1995 in animation

The year 1995 in animation involved some animation-related events.

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Years:	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

Events

January

• January 2: The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show broadcasts its first episode.
• January 8: The Simpsons episode Homer the Great is first broadcast.[1]
• January 22: The Simpsons episode And Maggie Makes Three first airs.[2]

February

• February 13: Chuck Jones receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[3]
• February 19: In The Simpsons episode Bart vs. Australia the family travels to Australia.[4]

March

• March 19: The Simpsons episode Lisa's Wedding is first broadcast.[5]
• March 27: 67th Academy Awards:
  • Bob's Birthday by Alison Snowden and David Fine wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[6]
  • Elton John and Tim Rice's song Can You Feel the Love Tonight, written for The Lion King wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song, while Hans Zimmer wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score for the same film.[6]

April

• April 7: A Goofy Movie, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.[7]
• April 12: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's The Pebble and the Penguin premieres.[8]
• April 30: In The Simpsons episode 'Round Springfield Bleeding Gums Murphy dies.[9]

May

• May 21: The Simpsons episode Who Shot Mr. Burns? ends with a cliff-hanger, in which Mr. Burns is shot by an unidentified person. The assassin is revealed several months later in the episode Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part Two on 17 September.[10]
• May 28: The first episode of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is broadcast.[11]

September

• September 9:
  • The first episode of Freakazoid! airs.[12]
  • The first episode of the spin-off series Pinky and the Brain is broadcast.[13]
• September 25: The first episode of Timon & Pumbaa, produced by the Walt Disney Company, airs.[14]

October

• October 4: The first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion airs.[15]
• October 8: The Simpsons episode Bart Sells His Soul first airs.[16]
• October 15: The Simpsons episode Lisa the Vegetarian is broadcast, which has Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney as special guest voices.[17]
• October 29: The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror VI features a segment which makes use of 3-D animation.[18]

November

• November 18: Ghost in the Shell is first released, an anime feature film directed by Mamoru Oshii, based on the manga series Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow.[19] It will later become a cult classic.[20]
• November 19: In The Simpsons episode Mother Simpson Glenn Close is special guest voice.[21]
• November 22: The first CGI animated feature film Toy Story is released by Pixar and the Walt Disney Company.[22]

December

• December 1: Trey Parker and Matt Stone make the animated short Jesus vs. Santa, which features embryonal versions of the characters they'll later use in South Park and will become a viral sensation under the title The Spirit of Christmas.[23]
• December 28: Gerald McBoing-Boing is added to the National Film Registry.[24][25]

Specific date unknown

• Helen Hill's Scratch and Crow is first released.[26]

Films released

Television series debuts

Date	Title	Channel	Year
January 2	The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show	Syndication	1995
February 20	What a Cartoon!	Cartoon Network	1995–97
March 23	Skeleton Warriors	CBS	1995
March 26	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	HBO	1995–00
April 8	The Maxx	MTV	1995
May 28	Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist	Comedy Central	1995–02
August 12	The Mask: Animated Series	CBS	1995–97
August 28	Sailor Moon	Syndication, Cartoon Network	1995–00
September 8	Timon and Pumbaa	Syndication, CBS, Toon Disney	1995–99
September 9	Earthworm Jim	Kids' WB	1995–96
	Freakazoid!		1995–97
	Pinky and the Brain		1995–98
	The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries		1995–02
	Gadget Boy & Heather	The History Channel	1995–98
	Klutter!	Fox Kids	1995–96
	Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders	Syndication	1995-1996
September 10	Space Strikers	UPN	1995
	Teknoman
	Cartoon Planet	Cartoon Network	1995-1998
September 16	Santo Bugito	CBS	1995–96
	The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
September 21	The Savage Dragon	USA Network
September 24	G.I. Joe Extreme	Syndication	1995–97
September 30	Darkstalkers		1995
October 14	MadTV	Fox, The CW	1995–16
	The Adventures of Hyperman	CBS	1995–96
October 16	Littlest Pet Shop (1995)	Syndication	1995
October 21	Street Fighter	USA Network	1995–97
October 28	Dumb and Dumber	ABC	1995–96
November 11	The Little Lulu Show	HBO	1995–99
December 9	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective	CBS, Nickelodeon	1995–00
December 21	Ultraforce	USA	1995

