Mad Jack the Pirate


Mad Jack the Pirate is a 1998-1999 American animated comedy-adventure television series. The show was created by Bill Kopp and was directed by Jeff DeGrandis. On American television, the show was broadcast on Fox Kids.
The show is about the rather unsuccessful and cowardly Pirate Jack, who despite his repeated failures never doubts his own excellence, and his dim-witted anthropomorphic rat sidekick Snuk as they sail the seas on their ship the Sea Chicken.
Critics have noted that the clear inspiration for the show is the 1983-1989 BBC comedy series Blackadder. Jack bears a striking resemblance to Edmund Blackadder and Snuk to Baldrick. There is even some dialogue taken straight from the BBC series. Jack's arch-enemy Flash resembles Blackadder's Lord Flashheart, and Angus is almost identical to Blackadder's Lord Angus.
Currently, in Eastern Europe, the cartoon has a DVD release from Prooptiki under the Romanian title :ro:Piratul Jack cel Teribil|Piratul Jack cel Teribil and in Turkey VCD from Kanal D Home Video under the title :tr:Çılgın Korsan Jack|Çılgın Korsan Jack. Also in Turkey, the cartoon was shown on Jetix Play and in Poland on Fox Kids.
On July 23, 2001, Mad Jack and other properties of Saban Entertainment were sold to The Walt Disney Company.

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