Cro

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Cro
Format Animated series, Educational
Starring Max Casella
Jim Cummings
Charles Adler
Ruth Buzzi
Candi Milo
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. of episodes 20 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time Approx. 23 mins.
Broadcast
Original channel ABC and Noggin
Original run September 18, 1993 – October 22, 1994
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Cro is a U.S. animated television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop and Film Roman. It debuted on September 18, 1993 as part of the Saturday morning line-up for fall 1993 on ABC. Cro did not do well with the viewers. The show had an education theme in accordance with FCC-mandated educational/instructional requirements. The last new episode aired on October 22, 1994. The show was released on video (VHS) in a total of nine volumes.

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[edit] Premise

Dr. C and Mike travel to the Arctic to study frozen artifacts, and find a frozen woolly mammoth. They thaw it out, and are shocked to find that it can speak. Whenever a situation involves physics principles, the mammoth, Phil, remembers when a similar situation occurred long ago in Woollyville with his fellow mammoths and his human friends.

[edit] Characters

  • Max Casella as Cro: Cro was a fully-evolved 11-year-old Cro-Magnon boy. Cro lives with the Neanderthals and is the smarter one which was the reason most of the characters hated him.
  • Jim Cummings as Ogg: The big show-off of the Neanderthals, Ogg was the leader and bossed everyone around. He gets into arguments with Nandy and once forced Bobb out of the tribe, causing everyone to leave Ogg all alone (with the exception of Gogg[1], the others came back to him because they thought he felt lonely). Ogg's phrases include: "In cases like this, only one thing to say: <something>" and "We gonna die," which is often used by other Neanderthals; Gogg said it once and Nandy said it too, but Ogg told her that it was his line. According to "Play It Again, Cro...Not!" Ogg claims to have a brilliant singing voice[2]
  • Frank Welker as Gogg: Gogg is the sensitive one in the tribe. He sticks up for Bobb and mostly translates for him, even though Nandy and Ogg do occasionally. It was disclosed in "Play It Again, Cro...Not!" that Gogg could play his armpit[3] which Phil decided to use for his band's wind section.[4]
  • Frank Welker as Bobb: Bobb is the Neanderthal on the lowest rank in the evolutionary scale, meaning he is still an ape-like creature. He does not speak like the rest of the Neanderthals, but makes monkey-like noises and either Gogg or Nandy translate for him. When Bobb was younger, he was in a different tribe made up of apes that looked like him. The tribe took a nap and Bobb woke up to find the whole tribe had vanished without a trace, creating a fear of lonliness. In "Play It Again, Cro...Not!" Bobb is revealed to be a master nose flute player, which impresses everyone.
  • Candi Milo as Nandy: Nandy is noted for her urban legends. Some of her legends include the legend of "Big Thing" and a monster called "Big Skinny Thing with Many, Many Legs." She gets into arguments with Ogg and usually wins; in fact, Nandy thinks Ogg is a big weenie. She is very overprotective of Cro and motherly around everyone else. As revealed in "Play It Again, Cro...Not!" she is a master precussionist.[5]
  • Jim Cummings as Phil: This is the character that tells the stories in every episode. During the end of the Ice Age, Phil fell into a glacier and got thawed out by Mike and Dr. C 45,000 years later. Even though Phil is smart, he is a little goofy. Phil has red fur and orange flesh. He is friends with Cro and loyal to the mammoths, too.
  • April Winchell as Ivanna: Ivanna, a southern belle mammoth with yellow fur and brown skin with a mole, is Phil's love life. She is the second oldest female mammoth in the herd next to Esmeralda. She usually uses Phil for her experiments.
  • Tress MacNeille as Pakka Pakka has light orange fur with yellow skin. She is also Cro's friend. She and Cro met when Cro came down from the waterfall after defeating Selene with his lever. When Ogg kicked Cro out of the tribe due to the lever, Cro disguised himself as a mammoth in order to blend in, but he came back to the Neanderthals. She is the third oldest female mammoth next to Ivanna and Esmeralda. She sometimes tells Cro interesting facts about mammoths.
  • Charles Adler as Steamer: Steamer is the youngest mammoth in the herd. He has maroon fur and light purple skin. He is always getting into mischief. He is the most hyperactive mammoth in the herd, which gets him into and trouble and sometimes out.
  • Tress MacNeille as Esmeralda Esmeralda has light yellow fur, skin colored an odd gray, and is the matriarch of the herd. She is the oldest female in the herd. She makes sure that everything goes to order and that those who have wronged the mammoth society be punished. She doesn't mind the Neanderthals...much.
  • Frank Welker as Earle: Earle has gray fur with dark gray-blue skin with a bold spot. Both Earle and Mojo hate humans and are quite conservative.
  • Charles Adler as Mojo: Mojo is Earle's younger brother; he has gray fur with light gray skin. Both Earle and Mojo hate humans and are quite conservative.
  • Frank Welker as Big Red: Big Red is the leader of the menacing pack of the bumbling dire wolves. He uses threats to scare his minions into doing a good job, like in Things That Eat Mung in the Night, where he said he would gnaw on one of them should they fail.[6] The wolves are one of two antagonists on the show.
  • Jim Cummings as Murray: The minions of Big Red. Because he threatens them, the wolves fear him. Murray thinks stupid things, which Big Red doesn't like, as shown in Things That Eat Mung in the Night.[7]
  • Tress MacNeille as Selene: Selene is a purple, yellow-eyed sabor-toothed tiger and has sort of a seductive personality. She is the other antagonist on the show.
  • Ruth Buzzi as Dr. Cecilia: She and Mike thawed out Phil, so he tells them his stories. She speaks with a distinct Hispanic accent and speaks a few Spanish words in some episodes.
  • Jussie Smollett as Mike: Mike has big glasses. He likes to play basketball and lives with Dr. C for reasons not specified. He and Dr. C were the two people that thawed out Phil and therefore, he tells them his stories.
  • Cree Summer as Sooli: Sooli got separated from her tribe and Cro and Pakka help her find her favorite horse. Sooli only appeared in one episode. She was of black descent.

