Rubik, the Amazing Cube

Rubik, the Amazing Cube
Genre Animation
Written by Tom Dagenais
Janis Diamond
Jack Enyart
Gary Greenfield
Mark Jones
Gordon Kent
Norman Maurer
Richard Merwin
Directed by John Kimball
Rudy Larriva
Norm McCabe
Voices of Ron Palillo
Michael Saucedo
Jennifer Fajardo
Michael Bell
Ángela Moya
Theme music composer Dean Elliott
Opening theme Menudo
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 18
Production
Executive producer(s) Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Producer(s) Mark Jones
Steven Werner
Production company(s) Ruby-Spears Productions
Distributor Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run September 10, 1983 – September 1, 1984
External links
Website

Rubik, the Amazing Cube is a Saturday morning cartoon that aired from September 10, 1983 to September 1, 1984 in the United States, produced by Ruby-Spears Productions. The program, broadcast as part of The Pac-Man/Rubik, the Amazing Cube Hour block on ABC, featured a magic Rubik’s Cube named Rubik who could fly through the air and had other special powers. Rubik could only come alive when the colored squares on his sides had been matched up.

Synopsis

Rubik had fallen out of the stagecoach of an evil magician, who became the main villain of the series. Rubik helped 3 siblings—Carlos, Lisa, and Reynaldo Rodriguez—in foiling the magician’s attempts to recover Rubik. Once, Rubik was recovered by a detective who was a relative of the magician, but then decided the children should keep Rubik as the magician would use him for evil and selfish purposes.

Outside of the evil magician, episodes usually dealt with more normal adversaries, such as when the eldest son had run afoul of a bully who had thwarted his efforts to gain a potential girlfriend, while at the same time the bully was making himself appear decent to the girl. Rubik worked in secret to expose the bully’s true brutal personality in front of the girl.

For dramatic purposes, the cube was easily fully scrambled (such as by being dropped or grabbed by the family dog) and usually solved quickly by the Rodriguez children, although in stressful circumstances it took them longer.

Episodes

  1. "Pilot"
  2. "Back Packin' Rubik" — 1983-09-17
  3. "Rubik and the Buried Treasure" — 1983-10-01
  4. "Rubik and the Lucky Helmet" — 1983-10-08
  5. "Rubik and the Mysterious Man" — 1983-10-15
  6. "Rubik and the Pooch Nappers" — 1983-10-22
  7. "Rubik and the Science Fair" — 1983-10-29
  8. "Rubik in Wonderland" — 1983-11-05
  9. "Honolulu Rubik" — 1983-11-12
  10. "Rubik's First Christmas" — 1983-11-19
  11. "Saturday Night Rubik" — 1983-11-26
  12. "Super Power Lisa" — 1983-12-03
  13. "Time Travelin' Rubik" — 1983-12-10

Theme music

In keeping with the Hispanic flavor of the show, the theme song was done by Puerto Rican boy band Menudo.

Cast

Additional voices were provided by Jack DeLeon, Alan Dinehart, Laurie Faso, Takayo Fischer, Bob Holt, Tress MacNeille, Tysun McMullan, Neil Ross, John Stephenson, Janet Waldo, and Alan Young.

External links