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Wake, Rattle, and Roll
Title card
Genre	Comedy
Created by	David Kirschner
Written by	Laren Bright Brady Connell Don Dougherty David Kirschner Ken Knox Linda Krause Earl Kress Kristina Luckey Bill Matheny David Schwartz Carl Swenson Marlowe Weisman
Directed by	Doug Rogers Steven J. Santos
Creative director	Rick Schneider-Calabash
Starring	R.J. Williams Avery Schreiber Ebonie Smith Terri Ivens
Voices of	Charlie Adler Greg Burson Tim Curry Dick Gautier Marvin Kaplan John Mariano Allan Melvin Don Messick Pat Musick Rob Paulsen Neil Ross Arnold Stang John Stephenson Shadoe Stevens Jean Vander Pyl Janet Waldo Frank Welker Paul Winchell Jonathan Winters Patric Zimmerman
Theme music composer	Joe Curiale
Composers	Joe Curiale (Fender Bender 500 segments) Udi Harpaz Bob Mithoff Michael Tavera (Monster Tails segments)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	50 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Shukri Ghalayini David Kirschner Ron Ziskin Cartoon segments: William Hanna Joseph Barbera Paul Sabella
Producers	Cosmo Anzilotti David Casci Jim Crum Jeffrey Hilton Jeffrey Scott Kelly Ward Kay Wright
Editor	Terry Moore
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Hanna-Barbera Productions Four Point Entertainment
Original release
Network	Syndication
Release	September 17, 1990 (1990-09-17) – January 18, 1991 (1991-01-18)
Related
Monster Tails Fender Bender 500

Wake, Rattle, and Roll (retitled Jump, Rattle, and Roll when it aired on The Disney Channel on weekday afternoons in 1991) is an American live-action/animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Four Point Entertainment that premiered in the fall of 1990. As the show's title suggests, Hanna-Barbera intended the show to air on its affiliated stations in a morning timeslot before school. The show's title was inspired by the song "Shake, Rattle and Roll". After its single season on the air in syndication, Wake, Rattle, and Roll moved exclusively to The Disney Channel under the title Jump, Rattle, and Roll, with the title adjustment due to its repeats not being confined to mornings.

Jump, Rattle, and Roll ran on The Disney Channel from October 7, 1991 to 1994, becoming the only Hanna-Barbera animated series ever to air on that network. It has also been screened on Network Ten in Australia, TV1 in Malaysia, Channel 2 in New Zealand, M-Net in South Africa, Channel 5 in Singapore and TV5 in the Philippines while the animated segments were broadcast on ITV in the UK as part of the short running Saturday morning children's programme TV Mayhem, becoming the first series to debut on ITV during TV Mayhem.

Plot

The series was about a boy named Sam Baxter (played by R. J. Williams) and his robot D.E.C.K.S. (voiced by Rob Paulsen; built from old audio/video equipment and a Sony U-Matic videotape head; the name was an acronym for Digital Electronic Cassette-Headed Kinetic System) and their adventures in the basement, which has a time machine that can bring back historical figures.

In some cases, Sam and D.E.C.K.S. occasionally have remote fights in which they each have a remote control and start pressing buttons changing each other from Hanna-Barbera stars to famous movie stars.

Basement tech

Sam's grandpa Dr. Lester T. Quirk (played by Avery Schreiber) is a brilliant inventor and is constantly supplying Sam and DECKS with sci-fi technology to add to their basement bedroom:

• People Processor – A teleporter used to send or retrieve people to and from anywhere in the world. Sometimes, it could even send people through time.
• Mondo-View – A supercomputer that was used for several reasons on the show. For example, Sam is able to talk to Grandpa Quirk anywhere in the world.
• Debbie Detector – A video monitor used by Sam and DECKS to communicate with Sam's older sister Debbie (played by Terri Ivens) which lessens the amount of time Debbie spends in the basement. It often makes an alarm sound when she approaches.

Cartoon segments

After a short live-action skit, D.E.C.K.S. would turn on the television screen on his torso and display an animated short. There are two new Hanna-Barbera series made exclusively for this program.

