The Get-Along Gang

The Get-Along Gang was a 30-minute television animated series broadcast between 1984 and 1986 on Saturday mornings on the CBS network which was intended for younger viewers. In all, 27 episodes of the series were produced, which were animated by the Nelvana and DiC animation companies.

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Minute - Television - Animated series - 1984 - 1986 - Saturday - CBS - Episodes - Nelvana - DiC

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The characters origins lie in greetings cards, specifically the cards of the American Greetings company, which also created the Care Bears.

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Greetings cards - American Greetings - Care Bears

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The series starred a group of pre-adolescent anthropomorphic animal characters who had various adventures whose upbeat stories tended to stress the importance of team work and friendship.

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Pre-adolescent - Anthropomorphic - Animal

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The series was the product of an era in the 1980s when "Parent Action Groups" held great influence over children's television programming, demanding that shows intended for young viewers emphasise positive values rather than violence or conflict. Consequently, many of the series' stories attempted to reinforce the importance of group harmony over individualism.

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1980s - Parent Action Groups - Individualism

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Each of the characters had obvious faults, which they learned to overcome with the aid of their friends. For instance, the group's leader "Montgomery Moose" was quite clumsy, while "Woolma Lamb" was extremely vain and "Dotty Dog" was very careless.

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Voice talent on the series included Timothy Gibbs, Scott Menville, Don Messick, Frank Welker and a young Nicky Katt.

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Timothy Gibbs - Scott Menville - Don Messick - Frank Welker - Nicky Katt

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The brief series spawned a large range of merchandise and spin-off projects including stuffed toys and action figures made by Tomy and storybooks published by Scholastic Press.

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Merchandise - Spin-off - Stuffed toy - Action figure - Tomy - Scholastic Press

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The characters were also adapted into comic books. In America their series, which ran for six bi-monthly issues in 1985 and 1986, was published by Marvel Comics' Star Comics imprint and in the UK Marvel UK published a weekly Get-Along Gang comic, which ran for 93 issues between April, 1985 and January, 1987.

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Comic books - America - Bi-monthly - 1985 - Marvel Comics - Star Comics - UK - Marvel UK - April - January - 1987

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