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
January 6	SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron	TBS	1993–95	Cancelled
February 25	Free Willy	ABC	1994–95
March 27	The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show	Syndication	1995
April 9	The Brothers Grunt	MTV	1994–95
April 12	The Pink Panther	Syndication	1993–95
April 26	Ultraforce	USA Network	1994–95
May 15	2 Stupid Dogs	TBS, Syndication	1993–95
May 22	Taz-Mania	Fox Kids	1991–95	Ended
June 11	McGee and Me!	Syndication	1989–95
June 15	Skeleton Warriors	CBS	1995	Cancelled
June 19	The Maxx	MTV
September 15	Batman: The Animated Series	Kids' WB	1992–95
November 25	Aladdin	The Disney Channel, Syndication, CBS	1994–95
December 2	Bump in the Night	ABC
December 3	Space Strikers	UPN	1995
December 8	Littlest Pet Shop (1995)	Syndication
December 9	The Baby Huey Show		1994–95
December 30	Darkstalkers		1995

Deaths

January

• January 12: William Pomerance, American animator (Walt Disney Studios), dies at age 89.[27]
• January 21: John Halas, Hungarian-British animator, film producer and director (Halas & Batchelor, Animal Farm, the animated music video of Love Is All by Roger Glover), dies at age 82.[28]
• January 24: Frank Emery, American mural artist, jazz musician, photographer, animator, illustrator, and comics artist, dies at age 37.[29]
• January 26: Cecil Roy, American voice actress (voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Little Lulu), dies at age 94.

April

• April 8: Michael Graham Cox, British actor (voice of Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, Bigwig in Watership Down), dies at age 57.
• April 19: Preston Blair, American animator (Walter Lantz, Charles Mintz, Walt Disney Company, MGM, Tex Avery, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 86.

May

• May 2: Michael Hordern, British actor (voice of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, Frith in Watership Down, Badger in The Wind in the Willows, the narrator in Paddington), dies at age 83.
• May 18: Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (played Samantha in The Flintstones episode Samantha, voiced a barmaid in the Batman: The Animated Series episode Showdown), dies at age 62.[30]
• May 26: Friz Freleng, American animator and cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Tweety and Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, The Pink Panther), dies at age 88.[31]

June

• June 27: Yoni Chen, Israeli actor (Hebrew dubber of various Looney Tunes characters and the Tin Man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), dies at age 41.[32]

July

• July 4: Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American voice actress (voice of the Duchess in The Aristocats, Miss Bianca in The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under), dies at age 76.[33]
• July 25: Balthasar Lippisch, German illustrator, caricaturist, animator and comics artist (worked on the TV series Pip & Zip), dies at age 74 or 75.[34]

August

• August 11: Phil Harris, American comedian, actor and jazz singer (voice of Baloo in The Jungle Book, Thomas O'Malley in The Aristocats and Little John in Robin Hood), dies at age 91.[35]

September

• September 5: Paul Julian, American animator, illustrator, background artist, sound effects maker (Warner Bros. Animation, UPA), production designer (Winds of Change) and voice actor (voice of The Roadrunner), dies at age 81.
• September 12: Lubomír Beneš, Czech animator and director (co-creator of Pat & Mat), dies at age 59.[36]
• September 21: Irven Spence, American animator (Charles Mintz, Ub Iwerks, Warner Bros. Animation, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Chuck Jones, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Ralph Bakshi), dies at age 86.
• September 22: John Whitney, American animator, composer and inventor (Five Film Exercises, co-animated the opening sequence of Vertigo), dies at age 78.[37]

October

• October 13: Michael Lah, American animator and animated film director (Walt Disney Company, worked for Tex Avery), dies at age 83.
• October 21: Maxene Andrews, American singer (co-sang the Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet segment in Make Mine Music and Little Toot in Melody Time), dies at age 79.
• October 22: Mary Wickes, American actress (live-action model for Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians), dies at age 85.

November

• November 16: Charles Gordone, American playwright, actor, director, educator and voice actor (voice of Preacher Fox in Coonskin), dies at age 70.
• November 19: Wan Guchan, Chinese animator, animated film director (founder of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter, Uproar in the Studio, The Camel's Dance, Princess Iron Fan, Havoc in Heaven, Why is the Crow Black-Coated), dies at age 95.[38]

December

• December 4: Petar Gligorovski, Macedonian painter, comics artist, animator and animated film director (Adam 5 do 12), dies at age 57.[39]
• December 30: Doris Grau, American voice actress (Lunchlady Doris in The Simpsons, Doris Grossman in The Critic), dies at age 71.[40]

Specific date unknown

• Alex Cubie, Scottish comics artist and animator (Rank Film Distributors), dies at age 83 or 84.[41]

See also

• 1995 in anime

Sources

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External links

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb