Presley Carnovan – voiced by Bill Switzer: A 12-year-old boy who has the spirit of prince Rapses XII (an ancient pharaoh) who is based on Ramses.In addition to Scarab, the mummies often had to contend with gods and spirits from Egyptian myth summoned to the modern world, including Anubis, Set, Geb, Apep, Bast, Sekhmet, Bes, and many others, usually as part of one of Scarab's schemes that went out of his control.Ĭharacters Main Humans The mummies also have the power to make a horrifying face, usually used to scare away nosy bystanders. Once their strength is exhausted, they must rest in their sarcophagi to regain the ability. The mummies are able to call upon it for magical armor and powers to fight superhuman evildoers by shouting "With the strength of Ra!". Ja-Kal uses the spirit of a falcon, Rath uses the spirit of a snake, Armon uses the spirit of a ram, and Nefer-Tina uses the spirit of a cat. They use the power of Ra to transform into powerful guardians.Įach of the mummies is aligned with the power of an Egyptian god. Rapses' (Presley's) bodyguards, Ja-Kal, Rath, Armon, and Nefer-Tina, along with Rapses' cat, Kahti, awake from the dead to protect him from Scarab. Entombed alive for his crime, Scarab revives in the modern world and begins his search for Rapses' reincarnation, a San Francisco-dwelling boy named Presley Carnovan, to retrieve the spirit of Rapses so he can become immortal. In ancient Egypt, an evil sorcerer named Scarab kills the pharaoh's son, Prince Rapses, to become immortal. The show was part of a general trend of "mummymania" in 1990s pop culture. It originally aired for one season in 1997. Katmandu (voiced by Larry Kenney), Chow-Baby and her sister Meow-Baby (voiced by Maggie Jacobsen), his overweight sparring partner Katgut, and the aptly named Katatonic.Mummies Alive! is an animated series from DIC Productions L.P. When working at for McClaws's Detective Agency run by his boss Katie "Big Mama" McClaw (voiced by Gerrianne Raphael), Karate Kat is assisted by his friends/co-workers like inventor Dr. In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic cats, a private investigator cat (voiced by Bob McFadden) uses his karate to fight crime in his town which is usually in the form of gang leader Big Papa and his two lackeys named Boom-Boom Burmese (voiced by Larry Kenney) and Sumo Sai. Ron Taylor also provides the theme song vocals for this segment. Apart from Rankin-Bass regular Bob McFadden, this segment featured an African-American cast. They are also on good terms with a turtle named Snappy Sam (voiced by Ron Taylor) who runs the diner that Loretta works at. Hyde (voiced by Earl Hammond) who works as the camp's physician.Ī segment depicting the typical teen-aged hijinks of a gang of street-smart frogs named Big Max (voiced by Bob McFadden), Spider, Moose The Loose, "Honey Love" Loretta (voiced by Tanya Willoughby), and Dr. In addition, the camp director is assisted by the grandson of Dr. They are Count Dracula's son Dracky, Frankenstein's son Franky, The Wolf Man's son Wolfie, The Creature from the Black Lagoon's son Lagoon, The Mummy's son Mummo, the Invisible Man's son Blanko, Klutz (who may or may not be Godzilla's son), Jynx the Witch (voiced by Maggie Wheeler), and Merlin's son Melvin accompanied by Cawfield the talking crow (voiced by Earl Hammond). Camp Mini-Mon turns out to be run by an organ playing shadowy camp director (voiced by Peter Newman), and attended by monster kids who are offspring of usually famous monsters, a witch, and Merlin. The four segments offered were: The Mini-Monsters Ī segment where normal human twin siblings Sherman (voiced by Seth Green) and Melissa find themselves in for a surprise when they are sent to summer camp for one year. Two segments were shown on each broadcast where they each ran for about 10 minutes. This was the last TV series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures. The 90-minute series ran in first-run syndication during the 1987 season. The Comic Strip is an American animated series that features four rotating cartoon segments: The Mini-Monsters, Street Frogs, Karate Kat and TigerSharks. American TV series or program The Comic Strip
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