Super Mario World (TV series)

For other uses, see Super Mario World.

See also: List of Super Mario episodes

Super Mario World
Super Mario World title card
Genre	Animated television series
Created by	DIC Entertainment Nintendo (characters)
Written by	Jack Hanrahan (The Wheel Thing) Eleanor Burian-Mohr (The Wheel Thing) Brooks Wachtel (Fire Sale, Gopher Bash) Martha Moran (Send in the Clown, A Little Learning, The Night Before Cave Christmas) Perry Martin (Ghosts 'R' Us) Phil Harnage (King Scoopa Koopa, Mama Luigi, Party Line) Paul Dell (Born to Ride) Steven Weiss (Born to Ride) Frank Ridgeway (Party Line) George Shea (Rock TV) Kristofor Brown (The Yoshi Shuffle)
Directed by	John Gruso
Voices of	Harvey Atkin Walker Boone Tara Strong (as Tara Charandoff) Katherine Gallant Tabitha St. Germain (as Paulina Gillis) Dan Hennessey Judy Marshak Gordon Masten Tracey Moore James Rankin Tony Rosato Andrew Sabiston Michael Stark John Stocker Stu Stone (as Stuart Stone)
Theme music composer	Mark Mothersbaugh
Opening theme	"Super Mario World"
Ending theme	"Super Mario World" (instrumental)
Composer(s)	Michael Tavera
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English, French
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Andy Heyward
Producer(s)	John Grusd
Running time	approx. 11 minutes (with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
First shown in	September 14, 1991 (1991-09-14)
Original run	September 14, 1991 – December 7, 1991
Chronology
Preceded by	Captain N & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
Related shows	Super Mario Toons

Super Mario World was a short-lived animated television series loosely based on the Super NES video game of the same name. It was the third and thus far last Saturday morning cartoon based on the Super Mario Bros. NES and Super NES series of video games. The show only aired thirteen episodes due to Captain N: The Game Master's cancellation on NBC.

Format

The series centered on Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool, now living in Dinosaur Land (sometimes also called Dinosaur World) with Yoshi, who was depicted on the show as a curious child-like dinosaur with a large appetite and several phobias. King Koopa (otherwise known as Bowser) and the Koopalings were also around, having followed the Super Mario Bros. and the Princess to Dinosaur Land.

Unlike in the game, Dinosaur Land was depicted as being populated with cavepeople, including a pre-adolescent caveboy named Oogtar, who replaced the role of Toad (Oogtar even had the same voice actor as Toad, John Stocker). Some episodes revolved around Mario trying to introduce a modern invention to the cavepeople in an attempt to make their lives easier, only for the Koopas to twist it into an evil scheme. It is unclear whether the characters had traveled back in time (in the episode "Rock TV", King Koopa mentions "there's no TV here in the Stone Age [because] it hasn't been invented yet"), or if Dinosaur Land was simply a "lost valley"-esque island that the characters had come to (in the flashback episode "Mama Luigi", Luigi simply mentions that he and the others came to Dinosaur Land without any mention of time travel).

The show was originally aired on Saturday mornings on NBC in the 1991-92 season, the last year the network programmed an animated children's block before the launch of a Saturday edition of Today. It was featured in a half-hour time slot with a shortened version of Captain N: The Game Master, titled Captain N & The New Super Mario World (also erroneously titled Captain N & Super Mario Bros. World in the commercial bumpers). Episodes of Super Mario World were later shown as part of the syndication package Captain N and the Video Game Masters. Afterwards, the series was split up from Captain N altogether and shown in time-compressed reruns on as part of Mario All-Stars on Family Channel, and later USA Network. In the United Kingdom, however, the show was still broadcast as Captain N & The New Super Mario World.

Unlike the previous two Mario cartoons, the show was not widely distributed on home video in the NTSC region, where its only release was the inclusion of the show's Christmas episode on the 1996 VHS release Super Mario Bros. Super Christmas Adventures. Meanwhile, two PAL tapes were released in the United Kingdom. More recently, the series was released on DVD in Australia. This series is the most short-lived of the three American Mario animated series.

