Around the World in 80 Days is an animated television series that lasted one season of sixteen episodes, broadcast during the 1972–1973 season by NBC. It was the first Australian-produced cartoon to be shown on American network television. Leif Gram directed all sixteen episodes, and the stories were loosely adapted by Chester "Chet" Stover from the novel by Jules Verne.
Plot
More comedic in tone than Verne's novel, the motives of Phileas Fogg (Alistair Duncan) differed somewhat from those of his literary forerunner.
Fogg was passionately in love with Belinda Maze (Janet Waldo), whose uncle, Lord Maze (Owen Weingott), sternly disapproved of the commoner Fogg marrying his niece. Fogg proposed a wager: if he could travel around the world in eighty days, then Lord Maze would give him Belinda's hand in marriage; if Fogg failed, he would abandon her. The two men also made a side bet of ₤20,000.
Fogg was accompanied by his manservant, Jean Passepartout (Ross Higgins), and Passepartout's pet monkey, Toto. They employed all the methods of transportation available in the late 19th Century–balloons, trains, elephants, and steam ships–in the course of their journey. Fogg and Passepartout dispensed geographical knowledge to the audience at each of their stops.
Lord Maze hires a saboteur, Mr. Fix (Max Osbiston), to interfere with Fogg and Passepartout's journey. Unlike his counterpart in Verne's novel, Fix was not a Scotland Yard detective attempting to arrest Fogg on suspicion of bank robbery.
Fogg managed to complete his journey by the end of the programme's single-season run, winning Belinda's hand with little time to spare.
TV Song Intro
Sound Effects Used
- Carlin Production Music, Cork Pop
- H-B HIT, CARTOON - SMALL BONK 01
- H-B POP, CARTOON - SHORT CORK SQUEAK AND POP
- H-B SPIN, CARTOON - WACKY SPIN WITH DRUM
- H-B SQUEAK, CARTOON - ROLLING WHEEL SQUEAKS (used for seeing stars in Paris episode)
- Hollywoodedge, Boing Box Bing CRT2010806 (High-Pitched, heard once in London episode)
- Hollywoodedge, Electronic Twirl CRT2027401 (4th/14th twirl)
- RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 08
- RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 09
- Robert Hall, Hey, Your Suspenders Are Caught On...
- Robert Hall, It's A Homer! Oooops/Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S LONG RISE (Heard several times in China episode)
- Robert Hall, Please Turn Off The Faucet/OMI, Funny Business - Boing (reversed edits.)
- Robert Hall, Say, This Car Needs Work/Sound Ideas, Electronic - Synthesized sound of an old car having trouble starting
- Robert Hall, Where'd 'E Go?
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, PROP - SHORT DIVE 01
- Sound Ideas, BITE, CARTOON - BIG CHOMP
- Sound Ideas, BITE, CARTOON - BONE BITE
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - BIG, LONG BOING
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - BOINK AND WIGGLE
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - GONG BOING
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S BOING
- Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - BOINK 01
- Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - PIXIE AND DIXIE BOINKS
- Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - TIMP DOINK
- Sound Ideas, COMEDY, ACCENT - SPROINGS
- Sound Ideas, COMEDY, CONFUSION - WHACKY CONFUSION/Sound Ideas, COMEDY - MONTAGE OF VARIOUS COMEDY EFFECTS 02 (reversed edit of rapid spin object)
- Sound Ideas, COMEDY - LICKING
- Sound Ideas, COMEDY - MONTAGE OF VARIOUS COMEDY EFFECTS 01
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - BIG METAL CRASH
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - CRAZY BASS DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION, 02
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - KEN'S BASS, DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - SOLID BASS, DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION 01
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - TONY'S BASS, DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION
- Sound Ideas, EXPLOSION - LARGE EXPLOSION 03 (H-B)
- Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - SHORT THIN RICOCHET, BULLET 02
- Sound Ideas, HEAD SHAKE, CARTOON - XYLO HEAD SHAKE
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG HEAD BONK
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG HEAD HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG SMASH AGAINST WALL
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG SWING AND HEAVY HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BRAKE DRUM AND BULB HORN HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT BONK
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT PEEONG 01
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT PEEONG 02
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - HEAVY TIMP RISE
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - KABONG
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - LID ON MANHOLE HIT
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - METAL PAN ON HEAD
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - SMASH AGAINST WALL
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - SOLID TIMP RISE
- Sound Ideas, HOP, CARTOON - DOUG'S FUNNY HOP, SHORT
- Sound Ideas, HOP, CARTOON - HOPPING SPROINGS, LONG
- Sound Ideas, PLUCK, CARTOON - VAROOP
- Sound Ideas, POP, CARTOON - CORK SQUEAK AND POP
- Sound Ideas, POP, CARTOON - HOYT'S POP
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 01
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 02
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 07
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SHOT AND WHINE
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SLICK RICCO 01
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SLICK RICCO 02
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - BLOP GALLOP, LONG
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - FAST RUN, LONG
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - TEMPLE BLOCK RIOT, SHORT/Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - TEMPLE BLOCK RIOT, MEDIUM/Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - TEMPLE BLOCK RIOT, LONG
- Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - WIND WHISTLE SCAT
- Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - BIG LONG SKID
- Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - BROKEN SKID
- Sound Ideas, SLIDE, CARTOON - FIDDLE SLIDE UP, LONG
- Sound Ideas, SQUEAK, CARTOON - LITTLE WHISTLE UP
- Sound Ideas, SQUEAK, CARTOON - LITTLE ZABORK
- Sound Ideas, SQUEEZE, CARTOON - HOYT'S SQUEAKY SQUEEZE
- Sound Ideas, SQUISH, CARTOON - LITTLE SQUISH
- Sound Ideas, SWISH, CARTOON - FAST TWIRLING SWISH, LONG
- Sound Ideas, SWISH, CARTOON - SINGLE SWISH (Heard several times near to end of New Orleans episode.)
- Sound Ideas, TAKE, CARTOON - FUNNY RUN UP TAKE
- Sound Ideas, THUD, CARTOON - DULL THUDS, MEDIUM SLOW, LONG, RUN
- Sound Ideas, TWANG, CARTOON - FAST TWANGS, SHORT
- Sound Ideas, TWANG, CARTOON - SAW BLADE TWANG 01 (Reversed.)
- Sound Ideas, WHINE, CARTOON - SHELL SCREAMING WHINE DOWN
- Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, STEAM - FACTORY WHISTLE, LARGE FACTORY (Heard in Pompei episode.)
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - BIG WHISTLE ZING OUT
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - CRAZY UP 01
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - SHARP ZIP
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - TAKE ZIP
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP IN
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP OUT, HIGH
- Valentino Boings (3 Different) (Normal & High Pitched)
- Valentino Boings (4 Different) (Normal & High Pitched)
- Valentino Bull Elephant Trumpeting
- Valentino Horse Whinnying (Three Winnies)