The Get-Along Gang

The Get-Along Gang was a 30-minute television animated series broadcast between 1984 and 1986 on Saturday mornings on the CBS network which was intended for younger viewers. In all, 27 episodes of the series were produced, which were animated by the Nelvana and DiC animation companies.

The characters origins lie in greetings cards, specifically the cards of the American Greetings company, which also created the Care Bears.

The series starred a group of pre-adolescent anthropomorphic animal characters who had various adventures whose upbeat stories tended to stress the importance of team work and friendship.

The series was the product of an era in the 1980s when "Parent Action Groups" held great influence over children's television programming, demanding that shows intended for young viewers emphasise positive values rather than violence or conflict. Consequently, many of the series' stories attempted to reinforce the importance of group harmony over individualism.

Each of the characters had obvious faults, which they learned to overcome with the aid of their friends. For instance, the group's leader "Montgomery Moose" was quite clumsy, while "Woolma Lamb" was extremely vain and "Dotty Dog" was very careless.

Voice talent on the series included Timothy Gibbs, Scott Menville, Don Messick, Frank Welker and a young Nicky Katt.

The brief series spawned a large range of merchandise and spin-off projects including stuffed toys and action figures made by Tomy and storybooks published by Scholastic Press.

The characters were also adapted into comic books. In America their series, which ran for six bi-monthly issues in 1985 and 1986, was published by Marvel Comics' Star Comics imprint and in the UK Marvel UK published a weekly Get-Along Gang comic, which ran for 93 issues between April, 1985 and January, 1987.

Characters

Montgomery Moose
Woolma Lamb
Dotty Dog
Zipper Cat
Portia Porcupine
Bingo Beaver
Braker Turtle
Catchum Crocodile
Leland Lizard
Officer Growler

Episode guide

Pilot

(Animation by Nelvana)

Season one

(Animation by DiC)

1: Zipper's Millions
2: Half a Map is Better Than None
3: Caboose on the Loose
4: Montgomery's Mechanical Marvel
5: Head in the Clouds
6: Hunt for the Beast
7: Woolma's Birthday
8: The Get Along Detectives
9: The Get Along Gang Go Hollywood
10: Them's the Brakes
11: A Pinch of This, A Dash of That
12: Bingo's Tale
13: Engineer Roary
14: Pick of the Litter
15: Nose for News
16: The Lighthouse Pirates
17: The Wrong Stuff
18: Uneasy Rider
19: The Get Along Gang Minus One

Season two

(Animation by DiC)

20: Camp Get Along
21: Bingo's Pen Pal
22: Follow the Leader
23: School's Out
24: The Bullies
25: That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
26: Snowbound Showdown

External links

1980s TV shows in the United States | 1980s | Animated television series | Children's television series