gary Greenfield Chris Hubbell
Directed by	Robert Alvarez Don Lusk Jay Sarbry Paul Sommer Carl Urbano
Voices of	Frank Welker Don Messick Brad Garrett
Narrated by	Héctor Elizondo (Intro)
Composers	Clark Gassman Michael Tavera
Country of origin	United States Italy
Original languages	English Italian
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera Paul Sabella
Producer	Kay Wright
Editor	Gil Iverson
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Hanna-Barbera Productions RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana
Original release
Network	Syndicated (United States) RAIUNO (Italy)
Release	September 16, 1990 (1990-09-16) – December 8, 1991 (1991-12-08)

The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda is a 1990 animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera with the Italian public service broadcaster RAI. The series is loosely based on the characters Don Quixote and Sancho Panza from the 17th century novel by Cervantes.

Plot

Don Coyote (voiced by Frank Welker) is a swordsman who travels the land in search of adventure, with the help of his noble horse Rosinante (voiced by Brad Garrett), Sancho Panda (voiced by Don Messick) and his cynical donkey, Dapple (voiced by Don Messick). These crusaders of chivalry ride the countryside fighting for truth, justice, and beauty. Their attempts to do so are complicated by Don Coyote's state of mental unbalance and constantly mistaking everyday objects for horrific monsters. Coyote is always successful, for accidental reasons.

Broadcast

It was first aired in 1989 in Europe, and then in the United States in 1990 as part of the weekend/weekday morning programming block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.

Episodes

Season 1: 1990

Nº	Ep	Title	Written by:	US air date
1	1	"Pity the Poor Pirate"	Sam Graham, Chris Hubbell	September 16, 1990 (1990-09-16)
Don runs into the pirate captain Jack Boutique and incessantly chases him due to mistaking Jack for a damsel in distress.
2	2	"Not a Ghost of a Chance"	Gary Greenfield	September 23, 1990 (1990-09-23)
Don and Sancho enter a ghost town where the smuggler Dusty tries effortlessly to drive Don away so he can get his gold stash.
3	3	"The Horse Who Would Be King"	Cliff Roberts	September 30, 1990 (1990-09-30)
4	4	"Veni Vidi Viking"	Cliff Roberts	October 7, 1990 (1990-10-07)
Jacques Boutique disguises himself as a maiden in distress in order to capture a ship. Don Coyote mistakes him for a real lady whom he must rescue. His chivalrous acts cause Jacques to go insane.
5	5	"Don Coyote Meets Robin Hood"	Cliff Roberts	October 14, 1990 (1990-10-14)
Don Coyote meets Robin Hood and does his duty as a knight by arresting him as a robber. After he finds out the local authorities like Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham are corrupt from Maid Marian, Don must rescue Robin as well as different members of the Merry Men.
6	6	"Rosinante by a Nose"	Eric Alter	October 21, 1990 (1990-10-21)
Rosinate is abducted by a group of cavemen who want to fatten him up for a sacrifice. Don Coyote and Sancho arrive just in time to rescue him from a horse-eating tyrannosaurus.
7	7	"The Reluctant Brides"	Gary Greenfield	October 28, 1990 (1990-10-28)
Don Coyote angers a troupe of actors when he keeps disrupting rehearsals to "save" the far maiden actress, but the leading man and stunt man are really thieves and only Rosinate and Dapple know the truth. With their help, Don Coyote blunders his way to the rescue.
8	8	"Surely You Joust"	Chris Hubbell, Sam Graham	November 4, 1990 (1990-11-04)
After finding out that Robin Hood and his band of merry Men steal, Don Coyote turns them over to the Sheriff of Nottingham. He later rescues them when he discovers that they have an important role to play in the wedding of Maid Marion.
9	9	"Double Don"	Cliff Roberts	November 11, 1990 (1990-11-11)
A thief intending to steal the royal treasury poses as Don in order to get the real Don framed.
10	10	"Don Coyote & the Flying Gargoyle"	Cliff Roberts	November 18, 1990 (1990-11-18)
11	11	"Don Coyote and the Masked Avenger"	Sam Graham, Chris Hubbell	November 25, 1990 (1990-11-25)
12	12	"Shrink, Shrank, Shrunk"	Fred Kron	December 2, 1990 (1990-12-02)
An evil wizard plots to use Don and Sancho for his shrinking experiments. The duo later meet a princess and discover the wizard has threatened to shrink her whole kingdom's population if she does not marry him.
13	13	"Who's Got the Genie"	Gary Greenfield	December 9, 1990 (1990-12-09)

Season 2: 1991

Nº	Ep	Title	Written by:	US air date
14	1	"Sancho's Island"	Gary Greenfield	September 15, 1991 (1991-09-15)
Sancho gets his own private island.
15	2	"Vincente the Inventor"	Cliff Roberts	September 22, 1991 (1991-09-22)
Vincente, an inventor hoping to become royal inventor, has problems preventing Don from using some of his gadgets.
16	3	"Sir Sancho the Nearly Knight"	Gary Greenfield	September 29, 1991 (1991-09-29)
17	4	"Don't Monkey with the Baby"	Barry Blitzer	October 6, 1991 (1991-10-06)
18	5	"Don Coyote & the Contessa"	Chris Hubbell, Sam Graham	October 13, 1991 (1991-10-13)
The Contessa elopes with her boyfriend San Diego to escape her father, but gets kidnapped by a bandit named El Diablo. Don, however, keeps mistakenly believing Diego is El Diablo.
19	6	"Don Coyote & the Deep Sea"	Chris Hubbell, Sam Graham	October 20, 1991 (1991-10-20)
20	7	"A Knight in Arabia"	Fred Kron	October 27, 1991 (1991-10-27)
21	8	"Goodbye Rosinante"	Cliff Roberts	November 1991 (1991-11)
22	9	"Don Coyote's Fire-Breathing Friend"	Cliff Roberts	November 10, 1991 (1991-11-10)
A dragon forced to perform as a giant money-making carnival game escapes from Grabbo and his henchman (those who captured him), and Don ends up befriending him and escorting him back to his home while having to deal with the two greedy robbers.
23	10	"The Haunted Inheritance"	Chris Hubbell, Sam Graham	November 17, 1991 (1991-11-17)
24	11	"Don Coyote & the Feudin' Families"	Cliff Roberts	November 24, 1991 (1991-11-24)
25	12	"Don Coyote & the Christmas Bell"	Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson	December 1, 1991 (1991-12-01)
26	13	"Don Coyote & the Secret Weapon"	Cliff Roberts, Gary Greenfield	December 8, 1991 (1991-12-08)

References

Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 159. ISBN 978-1538103739.
Erickson, Hal (2005). Television cartoon shows: an illustrated encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003. McFarland & Co. p. 277. ISBN 07864-2255-6.
Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 90. ISBN 9781476672939.

External links

The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda at IMDb

v t e The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
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Distributors	Taft Broadcasting Turner Program Services (1991–1994) Worldvision Enterprises (1985–1991) Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Related topics	List of animated television series created for syndication Sunday morning cartoon The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (ride) Fred Flintstone and Friends Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure USA Cartoon Express

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