List of Bonkers episodesThe following is an episode list of Bonkers, an American animated television series that first aired from September 4, 1993, to February 23, 1994, and then continued airing as reruns until 1995 on The Disney Afternoon (with select episodes airing on The Disney Channel from February to June 1993 as a preview for the series[1]). The series was set in a Roger Rabbit-like world where "toons" and humans co-exist. The premise of the series was that Bonkers D. Bobcat, an anthropomorphic bobcat who was a popular cartoon star (he appeared in "He's Bonkers" shorts in the fictional world of Bonkers as well) had washed out of show business and became a cop. He was made the junior partner of Detective Lucky Piquel, a grim and ill-tempered human who hates toons. Throughout the series, the pair work together to solve crimes in the Hollywood, Los Angeles, California region. Bonkers repeatedly tried to win Piquel's praise, but usually just ended up ruining missions with his antics. After some years of working with Bonkers, Piquel was given an FBI job in Washington, D.C., and with great glee was finally able to leave Bonkers, but finally realized that after all the time spent hating working with Bonkers, he had grown to love him. At the end of the "Lucky" episodes, Bonkers was given a new partner, the attractive Sergeant Miranda Wright. Although also human, she was far more patient and tolerant of his antics than was Piquel. With Miranda, Bonkers was more the brunt of the slapstick. Broadcast chronologyBonkers' 65 episodes all aired on The Disney Afternoon during the 1993–94 television season. Nine episodes aired in The Disney Channel from February to June 1993 as a preview for the series and they aired in October 1993 in the original syndication. However, the series can be broken up into multiple groups or subseasons of episodes, based on when they originally aired and from which set of episodes they came (i.e., the Lucky Piquel episodes, the Miranda Wright episodes, or the compilation episodes). The syndicated run of the show began with a special hour-long airing of the Lucky Piquel pilot story ("Going Bonkers"/"Gone Bonkers"), that aired the weekend before the series' Disney Afternoon premiere. This first episode was later split into two parts, which are treated as separate episodes. Nineteen more episodes from the first season subsequently premiered in September and October 1993. In October 1993, all the 19 episodes of Season 2 aired on The Disney Afternoon, preceded by a special crossover episode, "New Partners on the Block," which tied the previously produced Miranda episodes into the continuity of the Lucky Piquel episodes. Along with the 9 episodes of Season 2 that were shown as preview on The Disney Channel, 10 more episodes of that season made their debut. In November 1993, 20 more episodes of Season 1 began airing on The Disney Afternoon. They were proceeded by a TV promo which states that they are new episodes that were never seen before even though actually they were produced in the same time with the first 22 "Lucky" episodes. Fifteen of them premiered in November, with the last 5 being held over until February 1994 (most likely to coincide with the February ratings sweeps). In addition, 41 episodes were made for Season 1, and 20 episodes were made for Season 2, along with four extra special compilation episodes, featuring the Bonkers shorts from He's Bonkers and 4 new segments were interspersed among the other episodes. 9 of the 12 old shorts received new titlecards while the other 3 kept their original intros. The Rubber Room Song segment originally belongs to the previously produced and the later aired episode "Casabonkers". These compilation episodes are listed separately. When the series went into reruns, the Lucky Piquel and Miranda Wright episodes were usually rerun separately (i.e., all of the Lucky episodes, then all of the Miranda episodes, then the Lucky episodes again, etc.), even if the episodes were rerun out of order. (The compilation episodes would be rerun with the Lucky episodes, then All the Miranda Episodes aired last again.) Each episode was given a production code by Walt Disney Television Animation. These codes are in the format "4311-xxx"; the Miranda episodes are numbered "4311-0xx", while the Lucky episodes (along with "New Partners on the Block" and the compilation episodes) are numbered "4311-1xx." The Miranda episodes' production numbers are not consecutive; several numbers are skipped over. The production codes have been sourced from the individual episode registration records in the U.S. Copyright Office catalog. (Since not all of these episode records have a listed production code, and because of the skips in the Miranda episode numbering, the codes for "The Stork Exchange" and "Toon for a Day" are not known.) In addition, Disney's distribution arm Buena Vista Television used a different numbering system, with all of the Lucky Piquel episodes in production code order, followed by "New Partners on the Block", then all of the Miranda Wright episodes in production code order[a], with the four compilation episodes randomly interspersed among the Lucky episodes (except for "If," which is placed between "New Partners on the Block" and the rest of the Miranda episodes). BVTV's episode codes carry the prefix "BK-xx". This numbering was also the order generally used when the series was broadcast outside of North America, except with "Going Bonkers" and "Gone Bonkers" moved to the beginning of the order. The resultant "international" order (excluding the compilation episodes) perhaps most closely reflects the series' in-universe chronology. Series overviewThe main 2 seasons are considered as sub-seasons of the series.[b]
EpisodesSeason 1
Season 2
Compilations
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