Differences between the series and the game

The show takes place in Dinosaur World where Yoshi lives with a preadolescent caveman named Oogtar. In addition, Yoshi's Island is populated with cavemen instead of Yoshis. Several names were changed from the game as well: Forest of Illusion was called Enchanted Forest, and Vanilla Dome was referred to as the Lava Pits.^[1] Furthermore, enemies featured in the game were rarely called by their in-game names on the show, and Bowser was called King Koopa. He also had his all-green appearance from the first cartoon. Mario, Luigi and the Princess all retained their original NES designs as well: red and green overalls for Mario and Luigi, and red hair for the Princess. Another notable fact was that Luigi found Yoshi, and when he hatched Yoshi was small and was not born with his saddle, as revealed when Luigi told him the story of how Yoshi was born. Also, the Koopalings were still referred to by their nicknames.

Cast

• Walker Boone as Mario
• Tony Rosato as Luigi
• Andrew Sabiston as Yoshi
• Tracey Moore as Princess Toadstool (Peach)
• John Stocker as Oogtar, Magikoopa, Monty Mole, and Chargin Chuck
• Harvey Atkin as King Bowser Koopa
• Tara Strong as Lemmy "Hip" Koopa and Iggy "Hop" Koopa (credited as "Tara Charendoff")
• Tabitha St. Germain as Wendy "Kootie Pie" Koopa (credited as "Paulina Gillis"^[2])
• James Rankin as Larry "Cheatsy" Koopa
• Dan Hennessey as Roy "Bully" Koopa, Green Dinosaur, and Purple Dinosaur
• Michael Stark as Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
• Gordon Masten as Morton "Big Mouth" Koopa
• Catherine Gallant as Mama Fireplant
• Stuart Stone as Additional Voices

UK and USA VHS history

• Video Collection International - BBC Video (1992–1994)

DVD release

On November 13, 2007, Shout! Factory released a Complete Series DVD set of Captain N & The New Super Mario World in Region 1. The series has also been released in Australia (Region 4) by Roadshow Entertainment. nCircle Entertainment (under license from Cookie Jar Entertainment) has also released the series in two volume sets.

DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date	Additional Information
Captain N & The New Super Mario World - The Complete Series	13	November 13, 2007	Select Episode Previews Storyboard-to-Screen: Opening Title Sequence Original Concept Art: Yoshi

Broadcast Stations

• USA
  • NBC (September 14, 1991 - July 25, 1992)
  • Family Channel (1992–1994)
  • Syndication (1992–1993)
  • USA Network (1995–1997)
  • PAX Network (January 2,-December 26, 1999)

International Stations

• UK
  • CITV (1 August 1992 - 30 January 1993)
  • The Children's Channel (30 November 1992 - 6 July 1996)
  • Channel 4
  • POP! (2004–2010)
  • ITV1 (2005)
  • KidsCo (2011-present)

• Australia
  • Nine Network (1992)
  • Network Ten (1995-2000)
  • Disney Channel (1996-2001)
  • KidsCo (2009-present)

• Ireland
  • RTE Two (Den 2) (2002–2004)

• Spain
  • TVE2 (1993)
  • KidsCo (2010-present)

• Portugal (as "Super Mario Episodio")
  • RTP1 (1992-1994)
  • SIC (30 October 1995 - 25 July 1997) {Buéréré}
  • TVI (4 January 1998 - 26 September 1999) {Batatoon}
  • KidsCo (2010-present)

• Finland
  • YLE TV1, YLE FST5
  • Toon Disney
  • Disney Channel

• Sweden
  • SVT

• Chile
  • Megavision (1993)

• Japan
  • TV Tokyo

• South Korea
  • KBS1
  • Boomerang (South Korea) (2010-present)

• Germany (as "Super Mario Welt")
  • RTL Television
  • Super RTL

• France
  • TF1

Syndication

Unlike the first two series, Super Mario World is rarely ever edited, except on the syndicated series Super Mario All Stars. On the episode "Ghost R Us", the entire scene, where Yoshi faces the Big Boo after entering the Haunted House, was cut due to the scene was too long. No songs were ever replaced in this series since these songs aren't copyrights.

References

1. ^ Super Mario World episode "The Wheel Thing"
2. ^ Damian Inwood. "Pi Theatre, Independent Vancouver Theatre >> The Baroness and the Pig". http://pitheatre.com/the-baroness-and-the-pig/. Retrieved October 30, 2011. "That’s what Vancouver actresses Diane Brown and Tabitha St. Germain do with the delightful black comedy, The Baroness and the Pig. (...) St. Germain – better known to Vancouver audiences as Paulina Gillis – plays the Baroness as a naïve gentlewoman, full of prissy mannerisms and twittering, bird-like movements." 

External links

• Super Mario World at the Internet Movie Database
• Super Mario World at TV.com