JERRY EISENBERG DEAD AT 87

 

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He did layouts for Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, Cattanooga Cats, Motormouse and Autocat, Josie and the Pussycats, Help!...It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, ; designed characters for The Atom Ant Show, The Secret Squirrel Show, Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor, Wacky Races (also layouts), Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, “The Adventures of Robin Hoodwink” and “Lost in Space” episodes of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, Inch High Private Eye, Yogi’s Gang, Super Friends, Speed Buggy, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, Hong Kong Phooey, Fangface (also producer), “The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy” and “The Puppy’s Great Adventure” episodes of ABC Weekend Specials, Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show (also producer), Heathcliff (1980) (also producer), Thundarr the Barbarian (also producer), Little Clowns of Happytown and Tom & Jerry Kids Show; storyboards for Muppet Babies, Rude Dog and the Dweebs, Tom & Jerry Kids Show (also producer and writer), Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Droopy: Master Detective (also writer), Dumb and Dumber: The Animated Series, Histeria!, House of Mouse, What’s New Scooby-Doo?, Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps; and served as a producer on 8 episodes of ABC Weekend Specials, Meatballs and Spaghetti and Pandamonium (the latter two which he also created).

MITZI McCALL DEAD AT 91

 

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She starred as Penny in The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and The Flintstone Comedy Hour; Elektra 6000, Shazalle and additional voices in The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang; Miss Burns in Rick Moranis in Gravedale High; Talula LaTrane in Yo Yogi!; Ammonia Pine in Darkwing Duck; Mother Goose in Mother Goose and Grimm/Grimmy; Mame Slaughter in Captain Planet and the Planeteers; and Golda Meir in Histeria! She also provided additional voices in Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979), The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show, The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, Snorks, Bobby’s World and Monster in my Pocket: The Big Scream.

25TH ANNIVERSARIES

 We head into the 90s with the shows turning

ROBERT STANTON DEAD AT 60

 

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He was a background artist and art director that worked on Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983), Histeria!, Digimon: Digital Monsters and SpongeBob SquarePants.

DALE BAER DEAD AT 70

 

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He served as a story director for The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, Laverne & Shirley in the Army and The Smurfs, a storyboard artist on an episode of Mother Goose and Grimm and Animaniacs, and a prop designer for two episodes of Histeria!

20TH ANNIVERSARIES

ADAM WEST DEAD AT 88

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West was an actor and best known as Batman from the campy 1960s live-action series. He returned to the role of Batman in The New Adventures of Batman and the final two incarnations of the Super Friends franchise. He gained a later second career lampooning that role and in voiceover acting. He appeared as The Gray Ghost in an episode the Gray Ghost, in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series; Captain Blasto in Rugrats; The Galloping Gazelle on Goosebumps; Spruce Wayne, the Caped Crusader in Animaniacs; Ernest Hemingway in Histeria!. West made a final return to the Batman franchise in the last Saturday outing, The Batman, as Mayor Grange.