Monster Tails

Monster Tails is about a group of pets who live in a castle in Transylvania with their guardian Igor Jr. (voiced by Charlie Adler), the son of Igor (Iggy for short). Each of them had a similar personality to their masters who are in Hollywood making movies:

• Frankenmutt (voiced by Frank Welker) – The Frankenstein Monster's dog. He has incredible strength, organ-playing abilities, and the brain of a genius (literally).
• Elsa (voiced by Pat Musick) – The Bride of Frankenstein's dog. Elsa has the brain of a parrot and a crush on Frankenmutt.
• Catula (voiced by Charlie Adler) – Count Dracula's cat. Although Catula is arrogant, he is a master of magic and transformations (usually).
• Mumphrey (voiced by Frank Welker impersonating Woody Allen) – The Mummy's dog who is a constant insomniac.
• Dr. Veenie (voiced by Jonathan Winters) – Dr. Jekyll's dog who is a brilliant scientist. But whenever he sneezes, he transforms into the super-strong (but berserk) Mr. Snyde (who is like Dr. Jekyll's evil alter ego, Mr. Hyde).
• Angel (voiced by Pat Musick) – The Creature from the Black Lagoon's goldfish. Angel is a ghost because she was eaten by a shark and tends to shout at certain times.

Monster Tails was also shown in the U.K., on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast in 1993.

Episodes

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1. "Pet Styles of the Rich and Gruesome" – The pets are featured on a TV show called "Pet Styles of the Rich and Gruesome".
2. "Purple Brain" – When Catula steals Frankenmutt's brain, the organ is accidentally exposed to a purple liquid, causing it to grow to giant proportions and wrecking havoc in the castle.
3. "Elsa Dearest" – After ingesting a formula made by Mr. Snyde, Elsa becomes evil and obsessed with cleaning, annoying Catula, Frankenmutt, Iggy, and Dr. Veeny.
4. "Sleepwalk, Don't Run" – While trying to sleep, Mumfrey sleepwalks, getting him and his fellow monster friends into calamity.
5. "Journey to the Center of Iggy" – After coming down with an illness, Frankenmutt and Dr.Veenie shrink themselves and enter Iggy's body to find the source.
6. "To Leech His Own"- Catula tries to rid the castle of a leech that has been drinking up his tomato juice supply.
7. "The Moatside Bassanova" – A moat monster becomes obsessed with romancing Angel, who does not want anything to do with him.
8. "Mighty Iggy at the Bat" –
9. "Pet-refined Fortress" –
10. "Monster Olympics" –
11. "Driving Mr. Iggy" –
12. "Ma Igor" –
13. "Curse of the Mumphrey" –
14. "Mayhem" – The pets play a board game so forbidden that their masters forbade them to play. As they play the game, they soon find out it has a mind of its own.
15. "Mumphrey's the Word" –
16. "Garbage Mouth" –
17. "Tse-tse, Tse-tse, Goodbye" –
18. "Goodbye, Mr. Chump" –
19. "The Minus Touch" –
20. "Dr. Veeny's Beanie" –
21. "Night of the Living Food" –
22. "Mumphrey's Big Sleep" –
23. "The Flea" –
24. "Attack of the Monster Shadows" –
25. "Luck, Don't Leap" –
26. "The Counter Mental Divide" –
27. "Dog Date Afternoon" –
28. "That Darn Yarn" –
29. "New Corpses on the Slab" – Dr. Veenie, Frankenmutt, and Catula become a rock band called New Corpses on the Slab when Iggy was unable to get tickets for the Graveyard Gang's concert.
30. "Igor No More" –

Fender Bender 500

This is a spin-off of Wacky Races for the 1990s, in which classic Hanna-Barbera characters drive monster trucks made for racing. Each vehicle has a different theme, specific to its drivers; e.g., Yogi and Boo Boo's monster truck is a motorized giant picnic basket, while Winsome Witch's monster truck is a wheeled cauldron with a sentient skeleton named Axel on it. Game show announcer from The New Hollywood Squares and disc jockey Shadoe Stevens provided the voice of the race announcer. Since they were in the aforementioned series, Dick Dastardly and Muttley reappear in this segment, reprising their roles as cheaters with their own monster truck called the Dirty Truckster, which is basically their Mean Machine on a monster truck chassis. On a few occasions, they actually win a race, though there is always a catch that renders the win meaningless. Although technically not a series of its own, this is the fourth all-star sports show from Hanna-Barbera. This show also features Paul Winchell's final performance as Hanna-Barbera's long running antagonist, Dick Dastardly.

