Heathcliff Season 2 End Credits

[ma7799]

These credits were easier to read and Mel Blanc was rightfully singled out!

[vanessahudgens9989]

where in the freaking world are Jean Chalopin and Tetsuo Katayama? I guess they dropped out of the animation studio when Cookie Jar Entertainment took over the animation company with Mr. Heyward producing current shows like Liberty's Kids, Mary-Kate & Ashley in Action (alongside Robert Thorne and those cute, adorable Olsen Twins), Strawberry Shortcake (from the creators of Lady Lovelylocks), Sabrina TAS/Sabrina's Secret Life (alongside Paula Hart, Melissa Joan Hart's Mother) and Munmies Alive.

[Chaos2ThaWorld1]

i remember this show when i was a 90s kid well b4 that i remember watching it as an 80s baby

[glowingdemon]

what dic did before ruining anime before 4kids came alone and just completely

took a sh!t on things, ah the good ol' days when cartoons were on in the morning,

afternoon, and Saturday and they were on free over the air channels not expensive cable ones,you don't know what you got till it's gone.

[Akira625]

Interesting, Kazuya Tsurumaki worked as a layout artist during season two, he would go on to work for GAINAX, be an asst. director on Evangelion, and make his directorial debut on FLCL. Too bad he wasn't an animation director on this show, maybe the animation quality in this season's episodes wouldn't have been so crappy!

[CrimsonNineTail]

@Akira625 A lot of cartoons from the 80s were animated in Japan, Transformers, G.I. Joea nd even Inspector Gadget were a few of the ones along with Heathcliff I'm sure.

[Akira625]

@CrimsonNineTail Well, most of the 1st season of Heathcliff was animated by the Japanese, but the 2nd season doesn't seem to be. The quality is much worse than even a low-tier Japanese studio. I suspect they were animated by some no-name studio from either Mainland China or South Korea. Seems by the late 80's, the trend for American animation studios was to outsource their work out to Korea, I think it may have been getting more expensive to hire Japanese studios.

[CrimsonNineTail]

@Akira625 I see, well I guess changes were made when the 80s ended. And unfortunatly I don't have any episodes from the other seasons.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@Akira625 I see. No wonder why they had to do that.

The main reason behind this is that Tetsuo Katayama, the overseas animation director for DiC, left them in 1986 to go back to working at the studio where he came from- TMS.

DiC did not start having Korea, China or Taiwanese animation studios do the overseas work until about 1988.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@Akira625 I agree. I wish Japan did the overseas animation to cartoons again and permanently.

[kinmanyuen]

lol the basssynth is so eighties! Madonna used it alot in her early 80's

[nama0527]

audiovisual? i thought it should be audiovisuel?

[rycon246]

What was the name of the gray cat on roller skates ?

[jcp1977]

Wordsworth

[InvaderPet]

Wordsworth

[MrLogoman007]

@rycon246 Wordsworth, the cat who spoke in rhyme almost all of the time.

[CuteNekoHibiki]

@MrLogoman007 He'd get along well with Zecora on Equestria there.^_^

[ma7799]

In this version, Mel Blanc's recognition stands out from the rest of the voice actors! Rightfully so!

[ClassicTVMan81]

These credits are from the show's final season, 1986-87.

[jonwiley85]

I Remember That Show Heathcliff (1984 Revival) Back In 1988 At Age 4

[nuttygirl2001]

Poor quality, when there are such better versions on YouTube :(

[Mofoe2001]

I wish I had a bad ass cat like heathcliff, to bad theyre all pussies!

did you guys see what i did there? :P

[megamanj2004X]

And especially when DiC took over G.I. Joe from Sunbow (through Hasbro) and when they signed on to co-produce the last several years of "Alvin and the Chipmunks."

When DiC took over G.I. Joe, the production on there was cheapened as well.

[vnisanian2001]

I wonder if you can also say the same thing about the production on "Alvin And The Chipmunks" getting really cheap once Murakai-Wolf-Swenson (later DiC) took over that show from Ruby Spears?

