King Kong Show

The King Kong Show (Japanese: キングコング・００１／７親指トム) is an American/Japanese anime series produced by Videocraft of the United States, and Toei Animation of Japan. It is the first anime series produced in Japan for an American company (not counting Rankin/Bass' previous Animagic stop motion productions, also animated in Japan). ABC ran the series in the US between September 10th, 1966, and August 31st, 1969.

This series is an animated adaptation of the famous movie monster King Kong with character designs by Jack Davis and Rod Willis. In this series, the giant ape befriends the Bond Family, with whom he goes on various adventures, saving the world from monsters, robots, aliens, mad scientists and other threats.

Episodes

 * 1. King Kong (Hour long Pilot Episode). In syndication the show was split into two parts and the episodes were titled A Friend in Need and The Key to the City.

The following episode list describes the show as originally aired with a 6-minute King Kong episode, followed by a 6-minute Tom of T.H.U.M.B. episode, followed by another 6 minute King Kong episode.


 * 2.  Under the Volcano/For the Last Time, Feller...I'm not Bait!/The Treasure Trap
 * 3.  The Horror of Mondo Island/Hey, that was a Close One World!/Dr. Who
 * 4.  Rocket Island/I was a 9 oz. Weakling Till One Day.../The African Bees
 * 5.  The Hunter/I was a Starling for the USA!/The Space Men
 * 6.  The Jinx of the Sphinx/Cool Nerves and... Steady Hands/The Greeneyed Monster
 * 7.  The Top of the World/All Guys from Outer Space are Creeps/The Golden Temple
 * 8.  The Electric Circle/Mechanical Granma/Mirror of Destruction
 * 9.  Tiger Tiger/The Day We Almost Had It/The Vise of Dr.Who
 * 10. King Kong's House/Tom Makes History/MechaniKong
 * 11. The Giant Sloths/Tom Scores Again/The Legend of Loch Ness
 * 12. Dr. Bone/Blow, Jack, Blow!/No Man's Snowman
 * 13. The Desert Pirates/Tom and the TV Pirates/Command Performance
 * 14. The Sea Surrounds Us/The Girl from M.A.D./Show Biz
 * 15. The Wizard of Overlord/Just One of those Nights/Perilous Porpoise
 * 16. The Trojan Horse/Runt of 1,000 Faces/The Man from K.O.N.G.
 * 17. Caribbean Cruise/Hello, Dollies!/Diver's Dilemma
 * 18. The Great Sun Spots/Pardner/Kong is Missing
 * 19. In the Land of the Giant Trees/Beans is Beans/Captain Kong
 * 20. Statue of Liberty Play/What Goes Up.../Pandora's Box
 * 21. The Thousand Year Knockout/Our Man, the Monster/Desert City
 * 22. Eagle Squadron/Never Trust a Clam/The Kong of Stone
 * 23. Murderer's Maze/Drop that Ocean, Feller/The Great Gold Strike
 * 24. It Wasn't There Again Today/Plug that Leak/The Mad Whale
 * 25. The King Kong Diamond/The Scooby/Anchors Away