1993 in animation
Events in 1993 in animation.
Events
January
- January 1: The first episode of The Adventures of Blinky Bill is broadcast.[1]
- January 6: The first episode of The Animals of Farthing Wood is broadcast.[2]
- January 14: The Simpsons episode Marge vs. the Monorail is first broadcast, with Leonard Nimoy as special guest voice.[3]
February
- February 28: The first episode of Bonkers, produced by the Walt Disney Studios, is broadcast.[4]
March
- March 8: The first episode of Beavis and Butt-Head as a series is broadcast and quickly becomes a cult series.[5]
- March 11: The Simpsons episode Last Exit to Springfield is first broadcast.[6]
- March 16: The first episode of Albert the 5th Musketeer is broadcast.[7]
- March 29: 65th Academy Awards:
- Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase by Joan C. Gratz wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[8]
- A Whole New World from Aladdin by Tim Rice and Alan Menken wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song while the soundtrack from the same film wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score.[8]
April
- April 29: The Simpsons episode Whacking Day is first broadcast. It features Barry White as special guest voice and the debut of Superintendent Chalmers.[9]
May
- May 13: The Simpsons season finale Krusty Gets Kancelled features the most celebrity guest voices the show has had up to that point in one episode, among them Johnny Carson, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, Barry White, Luke Perry and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.[10]
September
- September 5: The first episode of 2 Stupid Dogs is broadcast.[11]
- September 13: The first episode of Animaniacs is broadcast.[12]
- September 18:
- The first episode of Biker Mice from Mars is broadcast.[13]
- The first episode of Rocko's Modern Life is broadcast.[14]
- September 23: The Thief and the Cobbler by Richard Williams is finally released after being in production for a record-breaking three decades.[15]
- September 30: In The Simpsons episode Homer's Barbershop Quartet former Beatle George Harrison is special guest voice.[16]
October
- October 7: The Simpsons episode Cape Feare is first broadcast.[17]
- October 10: A five-year-old boy, Austin Matthews, sets fire to his mother's mobile home in Moraine, Ohio, killing his two-year-old sister Jessica. The mother claims that her son got the idea from watching Beavis and Butt-head.[18] Although it is later revealed that the family didn't own cable television and was therefore unable to watch the show, the controversy leads to Beavis and Butt-head being rescheduled later in the evenings and omitting all references to fire.[19]
- October 21: In The Simpsons episode Rosebud The Ramones are special guest voices.
- October 29: Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas is released.[20]
November
- November 24: Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells's We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is released.[21]
December
- December 17: Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit cartoon The Wrong Trousers is released.[22]
- December 21: The first episode of VeggieTales is broadcast.[23]
- December 22: Tex Avery's Magical Maestro is added to the National Film Registry.[24][25]
- December 25: The film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is first released.[26]
Specific date unknown
- Digital Domain is founded.
- Rita Street establishes the organisation Women in Animation.[27][28]
Films released
Television series debuts
| Date | Title | Channel | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 28 | Bonkers | The Disney Channel, CBS, Syndication | 1993–94 |
| March 8 | Beavis and Butt-Head | MTV | 1993–97; 2011 |
| June 23 | Family Dog | CBS | 1993 |
| September 1 | The Bots Master | Syndication | 1993–94 |
| September 5 | 2 Stupid Dogs | TBS, Syndication | 1993–95 |
| September 6 | Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog | Syndication | 1993–96 |
| September 11 | Droopy, Master Detective | Fox Kids | 1993 |
| SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron | TBS | 1993–95 | |
| The Pink Panther | Syndication | ||
| September 12 | Hurricanes | 1993–97 | |
| Double Dragon | 1993–94 | ||
| Madeline | The Family Channel, ABC, Disney Channel | 1993–01 | |
| September 13 | Animaniacs | Fox Kids | 1993–98 |
| September 18 | Biker Mice from Mars | Syndication | 1993–96 |
| Exosquad | 1993–94 | ||
| Cro | ABC | ||
| Sonic the Hedgehog | |||
| Tales from the Cryptkeeper | 1993–99 | ||
| Rocko's Modern Life | Nickelodeon | 1993–96 | |
| All-New Dennis the Menace | CBS | 1993 | |
| Cadillacs and Dinosaurs | 1993–94 | ||
| Marsupilami (1993) | 1993 | ||
| The New Adventures of Speed Racer | Syndication | ||
| October 31 | Problem Child | USA Network | 1993–94 |