[megamanj2004X]

In a way, yes it did!

[Tornado1994]

Murakai-Wolf took over the show in 1986. Renaming it "the Chipmunks" and moved it to CBS from NBC.

[vnisanian2001]

Uh, no. Chipmunk was on NBC from the beginning. And it was in 1988.

[Tornado1994]

That's what I was saying, it was moved to CBS in 1988.

[yellowdiva21]

I just love that DiC logo. I watch it Over and Over.

[stopthemachine]

I think the most talented post-Saban composer for Dic was Mike Tavera. I don't think the Mario cartoons were all that bad. (Actually, I find the Super Mario Bros. 3 series to be the best of the three.) It seems to me that Chalopin was more of the creative mind behind DiC, and Heyward was probably more on the business end of the deal. Andy was very fortunate to still work with some talented people after Chalopin's departure, but after a while, it seems that DiC began getting cheap and careles.

[stopthemachine]

I think you're right about that. I don't believe DiC was quite the same without the creative styles of Jean Chalopin. Around 1991 (-ish), DiC was of noticeably lesson quality, in my opinion. (It also didn't help that Saban/Levy left DiC after the 89-90 season.)

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I remember these credits, but I remember the season 1 credits better - were they used more in syndication?

[Janayla94]

You just had to love the Cadillac Cats transforming cadillac. From car to boat to camper it was just too original!

[britfrenir]

Too bad LBS was cut off. At least there is another video with both logos on this show.

[jonghyunchung]

I almost heard the 1984 LBS logo.

[palmercomm]

That's strange. I couldn't hear a thing.

[palmercomm]

Sorry. Had the mute on.

[megamanj2004]

This was the end credits of Heathcliff I grew up with.

[Wilmar550]

¿were there Japaneses in DiC?

[Ninski]

Two names that are absent from these credits are John Kricfalusi (creator of Ren & Stimoy) and Eddie Fitzgerald. So apparently they weren't involved in season 2.

[SwiftFur]

No wonder it sucked so bad! LOL

John K. is a genious IMNSHO

[palmercomm]

Well, Chuck Lorre developed this season. And look at what he did to "Two and a Half Men"!

[MysticArksRevenge]

@SwiftFur Hmph. No wonder why he didn't want to teach the art of making American Cartoons THE RIGHT WAY to the Japanese.

That was a terrible and a very big mistake. .

[Izlude]

YOU CUT OFF THE LBS LOGO!!!!!!!!! >;O lol but ya i like this show a lot.

[heine71]

Most are the same credits as Season 1 of Heathcliff?

[SwiftFur]

I don't know... other than the creators of the show, and the writers and voice actors, I never bothered to read the credits.

Season 1's credits was waaaaay small and hard to read though

[Valis77]

The creators and voice actors are the ony reason you should watch the credits. This sawned my interest in voice acting.I mean who would want to know about video tape coordinator or Track readers?

[Marbles471]

Hey, let's not knock the track readers. I'm sure they work hard for their paychecks. :)

[Valis77]

i meant that in a good way.

[Marbles471]

Still, I'll bet that subconsciously, you've absorbed all the mid-'80s DIC regulars, just as familiar clusters of letters:

The threesome of Jean Chapolin, Andy Heyward and Tetsuo Katayama, Bruno Bianchi, Lori Crawford, Shigeru Akagawa, Winnie Chaffee, Jack Spillum, Marsha Goodman, Haim Saban & Shuki Levy, Marty Wereski, Michael Cowan.

You see those names float by so often they almost become like characters themselves.

[Valis77]

thanks for that vote of confidence.

[Marbles471]

Vote of confidence?

[Valis77]

nevermind!

[wisp2007]

You see them today as well !

[jake94]

Thanks Swiftfur.

I swear I never saw this, probably because I never cared about the end credits when I was a kid. LOL

But its really no different then the season 1 credits.

[SwiftFur]

...other than the larger, "shinier" text (and maybe the credits themselves) it's pretty much the same :)