Trollkins
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{{Infobox television
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| director = {{Plainlist|
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| voices = {{Plainlist|
- Michael Bell
- Bill Callaway
- Jennifer Darling
- Marshall Efron
- Alan Oppenheimer
- Hank Saroyan
- Steve Spears
- Frank Welker
- Paul Winchell
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| composer = Hoyt Curtin
| country = United States
| language = English
| network = CBS
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
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| producer = {{Plainlist|
- Kay Wright
- Iwao Takamoto (creative producer)
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| editor = Gil Iverson
| company = Hanna-Barbera Productions
| num_episodes = 13 (26 segments)
| runtime = {{Plainlist|
- 21 minutes (whole)
- 11 minutes (separate)
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| first_aired = {{Start date|1981|9|12}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1981|12|5}}
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Trollkins is a 1981 animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired for one season on CBS. Essentially a cross between The Smurfs (which incidentally premiered the same day, September 12, 1981, in the same time slot at 8:30 ET) and The Dukes of Hazzard, it followed the misadventures of trolls Blitz, Pixlee, and Flooky.{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |pages=874–875}}
Plot
The Trollkins are a race of small trolls with green, blue, and purple faces who live in a tree community called Trolltown. The episodes follow the adventures of Blitz (voiced by Steve J. Spears), Pixlee (voiced by Jennifer Darling), and their pet companion Flooky (voiced by Frank Welker). Blitz's father Mayor Lumpkin (voiced by Paul Winchell) was somewhat of a short, incompetent, hot-headed, fumble-mouth of a mayor who spoke in spoonerisms.{{cite book |last1=Sennett |first1=Ted |title=The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity |date=1989 |publisher=Studio |isbn=978-0670829781 |url=https://archive.org/details/artofhannabarber00teds/page/236/mode/2up |access-date=2 June 2020 |page=237}}
Pixlee's father Sheriff Trollsom (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer), more mild-mannered than Mayor Lumpkin, and his two deputies Dotty and Flake (voiced by Jennifer Darling and Marshall Efron) were just as incompetent and fumble-minded in maintaining order in Trolltown. Nevertheless, there was no complete love lost amongst the citizens of Trolltown despite the continuous escapades, including those involving a renegade motorcycle gang known as the Troll Choppers (much like the Chopper Bunch from Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch) who terrorized the citizens of Trolltown from time to time, but were merely a nuisance rather than a threat to everyone.
Cast
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- Michael Bell as Grubb Trollmaine
- Bill Callaway as Slug
- Jennifer Darling as Pixlee Trollsom, Deputroll Dotty
- Marshall Efron as Deputroll Flake
- Alan Oppenheimer as Sheriff Pudge Trollsom
- Hank Saroyan as Afid
- Steve Spears as Blitz
- Frank Welker as Bogg, Flooky, Top Troll
- Paul Winchell as Mayor Lumpkin
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=Additional voices=
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- Jared Barclay
- Mel Blanc
- Scatman Crothers
- Peter Cullen
- Billie Hayes
- Ken Mars
- Don Messick
- Robert Allen Ogle
- Bob Sarlatte
- Marilyn Schreffler
- Rick Segall
- Hal Smith
- John Stephenson
- Lennie Weinrib
- Alan Young
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Episodes
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=1
|Title=Trolltown Goes Trollywood"
"Trolltown Meets Kling Kong
|WrittenBy=Bob Ogle
Dick Robbins
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|9|12}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=2
|Title=The Case of the Missing Trollosaurus"
"The Trollerbear Scare
|WrittenBy=Jim Ryan
Mark Evanier
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|9|19}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=3
|Title=Escape from Alcatroll"
"The Trollness Monster
|WrittenBy=Jeffrey Scott
J.R. Young
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|9|26}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=4
|Title=The Trollchoppers Meet Frogzilla"
"Robotroll
|WrittenBy=Jeffrey Scott
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|3}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=5
|Title=Trollyapolis 500"
"Trollin the Magician
|WrittenBy=
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|10}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=6
|Title=The Great Troll Train Wreck"
"Trolltown Goes Ga-Ga
|WrittenBy=Jeffrey Scott
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|17}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=7
|Title=Treasure of Troll Island"
"Mirror, Mirror on the Troll
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|24}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=8
|Title=The Empire Strikes Trolltown"
"Raiders of the Lost Troll
|WrittenBy=Jeffrey Scott
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|31}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=9
|Title=The Moth That Ate Trolltown"
"Fine Feathered Lumpkin
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|11|7}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=10
|Title=Bermuda Trollangle"
"Supertroll
|WrittenBy=Michael Maurer
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|11|14}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=11
|Title=Flooky and the Troll Burglar"
"Dr. Frankentroll, I Presume
|WrittenBy=Jeffrey Scott
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|11|21}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=12
|Title=The Abominable Trollman"
"The Trollcat in the Trollhat
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|11|28}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=13
|Title=Agent Double-O-Troll"
"Pixlee and the Seven Trolls
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|12|5}}
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Broadcast history
- September 12, 1981 – September 4, 1982 – CBS
- 1985–91 – USA Cartoon Express
- 1992–2001 – Cartoon Network
- April 1, 2000–10 – Boomerang (on occasions)
References
External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081952/ Trollkins] at Internet Movie Database
{{Children's programming on CBS in the 1980s}}
{{Hanna-Barbera}}
Category:Television series about trolls
Category:1980s American animated comedy television series
Category:1980s American children's comedy television series
Category:1981 American animated television series debuts
Category:1982 American television series endings
Category:American children's animated comedy television series
Category:American children's animated fantasy television series
Category:CBS original programming
Category:American English-language television shows