The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda#ep5

{{For|the 1947 feature film|The Adventures of Don Coyote (film)}}

{{Infobox television

| image = Adventures of Don Coyote.png

| genre = {{ubl|Adventure|Comedy}}

| writer = {{ubl|Cliff Roberts|Sam Graham|Gary Greenfield|Chris Hubbell}}

| director = {{ubl|Robert Alvarez|Don Lusk|Jay Sarbry|Paul Sommer|Carl Urbano}}

| voices = {{ubl|Frank Welker|Don Messick|Brad Garrett}}

| narrated = Héctor Elizondo {{small|(Intro)}}

| composer = {{Plainlist|

Clark Gassman
Michael Tavera

}}

| country = {{Plainlist|

United States
Italy

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| language = English
Italian

| network = Syndicated {{small|(United States)}}
RAIUNO {{small|(Italy)}}

| executive_producer = {{ubl|William Hanna|Joseph Barbera|Paul Sabella}}

| producer = Kay Wright

| editor = Gil Iverson

| company = {{ubl|Hanna-Barbera Productions|RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana}}

| num_seasons = 2

| num_episodes = 26

| runtime = 30 minutes

| first_aired = {{Start date|1990|09|16}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1991|12|08}}

}}

The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda is a 1990 animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera with the Italian public service broadcaster RAI. The series is loosely based on the characters Don Quixote and Sancho Panza from the 17th century novel by Cervantes.{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=159}}

Plot

Don Coyote (voiced by Frank Welker) is a swordsman who travels the land in search of adventure, with the help of his noble horse Rosinante (voiced by Brad Garrett), Sancho Panda (voiced by Don Messick) and his cynical donkey, Dapple (voiced by Don Messick). These crusaders of chivalry ride the countryside fighting for truth, justice, and beauty. Their attempts to do so are complicated by Don Coyote's state of mental unbalance and constantly mistaking everyday objects for horrific monsters. Coyote is always successful, for accidental reasons.{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television cartoon shows: an illustrated encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003 |date=2005 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=07864-2255-6 |page=277}}

Broadcast

It was first aired in 1989 in Europe, and then in the United States in 1990 as part of the weekend/weekday morning programming block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.{{cite book |last1=Crump |first1=William D. |title=Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film |date=2019 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=9781476672939 |page=90}}

Episodes

=Season 1: 1990=

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| EpisodeNumber = 1

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = Pity the Poor Pirate

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|09|16}}

| WrittenBy = Sam Graham,
Chris Hubbell

| ShortSummary = Don runs into the pirate captain Jack Boutique and incessantly chases him due to mistaking Jack for a damsel in distress.

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| EpisodeNumber = 2

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = Not a Ghost of a Chance

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|09|23}}

| ShortSummary = Don and Sancho enter a ghost town where the smuggler Dusty tries effortlessly to drive Don away so he can get his gold stash.

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| EpisodeNumber = 3

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title = The Horse Who Would Be King

| WrittenBy = Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|09|30}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 4

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = Veni Vidi Viking

| WrittenBy = Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|07}}

| ShortSummary = Jacques Boutique disguises himself as a maiden in distress in order to capture a ship. Don Coyote mistakes him for a real lady whom he must rescue. His chivalrous acts cause Jacques to go insane.

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| EpisodeNumber = 5

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = Don Coyote Meets Robin Hood

| WrittenBy = Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|14}}

| ShortSummary = Don Coyote meets Robin Hood and does his duty as a knight by arresting him as a robber. After he finds out the local authorities like Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham are corrupt from Maid Marian, Don must rescue Robin as well as different members of the Merry Men.

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| EpisodeNumber = 6

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = Rosinante by a Nose

| WrittenBy = Eric Alter

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|21}}

| ShortSummary = Rosinate is abducted by a group of cavemen who want to fatten him up for a sacrifice. Don Coyote and Sancho arrive just in time to rescue him from a horse-eating tyrannosaurus.

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| EpisodeNumber = 7

| EpisodeNumber2 = 7

| Title = The Reluctant Brides

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|28}}

| ShortSummary = Don Coyote angers a troupe of actors when he keeps disrupting rehearsals to "save" the far maiden actress, but the leading man and stunt man are really thieves and only Rosinate and Dapple know the truth. With their help, Don Coyote blunders his way to the rescue.

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| EpisodeNumber = 8

| EpisodeNumber2 = 8

| Title = Surely You Joust

| WrittenBy = Chris Hubbell,
Sam Graham

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|4}}

| ShortSummary = After finding out that Robin Hood and his band of merry Men steal, Don Coyote turns them over to the Sheriff of Nottingham. He later rescues them when he discovers that they have an important role to play in the wedding of Maid Marion.

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| EpisodeNumber = 9

| EpisodeNumber2 = 9

| Title = Double Don

| WrittenBy = Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|11}}

| ShortSummary = A thief intending to steal the royal treasury poses as Don in order to get the real Don framed.

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| EpisodeNumber2 = 10

| Title = Don Coyote & the Flying Gargoyle

| WrittenBy = Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|18}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 11

| EpisodeNumber2 = 11

| Title = Don Coyote and the Masked Avenger

| WrittenBy = Sam Graham,
Chris Hubbell

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|25}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| EpisodeNumber2 = 12

| Title = Shrink, Shrank, Shrunk

| WrittenBy = Fred Kron

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|12|02}}

| ShortSummary = An evil wizard plots to use Don and Sancho for his shrinking experiments. The duo later meet a princess and discover the wizard has threatened to shrink her whole kingdom's population if she does not marry him.

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| EpisodeNumber = 13

| EpisodeNumber2 = 13

| Title = Who's Got the Genie

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|12|09}}

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=Season 2: 1991=

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| EpisodeNumber = 14

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = Sancho's Island

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|09|15}}

| ShortSummary = Sancho gets his own private island.

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| EpisodeNumber = 15

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = Vincente the Inventor

| WrittenBy = Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|09|22}}

| ShortSummary = Vincente, an inventor hoping to become royal inventor, has problems preventing Don from using some of his gadgets.

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| EpisodeNumber = 16

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title = Sir Sancho the Nearly Knight

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|09|29}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 17

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = Don't Monkey with the Baby

| WrittenBy = Barry Blitzer

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|10|06}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 18

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = Don Coyote & the Contessa

| WrittenBy = Chris Hubbell,
Sam Graham

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|10|13}}

| ShortSummary = The Contessa elopes with her boyfriend San Diego to escape her father, but gets kidnapped by a bandit named El Diablo. Don, however, keeps mistakenly believing Diego is El Diablo.

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| EpisodeNumber = 19

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = Don Coyote & the Deep Sea

| WrittenBy = Chris Hubbell,
Sam Graham

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|10|20}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 20

| EpisodeNumber2 = 7

| Title = A Knight in Arabia

| WrittenBy = Fred Kron

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|10|27}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 21

| EpisodeNumber2 = 8

| Title = Goodbye Rosinante

| WrittenBy = Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|11|}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 22

| EpisodeNumber2 = 9

| Title = Don Coyote's Fire-Breathing Friend

| WrittenBy = Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|11|10}}

| ShortSummary = A dragon forced to perform as a giant money-making carnival game escapes from Grabbo and his henchman (those who captured him), and Don ends up befriending him and escorting him back to his home while having to deal with the two greedy robbers.

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| EpisodeNumber = 23

| EpisodeNumber2 = 10

| Title = The Haunted Inheritance

| WrittenBy = Chris Hubbell,
Sam Graham

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|11|17}}

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