Dennis the Menace in Mayday for Mother

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Dennis the Menace in Mayday for Mother is a 1981 animated television special based on Hank Ketcham's 1951 comic strip of the same name.{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987 |date=1989 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-2198-2 |accessdate=27 March 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/animatedtvspecia0000wool/page/108/mode/2up |pages=109–110}} Produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises,{{cite book |last1=Arnold |first1=Mark |title=Think Pink: The Story of DePatie-Freleng |date=2015 |publisher=Bear Manor Media |isbn=978-1593931698 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PJmeDwAAQBAJ&dq=dennis+the+menace+in+mayday+for+mother&pg=PT689 |accessdate=27 March 2020}} the special first aired May 8, 1981 on NBC. This was the first time Dennis the Menace was animated. The storyline was written by Ketcham.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/248/mode/2up |page=248}}