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season 1 (September 1993 to December 1993)

1. Just A Stone's Throw Away (Airdate: September 18, 1993)
2. No Time for Steamer (Airdate: September 25, 1993)
3. Destroy All Buckies (Airdate: October 2, 1993)
4. It's Snow Problem (Airdate: October 9, 1993)
5. Let Me Help (Airdate: October 16, 1993)
6. The Legend of Big Thing (Airdate: October 23, 1993)
7. Laugh Mammoth, Laugh (Airdate: October 30, 1993)
8. Pakka's Cool Invention (Airdate: November 6, 1993)
9. Here's Looking At You, Cro (Airdate: November 13, 1993)
10. No Way Up (Airdate: November 20, 1993)
11. Adventures in Miscommunications (Airdate: November 27, 1993)
12. Escape from Mung Island (Airdate: December 4, 1993)
13. Pulley for You (Airdate: December 11, 1993)
14. Things That Eat Mung in the Night (Airdate: December 17, 1993)

[edit] Season 2 (September 1994 to October 1994)

15. Meal Like A Pig (Airdate: September 17, 1994)
16. What's That Smell (Airdate: September 24, 1994)
17. Play It Again, Cro...Not! (Airdate: October 1, 1994)
18. Lever in a Million Years (Airdate: October 8, 1994)
19. Turn Up the Heat (Airdate: October 15, 1994)
20. They Move Mammoths, Don't They? (Airdate: October 22, 1994)

[edit] Videos

The videos that were released by Republic Home Video in the United States are:

  • Have Mammoths, Will Travel
Episodes: "No Way Up" and "Escape From Mung Island"
  • Adventures in Woollyville
Episodes: "Pulley To You" and "A Bridge Too Short"
  • It's A Woolly, Woolly World
Episodes: "Lever in a Million Years" and "Play It Again, Cro...NOT!"