Axel had a cameo appearance in the Jellystone! episode "Face of the Town".

The competitors, listed by numeral order, as in their race numbers:

• Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear in the Jellystone Jammer (#1)
• Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss in the Half-Dog Half-Cat Half-Track (#2)
• Wally Gator and Magilla Gorilla in the Swamp Stoner (#3)
• Top Cat and Choo-Choo in the Alley Cat (#4)
• Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey in the Texas Twister (#5)
• Pixie and Dixie in the Cheddar Shredder (#6)
• Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the Lucky Trucky (#7)
• Winsome Witch and her cat Lucky in the Sonic Broom (#13)
• Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Dirty Truckster (#00)

Episodes

Filler segments

Due to the Disney Channel airing the program without any commercial breaks due to being a premium service at the time, an additional animated segment aired after the last live-action scene. These consisted of two shorts from the H-B archive: a "Dino and Cavemouse" segment from The Flintstone Comedy Show and an "Undercover Elephant" segment from CB Bears.

Cast

• R. J. Williams – Sam Baxter
• Rob Paulsen – D.E.C.K.S., Rewind (voice)
• Ebonie Smith – K.C.
• Terri Ivens – Debbie Baxter
• Avery Schreiber – Grandpa Lester T. Quirk
• Tim Lawrence – D.E.C.K.S. (lead puppeteer)
• Allen Coulter – D.E.C.K.S. (puppeteer)
• Marc L. Tyler – D.E.C.K.S. (puppeteer)
• Adrienne Barbeau – Mrs. Baxter (voice)

Guest cast

• Danny Lee Clark – Nitro
• Ami Dolenz – Herself
• Adam G. – Chief White Eagle
• Mark Hardrive – Computer Virus
• Gary Marks – Gustarve Eiffel
• Robert Munns – Julius Caesar
• Angil Nigam – Nutinkaumn
• Sinbad – Himself
• Charles Stransky – Private Eye
• Andrea Thompson – Decksella

Voice cast

Monster Tails:

• Charlie Adler – Igor Jr., Catula
• Tim Curry – Ronald Chump
• Richard Gautier – Malcolm Milkem
• Pat Musick – Elsa, Angel
• Frank Welker – Frankenmutt, Mumfrey
• Jonathan Winters – Dr. Veenie/Mr. Snyde, Harry Mutsnatcher

Fender Bender 500:

• Greg Burson – Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss
• Marvin Kaplan – Choo-Choo
• John Mariano – Wally Gator
• Allan Melvin – Magilla Gorilla
• Don Messick – Boo-Boo Bear, Pixie, Muttley, Lucky the Cat
• Neil Ross – Axel, Baba Looey
• Arnold Stang – Top Cat
• John Stephenson – Doggie Daddy
• Shadoe Stevens – Announcer
• Jean Vander Pyl – Winsome Witch
• Janet Waldo – Additional voices
• Paul Winchell – Dick Dastardly
• Patric Zimmerman – Augie Doggie, Dixie

See also

• List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
• List of Hanna-Barbera characters
• The Yogi Bear Show
• Top Cat
• The Quick Draw McGraw Show
• The Magilla Gorilla Show
• The Huckleberry Hound Show
• The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
• Wacky Races

References

1. Toonarific Cartoon Archive. "Wake, Rattle, & Roll @ Toonarific Cartoons". toonarific.com.
2. ^ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 9, no. 5, September/October 1991: pp. 20, 36, 45.
3. Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 894–895. ISBN 978-1476665993.
4. The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 12, no. 5, August/September 1994: pp. 24–25, 32.
5. The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 12, no. 6, October/November 1994: p. 36.

External links

• Wake, Rattle & Roll at IMDb
• Toonarific.com entries:
  • Fender Bender 500
  • Monster Tails
• The Big Cartoon Database – Wake, Rattle, and Roll

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Television shows	Wacky Races (1968) Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines The Perils of Penelope Pitstop Fender Bender 500 Wacky Races (2017) episodes
Video games	Wacky Races (1991) Wacky Races (2000) Wacky Races/Wacky Races: Starring Dastardly and Muttley Wacky Races: Mad Motors Wacky Races: Crash and Dash
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