- Fish Police
"Fish Police" is the name of a
comic book series bycartoonist Steven Moncuse, and its six episodecartoon adaptation .Plot
Both works center around law and crime in a fictional underwater metropolis with the protagonist, Inspector Gill, trying to solve various, often
mafia -related crimes and avoid seduction by the extremely well-endowed Angel. The comic and the television show featured several sorts of marine species as its characters, while the plots and dialogue were reminiscent offilm noir .The comic book version of "Fish Police" lasted from
1985 to1990 , and featured the early work ofSam Kieth (The Maxx ) as inker.Animated television series
"Fish Police" was adapted into the
animation format in 1992 as one of the many failed attempts to repeat Fox's success of "The Simpsons ". Six episodes were produced forCBS television. In February 1992, three of the episodes aired, but the show was promptly axed after failing in the television ratings. The remaining three episodes have never been aired in theUnited States . However, the show was aired in its entirety for the European syndication market (most notably on Euro-Cartoon Network and Euro-Boomerang).Episode List
#The Shell Game
#A Fish Out Of Water
#Beauty Is Only Fin Deep
#The Codfather
#The 2 Gils
#No Way To Treat A Fillet-dyVoice cast
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John Ritter as Inspector Gill
*Hector Elizondo as Don Calamari
*Edward Asner as Chief Abalone
*Jonathan Winters as Mayor Cod
*Tim Curry as The Sharkster
*Robert Guillaume as Detective Catfish
*Buddy Hacket as Crabby
*Megan Mullally as Pearl
*JoBeth Williams as Angel
*Frank Welker as Mussels Marinara/Doc Croaker
*Georgia Brown as Goldie
*Charlie Schlatter as Tadpole
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* [http://www.toonopedia.com/fishpoli.htm The Fish Police comic and television show at Toonopedia] __NOTOC__
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