The Alvin Show

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The Alvin Show is an American animated television series that aired on CBS in the early 1960s. This was the first series to feature the singing characters Alvin and the Chipmunks. The Alvin Show aired for one season, from October 4, 1961, to March 28, 1962<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and was originally sponsored by General Foods through its Jell-O gelatin and Post Cereal brands. Although the series was created in color, it was initially telecast in black and white. It was later rebroadcast in color from 1962-65 for Saturday mornings on CBS and again Saturday mornings on NBC in 1979.<ref name=Woolery>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The series rode the momentum of creator Ross Bagdasarian Sr.'s original hit musical gimmick and developed the singing Chipmunk trio as rambunctious kids–particularly the show's namesake star–whose mischief contrasted to his tall, brainy brother Simon and his chubby, gluttonous brother Theodore, as well as their long-suffering, perpetually put-upon manager-father figure, David Seville.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The animation was produced by Herbert Klynn's Format Films. The pilot episode, an early version of the fifth episode "Good Neighbor", was written and produced to sell the show to CBS.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The actual show featured a re-worked version, which aired as part of the fifth episode. With producer Fred Calvert (who would later work on The Thief and the Cobbler) calling them in, the opening sequence was animated by Bobe Cannon and assistant animated by Iwao Takamoto.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Each episode consisted of a Chipmunks and Clyde Crashcup segment, both of them seven minutes long. Following each segment was a musical number with Dave and the Chipmunks.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Most of the songs came from the first three albums that had already been released by the time the show premiered (Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks, Sing Again with The Chipmunks, and Around the World with The Chipmunks). By the second half, all the songs from the new fifth album, The Chipmunk Songbook, were also featured. In addition to the non-album Alvin for President, "Maria from Madrid", which was previously released as a non-Chipmunks B-Side to "Judy" in 1959 under Bagdasarian's stage name of David Seville,Template:Citation needed and two unreleased Chipmunk covers, "Clementine" and "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", rounded out the remaining song segments.

The show was followed in 1983 by another Chipmunks series, Alvin and the Chipmunks which aired on NBC.

Syndication

CBS reran the series on Saturday mornings after the show's prime time run ended in 1962.<ref name=Gitlin>Template:Cite book</ref>

In the mid to late 1960s, the individual show segments were culled together and sold as a syndication package under the title Alvin and the Chipmunks. The original episodes began airing under the Alvin and the Chipmunks title on NBC Saturday mornings in 1979 for a short period.<ref name=Gitlin/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Ross Bagdasarian Sr. died of a heart attack on January 16, 1972, seemingly bringing to an end any further Chipmunk productions. Years later, his son, Ross Jr., picked up on a disc jockey's joke and produced the album Chipmunk Punk in 1980.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The success of Chipmunk Punk spurred renewed interest in a new animated series by Ruby-Spears, which launched in September 1983 on NBC and was titled Alvin and the Chipmunks, with Ross Jr. taking over for his father as the voices of Alvin, Simon, and Dave Seville. His wife, Janice Karman, voiced Theodore, as well as The Chipettes, who are the Chipmunks' female counterparts.<ref name=Gitlin/> The show ran until 1990, with episodes after 1988 produced by DIC Entertainment (eleven episodes were produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson in association with DIC; these were strictly for a syndication package that included all of the Ruby-Spears produced by episodes).

To coincide with the new series, Viacom Enterprises distributed reruns of The Alvin Show to local (mostly independent and future Fox) stations; the rerun package was also carried nationally over superstations WGN and WTBS at various times beginning in September 1983 and ran for mostly a few years on half of the markets. However, some stations continue to run the show at various times as late as 1993. Prior to its superstation runs, The Alvin Show was picked up in a few markets such as Detroit, New York, Cleveland, and in international markets such as in Australia and Brazil among others. The show made its way to Europe in the United Kingdom when the BBC (now BBC One) began broadcasting the program as well.Template:Citation needed

In 1981, Clyde Crashcup made an appearance during a dream sequence in A Chipmunk Christmas. During recent network airings of the special, the sequence has been cut out, due to network time constraints concerning commercial ad time.

In 1990, The Alvin Show versions of the Chipmunks and Clyde Crashcup reappeared in an episode of The Chipmunks Go To the Movies titled "Back to Alvin's Future" (a spoof of the 1985 movie, Back to the Future).

A majority of the songs and clips from The Alvin Show were featured in the Alvin and the Chipmunks Sing Along Songs VHS releases that were released in the mid-1990s. The songs, however, were slightly remixed to sound more modern. The only song that kept its original broadcast soundtrack was "Alvin's Orchestra" in the 1993 Sing-Along video Ragtime Cowboy Joe. The Bagdasarian closing logo from the show was also remixed in the 1994 Sing-Along video, Working on the Railroad.