[edit] Crew

  • Executive Producers: Franklin Getchell, Majorie Kalins, Phil Roman
  • Producer: Bob Richardson
  • Story Editor and Voice Director: Mark Zaslove
  • Coordinating Producer: Catherine Mullally
  • Executive in Charge of Production: Bill Schultz
  • Studio Production Manager: Anne Luiting
  • Executive Editor: Edward G. Atkins, PhD
  • Research Director: Susan L. Mendelsohn, Ph. D
  • Supervising Director: Dave Brain
  • Overseas Supervising Director: James Miko
  • Directors: James West, Milt Gray, Kyle James, Swinton Scott, Bob Nelsler
  • Music and Main Title Theme by Stacy Widelitz
  • Starring: Max Casella as Cro, Charlie Adler, Ruth Buzzi, Jim Cummings, Tress MacNeille, Candi Milo, Laurie O'Brien, April Winchell, Jane Singer, Jussie Smollett, Frank Welker
  • Art Director: Brad Landreth
  • Key Backgrounds: Mike Humphries
  • Key Layouts: Peter DeLuca
  • Additional Backgrounds: Bari Greenberg
  • Models: Peter DeLuca, Bill Riling
  • Color Design: Libby Reed
  • Storyboards: Jim Schumann, Brian Hogan, Gary Graham, Steve Lyons, Brad Landreth, Gary Hoffman, Bob Boyle, Alberto Demello, Dave Rodriguez, Kevin O'Brien, Martin Archer, Scott Shaw!
  • Picture Editors: Don Barrozo, Lee Harting
  • Post Production Sound Services: Advantage Audio, Inc.
  • Dialogue Editor: Melissa Gentry-Ellis
  • Music Editing: Marc Perlman
  • Sound Effects Editing and Re-Recording Mixers: Bill Koepnick, M.P.S.E. and Jim Hodson, C.S.A.
  • Additional Effects: Robert Duran
  • Voice Recording: Screen Music Studios
  • Video Production by: Unitel Video
  • Animation Production by Sunwoo Animation Co., Inc. and Anivision America
  • Main Title Vocals by Bill Trudel and Josef Powell
  • Production Manager: John Cawley
  • Post Production Manager: Barbara Beck
  • Post Production Supervisor: Dennis Graham
  • Based on the Original Idea in the Book The Way Things Work by David Macaulay
  • Developed for Television by Mark Zaslove
  • Advisory Board: Daniel Davis, PhD; Ted Lucas, PhD; Gerald Lesser, PhD; Cary Lu, PhD; Shirley Malcom, PhD; Leona Schauble, PhD; Angel Rivera; Ralph Smallberg; Benjamin Shen, PhD; Gerry Wheelter, PhD; Melissa Franklin, PhD
  • Partial Funding by the National Science Foundation
  • A Film Roman Production
  • © 1993-4 Children's Television Workshop. Cro and the logo are registered trademarks of The Children's Television Workshop. All Rights Reserved.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gogg: Hey, I no come like everyone else because I think Ogg lonely. [takes a handful of mung from the pile] Me just want more mung!" - In Things That Eat Mung in the Night
  2. ^ Ogg: "Ogg got golden voice!" - In Play It Again, Cro...Not!
  3. ^ Gogg: "Gogg play one mean armpit!" - In Play It Again, Cro...Not!
  4. ^ Phil: "Not bad. Sort of a primative bagpipe. It will fill my wind section perfectly!" - In Play It Again, Cro...Not!
  5. ^ Nandy: "Nandy great at precussion!" - In Play It Again, Cro...Not!
  6. ^ Big Red: "I have decided to accompany you flea biters this time in order to prevent further failure. If we do not succeed on our mission tonight, I will be forced to gnaw on one of youse." - In Things That Eat Mung in the Night
  7. ^ Murray: "But it is very, very chilly out there in the cold, cold snow, boss. Perhaps we'd better wait 'til the mornin'?" Big Red: [growls] "Are you thinking again, Murray?" Murray: "Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, boss. See, I just thought that- Whoop!" [yelps as he is kicked out of the cave] "We was just leavin', Big Red." - In Things That Eat Mung in the Night

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