| November 26 | The Moxy Show | Cartoon Network | 1993–00 |
| December 5 | Twinkle, the Dream Being | Syndication | 1993–94 |
| December 21 | VeggieTales | DVD, TBN | 1993–present |
Television series endings
| Date | Title | Channel | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23 | The Pirates of Dark Water | ABC, Syndication | 1991–93 | Cancelled |
| June 25 | The Legend of Prince Valiant | The Family Channel | ||
| June 28 | Stunt Dawgs | Syndication | 1992–93 | |
| June 29 | Saban's Gulliver's Travels | |||
| July 28 | Family Dog | CBS | 1993 | |
| November 6 | The Addams Family (1992) | ABC | 1992–93 | |
| November 22 | Conan the Adventurer (1992) | Syndication | ||
| Mr. Bogus | 1991–93 | |||
| December 4 | Tom & Jerry Kids | Fox Kids | 1990–93 | |
| Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa | ABC | 1992–92 | ||
| Droopy, Master Detective | Fox Kids | 1993 | ||
| December 11 | Marsupilami (1993) | CBS | 1993 | |
| All-New Dennis the Menace | ||||
| Unknown | Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire | Fox Kids | 1992–93 |
Births
- April 15: Madeleine Martin, American television actress/voice actress (Ice Age: The Meltdown)
Deaths
February
- February 7: Nic Broca, Belgian animator and comics artist (Ovide and the Gang, The Snorks), passes away at age 60.[29]
- February 9: Jacques Verbeek, Dutch animator and comics artist (made animated films with Karin Wiertz), passes away at age 46.[30]
- February 21: Harvey Kurtzman, American comics artist, writer, publisher and animation script writer (scripted Mad Monster Party? and animated shorts for Sesame Street), dies at age 68.[31]
March
- March 3: Bill Draut, American comics artist and animator (worked on G.I. Joe), dies at age 71.[32]
- March 10: Vladimir Suteev, Russian children's book novelist, animator and animated film director (China in Flames), dies at age 89.[33]
- March 14: Larz Bourne, American animation writer (Famous Studios, Gene Deitch, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Terrytoons), dies at age 77.[34][35]
April
May
- May 3: Hermína Týrlová, Czech animator, screenwriter and film director (Vzpoura Hracek ("Revolt of the Toys")), dies at age 93.[37]
- Specific date unknown: Renaud Mader, aka Mad, French comics artist and animator (worked for Gaumont and the French department of the Walt Disney Animation), is found dead at age 26 in a hotel room. [38]
June
- June 25: Arturo Moreno, Spanish comics artist and animator (Garbancito de la Mancha, Alegres vacaciones), passes away at age 84.[39]
July
- July 4: Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Russian animator (Cheburashka), dies at age 72.[40]
August
- August 1: Claire Du Brey, American actress (model of the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella), dies at age 100.[41]
September
- September 9: David Tendlar, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Terrytoons, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 84.[42]
- September 10: Cal Howard, American animator, cartoon writer (Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Company, Fleischer Brothers, Ub Iwerks, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Screen Gems) and voice actor (voice of Gabby Goat in Get Rich Quick Porky, Prince David in Gulliver's Travels), dies at age 82.[43]
- September 30: Carlo Vinci, American comics artist and animator (Van Beuren Studios, Terrytoons, MGM, Walt Disney Company, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 87.[44]
October
- October 13: Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director (creator of Pingu), dies at age 56 from cancer.[45]
- October 25: Vincent Price, American actor (narrator of Vincent, voice of Professor Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective), dies at age 82.[46]
November
- November 15: Evelyn Venable, American actress (voice of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio), dies at age 80.[47]
December
- December 4: Frank Zappa, American rock artist and composer (voice of the Pope in Ren and Stimpy episode Powdered Toast Man, created background music for the first season of Duckman), dies at age 52 from cancer.[48]
- December 10: Roland Davies, British comics artist, animator, animation producer and painter (Roland Davies Films Ltd., animated cartoons based on Come On, Steve), dies at age 89.[49]
- December 13: Ken Anderson, American art director and writer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 84.[50]
- December 30: Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (co-writer of songs for Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and the theme song to The Bugs Bunny Show), dies at age 81.[51]
Specific date unknown
- Nguyễn Xuân Khoát, Vietnamese composer, pianist and animator, dies at age 92 or 93.[52]
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