The Comic Strip (TV series)


The Comic Strip is an American animated series that features four rotating cartoon segments: The Mini-Monsters, Street Frogs, Karate Kat and TigerSharks. The 90-minute series ran in first-run syndication during the 1987 season.
This was the last TV series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures.

Segments

The four segments offered were:
Typically, two segments, each running about 10 minutes, were shown on each broadcast.

Foreign syndication

The show was also seen on ABC Television in Australia, on RPN-9 in the Philippines, on RTM 1 in Malaysia, on Fun Channel in The Middle East, on TV 4 in Trinidad and Tobago, on ATV in Hong Kong, on TVJ in Jamaica and on Rai 2 in Italy.

Video releases

releases of certain episodes of The Comic Strip were made available in 1987. These VHS tapes each featured three installments of one particular cartoon. For example, the video "Adventures at Camp Mini-Mon" contained three episodes: "Camp Mini-Mon The First Day", "The Belly Ache" and "Alien."