Nickelodeon picked up US broadcast rights to The Alvin Show on March 7, 1994, after the last of a few independent stations pulled the show. The prints from the syndicated reruns were digitized and the Nickelodeon logo was added to several spots in the opening theme. The show aired as part of Nickelodeon's morning lineup for most of the next year.Template:Citation needed

During this time, as well as for some time after the full episodes stopped airing, the individual Chipmunk and Clyde Crashcup cartoons and musical segments were inserted into episodes of Weinerville. In 1996, Nickelodeon stopped showing The Alvin Show segments altogether and no television station has aired them since then.Template:Citation needed

Voice cast

Episodes (1961–1962)

26 episodes each were produced for the Alvin and the Chipmunks and Clyde Crashcup segments, along with 52 musical segments.

# The Chipmunks Musical Segment 1 Clyde Crashcup Musical Segment 2 Original air date
1 Stanley the Eagle Oh Gondaliero Clyde Crashcup Invents Baseball I Wish I Could Speak French Template:Start date
2 Sam Valiant, Private Nose August Dear Clyde Crashcup Invents the Bathtub Alvin's Orchestra Template:Start date
3 Squares Swanee River Clyde Crashcup Invents the Wife The Magic Mountain Template:Start date
4 Ostrich The Brave Chipmunks Clyde Crashcup Invents the Baby Yankee Doodle Template:Start date
5 Good Neighbor The Little Dog (Oh Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone) Clyde Crashcup Invents Electricity Old MacDonald Cha Cha Cha Template:Start date
6 Fancy Japanese Banana Clyde Crashcup Invents Music When Johnny Comes Marching Home Template:Start date
7 Alvin's Alter Ego The Pidgin English Hula Clyde Crashcup Invents the West Chipmunk Fun Template:Start date
8 Sam Valiant, Real Estate Working on the Railroad Clyde Crashcup Invents the Stove Stuck in Arabia Template:Start date
9 Camping Trip Good Morning Song Clyde Crashcup Invents Jokes I Wish I Had a Horse Template:Start date
10 Overworked Alvin Witch Doctor Clyde Crashcup Invents Flight The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) Template:Start date
11 Dude Ranch Home on the Range Clyde Crashcup Invents First Aid Alvin for President Template:Start date
12 Jungle Rhythm Lily of Laguna Clyde Crashcup Invents Egypt Row, Row, Row Your Boat Template:Start date
13 Bentley Van Rolls Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Clyde Crashcup Invents Self-Preservation Comin' Thru the Rye Template:Start date
14 Good Manners Bicycle Built for Two Clyde Crashcup Invents Physical Fitness Ragtime Cowboy Joe Template:Start date
15 Little League Buffalo Gals Clyde Crashcup Invents the Chair While Strolling in the Park One Day Template:Start date
16 Hillbilly Son Spain Clyde Crashcup Invents the Bed Pop Goes the Weasel Template:Start date
17 Alvin's Cruise Alvin's Harmonica Clyde Crashcup Invents the Telephone If You Love Me (Alouette) Template:Start date
18 Lovesick Dave Coming 'Round the Mountain Clyde Crashcup Invents the Time Machine The Three Blind-Folded Mice Template:Start date
19 Eagle In Love Sing a Goofy Song Clyde Crashcup Invents Do it Yourself Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Template:Start date
20 Theodore's Dog Clementine Clyde Crashcup Invents the Shoe Maria from Madrid Template:Start date
21 Haunted House Whistle While You Work Clyde Crashcup Invents Glass My Wild Irish Rose Template:Start date
22 Alvin's Studio Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair This is Your Life, Clyde Crashcup! The Band Played On Template:Start date
23 The Whistler The Alvin Twist Clyde Crashcup Invents the Boat The Man on the Flying Trapeze Template:Start date
24 Sir Alvin Git Along, Little Dogies Clyde Crashcup Invents Crashcupland Down in the Valley Template:Start date
25 Disc Jockey Funiculì, Funiculà Clyde Crashcup Invents Birthdays Polly Wolly Doodle Template:Start date
26 Eagle Music On Top of Old Smoky Clyde Crashcup Invents Self-Defense America the Beautiful Template:Start date

General Foods was the show's main sponsor; as such, Dave Seville and The Chipmunks appeared in several humorous half-minute commercials for Jell-O and Post Cereals.

Home media

In 1993-94, Buena Vista Home Video released the home video series Alvin and the Chipmunks Sing Alongs, featuring musical segments from The Alvin Show. Both videos in this series have never been released to DVD.

However, on September 8, 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment released the first episode of the show, along with two "modern" specials. In 2014, "The Brave Chipmunks" musical sequence was released as a bonus feature on The Chipmunk Adventure Blu-ray and DVD combo pack. In 2015, three complete episodes (#01, #04, and #10) were released together as The Alvin Show on Blu-ray and DVD.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

International broadcast

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Syndicated stations

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Further reading

References

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